Les Suete Utility

[P. McKinley]

Les Suete - On the western shores of Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island, damaging local winds are known as Les Suetes, derived from the word for southeast: "sud est". These south-easterlies are created when a frontal inversion causes a funneling effect over the Cape Breton mountains. As the winds rush down the side of the highlands, strong gusts develop which are regularly recorded to exceed 150km/h (94 mph).

I don't make a lot of full tang knives, but this is the first of several I'm working on at the moment. The moose antler handle slabs lend a reassuring heft to this handy light weight user.

Les Suete Utility

Blade: 4" x 1/8" 1095 hand rubbed 2000 grit bevels w/ wispy hamon. Flats are finished to 800 grit.

Handle: Moose antler cut from the crown stalk, 01 steel pins

Sheath: In progress

Thanks for looking!

 

[Billy Helton]

Looks real nice

 

[Buffalohump]

Wow, very nice looking piece and I'm sure it cuts like the blazes too.....

 

[P. McKinley]

Thanks Bill and Buffalohump!

Here's some more respectable photos of this knife.