Sub-hilt 4” Boot or ISWB Knife

[rcmodel]

I made quite a few of these in the 1980's & 90's.
Blade is a Sheffield steel blank.
Brass & Laotian Rosewood.

A small piece of leather sewn to the sheath back-flap locks the knife in the sheath by the guard.
The knife is reversable in the sheath for left or right hand carry.

Pressure against the body or leg keeps it there, until grasping the handle releases the knife from the lock tab.

It was one of my more popular designs, and I sold a bunch of them for $45 bucks a pop.





rc

 

[bikerdoc]

Amazing. And you had a real job also.

Time management is your greatest skill.

 

[JimStC]

A very nice tool and beautiful piece of art! I'll take ten at $45

Jim

 

[hso]

I've noticed that when you ground the blades the overall proportions are more appealing than when you used a blade from another source. It is almost like your vision for the final piece was more "whole" and the piece flowed from the tip to the butt perfectly in creating everything. With the "other" blades the guard/grip/butt are a whole piece envisioned that way with a blade stuck on it.

Just an observation.

 

[JShirley]

I'm going to agree with hso. The difference between "workmanlike" and art.

John

 

[rcmodel]

Probably true.
Pre-shaped blades don't seem to give you much leeway with tang to blade angle, pin hole locations, etc.

In this instance, and in the Buck fighter re-builds, I wanted the downward blade angle in relation to the handle line to put the tip of the blade where your brain, hand, & wrest thinks it is.

As such, there was no way to drop the blade angle without running out of handle to put the tang in it.
Notice the three pins in line are not straight down the line of the handle.

In other words, it's hard to make a curved knife out of a straight tang blade and keep the flowing lines you would like to have.

So you gotta do what you gotta do.
Its Function over Form every time for me.

And this knife design functions perfectly in the hand!!

rc

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Aside from the sheath - it has a righteous "colonial" almost Hudson's Bay kinda look to it.