Made a little Bushcraft knife.

[loki67]

What do you guys think?
I'm calling it the Bushbaby.

 

[Liam Ryan]

Looks great! Very functional design. What's the blade length?

 

[ahgar]

come on cough up the details,
blade length
blade steel
scale material
when can i have one
we gots to know

 

[sasha]

Very nice lines. The wood handle is too pretty to use.. What steal is it??? Sure looks as a knife that you can carry and use every day.. Very nice job. I love smaller knifes.

Sasha

 

[loki67]

The blade is 3.25" long and the knife is 7.75 oal.
So it's smaller than a Skookum and not Scandi ground, but that was my influence.
That's what makes it a Bushbaby.
It's made of 3/16ths 1095 with linen micarta and brass pins.

 

[CanDo]

Very nice! Are the pins just slid through, epoxied in, and flushed up?

 

[loki67]

Very nice! Are the pins just slid through, epoxied in, and flushed up?

They are glued and peened so even if the glue was to fail they and the scales are on to stay.

 

[ahgar]

that's just about perfect for an edc fixed blade. matched with a kydex sheath it'd be hard to beat with a stick. very nice. verrrrrry nice.

 

[mmmotorcycle]

A very nice blade, especially that fine tip! my personal preferences would have it a bit thinner. Like 1/8th or so.

Great work!

 

[lotoblades]

Very Nice lines, great functional looking knife:thumbup::thumbup:

 

[Gerberblades]

Very Nice, I like it a lot!!

 

[evolhd]

very nice job

 

[loki67]

The 3/16ths stock was mostly because it was just what I had laying around.
And with the higher grind it still slices paper like a razor, I figure it will provide more strength in the long run.

Thanks for all the great responses so far, I don't know what kind of sheath to do yet.
Leather or Kydex?

Also once I get this design tested a bit I will be offering some for sale.

 

[Fiddleback]

I like it A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Elen]

She looks nice. And I think she'd feel more at home in a leather sheath than in a synthetic one. :thumbup:

 

[savagesicslayer]

Great knife.I agree that you should keep it organic with the sheath.More in tune with nature.Again, great work.

 

[siguy]

nice little knife there. very sharp looking.

i like the sweep of the blade, and the fine tip. could we see a shot of the spine (handle contours)?

 

[mmmotorcycle]

Go with leather!

The knife will have much more character....

 

[3wolves]

This would be one of the only fixed blades I would edc:thumbup: :thumbup:. For a sheath, how about leather with a kydex insert? Sorta best of both worlds kinda thing. Also love the handle. The micarta looks exactly like real wood.

 

[ahgar]

While i like leather, in this case kydex would offer more carry positions and more security while maintaining ease of draw. but whatever it's a pretty sweet knife.