FGYT/Siberianfury Full Tang leuku

[Siberianfury]

Two years ago i designed a camp knife, mainly as a jack of all trades knife, a one tool option if you will. designed to be able to carve, hack, chop, split ect. recently FGYT took on the design and made a blank in 4mm O1 tool steel. well it arrived last week and i have just got round to handling it.

The origional plan was to use some beautiful Elm burl scales kindly Donated by Gary mills, unfortunatly i was a little to hasty and messed up the countersink on one of the scales, they will now be used for a stacked handle i have in the making. so insted i sawed up some curly birch into scales, and here is the finished result.

its surprisingly comfortable in the hand, the balance point is located just on the choil. the blade starts narrow to aid fine carving, but fills out towards the end to give it some chopping weight. the blade is around 8" in length and the handle is 4.3" in length.

anyway i hope you like it

 

[Wayland]

Looks like a good tool, well done.

 

[ged]

Josh, I think you're getting the hang of this.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Very cool Josh! really like the shape of the blade, does the bevel change towards the tip? any chance of a in hand shot for scale please(remember those nails!!) hahahahaha .

 

[HHazeldean]

Lovely work there Josh, really like the design, nice grain on the birch as well.

 

[John Fenna]

Erm - confused.....
"Choil - a cut out indent on the blade, usually big enough for a finger on a fixed blade, but often just a "nick" on a folding knife" Pat Farey 'Knives - an illustrated encyclopedia of knives for fighting, hunting and survival'
Your gorgeous knife does not seem to have this feature...so where is the balance point?
Is it on the "Ricasso" "A flat unbevelled part of the blade between the tang and the edged portion of the blade" (same source of definition) or the "finger grip, sometimes confusingly called a choil" (same source) which your knife handle barely has either....
It is a great looking knife whatever!

 

[shaggystu]

Looks like a good tool, well done.

Josh, I think you're getting the hang of this.

Very cool Josh! really like the shape of the blade, does the bevel change towards the tip? any chance of a in hand shot for scale please(remember those nails!!) hahahahaha .

what they said!

stuart

 

[luckylee]

i think it looks fantastic mate, maybe you should do one of your vid on it mate, i always love them

 

[Johnnyboy1971]

That looks bloody brilliant mate. Love the handle profile compared to
A standard leuku.

 

[beenn]

Lovely looking blade mate

 

[SimonM]

Very nice work Josh...how does it handle in action?

Simon

 

[Siberianfury]

Very nice work Josh...how does it handle in action?

Simon

cheers dude,
its basicly an allrounder, great at chopping but not as good as an axe, good at carving but not as good as a scandi. its very good at splitting wood, easily on par with a hatchet.

 

[Siberianfury]

Very cool Josh! really like the shape of the blade, does the bevel change towards the tip? any chance of a in hand shot for scale please(remember those nails!!) hahahahaha .

cheers dude, yeah the bevel is higher nearer the handle for carving and woodwork, then it gets slightly lower and thicker near the main belly on the knife for chopping, on the tip the bevel is very acute for strength, cutting or chizzeling ect, not that i would probably use it for that.