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Made this for my wife for Christmas. I'm pretty happy with it so far. Started life as an old file, no idea how old or what steel it was but it got hard and took a mutherphucker of an edge. Handles are warthog ivory and micarta. Eventually I'm going to make her a whole matching kitchen set over the summer. But I need to order more handle material.

I had pounded out what I thought was going to be an awesome sheath knife for her, but it wouldn't harden. It was the cutting edge off an old snow plow. So I used it as a template, and then the file I'd selected ended up too thin for hard use, so I made the blade a little longer and figured it'd be a handy all around the kitchen knife. I've a thicker file I'm going to use to make her sheath knife as soon as it gets above 0 here.