Custom Chopper (Jeremy Horton)

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I recently had a chance to "play" with a tough knife made by a young smith, Jeremy Horton. It's called a Camp Blood (XL version):
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The knife is made of 0.25" A-2 steel. It's just shy of 16" long with a 10.25" blade. The blade is fully convexed on both sides and is extremely sharp (as my sore thumb will attest). The handles are hand-smoothed G10. I haven't weighed the blade, but it feels light and lively in the hand.

You can see my mini-review here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7105657#post7105657

The maker has made some interesting videos of his flexture tests: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=646341&highlight=camp+blood

Finally, I looked up a previous Thread that describes a bit of the evolution of this interesting design: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=658032&highlight=camp+blood

I originally posted this over in the Wilderness sub-forum, but decided the habitues of the Customs forum might also find it of some interest.

[Many thanks to BushcraftBrainTrust for loaning me this knife!]
 
I sheathed one of those a few months back and LOVED it. I'm not sure I've ever seen a blade more "beefy" and sharp at the same time. It's a winner :)
 
I'm not a huge fan of the light green G-10, but I really like the knife. Jeremy makes some excellent big knives.
 
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