knife question: NEED OPINIONS AND THOUGHTS

[SilentJohn]

FROM ATLANTA CUTLERY CORP.
Handmade out West, just like the originals. 1095 high carbon steel, coal forged and heat treated in Oregon. Handle is American Curly Maple. The choice of re-enactors and outdoorsmen who crave tradition. Includes oil tanned, top grain leather sheath. The Frontier Utility Knife features a Mediterranean notch which aided while tying fishing line and actually can be used to strip sinew.

* Overall: 9-3/8"
* Blade: 4-3/4"

my dad likes it a lot and loves the look of the handle he really wants a blind horse knives pathfinder knife but this one is $200 less now he wants to know WILL HE BE SAVING $200 OR LOSING $70

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I bet that's the equivalent cottage-industry knife to the ones sold by Ragweed Forge, maybe even the same maker. I would trust it.

 

[NeoClassic]

Never handled the knife, but I have seen one like it for sale for half that on Ragweedforge.com and trackofthewolf.com. And at $30 to $45, it matters much less if he doesn't like it so much.

EDIT: Like Esav said, I would trust it. The only thing that has kept me from buying one of these trade knives is the unsharpened portion of the blade up by the handle. I use that section for cutting a lot.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I don't believe Ragnar sells a sheath with it, you have to buy one separately from him.
Sharpening a portion of the edge won't take long.

 

[NeoClassic]

Sharpening a portion of the edge won't take long.

The portion I'm talking about has the decorative cutouts. I personally wouldn't want to sharpen that section of the blade.

Ragnar sells sheaths for the trade knives, but I noticed he's out of stock on the knife in question, as well as the corresponding sheath.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

As I said, it's a cottage industry. I believe it's a mom & pop operation, like many of our knifemakers here. As he has a number of dealers carrying his work, any one of them can run out of a model from time to time.