Original SARGE picture thread...

Kismet

Kismet

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Somebody asked if I could post pictures of the original design for the SARGE knife. (I swear I looked everywhere, but couldn't find the thread requesting it.)


Anyhoo...here are the excellent Steve Ferguson pictures and the thread from back in June of '04 for those who are interested.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=302082

And...lessee...about 90 have been produced and sold here. Don't know if more will be made.


Be well and safe.
 
WOW nice knife, thank you for the pics. Add another to the HI must have list. lol
 
Kismet,
I really like that knife...I asked yangdu to put me on the list for 2 of them if they ever get produced again...


Great design
 
I carry one each and every single day;) I have one that was "turned in the hands of the Creater" so to speak that was salvaged after an overly hard tip failed on it. It was reground and demoted to Corporal. That one is a special one that i keep on me at all times. However, I am helping a friend move this weekend. I think I'll take my "beater" version. I couldn't bear to lose the Corporal, so the regular ol' Sarge is going in it's stead;) It can be passed around and torqued and dropped. I won't like it, but i won't froth at the mouth if it gets damaged;)


Jake
 
Kismet, twas I who requested these pics (on the 3/8 DOTD I think). I saw pics of it on HD's forum. Anyway it is beautiful. How did you finish that bone? I just love it. Great work. Thought Leatherface would like to see what he's missing. Great knife by the way Medbill. You gotta get one or your leg will fall off. :-)

Edited to rub it in more. I have 2.
 
Thanks Andy...

It was Steve Ferguson who worked his magic on the finish of both the blade and the antler. All I did was scorch the antler a bit. Steve is a Wizard, by the way, so he has access to spells and potions and stuff. And a buffer'nstuff.

I am responsible for the bad fit of tang, through spoon, into antler and then the sloppy JB weld application.

All beauty comes from the Wizard Ferguson. I just gave him a (very) raw knife to work with.
 
That's a good looking knife ya' made, Kis!

I'm sure Steve deserves his props too, but I still think you're being way the heck too modest!:D


My wife had to have one....couldn't live without it. Now it's lived in her drawer for the last year or so.:grumpy: It aint fair for a Sarge to not get to work!


Still one of the neatest and most versatile designs to come along. I've ahem...borrowed her Sarge a few times, and it's been great for everything from cleaning small game, to cutting twine and carving to meal preparation. Not to mention it's downright cute in its little scabbard...:D
 
Runs With Scissors said:
That's a good looking knife ya' made, Kis!

I'm sure Steve deserves his props too, but I still think you're being way the heck too modest!:D


My wife had to have one....couldn't live without it. Now it's lived in her drawer for the last year or so.:grumpy: It aint fair for a Sarge to not get to work!


Still one of the neatest and most versatile designs to come along. I've ahem...borrowed her Sarge a few times, and it's been great for everything from cleaning small game, to cutting twine and carving to meal preparation. Not to mention it's downright cute in its little scabbard...:D
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Does anyone know if there are any plans to make anymore of these little beauties? I for one would be up for two or three.

Dick
 
They come up every once in a while. Much more often when there isn't a dang waiting list. ;)

Dave, A pink scabbard would be awful. That just aint right.;) :D Mine are both antler.:D
 
Just another tease;)
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Here is your typical HI Sarge/KPH (Stands for Kismet's Practical Hunter...credit where credit is due;)) next to my Corporal on the right. Both are tough as nails and feather light. I've decided that the Corporal is getting packed for my trip to help my buddy move. I'm lashing its freshly stained and glossed boot sheath to my belt and taking the Steve Poll Okapi with me as a loner knife. I actually lost sleep wondering if i would miss the noble little Corporal while I was gone. Would I wish I had the little bugger? Would the Sarge/KPH ACTUALLY be able to do everything that I had learned to trust the Corporal to do?? Of course it would;) I just love the Corp with all its character.
It started out as a villager model with a brittle tip and a rough pine handle. It broke and Yangdu sent me a new one because she is such a great lady. I sent it off to someone who would appreciate a fixer upper. Low and behold, it comes back to me reground with an antler handle. Wonderful blade from a wonderful guy;)

Jake
 
So Steve, What did you do to Kismets handle? Howd you get the color? What did you finish it with. I think mine in antler are a tad plain. Useful as hell, and seeing a beating too, but plain.
 
Kismet did all the work. All I did was shine it up a bit and take the pics. As you said, Kis is being too modest, but that's just how he is.

Kis, did you scorch the antler with a torch?

Steve
 
A torch, a torch? No no no, I suspect he built a big old bonfire in the dead of night, had the poor hapless deer jump back and forth through it until he was satisfied with the scorched antlers, then he shot the poor singed s.o.b. and made sausauge out of him. Heck, peppers and tomatos taste better when they're fire roasted, why not deer? Just kidding, most likely propane torch after all.

I'm kind of tickled that the KPH/Sarge knife is not a regularly stocked item, means it takes a bit of effort, not just money, to get your hands on one. That keeps 'em kind of special, and I know I appreciate mine all the more because of it.

Sarge
 
Great thread, by the way. Good reading the old thread. I had often wondered why it was named Sarge. Lots of names I don't know too, and lots of farmiliar ones.
 
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I turned on the gas stove.

I held the antler over it.

I waited until I smelled it burning.

Then I stopped.

It is a user's knife. Seems that most folks who have one, have more than one.

It is legal carry length, and innoculous to most regular folks...no threat perceived by the casual viewer. With a dangler sheath and a caribiner clip for a belt loop, it makes daily carry effortless.

It was the last special order handled by Bill M. Sort of makes me sad, sometimes.

I'm glad it pleases.


Be well and safe.
 
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