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Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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I just had to try this!
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I really like it.
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That is one super cool little knife!
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OH!! that is gorgeous!!
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It looks pretty stunning to me!
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Hi Terry, nice messnuk! only you can pull this off this well. Great job on the design concept and construction.
Peter
Peter
Hi mr2Blue...
I had a friend drop over while I was making it and he bought it then and there.
However, I had the foresight to make a pattern for this model so I wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel should there be some interest. So, though this one has sold, I can certainly make another.
I hadn't really studied the Nessmuk shape and lore until recently. Made my first fixed blade Nessmuk too (pic attached). There seems to be a group out there that really like them, and after I studied the shape, I like them a lot too. The man who designed this, George Washington Sears (Nessmuk was his pen name) was about 120 years ahead of his time when it comes to knife design, in my opinion. He stressed thin blades that would cut meat and hide better. This shape, if you study it, has had a lot of influence on later knife designs, even up to today.
You can look at some commercial and custom designs and see the lines.
I scanned a lithograph of the knife shape from his book, and enlarged it proportionally so that the fixed blade was 9 1/2" long. I followed the exact lines of that illustration because I wanted to know what the actual knife would have felt like in my hand. I'm fairly certain his was flat ground, but I hollow ground mine so that the blade is thin for about 2/3 of the width. Of course, I had to fudge a bit for the folder, but the blade lines are pretty much identical.
For a true, working knife in the field, this shape really has a lot going for it!
Knipper
I had a friend drop over while I was making it and he bought it then and there.
However, I had the foresight to make a pattern for this model so I wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel should there be some interest. So, though this one has sold, I can certainly make another.
I hadn't really studied the Nessmuk shape and lore until recently. Made my first fixed blade Nessmuk too (pic attached). There seems to be a group out there that really like them, and after I studied the shape, I like them a lot too. The man who designed this, George Washington Sears (Nessmuk was his pen name) was about 120 years ahead of his time when it comes to knife design, in my opinion. He stressed thin blades that would cut meat and hide better. This shape, if you study it, has had a lot of influence on later knife designs, even up to today.
You can look at some commercial and custom designs and see the lines.
I scanned a lithograph of the knife shape from his book, and enlarged it proportionally so that the fixed blade was 9 1/2" long. I followed the exact lines of that illustration because I wanted to know what the actual knife would have felt like in my hand. I'm fairly certain his was flat ground, but I hollow ground mine so that the blade is thin for about 2/3 of the width. Of course, I had to fudge a bit for the folder, but the blade lines are pretty much identical.
For a true, working knife in the field, this shape really has a lot going for it!
Knipper
