Just finished the latest peragrine. Steel is 3mm 1090 carbon with brass hardware and masur birch tung oiled scales with a left handed caste. Semi hollow (getting toward scandi) ground and very slicey! Deep cut jimping on the spine with enough left uncut for a firesteel. HRC of 56-57 and polished up.
Apologies for picture quality. Tung oil is a bugger to get off a camera lens!
Lovely work again Mick!
Cheers woodyOriginally Posted by Woody
OK... noob question...
What are those indentations on the back of the blade for?
Sorry if it's a silly question...
Not at all, those cuts (jimping) are to add grip to the spine of a small knife if it's intended for thumb on spine use. Its basically a way to make a knife with a small grip handle like one with a full size one. The peragrine is only neck knife sized so I always cut them in
I see... it makes sense .
Cheers Mick
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