deerwarden
Well-Known Member
Like many of you have a shed load of knives that I've used in the past from Buck folders to expensive custom jobs. I have had George Trout make me 5 to my designs, another by W C Davis, and another by Arno Bernard, also some expensive Puma and Falravin jobbies, I like knifes. I've made several myself, and now have an Aly mini grinder, a two wheel buffer, and a Clarke mill/lathe and have knocked up several blades myself, however the best knife I ever had and LOST, was by the late Harry Boden, a model he called the "Sika", this went with me to Scotland 8 times and Africa once, then I lost it somewhere and despite looking for it over a 10 year period, have never found it. I am currently having three blades made for me of my own design similar to Harry's Sika by Ian Burns, a maker on British Blades, Ian goes under the name of Tatsumi and has made some lovely knives, he will make me a knife based on my design of a 4" modified spear point, of 22mm depth max, this is more than enough to spike/cut around the anus of all our deer with a modified loveless handle, and also one with a handle that has a finger notch as the Sika Had, ALL will have proper finger guards, not merely a notch cut into the blade between handle and the choil to serve as a finger guard. I really looking forward to making up the two blades he has made, and getting and using the third one he wanted to make to see the finished design, will post when I have then, but as I leave for the states next Tuesday for 5 weeks with a mate and hunting contacts out there it may be some time. deerwarden