Re: Some of my favourite knives

My newly rehandled ESEE-5, done in Madagascar Ebony by Peter Rassenti…he calls it the Black Beauty, but I say it is more like the Black Beast. The ESEE-5 is a big, heavy knife and the 5.5 inch blade of 1095 Carbon Steel takes a fiercely sharp edge.

And here are my Bark River knives: The Gunny with Desert Ironwood scales, its big brother, the very excellent Bravo 1 with Spalted Maple Burl scales and the STS-5 before he got his Cocobolo scales. The last two knives were developed by Mike Stewart for the Marine Recon unit and the Bravo 1 was chosen over all the other knives from different companies to be the survival blade for the Marine Recon outfit.

CHeers
Leo