Damascus hunting knife

This is my first hunting knife. Last February I made a multi stage Damascus billet at Charlie's shop that I wanted to make a knife out of. It took a long time to finally do something with it due to lack of time. But I needed something to take with me wo the Gembloux knife show next month so put some haste into making this.

The steel is 1095 15N20 Damascus, made by hand in Charlie's forge.
The guard is from a piece of brass stock I got from Lynn.
And the handle is giraffe bone.

The little slot between the finger grooves and the guard is for a locking strap of a sheath.

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That is a work of art Bruno, very nice job there

Beautiful job of it. Congrats!

Good looking blade Bruno. I've still got my billets that I need to do something with as well.

Once again you have produced an impressive looking piece.

I particularly like how the pattern comes out of the guard and how it goes into the tip

Nice !!!

Only one complaint :)

I would love to see a pic with something to get a scale of size :D how long is the blade ???? and overall

Bruno, how deep does that tang run into the handle?

Very nice! i like the look of the giraffe bone, Is the color natural? Does your daughter mind?

Ok. The edge lengt, point to point, is 6.5"
Overall length is just over 12"

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Originally Posted by Hirlau

Bruno, how deep does that tang run into the handle?

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The tang is 3 1/4" long. For me that's almost the width of my hand.

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Originally Posted by tintin

Very nice! i like the look of the giraffe bone, Is the color natural? Does your daughter mind?

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No the color isn't natural. It was dyed. I don't know how because I bought it like that. I'm in the clear on the giraffe, as long as we don't tell great grandmother. That's the giraffe toy that I got from my grandmother and passed on to her. The ban is only on camel and hippo.