Queen Dan Burke Collaboration "Real Cattle Knife"

Thank you, Duncan.

On request, here are a few comparison photos. I wasn't sure what knives to include but these two were handy: Case Sowbelly and Victorinox alox Soldier.



 
Two photos of mine I had uploaded when I first got it:
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supratentorial said:
Thank you for the photo. I can guess from the size of the bevel that it's a thick blade. If you hand sharpened that nice bevel, you have much more patience than me!
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I have a belt sander! Since that photo I have thinned the primary grind significantly!

But I've also dropped it twice on the road twice on the bare end, and cracked the bone!
 
Bigfattyt, My Moore Maker Moose had the same fate. I dropped it from pocket height onto cement. It has so many other manufacturing problems that I haven't decided if I'll put new handles on it. I glued the pieces back together for now. I still use it quite a bit.

Thanks for posting the photos, Phil. Mine didn't have a blade etch... not sure why.

I used the cattle knife a bit today. Can you guess which pocket it's in (see photo below. :D). It's a bit more than I'd normally carry so I'm not sure how often it will get used. But the performance of the blades/steel is excellent.

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Jake- ok...a question here that will set me up for public stoning..
how do they get that neat scale- do you think its pressed in by boiling the Bone?or would it be like a laser cut process?
Sorry if this sounds dumb....thats because I probably am :o
 
I'm also in line for the stoning. ;) I'm not sure how it's done. The covers are normal bone and couldn't be pressed. Maybe they used some sort of laser cutter or milling machine or cnc router??? It appears to be a single piece of bone.

When I was searching for info, I found this nice post by Brad about a similar custom knife that was made by Ken Ericskon -- a real beauty! The steer was made for Brad by a local artist using a 5 axis cnc router. I don't know if Queen used something similar.

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ptradeco said:
The steer's head was made on a 5 axis CNC router. The ebony was inlet on the same machine to make for a perfect fit...

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The antique exhibition knives must have been carved by hand.

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Hi Jake
Thanks for that - I knew that the Boiling of the Bone was out - but they can _ or sorry - did do wonders when that method was used, I remember Brad posting that absolute Stunning knife - just amazing!
 
Thank you, Duncan.

I've had more opportunities to use the knife over the past few days and I've been very pleased with the performance. The blades are made from very thick stock but they're ground thin. The sheepfoot and spey blades are ground especially thin and slice extremely well. The clip blade is a bit thicker so you there's a good selection of blade shapes and cutting profiles. The steel takes a very fine edge and seems to hold that edge very well. I wish BG-42 was more commonly used.

Today, I received some mail in a cardboard tube with plastic end caps and I used the sheepfoot to cut the end off the tube below the staples that secured the end cap. The blade sliced through like it was hot butter and I thought I had just gone through cardboard but the end cap was larger than I had expected and I had cut through it as well. :eek: Really good cutter!
 
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