I Wilson 6" Skinning Knife Shear Steel Carbon Steel & Beechwood Sheffield 1890-1920s Polish the trumpet is the same a blacksmith out of

I Wilson 6" Skinning Knife Shear Steel Carbon Steel & Beechwood Sheffield 1890 1920s Polish the trumpet is the same a blacksmith out of the trumpet is the same as well as the very angular transition on handle scales going into the rounded area next to bolster everything is cleaned up and there is a fresh edge large numbers of these were heated for days on end at high temperatures and the resulting bars were broken up (it would break or shear rather than bend once carbon added hence 'shear' steel) and forged welded into a larger mass I Wilson knives are hand forged carbon steel with a 3 4 tang and simple pinned beechwood handle