Full sized half guarded Nessmuk

[Raymond Richard]

This was another blade that had been sitting on my bench for a couple years. I had bought an old drag saw blade maybe 8 years ago from "Fairly Honest Mikes". Its a well know second hand and junk store 20 miles southeast of Portland. The drag saws started showing up in the 1920's a few years before chainsaws. The blade on this knife is 5", more iron fittings, and an ass backwards sambar stag handle. Overall its 10 1/2". Here's an example of a drag saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU2AnP2Ji4s

 

[Steven Kelly]

That is really cool Ray. I especially like the ass backwards part!!!!

 

[Lorien]

I love it! You make some damn fine looking knives Raymond.:thumbup:

 

[Raymond Richard]

That is really cool Ray. I especially like the ass backwards part!!!!

Steve, I knew you'd like that.............

 

[monkeybutt]

Beautiful knife. Nice curves.

 

[Chiro75]

Nicely done!

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Here's a better one Ray:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O3VLXlbYJU&feature=related
My Dad and I used to cut up all of our firewood with one of those.

 

[JParanee]

ray what is your web site address having trouble finding it. by the way great knife

 

[Keith Montgomery]

That's the shape of blade that I really like on a nessmuk.

 

[Raymond Richard]

ray what is your web site address having trouble finding it. by the way great knife

Joe, Here you go: http://www.hawknknives.com/

 

[mohd]

Cool Nessmuk! The blade has a touch of a fighter! And it has a great handle for a user! Beautiful hamon! Functional guard! Great knife, Ray :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Yhanks for showing

Mohd.

 

[Ken Williams]

Proof that the Nessmuk blade shape need not look as homely as its name, or the many bulbous examples floating around offending eyes everywhere.

Infusing art into the Nessmuk design might be the Mt. Everest for fix-blade makers. If there is one criterion which separates ABS JS from MS smiths it's summitting Mt. Nessmuk. If this were indeed the sole criterion, there might be more ivory-bill woodpeckers than MS makers. Well done, Ray; how's the view up there?

As for the "ass backward" handle . . . well . . . uh . . . the stag is good and I love the comely little hor d'oeuvre pommel, but . . . I think you got it bass akwards, dude. The Nessmuk was marketed for fearless, brawny men living on the edge of the terrifying western frontier, who demanded broad shouldered handles and beefy butts, abjectly antithetical to your "Lady" Nessmuk. That's it!, you vulpine genius, you built this for the lady collector/huntress didn't you. I'd call it the Nancy Nessmuk (Pelosi), and I'm sure it will outsell her new book.

ken

 

[Raymond Richard]

Here's a small knife I was working on at the same time as the Nessmuk. The blade is also out of the drag saw steel. Its got a 3 1/2" blade and its 7 1/4" overall. I used a piece of madrone burl for the handle.