[JShirley]

This is a 9 3/4" bladed Damascus knife with ash burl handle from Kim Breed.

The knife
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Jinete_delViento/IMG_2974.jpg


Next to my 18" OAL HI Crow Bowie (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Jinete_delViento/BreedNCrow.jpg)


In the hand (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Jinete_delViento/BreedHand.jpg)

With my 642 for size comparison: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Jinete_delViento/Breed642.jpg

Though the balance is blade-forward on such a long blade, the knife is surprisingly light for its size.

[mossberg]

nice

[Gordon]

That is a VERY nice knife. The handle looks wisely designed with flat sides to index (not roll as an oval or round handle will)and the finger groove to tell you which side is up at night! The blade shape is very nice, being flat ground and that is why it is light! Nice knife , enjoy it for a lifetime with no prying, throwing or chopping manhole covers and cement blocks other crazy abuse to a beautiful tool!

[ArfinGreebly]

Holy budget, Batman!

That's downright purty.

[sm]

Dang! That is nice!

[TimboKhan]

I am routinely stunned at how attractive some of these knives that people make are.

[Valkman]

I love Kim Breed's knives! He's making slipjoints now so watch out for them!

[auschip]

I love Kim Breed's knives! He's making slipjoints now so watch out for them!

Any idea where I can see some? He doesn't have a web-presence anymore, does he?

[Valkman]

He showed his slippy at www.ironpitt.com - you may have to register but it's a cool site.

[Skofnung]

I don't know why, but offset guards like that are starting to appeal to me for some reason.

That is one fine looking big knife. Does it handle well?

[auschip]

He showed his slippy at www.ironpitt.com - you may have to register but it's a cool site.

Those twin single blades he has are nice!

[Brian Dale]

Yow! That's gorgeous.

[JShirley]

It handles incredibly well for a knife its size. The handle allows for a lot of flexibility in grips. You can hold near the back for more reach, or "choke up" for more control.

It's the biggest Breed I think I've seen. I was actually expecting a blade about 2" shorter- not that I'm complaining! I think Kim might have made this one larger, since he knows I'm fan of Really Big Knives.

It shaves, too...

I often suggest that the mission of the daily carry blade is not defense, and recently was questioned by friend Don if I somehow believed blades were somehow not as capable killers as they have been for many thousands of years. No, I believe at very close range that this knife would be more useful for SD than that little .38 it's next to.

Unfortunately, I can't reasonably carry a 15" knife around.

[ArfinGreebly]

Unfortunately, I can't reasonably carry a 15" knife around.
More's the pity.

Was a time when that would have been downright civilized.

[Mandirigma]

Was a time when that would have been downright civilized.

Still is: BBQ! BBQ knife to go with a BBQ gun and BBQ leather.

I don't like this forum sometimes. Ya'll make a guy into a sinner, I'm mean I'm not supposed to envy right? :evil:

Not to mention this places gives too many excuses to self justify buying more toys -ahem- tools. Maybe if I keep telling myself that I'll be ok.

[22-rimfire]

Is Kim Breed going to be at the Blade Show this June? Nice knife by the way!!

[hso]

Kim will be at Blade every year, unless he's in the hospital or morgue. ;)

If you want to see pictures there have been plenty of Breed knife pictures here over the past few years.

Several members have knives of Kim's from a group buy I set up last year (was that last year???). Not as purty as John's, but pretty cool little critters. Might do one again.

John,

You may want to check the total weight of the knife. You may find that it feels light, but weighs more than it feels. Kim normally puts the balance point of his larger fixed blades right at the guard or just on the front edge of the guard. That creates a slight point forward feel all out of proportion of what the eye tells the brain it should be. Kim said that the blade started out to be a 7" bowie but it "wanted" to be a longer knife so he let it. I had steel have a mind of it's own while I was forging it at Harleys a couple of times. Once the blade wanted to be longer than I wanted it to be and once it wanted to be a different shape alltogether than I wanted it to be. I "listened" to the first and fought the second for over an hour trying to get the basic shape set.

BTW, purty knife!

[JShirley]

Balance is about 1.5" ahead of the guard.

[hso]

That is kinda forward for one of Kim's. What's the weight on it?

[JShirley]

Haven't had a chance to weigh it yet.

[Valkman]

Hard to balance that heavy of a blade - I can do it with a 7" blade by only drilling handle holes, not tapering the tang and using heavier handle material. What a monster!

[hso]

Valkman,

Kim has some sort of prescience going for him. I've handled dozens of his big (9-12") knives and they're all right on the button for balance. I can't believe that he didn't mean this one to be more forward to give it more of a chopper feel.

[22-rimfire]

I know I have looked at his stuff at the Blade Show. Things just begin to blurr and run together after a while and unless I have their card or I have purchsed from them before, "I forget".