Ball Grip Belt Knife

[LRB]

Just finished this one. 8" blade of 01 with a partial tang, walnut grip wrapped in deer rawhide. Sheath is deer rawhide over vege-tan, with horse hair brass cones. Thanks for looking.

 

[Tanguay Custom Knives]

Very, Very, Very nice.

 

[Kevin Davey]

Very nice:thumbup:.

 

[Will52100]

Very cool! I love the frontier type knives.

 

[jim moyer]

That looks like a winner. Nice job.

 

[WA Martin]

very very nice.

What are the specs and dimensions on this one?

 

[SHEBOP]

Beautiful! Would love to have it...
Shebop

 

[WA Martin]

Beautiful! Would love to have it...
Shebop

THat's what I was thinking too!

 

[Andre V]

Great work. Looks awesome

 

[LRB]

WA Martin, the blade is 8"x 1 1/4"x 5/32", with a long distal taper. It is 01 steel, HT'd to about 58 RC, done in an evenheat oven with a triple normalize, 20 minute soak before quench, decarb protected, and a triple temper at 450o. The grip is a partial tang with two 1/8" steel pins through the one piece walnut grip. Partial tangs were very common in the 18th c. due to a short supply of good steel.