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Here’s a Pikeman I finished up recently. The blade is 26c3. The scales are Bethlehem olive wood with black micarta liners, G10 pins, and an aluminum lanyard hole.
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I don't know that style/shape of "Pikeman" knife. What is it and who is the creator or source of that style?
The Pikeman's knife I am familiar with has a longer blade and straight handle, more like a dirk. Roughly the 16th century equivalent of a "Rifleman's Knife". It was a defensive sidearm worm by Pikmen to use when their pike was broken, or close combat broke out after their lines were overrun. Other types looked like a butcher knife.
 
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Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
I don't know that style/shape of "Pikeman" knife. What is it and who is the creator or source of that style?
The Pikeman's knife I am familiar with has a longer blade and straight handle, more like a dirk. Roughly the 16th century equivalent of a "Rifleman's Knife". It was a defensive sidearm worm by Pikmen to use when their pike was broken, or close combat broke out after their lines were overrun. Other types looked like a butcher knife.
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It’s just a name I gave that design.
 
Here’s an example of one where the symmetry proved elusive. Thankfully the ergos are excellent and the customer pleased. Plus he has a dagger coming from me which has close to my best symmetry yet (the one from page 853). Smaller knife, easier to hold steady in one hand and dremel in the other.

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And he was kind enough to order a carbon fiber ring too:

It’s the marbled gold carbon fiber one in this pic and the fifth ring I have made to date.

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But these are ready to be listed and will be so shortly.

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Here's a sheepsfoot in S90V I'm finishing up for a co-worker. This will be a gift for his grandfather. I had a few pieces of Turkish walnut scales, so we decided on those with some white and black G10 liners. It is difficult to capture the figure in the scales on indoor lighting, and it is rainy, dreary and dark outside.

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