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So quite a while back I bought a knife from Brian Goode. I like his work and asked him about making me a new knife based off of one that I had owned for years.
The original knife I bought in early 91. It was an Aristocrat Wraith. I saw a review for it in the back of some knife magazine, basically they said it was an OK knife for an OK price. I had no internet back then and the few knife mags that were out were it for my source of info. The knife held up to hard use all over and some stupid abuse here and there. I bent it one time pretty good throwing it ( I said stupid abuse, I was 19
) which I straitened out , but where it rode on my gear tended to have me land on it with my hip and to this day it has a slight bend right above the guard. So I wanted a heavy duty, better quality version of my old knife. Thats where Brian came in.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=673969
The result was the skunk. I asked Brian to make a knife similar to my old one, for one simple reason. I liked the shape and I have used it for a long time. So in 18 years or so I will have enough time with the skunk to write a review and compare it to my old knife.
I did just get the knife back from my buddy who is a saddle maker. I was trying to merge a few concepts and I am not sure how it will work out. Since this is my first go at designing any kind of sheath instead of hacking up other stuff and modifying it, I am not to concerned that it didnt turn out exactly like I thought it would.
Due to limited space I had to modify the sheath on my old knife, which left most of the handle exposed, I liked that so we made the new sheath to be similar. Another issue is most of my outdoor stuff now involves being around horses. On horse back a cross draw holster seems to work best for me, so the knife was going to have to go on my right side. The last issue is I hate tying crap to my legs and I dont like sheaths that dangle. So we set this sheath at about a 30% cant and moved the slot for the belt down some. Unfortunately due to how the sheath was made in and effort to keep it thin while using heavy duty leather you can see in the pic the knife sits pretty high on the belt. I havent got to wear this enough yet to see if its going to be a issue. I know the knife sits high enough to bump into a rifle stock if you were stalking while hunting but will have to see how it does for normal camp stuff. The only other thing that bugs me is making a leather retention strap that doesnt get cut by the blade when you take the knife out or put it in. We at least made this strap to be replaceable if it gets cut up to much. So here are some pics and I am open to comments good or bad.
both knives
sheaths
kife and pistol
The original knife I bought in early 91. It was an Aristocrat Wraith. I saw a review for it in the back of some knife magazine, basically they said it was an OK knife for an OK price. I had no internet back then and the few knife mags that were out were it for my source of info. The knife held up to hard use all over and some stupid abuse here and there. I bent it one time pretty good throwing it ( I said stupid abuse, I was 19
) which I straitened out , but where it rode on my gear tended to have me land on it with my hip and to this day it has a slight bend right above the guard. So I wanted a heavy duty, better quality version of my old knife. Thats where Brian came in.http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=673969
The result was the skunk. I asked Brian to make a knife similar to my old one, for one simple reason. I liked the shape and I have used it for a long time. So in 18 years or so I will have enough time with the skunk to write a review and compare it to my old knife.
I did just get the knife back from my buddy who is a saddle maker. I was trying to merge a few concepts and I am not sure how it will work out. Since this is my first go at designing any kind of sheath instead of hacking up other stuff and modifying it, I am not to concerned that it didnt turn out exactly like I thought it would.
Due to limited space I had to modify the sheath on my old knife, which left most of the handle exposed, I liked that so we made the new sheath to be similar. Another issue is most of my outdoor stuff now involves being around horses. On horse back a cross draw holster seems to work best for me, so the knife was going to have to go on my right side. The last issue is I hate tying crap to my legs and I dont like sheaths that dangle. So we set this sheath at about a 30% cant and moved the slot for the belt down some. Unfortunately due to how the sheath was made in and effort to keep it thin while using heavy duty leather you can see in the pic the knife sits pretty high on the belt. I havent got to wear this enough yet to see if its going to be a issue. I know the knife sits high enough to bump into a rifle stock if you were stalking while hunting but will have to see how it does for normal camp stuff. The only other thing that bugs me is making a leather retention strap that doesnt get cut by the blade when you take the knife out or put it in. We at least made this strap to be replaceable if it gets cut up to much. So here are some pics and I am open to comments good or bad.
both knives
sheaths
kife and pistol
