Roach Belly Knife 1810 to 1820 Little Badger Handcrafted

Our Knife: This is a Little Badger design Roach Belly Knife from the middle 1810’s.  He has used the classic lines patterned after actual Roach Belly knives.  This Roach Belly  is a fairly large knife  at 11.5” long. The traditional clip point blade is 7.5” long.  Comes with handcrafted hone bezil and edge, and very sharp. The blade itself is made from hand forged Amalgamated steel, all carbon, forged into hardened steel on Badger’s self made forge.. Handle is a superb polished white tail deerAntler. .The tang on this knife is round and goes up the antler at least ¾ down the shaft.  Strong bond and It aint coming off.  Those guys in 1830 did not have the epoxies we have now.  The epoxy used to secure this knife made a chemical welded bond between the tang and the antler.  The tang and the antler will never separate, they are one. There is a finger groove technically called the ricassa and choil. This is the non sharp part of the knife between the edge and the hilt. This groove has se