Marbles Marbles Plainsman w/ India Sambar Stag handle

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When Mike Stewart reactivated knife production at Marble's using abrasive belts to hand-grind blades to a convex edge, he started by producing three working knives: the Woodcraft, Fieldcraft and Plainsman. The Woodcraft and Fieldcraft were traditional Marble's designs, but the Plainsman was a new Mike Stewart design that had the strength of traditional Marble's blades and the long sweep of the curved cutting edge, but the spine was straight and in line with the handle which was a radical departure from the early Marble's patterns. The cutting edge is precision convex-ground in a subtle, continuous curve from the ricasso to the point with a rear-to-point taper for fine cutting. Stewart used custom-rolled 52-100B modified high carbon steel for the Marble's knives he made in this era. The year of production was 2000, indicated by the spacer sequence on the handle: black - brass - white - red - white - brass - black. That was Stewart's way of identifying the exact year of production for collectors. The Plainsman obviously caught on with sportsmen because the blade design is still offered in the Marble's product line. This knife was made near the end of the time that Marble's, or any North American knife maker, could acquire Sambar stag for knife handles. Exportation of this antler of uniquely high density was banned from India and knife read more

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