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Main Boards => Hunting Knives and Crafters => Topic started by: tippit on April 13, 2008, 12:06:00 AM
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Hopefully this hasn't been posted before as I just got back from the PBS Banquet and from being down South.
Anyway, I don't know how many of you saw this knife on the PBS Pow Wow thread...but it is definitely worth revisiting here. I got hold it for a while at the banquet. To me it is the ideal hunting knife shape & size. The handle material is one of a kind...maybe Doug will hop in to explain...Doc
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tippit/Knives/DougsPBSBanquetKnife.jpg)
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I've always liked a drop point blade! They are my favorite field knife. What are the dimensions?
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That's a beauty!
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Hmm... this one slipped by me, thanks Jeff. The handle material is Ibex horn directly from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. My friend Steve H brought it home from his trip there. Very cool and rare stuff. It was a real treat to get to work with it on this knife.
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Ibex is my all time, absolute, no kidding animal I want to get so bad I can't stand it.
I married a woman from Iran (Persia) just because she was from a place where they HAVE ibex (I wouldnt have just married her cause she is beautiful or anything, mind you! HA) but I hoped that one day the US/Iran relations would soften up, and we could travel there and I could hunt an ibex in her native land.
Doesnt look like that will happen any time soon...so I am looking for an ibex hunt somewhere else, really hard.
That's a great knife, Doug. You have "the eye" for design/materials that is needed for building a working knife that also is pleasing to the eye.
Great job.
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Great looking knife!
If this was 10 years ago Ray I could have helped you make your dreams come true. We had a lease in Texas that had free range Ibex on it. Super tough animal to hunt and extremely hard to get up the rock formation where they lived.