The 1st one in the picture (left) is similar to one I bought 20 odd years ago when I was hunting goats, camels, deer and other ferals and it still is used now and again when goat hunting. An excellent knife and my favourite. Nice touch to have them engraved as well
Pete
It finally arrived. This is the GP knife I originally settled on. A Fallkniven F1 survival knife. Not a huge knife like most of the GP knives shown on Youtube but just a very nice sized knife. The blade is made from VG10 laminated stainless steel hardened to 58Rockwell. The blade has a black ceracoat protective coating that I am not very excited about as I am sure it will wear off but only time will tell that. The sheath is a nice quality leather sheath the fully encloses the knife when closed but even if left open the likelihood of the knife falling out is near nil. Not too keen on the handle but that is what it comes with. I am a firm believer in a nice wooden handle but wood seems to be a thing of the past.
I will dig out a couple of my hand made knives with nice wooden handles (made by me ) and post some images and you will see how lovely a wooden handle can be and these are far from exotic timber. Things like walnut, Mirboo, Jarrah. All hand stabalized and hand fitted.
Here is a couple I made some years back. Both are a bit scuffed and in need of repair but are examples of timber handles. The timber is stabalized by soaking in bondcrete for a few days under reduced pressure then left to air dry for about 1 month before any further machining.
The first image is just the two whole knives. The top one is acid etched the second is 440C stainless steel. These were both bought knife blanks. The dark bladed knife has a Mirboo handle and while it is as hard as a cats head it has small pore like structures in the timber which do not machine well or finish very well. The last image is a walnut handle. This timber is a pleasure to work with, hard as the preverbial cats head but as fine grained as you will get. I can understand why Rolls Royce used it for dash panels.
Anyway just a couple of examples. I need to buy a belt grinder again. I should never have sold my old one.
- it's hard to imagine Bambi as a 'feral'
