Deerslayer
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This is quite a special knife. The blade was made by a smith who works anonymously under the pseudonym Nodoka Neko (more about him here) as a gift to our shop. It was patterned after an antique D-Guard bowie but made using traditional Japanese methods, resulting in the five distinct hamon that show up quite nicely in the body of the blade. For those familiar with Japanese blades, I can tell you that there are a whole lot of very attractive activities in the hamon, and it is far more exciting in person.

The blade was mounted in our shop. The guard and pommel are made of high-satin polished steel and brass while the grip is purple heart and cinnamon root burl with a brass spacer, and the pins are bamboo.

 

 
 
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