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Excellent knife and great pics.
My #1 B&T from Gene is one of my most used knives
I still need to get one with Westy scales though.

Cool pic !

that is so close to perfect, I'd not look further. What a beauty.

more work:

Love this knife - but one comment - the upswept tip makes gutting different as my normal knife position - upside down guided between my first two fingers of my left hand - kept causing the knife to go a bit deeper than I wanted. Something to keep in mind as it is my first knife of this style.

Great pics and a great knife.

Man that is very nice!!

Is it actually upswept? They Ingram B&T's look like they have a straight back design to me.

Trout,
When I was deciding, it was down to the small boner and this knife. In email, Gene said, "the boner is a straight and slightly dropped point blade, and the B&T has a bit of up sweep or trailing point."

I've read of someone on here getting a #4 with no sweep, but cannot recall who.

I absolutely love the knife, just something about this pattern that I thought was worth mentioning.

Thanks for the reply. I have a #1 B&T coming hopefully at the end of the week. I didn't realize they had a slight trailing point. I will have to get use to it.