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matt trout
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]I just finished this one and it is a blade shape I have been playing around with a while. It started similar to the old 1950's Puma great white hunter and has mutated over the years. This one is 264 layer 1095 and 15n20 ladder pattern, 40 layer copper and nickle silver mokume, bocote scales.
It is a triple grind (3 blade angles) after forging to a rough shape. The sweeping lower grind gives an unusuall loook to the ladder pattern.I added the simple finger grip grooves on this one.
Would like to hear where other folks would take this blade, and the entire package. The handle shape gives lots of secure grip options but does require removing much of the material beneath the scales to get a balance on the fore finger.
Sheath is 10 oz leather, hand stitched and tooled.
OAL- 9 inches Blade length is 4 inches. Apolgies for the photo quality trying to keep them small.
Thanks,
Matt
It is a triple grind (3 blade angles) after forging to a rough shape. The sweeping lower grind gives an unusuall loook to the ladder pattern.I added the simple finger grip grooves on this one.
Would like to hear where other folks would take this blade, and the entire package. The handle shape gives lots of secure grip options but does require removing much of the material beneath the scales to get a balance on the fore finger.
Sheath is 10 oz leather, hand stitched and tooled.
OAL- 9 inches Blade length is 4 inches. Apolgies for the photo quality trying to keep them small.
Thanks,
Matt