Skinning Knife
This is a skinner patterned after my grandfather's skinning knife that he used during the many years he worked as a butcher. It has a 6-inch blade of Cu Mai construction using 15N20, copper, and nickel forge welded to an 80CrV2 core and heat treated and tempered to achieve a 61 Rockwell hardness. I call this a "soda pop" pattern. It was rust blued and features a copper bolster/button guard. The handle is a sambar stag crown piece with powdered turquoise in a resin base replacing the antler crown's pith. A spent copper 9mm round is pinned and epoxied to the pommel.