Small French trade knife

[Rickey Brown]

4.5" blade half tapered tang French trade knife. Faceted handle of curly maple I made today

Thank you for looking

 

[DNICK]

That looks like a nice sized and very useable knife I like it.

 

[MSW]

very pretty!

 

[Wes/Tex]

Nice one! :thumbsup:

 

[LRB]

Nice clean looking work, but much more English than French. If going for French, use two pins of about 1/8" diameter, and a rounded blade heel. Original French scalpers usually had the pins at 1 1/16" apart, if you want to be exacting about it, and the more common/typical French blades had a dropped point. Not all, but most often. The classic, or typical English scalper had a raised point, was thinner than French, had an almost 90° blade heel, and commonly used three small diameter pins of about 3/32" dia. There are variations in both French and English, but the above are the typical features commonly found.

 

[Rickey Brown]

Thank you all and thanks for the information I will study it