Fighting Tanto

[mcswood]

Started this one at auction yesterday.
Always liked tantos. We'll see how it does.
Mike

 

[babakanoosh45]

Did you make it? What are the dimensions? What blade steel? It's a very good looking piece! I hope it does well for you at auction....

 

[mcswood]

This is one of mine. It's 1075 spring steel. Just shy of 15" O.A.
The blade is 9.13/16" X 1.1/4" X 1/4" thick. The guard, bolsters,
and pommel are steel (welded to the tang). The scales are Curly Maple.
I make my sheathes from heavy 12oz. leather (3/16"-1/4"). They are cemented at the spine and handstitched with doubled waxed nylon
saddle thread.
The rivits and snap are steel instead of brass (takes abuse well).

Thanks for looking,
Mike

 

[Keith Montgomery]

Your knives have shown a great deal of improvement as of late. This one looks really good to me.

 

[Mackenzie4856]

That's not a tanto. See, I can tell, because I don't like tantos, and I'm absolutely blown away by that.

Seriously, awe-inspiring work. Looks liek it cant decide to slice or chop, so it's just going to give you the best of both.

 

[mcswood]

Thanks for the kind words.
This is a design that I plan to continue making
for a while. I tweek it from time to time with
slight changes to the guard or blade length, but
otherwise I leave it alone.
Mike