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savantuk

savantuk

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Hello Chaps,

I've yet to see anything about my favourite custom maker on these forae, so I thought I'd share a few with you.

They are made by Alan Wood, in England. Alan is a full time cutler, who produces very limited runs of his own design, and one off's for customers. There is currently a wait of 2 years for any of his knives. All the blades are mostly hand forged, to customer spec.

The knives are, from bottom to top....

Damascus Rambler. 3" damascus steel (512 layers) blade. Full taperd tang, with African blackwood scales, with red micarta interliners.

Guthook Hunter. 3.75" ATS 34 blade, hollow ground, polished to presentation standard. Full tapered tang. Desert Ironwood scales.

My own custom design - designed to be a neck carry. 3.5" ATS 34 blade, hollow ground, polished to presentation mirror finish, semi skeleton full tapered tang. Inlaid brass lozenges for enhanced grip, grip and lozenges hand hammered again, for enhanced grip. This is a user, and my personal favourite.

'Outdare' Hunter. This is the prototype of one of Alans designs, which will, in about a years time, become his first 'production' blade. He hopes to cut the wait down to 6 months with this one.
3.5" Sandvik 12C-27 stainless blade, hollow ground. Full tapered tang, with tan linen micarta scales. The lined hole on the handle, aligns with a hole cut in the sheath. A leather thong then passes through the tang, and the sheath effectively locking the knife in the sheath.

Hope you like them!!

Doug

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Hello Beluga,

The Outdare in the picture, is the only one in existence at the moment, but Alan is currently taking orders. The price, but only because you asked, is £150, or $225. The prices for the same knife, in other sizes are $210 for the 2.75", $235 for the 4.1", and $270 for the 5.5"

All come with the beautiful hollow ground blade. I bet the big 'un will be awesome.

The skeleton custom was a bargain!! Because there were no scales to hand form. I paid $300. Not bad for a customer design!!

Manowar... yes, he sure knows how to grind a lump of steel:)

Doug
 
Don't much care for his gut hook design, as it's design would keep it from actually hooking the skin to "zip" it open. Seems the "hook" area would keep coming out of the cut. Now, if he took a stone, and made the hook more traditional, I would like that knife a lot.

Mike
 
Hi Mike,

Not being a member of the hunting fraternity, I feel I have to bow to your superior knowledge. I have to tell you though, despite it's odd look, it is supposed to be very effective. The secondary blade (hook) is razor sharp, and Alan tells me, that as long as pressure is kept on the top of the blade, by keeping it tight against the skin, it's one of the most effective bowelling tools ever.

I imagine that's its difficult to keep a good edge, even though its chisel grind.

He has a 3 year waiting list for this knife.

I have to be honest though, and say that small English game (and of course Scottish), is not quite in the same league as that which you find in America. A small Roe, or even a buck, is not, I imagine, the most difficult game animal to disembowel. Red deer, are not quite in the same league as some of your larger game animals.

Doug
 
That's a good price for such quality. Does the maker have any website ? I would like to see more of his works.

Many thanks to you.
 
Originally posted by savantuk
All the blades are hand forged, mostly from ATS 34, to customer spec.
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I don't think I've ever heard of anyone forging ATS 34. :confused:

I like your design.
 
I was referring to the hand forging of the Damascus steel.:footinmou

I can't help it, I was born stupid!!:rolleyes:

Doug
 
Originally posted by savantuk

I can't help it, I was born stupid!!:rolleyes:
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Join the club, I thought I was going to learn something. :D

Ya want stupid, I'll give ya stupid. There was a rush to Kit Carson's table at Blade 2001, I'm a sucker for Stag and I knew Kit was bringing two stag folders to the show. So when I get to the table I say to Kit, "where's the stag?"He puts two stag folders in my hands and says, "Which one you want?" One was Damascus and the other a satin finished steel, I took the satin finish because it had the nicer stag. People kept asking me to see the knife, and they kept on saying, "Cool Stelite!" Of course I had no idea what Stelite was and didn't have the nerve to ask until after I got home. :rolleyes:
 
I have actually seen quite a few knives that use forged stainless steel, but I don't know which stainless is used for most of them. Some Kellam knives have forged stainless blades. The knife below is a Loveless design from Gerber and it is made with forged 440.

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That Outdare Hunter has a bit of the look of a Dozier knife to me. Nothing wrong with that as i tend to like dozier knives a lot.
 
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