Awesome antique store find!

[Caleb Foster]

Found this Mike Yazel custom today in an antique store in Lafayette Indiana. You never know what you might find!

 

[Timber Wolf]

That’s a mighty sporty looking blade.

 

[bronko220002]

Nifty looking knife.

 

[TRGRHAPY]

Found this Mike Yazel custom today in an antique store in Lafayette Indiana. You never know what you might find!

NICE! I like the rich color of the wood and the pommel too! Good lookin' historic cutlery!

 

[TDM]

Very nice find!

 

[LRB]

Found this Mike Yazel custom today in an antique store in Lafayette Indiana. You never know what you might find!

Just me, my opinion, my thoughts, I do not understand this seeming of late, prolific blade finishing on period works where the upper half of a knife blade is rough forge, hammer, and scale marked, but yet the lower Halfs are often well polished as above, or at least much better finished. Makes no sense. Not even if to represent the work of a poor dirt farmer or apprentice smith. A smith made blade will at the least be cleanly finished if not polished to a degree. No hammer marks, file marks, or scale. Just saying. Just my observations.

 

[Caleb Foster]

Just me, my opinion, my thoughts, I do not understand this seeming of late, prolific blade finishing on period works where the upper half of a knife blade is rough forge, hammer, and scale marked, but yet the lower Halfs are often well polished as above, or at least much better finished. Makes no sense. Not even if to represent the work of a poor dirt farmer or apprentice smith. A smith made blade will at the least be cleanly finished if not polished to a degree. No hammer marks, file marks, or scale. Just saying. Just my observations.

To each their own and I respect your opinion, but I like this finish. I think its a finish called "brut de forge" and tis one of my personal favorites

 

[LRB]

To each their own and I respect your opinion, but I like this finish. I think its a finish called "brut de forge" and tis one of my personal favorites

Depends on how close to original work one wants. Some do, some don't.