I bought this about three years ago purely because it had a Joel Bolden D2 blade.
For anyone who doesn't know, Joel Bolden is a superb grinder of knives - he makes serious slicing machines
from thin steel and he distal tapers the blade to a fine point. They truly are stunning knives to use for food preparation, butchering out animals, fine carving and so on.
I've no idea how one would fare if you decided to baton it, but Joel's blades excel at everything else and anyone who appreciates what thinner knives have to offer will know where I am going with this
My understanding is that Joel made a small number of blades that were substantially deeper than his usual designs for others to finish out and complete and use as bushcraft knives.
My apologies but I can't remember who actually built this knife
It has white liners, blue stabilised Giraffe scales and mosaic pins.
Stout leather pouch sheath with belt loop is the one that came with the knife when I bought it.
The blade is Joel's usual D2, 3.5mm thick, flat ground from the spine and he gets his blades cryogenic heat treated by D'Alton Holder who is among the very best in the business when it comes to heat treating.
Rockwell is 60 - 61 C.
I have tried to show the distal taper and super-fine point in the second picture:
Other than sharpening it when it first arrived I have never used it. I checked the edge this afternoon and it was happily slicing wafer thin pieces from the edge of a sheet of A4.
Keep in mind that this is very well heat treated D2 so unless your sharpening us right up there, do yourself a favour and leave well alone.
If your sharpening is good and you understand the performance that D2 can offer then how about £60 RMSD delivered with the UK ?
If anyone is interested in it I will knock the sharp edge off the spine for you if you want to use it for a lot of heavy carving or, if you prefer, I will run the spine over the belt grinder to make a sharper edge for throwing sparks.
For anyone who doesn't know, Joel Bolden is a superb grinder of knives - he makes serious slicing machines
from thin steel and he distal tapers the blade to a fine point. They truly are stunning knives to use for food preparation, butchering out animals, fine carving and so on.I've no idea how one would fare if you decided to baton it, but Joel's blades excel at everything else and anyone who appreciates what thinner knives have to offer will know where I am going with this
My understanding is that Joel made a small number of blades that were substantially deeper than his usual designs for others to finish out and complete and use as bushcraft knives.
My apologies but I can't remember who actually built this knife
It has white liners, blue stabilised Giraffe scales and mosaic pins.
Stout leather pouch sheath with belt loop is the one that came with the knife when I bought it.
The blade is Joel's usual D2, 3.5mm thick, flat ground from the spine and he gets his blades cryogenic heat treated by D'Alton Holder who is among the very best in the business when it comes to heat treating.
Rockwell is 60 - 61 C.
I have tried to show the distal taper and super-fine point in the second picture:
Other than sharpening it when it first arrived I have never used it. I checked the edge this afternoon and it was happily slicing wafer thin pieces from the edge of a sheet of A4.
Keep in mind that this is very well heat treated D2 so unless your sharpening us right up there, do yourself a favour and leave well alone.
If your sharpening is good and you understand the performance that D2 can offer then how about £60 RMSD delivered with the UK ?
If anyone is interested in it I will knock the sharp edge off the spine for you if you want to use it for a lot of heavy carving or, if you prefer, I will run the spine over the belt grinder to make a sharper edge for throwing sparks.
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