Shown here in black canvas Micarta, fixings are a pair of flared stainless steel tubes and its grip gets a texture inducing bead blasted finish.

For me this is the combination of materials for such a knife, SF100 steel is a superb 'real world' blade steel, that coupled to Micarta or G10 and right there, you have it, a no frills, honest working knife.

3mm stock with a full grind and tapering tang, no liners as befits the desired form in this instance.

Shown here alongside its now discontinued smaller sibling, the Muntjac.

The price in this specification is £395.

Number 1229 is a prime example of the model and is built in a 'fit for work' consummate spec. of 3mm stock SF100 steel married to canvas Micarta scales, black in colour and secured by a brace of stainless steel Corby type bolts.

MuntjaX to this specification are priced at £395

Black canvas Micarta over red liners.

Features a blade of Munin pattern Damasteel.

Making a matched pair alongside the standard MuntjaX is a grallocher blade.

Both get stabilised and ochre dyed Giraffe shin bone scales.

Olive green canvas Micarta over red liners with flared stainless steel tube fixings.

Handle scales in this instance are blue/black G10, those secured by a brace of 10mm stainless steel flared tubes.

The blade length as with all MuntjaX, is 100mm, what is unique about this one is the stock of the SF100 steel utilised, made as a prototype, the blade is cut from 2mm thickness steel, more generally the MuntjaX would be 3mm.

I use 2mm stock SF100 extensively for the vast majority of the kitchen/cooking knives that I make, blades up to 250mm in length and they work a dream, light, quick and very capable, for a while I wondered how the same gauge would work on more of an outdoor-orientated blade, the MuntjaX the perfect candidate in my opinion.

A MuntjaX BT which is a slightly modified from original Bird & Trout derivative.

Cocobolo handle scales, those fitted over thin yellow liners atop a tapering tang, bolts and lanyard tube are nickel silver.