Gaucho type knife

[Squawsach]

I was contacted about about making a gaucho type knife. I have never made one before or even looked into making one. The buyer is a super nice guy so I told him I would take a look at gaucho knives and come up with something. I researched gauchos on the web and basically came up with a modern, Squawsached, gaucho type of sharp pointy object that looks like a kitchen knife.

It's 12" OAL with a 5/32" O1 blade. The handle is 416 SS and cocobola. It will get a sheath when I find some time.

What do you think? Gaucho or kitchen?

 

[murphda2]

Great looking work.

 

[Bill T]

Any Gaucho would be proud to have that in his kitchen:biggrin:

It's a great looking knife .​

 

[jylong_away]

whoa! how did u get the handle portion of the tang looking like that??

 

[maxcutter03]

Very clean work!!!!

 

[Church & Son]

Very impressive, there is a lot of evolution in this blade style, from the 16th century Spanish Facóns (which in Argentina meant to small to be a sword, to large to be a knife) to the more commonly known Cuchillas and Belduques, basically our common butcher knives with full-tang construction, wooden slab grips and blades with a belly shaped edge and straight back. If you were standing in the right place at the right time, the Gaucho puñales may have evolved into a Bowie. Gauchos (mixed breed Spanish/Indian) were very nomatic cattle/horseman and apparently had limited access to early firearms, so the blades they carried were very much weapons as well as tools.......... Sorry ramblings from an old burnout......NICE KNIFE.................Randy

 

[Dan Pierson]

Very well done knife! From my gringo perspective it looks like it fits right into the tradition.

 

[Pieter]

It doesn't matter what it is, all I can say it is an excellent example of great craftmanship and finish on a knife. Well done.

 

[ArtinNC]

I like it very clean.

 

[SAFARIKID]

Sweeeet!