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Gossman Knives

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I thought I'd post a pic of this customer ordered large camp knife to see what you survival guys thought of it. It's 1/4" by 1 3/4" 5160, 8 1/2" convex grind, differentially heat treated blade. Handle is 5 1/2" long with brown canvas micarta scales and loveless bolts. Thanks for looking

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Scott
 
Burchtree said:
two-thumbs up Scott. Very nice blade! :)
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Thanks Burch. I went through alot with this one. :grumpy: Tried three times to heat treat with a torch but the blade was to big and I couldn't keep the heat up and even. I went to Nowicki's shop and did it in his forge then edge quenched it. Turned out great. :)
Scott
 
Absolute crap. THat's one of the shoddier pieces of work I've seen.

Tell you what... You can send it to me and I'll keep it. You can try again to redeem yourself.


:p
 
I would want more of a guard and a rear hook, but the blade pattern is nice, clean and simple. How soft did you run the spine?

-Cliff
 
Beautiful. I really like the choil and the way you designed it. It makes me want to hold it, I hope you remember the pattern....
 
Cliff Stamp said:
I would want more of a guard and a rear hook, but the blade pattern is nice, clean and simple. How soft did you run the spine?

-Cliff
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Thanks Cliff. I can see what you mean about the guard and rear hook. That can easily be done. As far as the softness of the spine, I'm not sure. I have no way of testing it.
Thanks everyone for the kind words. So far these large knives have been customer imput designs. They tell me what they want and I tweak it a little. Two more pics.

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Scott
 
The workmanship looks very good. As for the design, I'd tweak a couple of things, based on personal preference. First, I'd be sure to add a forefinger guard, probably just drop some steel down lower and take the handle slabs down it on both sides. Second, I would extend the thumb dip a bit further forwad onto the blade spine (over the front finger choil). FInally, I would drop the point down about 1/2". But, that's just how I'd design it; since this was a customer-designed piece, I imagine they got what they wanted :)

I really like the looks of the grind you did. Keep up the good work.
 
Razorback - Knives said:
... the guard and rear hook.
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Yeah these are really user specific, my brother hates handles I like a lot. It depends on your grip size and how you hold and use it. The handle is well executed for its style, my brother would like it a lot. File work is nice also. I usually don't go for that, but if it doesn't degrade performance, why not have it look good as well.

-Cliff
 
I always put filework on my smaller knives unless the customer doesn't want it. The larger ones I usually don't but it was requested by the customer.
Scott
 
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