Koa Frame-Handle Hunter

S. Clark

S. Clark

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Koa FrameHandle Hunter

Blade Length: 4.75″

Cutting Edge: 4.25"

Over All Length: 9.6″

Handle: Exhibition Grade Koa, Blued Mild Steel Guard and Frame, Stainless Fileworked Spacer

Steel: 3/16" 1095 HT to ~60 RC, Flat ground blade, Hand Polished Hamon

Leather: Buyer Specifies Right or Left. Please allow a week to make.

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Price: $450 Shipped CONUS

Please add 20usd for shipping to Canada or Europe

This knife goes to the first "I'll take it." It is posted elswhere, so the first timestamp gets priority.

Email, PM or Comment. Paypal only please and thanks!

Comments and criticism welcome! Thanks for looking!

*******Also, Check out my brand new instagram that i created 10 minutes ago! S__Clark (With two underscores)*******
 
Only criticism I have is I don't have the money at the moment to by it!

Well since you asked, maybe one. In the pics, it looks like the handle is kinda "proud" at the guard. Is there a reason or is it just me? Or just the pics? Or is it meant to be that way? Regardless, beautiful knife.
 
Thanks a lot for the comments guys!

sirupatespecial said:
Only criticism I have is I don't have the money at the moment to by it!

Well since you asked, maybe one. In the pics, it looks like the handle is kinda "proud" at the guard. Is there a reason or is it just me? Or just the pics? Or is it meant to be that way? Regardless, beautiful knife.
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If by proud, you mean oh-so-slightly oversized and rounded, then yes, it is "proud" at the guard. There are a few reasons for that, the first being that it is more of a professional touch, showing that each piece of material was put together individually to make for one final piece instead of all being secured together and ground as one piece, and it essentially shows how much more time was put into a blade. Secondly, it adds more movement as your eyes follow along and trace the curves of the handle. Lastly and sometimes most importantly, if you are working with certain types of materials such as ivory, for example, the materials tend to move and/or change dimension with the changing levels of humidity and temperature of the seasons, so if the transition between materials was at first a smooth one that a fingernail couldn't feel, and then it moves .001 of an inch, it will be glaringly obvious when it moves, where as a proud edge may not even notice any change at all.

Now that was long winded.. Long story short: it's a sort of professional touch [emoji28]
 
Wow what an eye for detail and artistic talent you have!!! The bolster is piece of modern art highlighted by the file work you mentioned on the spacer. The Koa scales are another beauty I could have never imagined much less made functional. Truly an understated masterpiece!!
 
Spencer:

Excellent execution and design - impressive. :thumbup:
 
May I ask what the significance of your stamp is? (the one right before your name on the blade)

Gorgeous knife
 
155440 said:
May I ask what the significance of your stamp is? (the one right before your name on the blade)

Gorgeous knife
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Of course! The initialism IHS is the Holy Name of our Lord "Iesus Hominem Salvatore," Latin for "Jesus Savior of Mankind." I mark my blades with it because He is who really deserves the credit for anything good that might have come from my laboring. Thanks for asking[emoji106]
 
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