Hawkbills

jjsmith

jjsmith

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Hi guys, I’m relisting a Hawkbill from a couple weeks ago and lowered the price. I liked it so much I decided to make another one. I have one in double black canvas scales with OD green canvas liners and one in double black canvas and fire canvas micarta liners. Both blades are hand sanded to 1000 grit, etched and polished to bring out the hamon. Here’s the specs,

26C3 .150 thick
61RC
Tapered tangs
(SOLD)Double black canvas/OD green canvas liners
(SOLD)Double black canvas/fire canvas micarta liners
Copper pins and lanyard tubes
8 inches overall length
3 1/2 inch blade
Black Kydex sheaths, holes spaced for a large tek-lok

$SOLD shipped here in the USA.

Thanks for looking!

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jjsmith said:
I caped a bear with a Hawkbill once. Worked great.
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Seems like a decent EDC shape as well. Similar to a sheep's foot, but comes to a finer point so is probably good for self defense as well. I dig it!
 
Matt Behnke said:
Seems like a decent EDC shape as well. Similar to a sheep's foot, but comes to a finer point so is probably good for self defense as well. I dig it!
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I EDC'ed a spyderco byrd crossbill for 2 or 3 years in my 20's after losing a kershaw shallot, which was pretty expensive for me at the time. They work quite well opening packages and cutting tape. Not too bad taking out cardboqrd either. Not great in cutting up food, but I didn't use a pocket knife on food back then anyway.

The slight "tooth" of a tip made it really easy cutting tape limited penetration into a package as well. I loves the thing until I eventually needed something with a 3" or less blade due to change of jobs (city ordinance) and went crazy finding a new EDC knife. That's about when I joined Bladeforums too.

I think hawkbills are pretty under rated for being a good utility blade option. The biggest downside, to me, for EDC is it's hard to make it a compact knife because you have to account for the curved blade and you don't want edge exposed so you either get a swayback style handle or something more ergonomic but pretty elliptical in shape. Kind of like carrying a manix 2, it doesn't carry small even if it's decently slim in thickness.
 
Didn’t post up earlier but great job on these. Very nice design and beautiful as usual! Thank you guys buying them before I did, saved me some money I didn’t need to spend right now. I was very close close, but had to refrain. Hopefully you’ll make more of this design, very neat!
 
Cwilliams563 said:
Didn’t post up earlier but great job on these. Very nice design and beautiful as usual! Thank you guys buying them before I did, saved me some money I didn’t need to spend right now. I was very close close, but had to refrain. Hopefully you’ll make more of this design, very neat!
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Thank you!
 
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