The Kelly Knife from Breeden

[bearthedog]

The Kelly knife is the third offering from Breeden Knives. Once again you will notice the orange G-10 handles and satin blade fashioned from 01. This is my favorite of the trio so far. I have always been a fan of simple effective knives except for when I was in my Rambo knife phase....which we've all been before. Here is a knife that simply was designed by a customers needs. This guy gets most of his food from the wild (hunting and fishing) or his garden. He has a 1970s four wheel drive pickup, a shot gun, 30.06 rifle, 22 rifle a couple of hound dogs and a girl friend that is just as outdoorsy as he is. She is 3/4 apache and can hunt, fish, and was taught about gathering wild plants and mushrooms from her mom. They live on few acres out in the sticks. When he saw Bryans orange handle knife and found out that he made it he asked if Bryan would make him a knife. He wanted a thin blade and liked the thought of an orange handle easyer to see. The gentlemans name was Kelly.

Kelly Specs:

Blade-4.25" Full Flat Grind

Steel-01

Thickness-1/8"

Overall-8 3/8"

Handle-G-10

JRE Sheath

With Breeden PSKK II

The tip was meant for incising. You can use this tip to drill a hole in wood for traps or other bush uses.

Wood Splitting

Wrist size pieces of wood.

Here you can see the size of the wood and the nice smooth spine.

Here is something I was talking to Bryan about today. The pins are good for the times when you baton the spine above the handle. This allows for larger pieces of wood (the length of the blade) to be split if you choose to do so. In this case the handle may suffer some blows and could possibly loosen the scales.

Split wood was not a problem for the Kelly.

 

[bearthedog]

From the larger pieces I split it further to make kindling for a fire.

Baton
You can also baton wood for precise notches. This puts lots of pressure on the cutting edge as it is pounded by a baton to sink deep in the wood. A good flat grind will give no resistance.

A good way of cutting larger than wrist size wood by notching it to weaken it enough to break with your foot or over a rock.

A clean notch.

Slicing
This knife was made for slicing flesh. It was designed for cleaning deer for Kelly. I tried it on some chicken. Indoor kitchen light sucks.

Knives take breaks too!

 

[bearthedog]

Fire
My favorite thing to do with a knife is whittle wood. I made several fuzzies from all kinds of sticks, split wood and even paint mixers.

Kind of looks like a bunch of spiders having a meeting.

This knife has a built in fuzz stick maker!

Fine fuzzies.

I tried out the spine on a Boyscout Hot Spark to see if it will give me a enough sparks to ignite this cattail fluff. The spine allowed a shower of sparks quickly lighting the tinder. This is a very important attribute on any outdoors/survival knife. I noticed this on the PSKK II also.

Warming by the fire.

Options

After talking with Bryan today I learned that he will offer the Kelly with micarta or G-10 scales. Brass pins, hollow 1/4" or solid 1/8". Blade length between 4"-5". Look out for a neck knife in the Kelly design soon!

As always feel free to PM or email me with any questions. Give Bryan a call he is a real nice guy and always has something cooking up.

Bryan Breeden
tacklebreeden@yahoo.com or
402-300-0058.

 

[tknife]

With all the teasing, I was wondering when we were gonna see more of this! That's really a great design :thumbup: And great pics bear, you have a real knack for capturing what a knife can do in your shots.

 

[mtnfolk mike]

man.. those are some great pics bear... nice write up... you definately have those fuzz sticks down...

i'm really liking bryan's knives, especially that one... i might have to look into one soon..

nice talking to you the other day too man, i can talk knives anytime...:thumbup:

 

[bearthedog]

Thanks guys. Bryan wants to do a passaround with one of his knives. What would you guys want to see in a passaround?
Mtnfolk Mike good talking to you too man.

 

[mtnfolk mike]

i would love to see one of these kelly knives, i really like it.. or maybe this upcoming necker you speak of....

 

[bearthedog]

Bryan (Sicily02) what do you think?

 

[Rockywolf]

OK, I want one of these, and I will take a Pathfinder, and...seriously, these look great! Just email Bryan and good to go??

 

[GEC]

Very nice! I also like how simple the design is on this knife. Straight to point. Great work Bryan and thanks for the great review Bear. :thumbup:

 

[Wabajack]

Noooo!!! I'm already working with Bryan on a 3.5" knife, Bear stop with the pics already, it's killing me!

I need to go get more money!!! :thumbup:

 

[texastonydobbs]

I like the Kelly... the simple design and the groove in the scales + it is orange ..I like that too...good review bear

 

[sicily02]

Hi all, thanks Bear the dog again. Wow great pics I am planning on
installing the fuzz stick maker on all my knives now. LOL

Here is how this knife came about a little more info for
ya all. Kellydid see my Pathfinder and asked about the
orange handle that is not something you see every day.
I was telling Kelly about that, and that I was making knives
and asked him if he had something mind.
Well he did, He wanted a knife that cuts , was easy to sharpen,
thin stock, lite weight, Good point for poking into flesh and hide,
3" of the blade straight from the handle comming out to the
last 2" of the blade curved up to a point. No Guard he is not
going to be knife fighting and stabbing anything. He wanted
to be able to carve wood all day long and get no hot spots on
his hand. Clean all mannor of things from spark plugs to to
stripping the plastic off wire and even cutting small wire and
maybe some lite digging( I got to tell ya by this time I am thinking ) to processing the many
animals that he and his girlfreind eat. AND he wanted to have
a orange handle to be able to see it better if set down or dropped.
Kelly really liked that idea.
Is that all I said( thinking to my self ohh brother) I started
drawing on paper ( thankfuly I had an Eraser) and we can up
with this look. I did mention I think it would be a good idea to
have a little internal guard like the depresstion for a finger or if
the knife has the cutting edge up his thumb.
Kelly agreed to that. The sheath he wanted it to have a place
for a fire steel and a knife sharpener like mine had.
( Kelly thought those were neat ideas that I had). I chose
7/64" thick by 1" wide 0-1 steel.
Bear the dog wanted his in 1/8" thick steel. I have since made
mine in the 1/8" steel thickness and my wife wanted hers in
3/32" thick steel.I can make them in 3/32, 7/64, 1/8, 5/32,
That is about as thick as I would go to keep it still a good
kitchen to camp/bushcraft knife.
They sell for $90.00 plus shipping with 3" to 5" blade lenths
any longer will cost a little more and if you want a different
handle material that will change the price depending on the
handle that you choose. I am plannig on making
them with hollow 1/4" tubing brass spaced with three of them
in the handle for that price but if you want some thing different
let me know. I am not going to charge a out rageous price for
the differences but it will be chargesto take care of the exspense
and time in doing that for your knife you want.

I do not have a web site but if you email me I will send you back
some pictures that I have or look at my aviater and you can see
some different ones that I have made.

I can be reached at tacklebreeden@yahoo.com
or 402-300-0058 for faster service.

Thanks again for the comments and to Bear the dog for his cool pics.

Bryan

Just a little note to you all Kelly did fined some copper wire
on and in the ground he cut some of it and then dug the rest
out of the ground. I asked him how far down he said about a
foot. I have never done that but he said that he did not
chip the blade or break it but he sure did dull it but at
the price of copper being what it is Kelly was not going to let
the copper just lie there when he could sell it and make some
money.

 

[valcas1]

Bryan,

It looks like a lot of knife for that price. Are you heat treating the blades yourself or sending them out for heat treating? What RC hardness do you figure they are?

Thank you in advance,

Paul

 

[tarmix101]

That Kelly knife looks like a no nonsense woodcraft blade.

Thanks for sharing Bear.

Really nice work Bryan.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

[sicily02]

I do my own heat treating. I do not have a rock well tester but from the
steel info when the baking time is all said and done it should be between
58 to 61 rc.

Bryan

 

[sicily02]

Thanks all, for the kind comments on the knives that I am making. The Kelly
knife is all that my wife has been using in the kitchen since I made one up for her.
She finds it handy too so far.

 

[wasp]

I said before that I'm not into the bright color grip but the more I look at it....KEEP THE PICS AND INFO COMING....my tax refund check should be here anyday...

 

[orrey45]

Those are some great looking knives. I would suggest you get a website because you make some nice blades. You can get free hosting from many different places. Heres one place for example, MSN Office Live.

 

[Wandering_About]

I think either a PSKK II or a Kelly would be awesome for a passaround. I especially like the look of the Kelly. Once I start making some money this summer, I might have to just go ahead and get myself one of Bryan's knives.