Damascus 'Chute" knife (pic)

Bruce Evans · Mar 23, 2001

Here is a "Chute" knife With a 5 inch woodgrain damascus blade,Nickel silver guard and pins,5 inch handle of dyed moose antler with a woodgrain damascus center...
here are a couple of pictures,What do you think of it.
Bruce

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Blackwatch · Mar 23, 2001

IMHO, verrrrryy nice.

I really like the way that that damascus looks. and the handle looks nice and comfy.

overall, without handling, i say: very nice!

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Paracelsus · Mar 23, 2001

Bruce! That is the most appealing knife of yours I have seen posted. I pushes all my buttons and displays great lines and form. Very nice work.

By 'wood-grain' damascus, do you mean 'edge-grain' damascus? (where the billet is turned ninety degrees before flattening to form the blade). You do not see this pattern very much, but it gives those great bold lines along the length of the blade, and it is a good test for weld strength in the billet.

Anyway, I love the lines and colors in that knife. The forward canted guard is great. I am still a little confused about how to define a 'chute' knife other than to say a small fighter, but whatever yu want to call this one, I like it. A lot!

Thanks for sharing Bruce.

Paracelsus

MAURICE · Mar 23, 2001

GASP!!
That knife is incredible!
well done sir,very well done.

Bruce Evans · Mar 23, 2001

Thanks guys,Sing sent me a drawing of this knife and I dressed it up some.He called it a Mod. 'Chute' knife so you will have to ask him why..
Bruce

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sing · Mar 23, 2001

Actually, most of the "chute" knives I have seen in various magazines and knife digest, have a vertical guard rather than a canted guard. The grind would also be different in terms of the top swedge being wider and the primary bevel starting lower on the blade.

I like the look and the feel of the chute knife in a hammer grip. However, I find my thumb banging into the guard in a saber grip, or my grip mostly out of line with the handle swell to adjust. The canted guard takes care of that. Also, already having some of Bruce's work pieces, I know his long flat grind on the primary bevel, leading to an almost convex edge, cuts well and seems to retain it's sharpness well. So why mess with that?

This is really not a "chute" knife, just an idea I had taking of on from it. This knife should fit me since the drawing I sent was actual size with details. How did a style get named a "chute" knife, I don't know.

sing
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Bruce Evans · Mar 23, 2001

The Blade is actually six bars of a random twist patern that has been stretched on it side so you see the different bars running with the blade.I have been carrying a knife with this pattern since Christmas and have skinned a few deer with it and chopped the neck bone in two on one of them,I have found this steel very tough and it was made from all the shop scraps that would normaly find there way over the hill behind the shop.
Bruce

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives
The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society

willOthewisp · Mar 23, 2001

Sing - cool canted guard concept!
Bruce - Excellent execution!

Jon
King of Alliteration!

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Bugs3x · Mar 24, 2001

My amazingly porous memory shouldn't be trusted very far, but am reasonably sure that I just read today, in a '97 issue of TN that "chute knife" is Bob Loveless' term for boot knives. (Of course, had to cut part of this and go look at a thread on another forum where I knew his name had been used today, then come back and finish this

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Damn, got so frustrated with my inability to remember, that I forgot to say -- for the second time -- that I really like your wood grain damascus Bruce. I really think you're onto something there, and ought to exploit it!

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Bugs

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