The Cherokee Rose

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mmundy4579

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Gentleman,

Until I discoved HI I considered myself a large bowie man. I have all the large cold steel offerings, large K-BAR, the old standy by Western W-49 which I carried through three tours in Vietnam. Needless to say as an Arizona native I grew up with a large bowie on my hip. I have never bought a bowie that was as well balanced and visually stunning as the Cherokee Rose I received from HI two days ago. I took it to the range with me yesterday it was passed around more than the new Kimber I just bought. In fact I am sure I sold a few for Auntie. I will be taking it with me for deer and elk this season I will be planing a review post season boys.
 
The one blade I found to be most useful for field dressing, is the Suga knife by HI. Keep an eye out for one.

Here is a pair of them. Yes, that swedge on top is sharpened.

 
Agreed. The Cherokee Rose handles exceptionally well-feels lighter than it is.
 
I was also completely surprised at how well balanced the Rose was balanced. It feels weightless in the hand.
 
In the words of Yvsa, designer of the Cherokee Rose,

"The weight can even be a little heavy if the balance is "spot on."
The balance being spot on is my biggest concern as that will make or break her.
Being spot on means that the Rose will completely disappear in ones hand no matter the weight, within reason of course, I'm thinking maybe a tad over a couple of pounds being max weight.
And a pound and a quarter bordering on perfection, but I'm expecting about 1 and 1/2 pounds.
This is Not a Wimpy Bowie Knife!!!!"


For those not familiar with this background, Yvsa spent months on designing this knife and creating a wooden model of it that was sent to Nepal in 2002 for the kamis to duplicate.


"...there were a few of us really wanting a nice Scagel Style Bowie so I undertook the task of making the model. I got into a whole helluva lot more than I intended as to make the model so pieces like the guard wouldn't break off I had to make the model just as the knife would be made.
First the blade then the guard and finally the handle. I actually started on the blade in April of 2,001 and health and other issues kept me from finishing it until January of 2,002.
If I had of made the guard integeral with the white pine blade the grain would've allowed the guard to break off with hardly any pressure at all.
I was actually worried that it might break off as I was cutting it out.
I wound up making the guard from a piece of Sycamore that's not only very strong, but has a multidirection grain not easily broken in two.

Then the handle. I studied on that handle for about 3 months and its final design took several weeks!!!!!!!
There's more to a good knife design than what a lot of people normally wouldn't think about.
First of all the handle Absolutely Had to be long enough to help balance the 13" blade!!!!
Then the handle had to be designed so that it would fit almost everyones hands well, not an easy task in itself. It also had to be designed so that there's actually two gripping areas on it.
The 1st grip of course up next to the guard made so that it wouldn't dig into ones hand on a hard stab and then made so it would be comfortable held all the way at the back and made so it wouldn't easily slip forward if you were chopping.
The top rear is nicely rounded on its top to facilitate a chopping motion rotateing quite nicely in ones hand.
I made it just on a little bit larger scale than what's totally comfortable to me but the handle can always be made smaller by the owner if need be.
Making it larger could be done by tapeing it I suppose, but I hate tape on knife handles.
Hopefully its design will accommadate the larger folk among us."

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/190777-Yvsa-s-Cherokee-Rose-!!!!!!!
 
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