New design - thoughts and suggestions please

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I'm playing with a drawing for a new design and am looking for suggestions on where it can be tweaked. I'm trying to stick with the over all flavor of one of my previous designs but with some obvious changes. I forgot to include anything for scale in the image, but the design as is comes to just shy of 10"
Looking at the drawing on screen my first reaction is to come down lower from the ramp along the spine for a lower blade height. This will be a full height flat grind and right now the steel is 1/8" 1084.
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you mean shallower curve from the handle? or sweeping into the blade? or just extend it out into the blade more linearly? I originally wasn't coming DOWN from the thumb ramp but the blade just looked out of proportion. I could bring the blade edge up, but start losing choil arc or thickness there at the handle. There's wiggle room there but not a ton I don't think.
 
The thumb ramp looks to be too far forward and the back mof the handle at the top could use some curve downward to be more comfortable to use. It's a pretty wide knife and even the 10" length seems a bit long to me. You might want to adjust it some. On good side it seems well proportioned and could be a good hunting working knife. Frank
 
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JBS, primarily hunting, light camp work, general field use. NOT chopping stuff or being some super stiff pry bar replacement. It's a cutting tool, not a small axe. 1/8" 1084 will be more than strong enough to survive anything it's suitable for and plenty it isn't suitable for. It won't have the mass to lend itself to serious hack and slash work and without that or prying your odds of hurting it would be pretty slim. Look at the design, you tell me what it'd get used for and we'll figure out how to adjust from there.

Frank, we might just hold it differently. When I put my thumb along the spine it tends to be fairly far forward from my index finger, using other knives as samples. The 10" length is rather long but on the other hand, it's not meant to be a small knife, just not huge. I had intended it to be smaller and the original drawings were. When I redraw with a slightly slimmer blade I'll see if I can shrink the knife lengthwise a bit. I don't wanna lose much handle though, that's about ideal handle space for me and I have average hands. It gives a little room for some thin to medium weight gloves or someone with large hands to still have a full grip.

Kristoffsky, I think I agree, it might work nicely as an actual spear point. I think I'll draw it a few ways and see what looks right. Heck, no reason I can't even profile it a couple ways in wood to have an in hand sample.
 
yeah try some wood mock-ups to see what feels best, as opposed to what looks best. I concur on dropping the point some, unless you want it to be a skinner.
 
Ok, got a really bad composite image showing the original and the new version of sorts. Slimmed down a bit, slightly shorter but not much, but sleeker. The handle got slimmed down some as well, mostly putting more curve in the butt along the top, but also shaving some off the bottom.
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The composite isn't quite right, since I didn't manage to line up the handle holes properly. You can't really see that the blade now has a slight but distinct downward tilt compared to the original
 
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