Description
You will not lose this one in the leaves
Every hunter has done it: set a knife down on the ground beside an animal, moved six feet, and spent ten minutes looking for a brown handle in brown leaf litter. Blaze Hollow solves that problem the simple way. The scales are layered black and orange Micarta, contoured so the color bands run in stripes across the palm, and the orange is loud enough to find from a distance in any light you can still work in. It is a practical decision that happens to look good.
The knife itself
Nine inches overall, four and a half inch blade, D2 tool steel, ground as a drop point with a gut hook let into the spine near the tip. There is jimping on the spine ahead of the handle for thumb purchase and a notched choil below it, so you can choke forward for close work with real control. The tang is full width through the handle and the scales are held on with black screw hardware rather than peened pins, which means the knife can be taken down, cleaned properly, and put back together — something worth having on a blade that gets used inside animals.
Stonewashed D2
D2 carries about one and a half percent carbon and roughly twelve percent chromium, which puts it in a useful spot: a genuine tool steel with a dense field of hard carbides for edge retention, plus enough chromium to shrug off ordinary damp. It is not stainless and should not be treated as such, but in the field it is far more forgiving than a simple carbon steel while cutting considerably longer between sharpenings. It does prefer a diamond plate or a hard ceramic when the time comes; soft stones just glaze.
The stonewash finish is a matte, non-reflective gray produced by tumbling the ground blade in abrasive media. It kills glare, it hides working marks, and it holds a trace of oil in its texture instead of shedding it. For a knife that spends its life being wiped on a pant leg, that is the right finish. If you want the trade-offs between D2 and the other steels we use laid out plainly, our knife steel chart puts them side by side.
| Overall Length | 9 inches |
|---|---|
| Blade Length | 4.5 inches |
| Handle Length | 4.5 inches |
| Blade Steel | D2 tool steel |
| Blade Finish | Stonewashed matte gray, non-reflective |
| Blade Style | Drop point with integral gut hook |
| Handle Material | Layered black and orange Micarta, contoured |
| Fittings | Black screw hardware, lanyard hole |
| Tang | Full tang |
| Sheath | Handmade black leather belt sheath with stud closure (included) |
Model: BMK-1164
Micarta in weather
Layered cloth and resin, cured under pressure and then ground and hand-sanded, Micarta is the material to choose when you expect your hands to be wet, greasy, or numb. The sanded surface has a fine tooth that improves its grip as conditions get worse, and the material itself does not swell, crack, split, or care about temperature. Contouring the scales exposes the alternating black and orange layers as sweeping bands, which is why no two look quite the same — the pattern depends on exactly where the grinder cut through the stack. A lanyard hole sits at the butt.
Sheath
Black leather, wet-formed to the blade and hand-stitched in a pale thread, with a snap-fastened retention strap across the handle. The belt loop is cut full height so the sheath sits stable rather than swinging. For the same steel and finish in a quieter handle, the Sagebrush gut hook is the muted version of this exact idea.
Cleaning it properly
Warm water, dish soap, and a brush inside the hook, the same day — that crescent traps tissue and is the one place on a hunting knife that reliably corrodes if it is ignored. Dry the blade thoroughly afterward, including down in the choil. Micarta can be scrubbed as hard as you like and will not mind. A thin coat of oil before the knife goes into a drawer for the summer is cheap insurance, and it should be stored outside the sheath so nothing sits damp against steel. Touch the main edge up on a ceramic rod every few outings, take the hook back with a small round file worked from the inside of the curve, and set a full bevel on a diamond plate once a year if it needs it.
Ground, heat treated, assembled, and sharpened in Memphis, Tennessee.
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