A friend of mine at work saw this one in a magazine, but since it was an import (and inferior metal) he asked me to make an "improved model".
First thing, we used a respectable steel. In this case I used 154CM. It only took me about three hours to get the first edge on this blade. Talk about a tough steel. His father supplied the stag for the handle, and the guard is laminated copper chromium and brass. I also used a through tang design where the import only had a stub tang. I filled the counterbore in the butt with more copper chromium.
The spine of the blade is engraved with a message to the son from his father.
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