Description
A quarter inch thick tracker in stone washed D2, with a walnut handle, a mosaic pin, and a leather sheath built to hold it flat.
| 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 | Walnut wood, stainless steel screws, mosaic pin inlay |
| Lanyard | Drilled lanyard hole through the butt |
| Included | Black leather tracker sheath |
Intended for: bushcraft, camp work and anyone who wants one blade to chop, carve and saw rather than three. The Tom Brown tracker profile is a specialist shape pretending to be a generalist, and it is worth understanding before you buy.
Three tools on one edge
The forward belly is deep and heavy and does the chopping. The straight section behind it, closer to your hand, is where fine work happens: feather sticks, notches, anything needing control. The sawback on the spine handles notching and scoring. Each of the three does its job noticeably worse than a dedicated tool would, and that is the whole bargain. You carry one knife instead of a hatchet, a carver and a saw, and you accept that none of the three is best in class. People who understand that ratio love this knife. People expecting a great slicer are disappointed, because the deep belly and thick stock make it clumsy for anything like food prep.
Weight, thickness and what breaks
A quarter inch of D2 across nearly twelve inches is a lot of steel, and it is why you can baton with it. It is also why the tip is not delicate but the edge is not thin. D2 is hard and hard steel chips rather than rolls, so a bad strike into a knot or a hidden stone can take a small bite out of the edge instead of denting it. That is repairable on a coarse diamond plate, but it is a real difference from a softer carbon blade. The blade shapes guide puts the tracker profile next to the alternatives.
Walnut and the tang
Walnut is stable, medium hard and forgiving of knocks, and it is bolted rather than glued, so a damaged scale can be replaced rather than written off. Full length tang construction is what makes batoning sane; see full tang versus partial tang. If you would rather have a synthetic handle that ignores weather entirely, the black micarta tracker is the same knife in a different jacket.
Practical questions
Does the sheath carry crossways? Yes, it is built for horizontal belt carry.
Is the stone wash a coating? No, it is a surface texture, so scratches blend rather than showing as bright lines.
Can the sawback be sharpened? The teeth can be cleaned up with a round file, but do not thin them. Their strength comes from being thick and blunt rather than keen.
Model: BMK-1107
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