Maple and 13C26 Hunter *Sold*

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Mike Fennessy

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*SOLD*

8" overall length, 4" blade
1/8" 13C26 stainless steel
Stainless steel Corby bolts
Professionally stabilized maple handle with red liner
Leather sheath
$100 + $10 insured shipping

Lots of movement in the wood. Honestly I'm not positive what to call it. I know it's maple, cut and made into boards by my brother-in-law from my family's land, but I haven't seen grain like that before. My best guess is it was crotch wood that ended up being quarter-sawn. I had it stabilized by WSSI. It's very hard (for me) to get a accurate picture of what it looks like in real life so made notes next to each picture.

The dark spot by the top bolt is part of the grain, not a chip out. Also, there's a small puncture on the sheath strap. Happened when the sheath was almost done and decided to not redo the whole thing. Priced accordingly, just wanted to point it out in case you didn't notice it in the pictures.

Thanks for looking!

Wood is washed out in this picture but is the best picture I could get of the blade.
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This shows some of the movement but not the contrast. This is pretty accurate color wise.
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This is a very good picture of the grain, but the color isn't quite this red.
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Handle obviously very washed out but best shot of the sheath.
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Mike, i think this is a Great looking knife and sheath too. I particularly like the blade profile. I have a couple of 50 yr. old Swedish knives that are similar.
Do you grind your own blades and do your own heat treatment ? Is the grind on this blade very thin to make it a slicer ? Or ??
Any idea as to Rc ?
thanks, roland
 
Thank's Roland, I appreciate it. I'm guessing that you knew that 13C26 is a Swedish steel, or was that just coincidence?

Yes I grind my own blades, do the heat treating and make my own sheaths. The blade is 1/8" thick, I should have mentioned that, I'll add it to the original post. I ground the edge down to about .010 - .015" before heat treating and sharpening. Sandvik mentions that 13C26 was designed for razor blades and surgical knives so I did go as thin as I dared before heat treat so the blade geometry would take advantage of the strengths of 13C26.

I heat treated it according to Sandvik's website. Two, one-hour tempers at 345 should put it at 59-60 Rc but I don't have a hardness tester.
 
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If this is still available I'd like to keep it in Wisconsin, if you take PayPal I'll take it, just let me kinow.
 
Well, he who hesitates, looses. I wanted to buy this but wanted to hear back from Mike with a few more details which he kindly provided. However, lucky jvan nabbed it in the interim.
Mike, yes i do know this is a Swedish steel but the Swedish knives i referred to are older i think than this steel. It's the blade profile and handle shape that are similar.
roland
 
Beautiful knife and sheath. I can't believe the price. That beautiful sheath is worth what you asked for the whole rig.
 
It's yours jvan. Thanks everyone for the compliments, it really means a lot. This is the first knife I've sold on bladeforums :)

jvan, I haven't emailed anyone through the bladeforums system before so if you don't get an email from me, let me know here and we'll figure out what I'm doing wrong.
 
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hi mike. i know the knife is gone. but, wanted to echo what the others have said. great looking knife and a nice deal to boot. congrats on your first sale.
 
The knife shipped late yesterday and arrived mid-morning today, what took so long?

I am extremely pleased with both the knife and the sheath; actually at this price I feel like I mugged Mike and stole this from him.

The handle material is awesome, very much of a three dimensional effect. The blade is shaving sharp and beautifully ground.

A great package and I am looking forward to Mikes' future offerings. Grab one of his knives before he realizes what they are worth.
 
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Well, he who hesitates, looses. I wanted to buy this but wanted to hear back from Mike with a few more details which he kindly provided. However, lucky jvan nabbed it in the interim.
Mike, yes i do know this is a Swedish steel but the Swedish knives i referred to are older i think than this steel. It's the blade profile and handle shape that are similar.
roland
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After playing with this knife for a couple of days it is really growing on me. I particularily like the blade shape which is just a bit different from just about anything I have, the handle is extremely comfortable in hand and I can see this knife being an excellent bush craft knife.

Roland, do you have any pics of the older Swedish knives of which you were speaking?
 
After 3 hours of searching i can only find one, the newer of the 2 but still about 40+ years old.
OAL 8 1/4", marked: Erik Anton Berg/Eskilstuna/Sweden

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roland
 
Thank you ever so much. I doubted whether you would even find this post but based on your answer I see what you mean.

A very practical and useable blade shape combined with a rather ergonomic handle, thanks again.

John
 
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