Boucheron

[Bushfire]

When my boucheron arrived here I wasn't blown away, the tang wobbled in the handle and it was blunt enough I could literally run my thumb across the blade and not draw blood. But I got it peened in relatively tight and after redoing the edge its shaving sharp.
Trust me on the last part, copped an earful from the missus tonight for testing the edge by shaving my leg hairs with it in the lounge room.
It is (seems for now?) tightly secured to my hunting bag, sits comfortably, and hopefully I can skin my first deer with it very soon.
I do love the knife as someone with french heritage and given that it was both made using historically correct techniques and from a tenplate of an actual 18th century boucheron excavated from Ticonderoga. The rough finish to me feels more correct, after all they were cheap trade knives for the most part. And I do love boxwood!

 

[user 48679]

Looks skookum to me - and I really like the sheath !

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

I just recently affixed my sheath knife (Damascus blade knife gifted to me my a customer) to my possibles bag strap. Dunno why I never considered that before. Much more convenient than a belt knife.

Yours looks like a nice simple hand-forged blade... very period correct and quite functional. Good luck with the deer hunt!

 

[andy52]

I had a Boucheron a few years ago but it looked like this..

 

[Bushfire]

Put it to work tonight for the first time, stayed sharp enough to break down the deer without steeling (didn't have a steel on me anyhow).

 

[centershot]

Congrats on the deer, Bushfire!