Price Drop Any Lefties Here? Mark Hill/Ashdown Forest Crafts

Mistwalker

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I need to raise some funds to help with a divorce... So I am submitting for your perusal a knife I don't even want to sell to be honest. Must be 18 to buy, and the price does include Pay Pal fees which is how I want to do this sale, as well as the priority shipping and insurance in the US. Laws in your area are your responsibility

It is a collaboration piece between Simon Hardie of Ashdown Forest Crafts who did the beautiful handle and made the sheaths, and Mark Hill who made the blade. Both are craftsmen in the UK. The steel is 5/32, 4mm O-1 Tool Steel with a very sharp scandi grind. The handle is alder burl which so far has been very rare in my experiences. I like it a lot, but haven't seen any more out there. the blade is just over 4 inches long, and the overall is 8-1/4 inches. The knife is in very good condition, with no damage to any areas of it, just some slight patina/tarnish on the edge from a couple of meals cooked outdoors over fires.

I am asking $̶2̶7̶5̶ $225 in the left-handed sheath, or $̶2̶2̶5̶ $175 in the right handed sheath
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EMK Bushfighter - Withdrawn
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Grey Falcon said:
Ah grail knife! Wish I had the funds right now to take that bush fighter off your hands. I've always liked those lines.
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I totally get that. It was a grail of mine and is my favorite of all the knives I have had by Ed. I don't really want to sell it all. But to go forward with projects that will improve the quality of my daughters' lives and my own, I really do need to pay some fees to get past a divorce I am nearing the end of. One that has desperately needed to happen for several years, so I can finally be legally disconnected from my soon to be ex wife. But knowing how hard it will be to replace it later, keeps me from lowering the price to move it. It's one of very few expensive knives I would love to have multiples of. I now understand why the friend in Kenya who turned me on to this model has two of them. I just came back to check on this thread and decide if I am going to withdraw it from sale, as a little voice in my head keeps shouting at me to do... I paid $450 for it with all the extras, and even trying to sell it at new pricing wouldn't take the sting out of parting with it. Ed never makes these in his batches due to the complicated parts, and he doesn't take orders anymore, so replacing it would be extremely difficult. I think this will be one of the very few instances where I would rather just go sell one of my guns. It will at least be easier to replace later....
 
Funny that people keep liking that I withdrew the Martin. I guess Ed still has a few fans here. His knives disappear off his site as fast as he can make them with all of us knowing he will retire soon. I keep wavering between how much I love this knife, and how badly I need to be legally disconnected from my former spouse. I probably shouldn't have withdrawn it. I guess should have left it in and withdrew the other. Both are very special to me on personal levels. I guess I need to reevaluate my priorities in life, instead of withdrawing it I have just should seen if it would go at $325 first, which would actually solve several of my problems at once. I may just put it back up for sale later. Crazy how a simple possession can come to mean so much. I guess it's because of the friend who attached to the memories of it.
 
If anyone is interested, the lefty sheath is available by itself, I'm thinking $75 since it was more than a $100 to buy.
 
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