I got this knife in a trade, and it's been in my outdoor kit since. I can't comment on price since I didn't buy it, but it's a very well-made knife. For those fo you who don't know, JK Knives is our very own Forum member, Stomper. I only have two photos of my Bushcrafter, so I apologize for that. You can find plenty of them on here, as they're really popular in the Wilderness & Survival Forum. So here's the review on this excellent outdoor blade...
The Bushcrafter is the third knife in this photo...
The Handle: The bushcrafter has a nice handle made of cocobolo (see EDIT). It's a full, exposed tang with the handle slabs secured with stainless hollow pins. The handle itself is 4-3/16" long and 13/16" thick at its thickest, and is very comfortable. There are slight grooves on each handle slab for finger placement, and the overall shape of the handle lends itself well to outdoor work. The scales themselves are really nice to look at and are sanded for comfort. They're fitted flush with the exposed tang; the handles don't protrude and neither does the tang. There are no gaps between the handle scales and the tang either. All of this means no pinching or sharp spots to cut yourself while working.
The pins (there are three of them) are hollow and appear to be stainless steel. They have an internal diameter of 3/16" which is about ideal for hollow pins I think; they're large enough to get crud out easily while being small enough to not impede your cutting by being uncomfortable. I put some leather thong through the rear-most pin for use as a lanyard hole, although you can fit gutted 550 cord in there if you prefer. It's a great handle; very well-executed.
The Blade: Again, this is a full tang knife, so it's pretty darn strong. The Bushcrafter's blade is made from a piece of 1/8" thick 0-1 steel. It measures 4-1/4" long and is convex-ground. While I prefer a full flat grind on my outdoor knives, this is a great blade. It came to me razor sharp, and it held that working edge through a lot of use. After batoning about 12 or so 5" diameter logs, it was still able to cut paper although it had lost its hair-shaving ability. A quick touch-up on the 1000-grit sandpaper fixed that. The blade is absent of markings except for a K stamped into the left-side tang. I really have no complaints about the Bushcrafter, except I wish it were a tad bit pointier. Really, that's all I can complain about, and even that is a very small detail. It's just such a great knife, designed by somebody who obviously knows what he's doing.
The Sheath: The bushcrafter is carried pouch-style in a brown leather sheath. The leather is nice and thick at 3/16" and it has nice caramel color to it. It's stitched shut with that heavy-duty stitching that you'd find on a baseball, and has another piece of thick leather to serve as a spacer to keep the blade from cutting through. Overall, the sheath is 6-3/4" long by itself. With the Bushcrafter instered, it's 8-3/4" long. This is not an easily-concealable knife; in the sheath, it's 1-1/4" wide (not counting the belt loop). It's going to protrude from your hip, which is fine for an outdoor knife but maybe not so much in a park around non-knife people. The belt loop is 1" wide and will fit a belt up to 2" wide. It's that nice, thick leather that the rest of the sheath is made of. The sheath has no markings, and it doesn't need them.
Here's the Bushcrafter in my main hiking set-up...
In case you can't tell by now, I love this knife. I've got to thank Stomper for putting out such a great product and for listening to his customers. Please check out his work if you haven't already. His website is www.jkhandmadeknives.com
EDITED: The handle scales are made of walnut, not cocobolo. Sorry for the mix-up.
The Bushcrafter is the third knife in this photo...
The Handle: The bushcrafter has a nice handle made of cocobolo (see EDIT). It's a full, exposed tang with the handle slabs secured with stainless hollow pins. The handle itself is 4-3/16" long and 13/16" thick at its thickest, and is very comfortable. There are slight grooves on each handle slab for finger placement, and the overall shape of the handle lends itself well to outdoor work. The scales themselves are really nice to look at and are sanded for comfort. They're fitted flush with the exposed tang; the handles don't protrude and neither does the tang. There are no gaps between the handle scales and the tang either. All of this means no pinching or sharp spots to cut yourself while working.
The pins (there are three of them) are hollow and appear to be stainless steel. They have an internal diameter of 3/16" which is about ideal for hollow pins I think; they're large enough to get crud out easily while being small enough to not impede your cutting by being uncomfortable. I put some leather thong through the rear-most pin for use as a lanyard hole, although you can fit gutted 550 cord in there if you prefer. It's a great handle; very well-executed.
The Blade: Again, this is a full tang knife, so it's pretty darn strong. The Bushcrafter's blade is made from a piece of 1/8" thick 0-1 steel. It measures 4-1/4" long and is convex-ground. While I prefer a full flat grind on my outdoor knives, this is a great blade. It came to me razor sharp, and it held that working edge through a lot of use. After batoning about 12 or so 5" diameter logs, it was still able to cut paper although it had lost its hair-shaving ability. A quick touch-up on the 1000-grit sandpaper fixed that. The blade is absent of markings except for a K stamped into the left-side tang. I really have no complaints about the Bushcrafter, except I wish it were a tad bit pointier. Really, that's all I can complain about, and even that is a very small detail. It's just such a great knife, designed by somebody who obviously knows what he's doing.
The Sheath: The bushcrafter is carried pouch-style in a brown leather sheath. The leather is nice and thick at 3/16" and it has nice caramel color to it. It's stitched shut with that heavy-duty stitching that you'd find on a baseball, and has another piece of thick leather to serve as a spacer to keep the blade from cutting through. Overall, the sheath is 6-3/4" long by itself. With the Bushcrafter instered, it's 8-3/4" long. This is not an easily-concealable knife; in the sheath, it's 1-1/4" wide (not counting the belt loop). It's going to protrude from your hip, which is fine for an outdoor knife but maybe not so much in a park around non-knife people. The belt loop is 1" wide and will fit a belt up to 2" wide. It's that nice, thick leather that the rest of the sheath is made of. The sheath has no markings, and it doesn't need them.
Here's the Bushcrafter in my main hiking set-up...
In case you can't tell by now, I love this knife. I've got to thank Stomper for putting out such a great product and for listening to his customers. Please check out his work if you haven't already. His website is www.jkhandmadeknives.com
EDITED: The handle scales are made of walnut, not cocobolo. Sorry for the mix-up.
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Nice review:thumbup: