Handmade hunting knife with corner tang blade
Description
Automatic translation from Danish.
Handmade hunting knife, the blade is a so-called corner tang blade, which is a forged copy of a knife found in a grave from the Iron Age (the original at Moesgaard Museum), made of Böhler 720 steel, oil-hardened and tempered to 58 HCR, signed A. Handle of bog oak, front grip of polished elk antler, inlay of nickel silver and black fiberboard. With side-stitched scabbard of 2 mm vegetable tanned full grain leather dyed with black grain ink, sewn with 5/18 waxed flax thread, wet-formed and treated with leather hardener. Blade length 80 mm. Total length 202 mm. Appears unused.