Description
Bulk set discount: 15% off. Buying this set of 6 costs 15% less than buying the same knives one at a time.
This set is 6 of the same knife: Bobcat Knife 9.8″ Long 5″ Blade 9.8oz Hunting Fixed Blade. It is the same knife sold on its own single listing, packed together for groomsmen, a wedding party or a team. Every knife in the box is the same model.
Buying the set costs 15% less than buying 6 single knives. If you want names on them, tick the engraving option, type one name per line and each name goes on its own knife.
Nine point eight inches long and nine point eight ounces heavy. A coincidence, but a useful one to remember. The Bobcat is a five-inch hunter with brass file-work down the spine and a handle just under five inches, and it is one of the older patterns we still forge unchanged.
| Overall length | 9.8 inches |
| Blade length | 5 inches |
| Handle length | 4.8 inches |
| Handle | Stag antler with black horn and amber spacer bands |
| Steel | 1095 + 15N20 Damascus, 352 layers |
| Hardness | 58–60 HRC, oil tempered |
| Weight | 9.8 oz |
| Pattern | Damascus Blade, Extreme custom Brass File-work |
| Included | Hand-stitched leather sheath |
Built for: deer-sized game and the camp that follows. Five inches of edge handles a whole animal without a second knife, and the near-equal blade and handle lengths place the balance point under your index finger, which is where it belongs for long controlled cuts rather than for chopping.
File-work is decoration with a cost
The brass work along the spine is cut by hand, file stroke by file stroke, and it is why no two Bobcats look alike. It is also somewhere for dirt to live. If you thumb the spine while cutting you will find the grooves catch slightly. Some people welcome the extra purchase and others find it uncomfortable after an hour, so try it before assuming. Brass darkens on its own schedule, and a three-year-old knife will have a warmer, duller spine than a new one. That is expected, and it is not corrosion.
What ten ounces does to your day
Enough weight to help and not enough to punish. Set against a fourteen-ounce chopper, you can wear this on a belt from dawn to dusk and hardly register it. Set against a light folder, you gain momentum, which counts when you are pushing through hide instead of slicing paper. For most hunters this is the sensible center of the range.
Care
Two materials, two routines. The steel is carbon Damascus and follows familiar rules: get it dry, keep a trace of oil on it, and never leave it in the sheath between seasons. The brass wants the opposite of attention, meaning a dry cloth and nothing more. Aggressive polish lifts compound into the filed grooves and, worse, carries it onto the etched steel alongside, where it permanently dulls the pattern contrast. Our Damascus care and sharpening notes cover the routine, and if a wet week has left spots, removing rust from a knife explains what to use and what to keep away from an etched surface.
FAQs
How long before it patinas? Weeks, if you use it. The gray film that forms is stable and slows further corrosion, so most owners leave it alone.
Is the file-work structural? No. It is decorative, cut into the spine, well away from the edge and the tang.
What is completely unlike this? A curved design such as the Onyx Fang karambit, which shares the steel and nothing else about grip or cutting motion.
Model: BMK-103
Matched sets for the whole wedding party are in Groomsmen Knives. Want just one? See the single knife listing.
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