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Well my best friend {he served our country as a marine} called it a fighter when he picked it up. As I havent ever fought a person with a knife, I'll just trust him! Truthfully, I had a piece of 5160 left from making a couple big choppers and decided to play for once and see what came out without having any real idea of what I wanted to make and just let the steel tell me what it wanted to be, and here she is. She has some really gorgeous stabilized walnut burl that I got from Bill at Backwoods Knives. My pics really dont even come close to what the handle looks like in person.
OAL- 13 1/4"
blade- 8 3/16" long, .215" thick, 1 7/8" wide
weight-1 pound 9 ounces with sheath
steel- Aldo's 5160, Forged, with in-house differential heat treatment which includes triple normalize, triple anneal, triple edge quench, and triple draw, for a great performing blade, that holds a great edge, and yet is easy to sharpen!
grind- a medium heavy flat grind {like a chopper}, with a convex edge, sharpened on a smiths diamond hone with micro bevels, to an agressive razor edge
finish- a 600 grit quick rubbed finish, with light hamon, for a nice easy to maintain working finish
handle- some really nice stabilized walnut burl I got from Bill at Backwoods Knives, with white paper micarta spacers
guard- 1/4" mild steel, nicely contoured to feel good on the finger, for greater control, and saftey in challenging situations, and 1/4" mild steel buttcap with the tang through the buttcap and peened
sheath- 11oz leather, hand stitched, clean, dyed, hot-waxed, loop is sized for a 2" belt. personally I keep a blade like this one strapped to my pack instead of on my belt, the belt loop is a nice place to attach a strap though.
I cut a 2x4 in half twice, and the edge would still shave. it also passed an edge flex test, and a nail test {where you clamp the blade edge up in a vise and place a common nail across the edge and hammer the nail until it is cut halfway through} and put about half my wieght {210 lbs}to flex the blade sideways in a vise to check for toughness.
$295 plus $20 for shiping/insurance to CONUS. I can accept paypal Joe357m@bresnan.net or money order.
1st to post "I'll take it" gets it!!!
Ships within 48 hours of payment priority with ins.
Feedback appreciated, and thanks for looking!
If you would like one like this one or different, PM or email with details!
OAL- 13 1/4"
blade- 8 3/16" long, .215" thick, 1 7/8" wide
weight-1 pound 9 ounces with sheath
steel- Aldo's 5160, Forged, with in-house differential heat treatment which includes triple normalize, triple anneal, triple edge quench, and triple draw, for a great performing blade, that holds a great edge, and yet is easy to sharpen!
grind- a medium heavy flat grind {like a chopper}, with a convex edge, sharpened on a smiths diamond hone with micro bevels, to an agressive razor edge
finish- a 600 grit quick rubbed finish, with light hamon, for a nice easy to maintain working finish
handle- some really nice stabilized walnut burl I got from Bill at Backwoods Knives, with white paper micarta spacers
guard- 1/4" mild steel, nicely contoured to feel good on the finger, for greater control, and saftey in challenging situations, and 1/4" mild steel buttcap with the tang through the buttcap and peened
sheath- 11oz leather, hand stitched, clean, dyed, hot-waxed, loop is sized for a 2" belt. personally I keep a blade like this one strapped to my pack instead of on my belt, the belt loop is a nice place to attach a strap though.
I cut a 2x4 in half twice, and the edge would still shave. it also passed an edge flex test, and a nail test {where you clamp the blade edge up in a vise and place a common nail across the edge and hammer the nail until it is cut halfway through} and put about half my wieght {210 lbs}to flex the blade sideways in a vise to check for toughness.
$295 plus $20 for shiping/insurance to CONUS. I can accept paypal Joe357m@bresnan.net or money order.
1st to post "I'll take it" gets it!!!
Ships within 48 hours of payment priority with ins.
Feedback appreciated, and thanks for looking!
If you would like one like this one or different, PM or email with details!
