06-17-2007, 23:44
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H-Class Tanto... Bill's new great blade
I played a little bit with my H-Class Tanto past weekend. And believe me, this is one of the very best tanto designs I've ever seen! Thanks to the smooth, slightly curved transition point (from primary edge to the point-edge) it's able to do any outdoor job - except perhaps skinning, but who'd be crazy enough to take tactical tanto for a whitetail hunt 
BTW Bill, nice shadow-cam pattern on the blade... blends really nicely with green foliage as you can see. And skull crasher... man, this is baaaaad 
So for you pleasure just couple of shots of my new cool tool.
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06-17-2007, 23:47
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And some more...
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06-18-2007, 10:43
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
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Piter,
Thanks for the posting the pics here.
"Shadow Cam" will be continued as I just got more of the 3-M resist for doing the sandblasted pattern work.
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06-18-2007, 11:43
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My god, that is a beatiful blade.
Very well done Bill (yet again).
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06-18-2007, 12:48
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Beautiful work! I would love to get my hands on one of these.
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06-18-2007, 17:27
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Every time I see the 11.5" BT-SS I start reaching for the Credit card. Anyone else see the Strider drop leg carrier they sell at Blue line Gear. It's a great set up. But they only sell it with the Knife there.
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10-03-2007, 20:24
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This is my favorite of your fixed blades, Mr. Harsey. Beautiful knife!
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01-03-2011, 12:20
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Just an update... enjoy!
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01-04-2011, 08:43
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VERY nice pic, Piter.
Mr. Harsey, I believe the tanto blades made by you and the late Mr Bob Lum are less angular, and a far superior design to most of the generic tantos one normally sees everywhere. Exquisite piece of work.
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01-04-2011, 09:57
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarian
VERY nice pic, Piter.
Mr. Harsey, I believe the tanto blades made by you and the late Mr Bob Lum are less angular, and a far superior design to most of the generic tantos one normally sees everywhere. Exquisite piece of work.
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Barbarian,
Thanks.
I don't know if I've written this here before and I'm not going to try searching either but here it is:
The word "tanto" in Japanese swords refers to an edged weapon with a blade length that converted from Japan measurement to United States Customary Units had a blade length of between 6 and 12 inches.
There is no definition of a particular blade shape or point type and I have seen and handled many Japanese tantos from modern to 700 years before present.
None of these had the abrupt chisel point that has become popular.
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01-08-2011, 21:01
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that Mr. Harsey does some very nice work
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