Big game hunter butcher and boner set

[Von Gruff]

Have made up a pair of these and am pleased with how they feel in hand. The hunter butcher has a 4 1/2 inch 1095 blade with buffalo horn bolster and blackwood handle with a flaired butt end for greater directional controll, while the boner has a 4 inch 1095 blade and a simple losenge shaped blackwood handles as it will often be used from the bottom of the hand as often as it is from the top of the hande for boning out. They will both come in standard carry sheaths. Am gong to make a few sets and will see how they are recieved. I have "discovered" a new way of finishing the handles and now sit them in a tin of BLO for a few hours then wipe off rather than finger tip rubbing in multiple coats over many days. It was the way the old Enfield factory finished LE rifles stocks but they left them 24 hours so it will certainly be good and faster finish for the knife handles as well.

Finished another little field scalpel as well with 2 1/2 in 1084 blade and buffalo handles with a slightly redesigned rounded end.

 

[Smallshop]

all are lovely...but the profile of the hunter butcher is perfect!the horn bolsters you do really make a nice combo of materials!

 

[John Wilson]

I like your blade geometry a lot. I can tell how much thought you put into design-for-purpose.

 

[Rick Otts]

Very nice great looking knifes.

 

[Von Gruff]

Thanks guys. Near 60 years of actual knife use has given me an apreciation of the need for good design when using knives for different purposes. Skinning and dressing a dozen animals whether large or small soon identifies why some designs are better than others and often it is in very small degrees of shape in all aspects of the knife that make a difference . While the hand will adapt to an unforgiving design for short periods of use, the ease and accuracy is much improved with a knife that is shaped right both for the hand and the use it will be put to.

 

[Kevin Zito]

Gruff, I absolutely love these!!! Really fine work!

 

[Von Gruff]

Thanks Kevin. I have another two sets with the blades done and the bolsters on. Will get the handle scales on today and shaped up tomorrow along with a couple of others and a cleaver I am working on at the moment.