Carlton, My Blacksmith that makes my Shrew Hawks for me, dropped off a knife this afternoon that I had ask him to make. It's a big knife with a 10" blade, 14 1/2" overall. He made it out of a truck spring and torch tempered it to a pigeon blue. It has a leather grip riveted on because it's going to be used as a throwing knife...among other things. It could also be used as a camp knife, chopping anything from vegetables to kindling wood.

I wanted this knife for myself (like I need another knife) but if there's an interest in a knife like this I'm sure I could talk Carlton into making more of them. Of coarse then we'd have to come up with a name....Shrew Saber?? Whatdaya think?

     
 

It throws really well...    

 

Kind of like a Hudson Bay design.

How about The Shrew Woodsman? A knife that big can do lots of chores...brushing in blinds, chopping kindling.....opening gates  

It's a winner, Ron.
It looks like an old-time fighting/working knife from the frontier era, back in the days when a strong knife could mean the difference between life and death.
You have a darn good blacksmith. Love the file detail work.
I have an old GI Cattaraugus knife that is a heavy-duty tool like that. Darned useful tool.
Joe

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How about The Shrew Woodsman? A knife that big can do lots of chores...brushing in blinds, chopping kindling.....opening gates