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first knife - scandinavian style

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backgardenbowyer:
The blade is a simple Lauri in carbon steel (quite a cheap brand) not a Mora, which I think are triple laminated.  If you want to see some good examples of scandi knives take a look at the scandi section on British Blades Forum.  The shape of the handle which is a bit thicker and with more bulge on the palm side than most is partly due to the fact that it is my first effort and partly because being my first attempt I made a mess of drilling the tang holes (with a hand drill) on the first attempt, so I plugged it with some hickory heartwood and started again at the other end.  There was a danger in getting down to the plug if I had gone much thinner with the handle shape - but is does fill the hand nicely and as this is for the heavy work of digging arrrows out of the woodwork that's a good thing.

Sheath comes about 2/3 way up the handle.  I've only worn it once and I didn't even notice it was there, but it need two hands to draw it.

I've just received a dagger blade through the post and will start on a traditional archers bollock dagger shortly/

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