Description
A quarter inch of D2, stone washed to a flat matte, cut to the tracker outline: chopping belly at the front, straight working section behind it, saw teeth along the spine.
| Overall length | 11.88 inches |
| Blade length | 6.38 inches |
| Blade thickness | 0.25 inches |
| Steel | D2 tool steel, stone washed matte finish |
| Grind | Tom Brown tracker profile — chopping belly, straight fine-work section, sawback spine |
| Handle | OD green G10 with gold stainless steel screws |
| Lanyard | Drilled lanyard hole through the butt |
| Included | Black leather tracker sheath |
Earns its place: on a belt for days at a time. Bushcraft courses, long walks, survival training, anywhere a knife is worked rather than carried. The OD green G10 keeps its grip when your hands are wet or cold, which is exactly the moment a slick handle causes an injury.
Care: D2 is semi-stainless. High chromium, but not enough to forget about. In practice, drying it when you finish keeps it clean for weeks; leaving it in a damp sheath over a wet weekend will not. The stone washed finish helps, because it breaks up marks a satin surface would show. The G10 is the easy part: soap, water, a stiff brush, no finish to maintain and nothing that can rot. The leather sheath needs more thought than either — let it dry flat and out of direct sun after a wet day, and do not store the knife inside it long term.
Reading the tracker profile
There are three tools on this blade. The deep forward belly is for chopping and for skinning, because a curve does both. The straight section behind it is for carving, feather sticks and anything you do with the knife braced against your thumb. The sawback is for notching and scraping. The honest cost of three tools on one blade: it beats a bushcraft knife at chopping and a hatchet at carving, and loses to each at its own job. Quarter inch stock also makes it a poor slicer — it wedges in anything dense before it parts it.
G10 against wood on the same knife
We build this pattern both ways, with identical steel, grind and dimensions. G10 is fiberglass cloth cured in resin under pressure: waterproof, chemically inert, unbothered by heat or frost, and it will not swell, shrink or crack. Wood moves with humidity and it looks better doing it. Pick G10 if the knife is going to work, and the walnut handled tracker if it is going to be looked at.
What quarter inch stock actually costs you
Mass and prying strength, bought with slicing performance and food work. It takes lateral load that would fold a thinner knife and it will not flex driven through a knot. It will also crush a tomato rather than cut it. The tang runs the full length of the handle under the scales, which is what lets it take that load — see our full tang guide for what that buys you.
Field questions
What is the sawback actually for? Notching, scraping bark, and throwing sparks off a ferro rod. It is not a wood saw and it will not cut through a branch quickly.
Is this a licensed Tom Brown design? No. It is our own interpretation of the tracker pattern, made in Memphis, and we do not represent it as anything else.
Can I sharpen D2 on an ordinary stone? Diamond or silicon carbide will cut it properly. Ordinary ceramic works but slowly. Our steel comparison guide puts D2 next to the alternatives.
Model: BMK-1109
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