Little Sambar Trailing Point

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Jason Cutter

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A rush job for a customer who wants it for a nephew's 21st birthday. The guy supplies me with local Sambar, Rusa and Red Deer antler and bone material, I make his working knives for him. It also helps he works in the same Psychiatric service as me and we get to catch up weekly as I pass through his ofice. He hunts enough deer he has a venison business - pretty damn tasty hams and sausages too.

This one is just 3-1/4inch O-1 blade, flat ground and convexed to the edge. Just 1/8inch thick stock. Trailing point is not my personal favourites, but was the customer's design. Long choil for choked up grip. Simple machine finished "Field-satin." Brass fittings, waterproof spacers. The handle is sambar stag taken by the customer. The sheath not yet made is a simple black leather scabbard (double seams). Thanks for the looks. Back to sleep now. Jason.

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Was the stag bark polished off to suit how it felt to the hand, or for how it made to fit where it inserted into the guard?
 
The stag handles I use, I try to find a piece of stag that fits the hand already and will match the dimensions so that minimal amount will be ground off. I also like to maintain many of the natural curves of the stag. So these handles aren't really parallel or straight. I do however, like to match the contours in, so it is blended right into the handle. I do that mostly in the front and leave as much up the rear untouched. I do however, take off some of the high spots for contras and make sure that the handle is comfy. I sand up to 1500grit by hand and just lightly touch to the buff with white diamond for a brilliant polish. The colours seen are all natural - this was a small but very healthy specimen of deer. It was also so dense and all bone that there was no pithy centre to core out. Did make life a bit difficult when trying to slot the antler for the tang. Jason.
 
Jason, you seem to be producing one gem after another - I just saw the new uploaded pics on your website. we must talk soon - mebbe, just mebbe there's a chance of something slipping in your schedule......:D
 
I have to go along with the rest of ya: my new JCB blade just showed up - I don't own much stag, and this is my first full horn piece (instead of two slabs) and Jason has the fit down!:D I can't post a pic, but he had it displayed in the maker's sales column... Jason - that is one sweet little beauty and it looks like it'll handle anything...and the way you treat your stag, trying to get the right natural shape first, really works!

Stay safe and keep Hammerin'!
 
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