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The knife started out as a piece of high carbon steel with two pieces of wrought iron Wagon Tire forge welded to the outside of it. But to answer your question it has a rat tail tag. I wish I could have left the Tang as wide as it was in some of the in progress pictures but the diameter of your handle determines the maximum dimensions of your rat tail tag. I shot the deer for the antler and I created the blade from three pieces of metal. You just have to keep filing it down until you can fit it inside your antler. Then I make some notches in it to latch on to the two party epoxy that I glue it into the handle with. You're supposed to drill a hole through it and put in a brass pin to hold it but I never bother these days with epoxy being what it is. I also make the hole that's in the handle itself larger at the bottom than it is at the opening that way the epoxy can really never pull out without bursting the handle and with the notches in the Tang that part's not likely to pull out either.