Upland Game or Panfish SOLD

[G L Drew]

Not all hunting knives need to be bold (although I do make some husky ones too). Proper heat treating, creating a fine grain pattern throughout the entire blade, is very important on a knife this thin (about 1/16 inch at the choil with a distal taper to the tip and edge) I heat treat in a digitally controlled furnace with three normalizing and two tempering cycles to achieve this and a hardness of 58-60 Rc. The steel is 52100 which has a reputation for excellent edge holding and toughness.
The wood handle is maple from my firewood pile with spalting and curl which I sent to K and G services for stabilizing. The blocks came back very hard with the resin treatment well into the core.
Overall length of this knife is 9 1/2 inches with a 5 inch blade.
The scabbard is from 6-7 ounce vegetable tanned leather and heavily oiled. The belt loop is for a right hand carry

SOLD delivered within the US. My PayPal and email address is gldrewknives@gmail.com


IMG_4263 by Gerald Drew, on Flickr
IMG_4264 by Gerald Drew, on Flickr
IMG_4265 by Gerald Drew, on Flickr
IMG_4266 by Gerald Drew, on Flickr
IMG_4267 by Gerald Drew, on Flickr

 

[I am bleeding]

Beautiful. How does this differ from your bird & trout knives? I don’t hunt, I fish mostly trout.

 

[G L Drew]

I could have called it a bird and trout but I thought that term was being overused. This is a thin blade that will work very well to remove guts and gills.

 

[I am bleeding]

I’ll take it. Payment just sent via PayPal. Thanks.

 

[G L Drew]

Got your PayPal, Bleeding, I will get your knife out in tomorrow’s mail. Thank you!

 

[I am bleeding]

Perfect. Beautiful work at a fair price. Hits the sweet spot, unique but not so elaborate/expensive that I would be afraid to use it. All the best. Jeff