SOLD -- SOLD -- SOLD -- Price drop from $100 to $95 to $90 to $85 plus $9 shipping (CONUS). This is a great little hunter by bladesmith Pierce Franklin (Frank) Beck Jr. of Barnwell SC. Frank is a highly accomplished bladesmith who worked with the great George Herron. This is my last Beck.
Full tapered tang construction. The stainless steel blade (ATS-34, almost positive) is mirror polished, hollow ground with a flat, mirror finished ricasso, 3 1/4" in length. The ricasso is stamped "BECK ". Overall, the knife measures 7 3/4".
The scales are very nice ironwood and are separated from the tapered tang by fine black spacers. Six stainless steel pins fasten them. The knife comes with a sheath that has bumped around the inside of a safe for 14 years, and thus is pretty beat up, but the knife is not.
The only thing keeping the knife from being mint are a couple pinpoints around two of the pins and a few fleabite-type scratches at the blade tip, unrecognizable unless you are looking for them.
For the price, a great hunter from a great maker who worked side by side with George Herron.
Overall length, again, is 7 3/4", blade 3 1/4. The knife and sheath are both numbered 841, as was the tradition of both Beck and Herron.
$100 plus $8 shipping (CONUS). Money order or Paypal.
First to respond "I'll take it" in this thread and follows up with an email to rbetznerr@sbcglobal.net (and pays, of course) gets it.
INCIDENTALLY, IF YOU WONDER HOW ACCURATE MY CONDITION DESCRIPTIONS ARE, CHECK MY FEEDBACK ON THAT AUCTION SITE WE ALL KNOW, LOVE AND HATE. NAME IS THE SAME AS HERE.
Full tapered tang construction. The stainless steel blade (ATS-34, almost positive) is mirror polished, hollow ground with a flat, mirror finished ricasso, 3 1/4" in length. The ricasso is stamped "BECK ". Overall, the knife measures 7 3/4".
The scales are very nice ironwood and are separated from the tapered tang by fine black spacers. Six stainless steel pins fasten them. The knife comes with a sheath that has bumped around the inside of a safe for 14 years, and thus is pretty beat up, but the knife is not.
The only thing keeping the knife from being mint are a couple pinpoints around two of the pins and a few fleabite-type scratches at the blade tip, unrecognizable unless you are looking for them.
For the price, a great hunter from a great maker who worked side by side with George Herron.
Overall length, again, is 7 3/4", blade 3 1/4. The knife and sheath are both numbered 841, as was the tradition of both Beck and Herron.
$100 plus $8 shipping (CONUS). Money order or Paypal.
First to respond "I'll take it" in this thread and follows up with an email to rbetznerr@sbcglobal.net (and pays, of course) gets it.
INCIDENTALLY, IF YOU WONDER HOW ACCURATE MY CONDITION DESCRIPTIONS ARE, CHECK MY FEEDBACK ON THAT AUCTION SITE WE ALL KNOW, LOVE AND HATE. NAME IS THE SAME AS HERE.
