Not quite what I ordered.

[Laurentius]

Did I recently read a post about Royal Mail refusing to send sharps through the post?

Well I have just recieved a blade from J Adams of Sheffield.

It is described on the invoice as a stick tang Bowie, it does not resemble any such, it is full tang, with jimping on the blade that was not shown on the photograph. I am not complaining, I shall just have to make a different handle to the one I was planning. Unlike some complaints I have read about Sheffield cutlers in the past, it came sharp.

I bought it because I was getting nostalgic for the Blade that was stolen in a burglary over a decade ago from the same maker which had originally cost me the grand sum of 18 shillings and sixpence for the whole knife complete with sheath.

 

[mrcharly]

Did you order from SheffieldKnives.co.uk or somewhere else?
They only seem to list complete knives rather than blades.

 

[Laurentius]

Yes that is the site, they do list blades, click on hunting knives and scroll down and they show both stick tang and full tang, but as I have just posted you don't want to rely on the picture or the description too much. The prices include postage BTW. I actually did want a stick tang as it would have been a simple matter of drilling out a piece of antler to handle it. Now I have had to saw the antler in half and there will be further work on it including drilling holes in the tang and the handle to fit rivets, that is if I even have any suitable rivets or screws to hand.