Been fiddling around with this knife for almost a year. I designed and made the original prototype. Ask my buddy Lamont Coombs to make the final version in his shop. It's meant to be a combination hunting knife and bushcraft knife...

What do y'all think?






Giz

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Elegant. I'd never use it. I would just stare at it.

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It's a user blade...but it does have a pretty nice finish - for now.




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Very nice. What kind of steel? Handle material?
Who made the sheath? Also very nice.

Who did the Leather work
It's Stellar
mscook

Very nice work. What's the deal with the jimped choil?

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1095 for the steel...heat treatment was done in Lamonts shop.
Lamont did the leather on a design I picked.

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I tend to unzip big game with the blade edge up...fingertip under the knife point and my thumb choked up to the blade edge. That cross file work is to prevent your thumb from sliding forward and making contact with the knife edge. Especially when soaked in blood.

Giz

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That is a work of art .

Thats a nice knife. I love mozaic pins. 1095 is good tough steel, that should serve you well!

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That's a real beauty, nice leather too.

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One of my two favorite steels, A2 being the other. I've owned and still own a lot more knives in 1095. Takes a fine edge, holds it well, and re-sharpens easily.

That's a beauty. You haven't anwered the question about the handle material, though. Looks a little like the paper Micarta scales on a Jim Fister custom knife I owned but gave to my son.

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Great looking knife.


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Beautiful knife! The older I get the smaller a sheath knife I want.

"jimped choil?" Does choil have a more specific or different definition than ricasso?

To me a choil is a part of the edge nearest the handle, usually an unsharpened recess to allow the user to choke up on a knife by placing his finger there, or a notch to facilitate sharpening. On some knives, a finger choil will extend partly into the handle. Because of the unusual design of this knife, I wasn't sure what to call it, but I went with choil, and the OP understood well enough to give a clear answer.

As I understand it, the ricasso would be more the flat part of the blade between the handle and the plunge line or beginning of the sharpened edge.

Your question comes as no surprise, though. Even as I wrote, I anticipated that someone might question my use of the term "choil" and unmask my ignorance. I might have forestalled that by telegraphing my uncertainty with something like "that jimped choil-type thingy on the blade there"; instead, I simply forged ahead with the briefest term I could muster, and managed to get the answer I was looking for.

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I love it!

Beautiful design and execution! Very useful!

Marshwheeling,

Courtesy of my 1979 unabridged Webester:

choil, n. the part of a knife blade between the cutting edge and the tang.
ricasso, n. the part of the blade of a rapier between the cross guard and the outer guard for the hand.

In diagrams of pocket knife blades the choil is the notch taken out of the rear on the edge to separate the portion to be sharpened from the tang.

I conclude gizamo's new knife does not have either a choil or a ricasso.

I was not expecting to find either word in a dictionary or I would have gone there first. I only wanted to straighten out my own vocabulary, not correct anyone else.

Nice,very nice!

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Black Micarta with red liners...was used. I almost went with G-10 and a grippier texture. The spine of the bade is 3/16" for strength when boning or even batoning. It is square edged for use with a fero rod.

The blade is designed to be choked up on...when doing finer work.

Giz

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Very nice, we'll thought out with a pragmatic approach on design, well executed, both knife and leather. They will make excellent companions in the field.

Great looking knife and love that blade. 1095 is a great steel. Thanks for sharing with us