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I know a couple of these have gone out in the past, but wanted to give some feedback on the knife as Howard asked on Thursday.
This knife is definitely classified as a fighter! Overall length is 14" and weight is 11 oz. The blade is 10.0 long and very slender, and just 1 3/16" at it's widest point. The knife is very well balanced. I went through my Bowie collection, and the closest I could find in overall balance and feel was my prized Harold Corby Combat Bowie, made in about 1982, which has a 9 1/2" blade, but is a much heavier knife overall (as well as about 8 times more expensive!, which just goes to show you what a great value these knives are!)
The two knives both balance just forward of the guard, so have the same overall feel even though there is a clear weight disparity. You can see in two of the pics the point of balance, with the knife balancing on the edge of the scabbard. I like this balance and it feels very light and responsive because of it.
The scabbard itself is well done, with a couple of small wrinkles in the leather, and the knife fits in very well with zero play and no force required to sheathe it. The frog is thin but tough and usable with some good stitching. The horn handle has some nice white feathering. You can see that in the pix as well, and although in my typically poor pictures it may look like camera flash, the white area on the handle is really in the horn which looks very striking.
Only complaints (as I am in QA I have to find _something_ wrong!
) is that in some areas the flats of the exposed tang show some minor file/tooling marks. But those should be able to be polished out with a little elbow grease. Also, only because of my hand size, if the handle were about 3/4" longer it would make a big difference, but I think most people would probably like it just "as is."
The edge is just nominally sharp, as with most highly polished HI knives (the only knives for the most part I have really seen truly sharp as hell out of the box from HI are Villagers, with 4 or 5 exceptions, such as the Samsher that cut Yangdu!), but again that is pretty easily corrected.
The top edge is unsharpened all the way to the point, and is 3/16" wide for about half the length of the blade, then thinning down to 1/8" for most of the rest of the blade and tapers down to the point the last couple of inches. I am going to use a term (I hope correctly) I have recently learned about from Dave K at the Khonvention, and say that the distal taper is very gradual, only beginning at the stepped down portion of the blade for the last 4 1/2 inches.
In short, I really like this Trisul, and it is a unique addition to my collection, as I had nothing like it from HI previously.
Here are a few pics that will give you an idea of the knife:
Regards,
Norm
This knife is definitely classified as a fighter! Overall length is 14" and weight is 11 oz. The blade is 10.0 long and very slender, and just 1 3/16" at it's widest point. The knife is very well balanced. I went through my Bowie collection, and the closest I could find in overall balance and feel was my prized Harold Corby Combat Bowie, made in about 1982, which has a 9 1/2" blade, but is a much heavier knife overall (as well as about 8 times more expensive!, which just goes to show you what a great value these knives are!)
The two knives both balance just forward of the guard, so have the same overall feel even though there is a clear weight disparity. You can see in two of the pics the point of balance, with the knife balancing on the edge of the scabbard. I like this balance and it feels very light and responsive because of it.
The scabbard itself is well done, with a couple of small wrinkles in the leather, and the knife fits in very well with zero play and no force required to sheathe it. The frog is thin but tough and usable with some good stitching. The horn handle has some nice white feathering. You can see that in the pix as well, and although in my typically poor pictures it may look like camera flash, the white area on the handle is really in the horn which looks very striking.
Only complaints (as I am in QA I have to find _something_ wrong!
) is that in some areas the flats of the exposed tang show some minor file/tooling marks. But those should be able to be polished out with a little elbow grease. Also, only because of my hand size, if the handle were about 3/4" longer it would make a big difference, but I think most people would probably like it just "as is."The edge is just nominally sharp, as with most highly polished HI knives (the only knives for the most part I have really seen truly sharp as hell out of the box from HI are Villagers, with 4 or 5 exceptions, such as the Samsher that cut Yangdu!), but again that is pretty easily corrected.
The top edge is unsharpened all the way to the point, and is 3/16" wide for about half the length of the blade, then thinning down to 1/8" for most of the rest of the blade and tapers down to the point the last couple of inches. I am going to use a term (I hope correctly) I have recently learned about from Dave K at the Khonvention, and say that the distal taper is very gradual, only beginning at the stepped down portion of the blade for the last 4 1/2 inches.
In short, I really like this Trisul, and it is a unique addition to my collection, as I had nothing like it from HI previously.
Here are a few pics that will give you an idea of the knife:
Regards,
Norm
