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I can guarantee that anyone who ordered one of these _Will Not_ be sorry!!!!
And as I believe that Uncle Bill said, "James would have loved these."!!!!!!!!
And James most certainly would have!!!
These are the nicest little knives I have seen in a long, long time.
They are just as Uncle Bill described except mine has a _true_ Distal Taper!!
(Something that could be easily missed by just measureing with a ruler and not paying real close attention.)
The blade is 0.202",real close to 13/64" (0.2031") where the bolster would be if it had one, tapering to 0.125" or 1/8" at the edge bevel at the point.
Now there's many a knife maker that says they have true distal tapers and perhaps they do, except to me a
_true_ distal taper is either ground or forged into the blade and not the result of a dropped point, flat ground blade. When a flat ground blade has a drop point of course the point is thinner than the blade at the bolster or spine.
The blade on mine is 4 5/16" long and as Uncle Bill said the handles are 3" long.
The nice thing is that mine is 3/4" thick and a little more than 27/32" high. That's about 7/8" for those of you that don't work that close in fractions.
This is measured at the small end of the handle.
I didn't put a file to mine, but I believe Uncle Bill is close on the Rc. Mine feels really good on the fine crock sticks. And it took very little to get it nicely sharpened. I imagine that a turn or two on the jewelers rouge strop will make it scary sharp.
The sheath is okay and furnished with a long enough soft strap to tie onto what ever you want to tie it to. The sarki put what appears to be a piece of that thin harder than nails water buffalo hide inside to stiffen it up.
I think he done it alright, probably not having any experience in making this sort of sheath.
The ones Terry is making are better, but he used the original wood part of the scabbard, but then Terry has at least seen a sheath or, scabbard if you will, like this before.
A person might be able to carve a thin piece of hard wood to slide inside where the blade might possibly cut into the thread. Just something to be aware of to keep safety in mind.
I believe that this is gonna be a really popular little knife.
Perhaps someone who knows how to move things around on the forums could post it in the Camillus and General forums where people are talking about a comementory(sp?,I never can get that word right) knife. What do y'all think about that?
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