Hollow Handle Survival

Greg Covington

Greg Covington

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It has been awhile since I made one of these. This knife has a 8.5 in. blade of forged L6 steel. The knife is differentially tempered at the tang and ricasso. The guard is 1018 steel. The handle tube comes from TKS and is stainless steel with an aluminum cap. I modify the tang end of the handle to accept a much beefier tang and then I silver solder the blade, guard, and handle cap all together. It is very tough and I have never broken one as of yet.

I cut the teeth using a modification to my chop saw, then beveled them on the grinder

The entire knife was then bead blasted and then coated with AcraCoat for corrosion resistance.

Yes...I will admit it....I still really like "Rambo" knives :rolleyes:

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Greg Covington
 
Great job! I love what you've done with that style of knife. I own 3 hollow handled knives (2 Jack Crain's and a Chris Reeve) and personally like them very much. I'm always pleased to see new interpretations of this kind of knife.

-Jared
 
Wow, that's a nice one, do you still make the other style of hollow handle knife that's on your website as well or have you switched to this new version. In either case that's a pretty knife. Like PlaceKnives I'm into the hollow handle/survival knives.

Lagarto
 
I like a well-executed "survival" knife like that. That is one sweet blade!
 
Have you considered heat treating the guard? If you look at alot of old Bowie's the guards are usually bent from glancing impacts while chopping. I know a knifemaker who heat treats all of the guards on his hollow handle knives just to be extra tough. I think it's a cool idea.

-Jared
 
Hmm...that wouldnt be a bad idea. If you use 1/4" stock I dont think it would ever be a problem....this guard started at 3/16" but got reduced some to remove the "bark"

This L6 is some darn tough stuff. I have been getting great field reports from it and it takes a very toothy edge.

I made this one with a Bowie style blade but I have done spearpoints and other tooth arragements before.

An interesting note is that I quench these with the edge down and keep most of the ricasso and the tang out of the quench so it stays soft. I also leave just the teeth out (slightly) of the oil which hopefully gives them a little lighter hardness than the edge.
 
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