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Knives for sale... Updated 28th March 2013

I have some new small knives and short-swords for sale below - email if you would like further details. You can also check out this page, with work by Bob and other local craftspeople. More...

Duan Jian ~ £750

Duan Jian

Sixteen inch, double-edged blade of 1095 high carbon steel, clay quenched for hard edges and a springy spine. The blade has been polished, antiqued and etched to bring out the beautiful double hamon. Handle is carved walnut with a reconstituted malachite spacer, and a copper pommel plate, with hidden pins and pommel nut, secured with epoxy. The scabbard is carved walnut with reconstituted malachite inlays. There is a carved belt-loop, inlayed and glued to the back, and bound in place with fine cord.

Duan Jian Style Short-Sword
 

Celtic Horseman's Knife ~ £350

Celtic Horseman's Knife

Four and a half inch blade of 1/8th inch wide 1095 steel, clay hardened in oil, with a dark etch. Sculpted copper blade collar and copper pin, carved sycamore handle. Nine and a quarter inches overall. Hand-tooled (spiral pattern) and sewn welted pouch sheath, riveted belt-loop. An excellent price for the level of carving and detailing, email me for more photos …

Classic Seax - £425 Buy Now

Classic Seax Knife for Sale
Seven and three-quarter inch blade of 1095 steel, olive wood and carved ebony handle. Hand-sewn leather suspension sheath in the traditional style, dyed to a complex ox-blood finish. More images...
 

'Sam Bell' Dirk - £425 Buy Now

Sam Bell Dirk
Ten and three quarter inches overall, carved Swedish carbon steel blade. Sycamore handle, with engraved copper mounts and steel fittings, tooled cowhide sheath. More images...
 

Bob's Tradional Sgian Dubh

Traditional Sgian Dubh
This perfectly-finished piece is in a tradional sgian dubh style. More...
 

Black Sycamore Tanto - £375 Buy Now

Buy Traditional Tanto
Six and a half inch, 1095 blade with utsuri, quilted sycamore handle and sheath, with contrasting olive side-straps. More...
 

No Longer Available...

Myrtle Handled Hunter - SOLD

Myrtle Handled Hunter
Eleven inches overall, six inch carbon steel blade, myrtle handle with copper pins. More...
 

Forge Special - Cord Wrapped Knife: SOLD

Cord Wrapped Knife

This one is nine inches overall, with a five inch, slim, blade, and a forge-finished handle wrapped in cord. Black welted pouch sheath. Click photo for larger image.

 

Merovingian Seax - SOLD

Merovingian Seax

Reproduction of a 7th century Continental seax, based primarily on the Nijmegen seax. Laminated steel blade, etched to show pattern. Yew handle, traditional suspension-style sheath with relief sculpted knot. More....

Japanese Kwaiken - SOLD

Japanese Kwaiken
Nine inches overall. Sycamore sheath, Thuya Burl and Ebony handle. Heat finished copper habaki, hamon on 1095 steel blade. More images...
 

Scandinavian-Style Working Knife - SOLD

Scandi Knife for Sale
Four and a half inch blade of CS70 Swedish steel, full-tang Sycamore handle with an Ebony bolster. Comes with a hand-sewn, Scandianavian-style pouch sheath of chestnut-finished veg-tanned leather. More images...
 

Integral Tanto - SOLD

Integral Tanto for Sale
Thirteen and a half inches overall. The handle is a tanned ray-skin same over an integral steel core, overlaid with a wrap of khaki-green parachute cord, finished with several 'turks head' knots. The blade is seven and a half inch nagasa, shobu zukuri in 1086 steel, water quenched. It is double-edged, and the hamon lies close to the grind-line top and bottom. More images...
 

Curlicue Pocket Knife - SOLD

Forged Curlicue Pocket Knife for Sale
Three inch blade of heat-golden steel with hamon temper-line. Unique open-work handle of brass, heat-blued forged steel and ebony, file-worked on the spine. Hand-tooled, sculpted leather sheath. More...
 
Handmade Leather Sporran

Handmade Leather Sporran: SOLD - Please email if you'd like something similar (or made to your own specifications!)

Resist-dyed, hand-tooled Celtic knotwork patterns, suede lined, steel D-rings for own sporran-chain.

 

 

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