Loveless Drop Point Hunter in San Mai**SOLD**

TK Steingass

TK Steingass

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Hi Fellas - thanks for stopping by:

This Loveless style dropped hunter was made from a San Mai billet I asked Larry Withrow to make for me.....this was my first San Mai knife and depending on the customer feedback, I may make more after this prototype. The OAL is 8 " with a 3 1/2" hollow ground blade with a 1095 core, stabilized tasmanian sassafras scales with black liners on a tapered tang, 416 SS furniture. The knife was mirror finished then the 1095 core was blued. 8/9 oz Loveless style leather sheath. The first "I'll take it," gets it. Asking $300 plus $10 shipping and insurance. Paypal preferred to tksteingass@frontier.com and I'll accept postal money orders also.

Best regards,

TK

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Tim, could you give a bit more info on the San Mai steel ? 1095 core covered by 1 layer of a stainless steel ? and if so, which stainless ? Do you know the Rc and would this be just for the 1095 which is the cutting steel since it forms the edge.
Your single steel blades work very well and i would like to understand what advantages or differences this San Mai offers.
Thank you Sir !
roland
 
Roland:

With this knife, you're not really getting a lot of the advantages from the San Mai IMHO. This knife has a 1095 core with a thin layer of 15N20 stainless sandwiched on either side. On bigger knives or swords, the intent was to have a high hardness core that held the edge along with the toughness provided by the softer shell. In this case, what you really have is a 1095 knife that was heat treated to Rc 60-61 on the business end. This knife was hollow ground thinly to about .015" before the cutting bevels were applied at about 20 degrees, so what you have here is damn near a straight razor, suitable for cutting flesh only. My full size Loveless knife with a 4" blade has a strong 3/16" (.195) spine and weighs 5.6 oz, while this 3 1/2" blade knife is .110" at the spine and weighs 4.4 oz. The photography does not adequately display the beautiful range of color, color contrast, and figure in the Tasmanian Sassafras. What I tried to accomplish is something different from my other, "beefier" Loveless knives: lighter in the hand, shorter blade, elegant, unique in material selection, a one of a kind that someone would use in the field or display on their desk.

This would make one helluva Christmas present and frankly, I think this is easily a $400 knife, but I'm not out to make a killing - I just love making them. :)

Hope this helps and thanks for your continued patronage Roland,

TK
 
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Thanks Tim. So the 15N20 was mostly ground off and what is left of it shows above the blued area.
roland
 
Absolutely correct - it's representative of most San Mai blades.

TK
 
Stunning work as always T.K, Love the Tasmanian Sassafras, you should see the Black Heart Sassafras that we get over here as well. ;)
 
Looks like I missed this one the first time through.
Another cool one TK, I like the effect of the steel used. It's another cool one to show off around the camp fire etc.
Alan
 
Paul: It's a beauty and it's yours! This knife is sold and thanks for the kind words guys!

TK
 
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