Mark Banfield hunter: blackwood handle

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I've had this in my collection drawer for around two years. Never used or carried. Really clean work and symmetry.

Blade: 1095 steel with hamon and hand-rubbed finish
Handle: African Blackwood
Blade length: 5.5" from tip to furthermost edge of handle slabs. About 4-7/8" to 5" from tip to plunge line depending on where at the plunge line.
Overall length: 10.25"
Blade thickness: 3/16" at the ricasso's spine.
Top clip is not sharpened. Blade is distal tapered toward tip. No taper in tang.

Price: $250 SOLD. Shipping included within 48 states. No trades please. I'm selling to help my brother who lost his job.

I haven't gotten the hang of photographing hamons so here's a picture which shows the knife profile better but the light reflected killed the hamon, and another picture where the angle showed the hamon better but doesn't show the knife profile as well:
BanfieldLeft2.jpg

BanfieldLeft1.jpg


Comes with this sheath from the maker:
BanfieldRight2.jpg



Other details you may be interested in:
Those are dust on the ricasso and stamp, not scratches. Honest.
BanfieldStamp.jpg


Symmetrical plunge grind.
BanfieldPlunge.jpg


And a better visual guage of its size than just reading numbers in the specs. I have small medium hands.
BanfieldinHand.jpg
 
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