Hello Everyone,
I drew up this design tonight, although I don't have a scanner, so I just took a picture of it with really poor lighting. I will try to remember to scan it at work on Monday so you can see it better--this will probably be my only submission, as I am pretty darn proud of it
Okay, so I guess I should explain it a bit, since it's rather hard to see everything. The blade thickness would be 1/8", because that's my favorite thickness, quite frankly--it's sturdy enough to chop and baton, but thin enough to do some slicing. I designed it with a straight clip point in order to make the point sharper (to get into those hard-to-reach places
) without loosing as much metal as a standard curved clip. The curved recess in the ricasso is a sharpened or semi-sharpened section for your firesteel, or for cutting paracord/twine/rope without it sliding on the blade. There is about an inch of filework on the spine for your thumb to grip. The scales would be canvas micarta for durability (and grippyness), and they would be secured by five small pins at the "corners" such as they are, and one mosaic pin at the belly of the handle swell. I personally like having a handle swell that is low enough to give my pinky and ring fingers to really hold on to, but I included a recessed area for the index and middle fingers that has some filework in it for extra grip--the recessed area could obviously be left off for simplicity's sake, it's just a nice addition, in my opinion. I hate having a lanyard come out of the handle itself, so I extended the tang out of the back that has a lanyard hole in it--that particular design may not look right in this drawing, but it flows into the handle just like a pommel, and I like having that support at the base of my hand. The knife is 8-1/8" long, total, with a (roughly) 3-5/8" blade. Hope ya'll like it
~Noah.