Marble’s 6" & 8" Ideal with Maple Burl Handle

An A. G. Russell™ Exclusive

Webster Marble was one of Outdoor America's greatest treasures. He designed some of the most important and influential knives of all time including the "Gamegetter" for trappers. He also produced some of the very best aperture sights for lever action rifles. In 1898, Mr. Marble invented the "American Hunting Knife", which he called the Ideal. Until this knife, an American outdoorsman was using a kitchen knife or something homemade, probably cut by chisel from a crosscut saw, or maybe forged from a file. The Ideal was so popular that many European companies began to copy the pattern. The Remington Arms company produced an even more extensive line of the same pattern. Not satisfied to take the design, they called those "Remington Pattern Knives".

The original Ideals were much thicker than the kitchen knives used until then and fullered with deep, wide fullers (often called "Blood Grooves"). They were not only new and interesting, they were made of 1095 and made harder than other knives. The fullers allowed easier cutting and generally the knives were better made with fine handle materials. Mr. Marble also invented the leather washer handle which was used on these, as well as his later knives.

These knives are made with today's knife buyer in mind. Instead of the very thin double guard of the original, these have a thicker, longer, sturdier, single guard and the blades are thicker, using 0170-6 at 57-59 Rc. This is a very respected cutlery steel, so highly thought of by one young knife company that they gave it a name of their own to hide the source of such a fine steel.

We reccommend Rust Free to protect this blade. RF125 . . . . $6.95

Marble’s 8" Ideal with Maple Burl Handle

A great camp knife. The 8" blade of 0170-6 at 57-59 Rc. measures 1/4" thick and 1-3/8" wide. The handles are our own stabilized "Red Maple Burl" and the butts (or pommels) are aircraft alloy which does not tarnish. Measures 13" tip to butt and weighs 14.8 oz. Includes a brown leather sheath.

(A) MA-ID8MB: Sold Out

Marble’s® 6" Ideal with Maple Burl

An excellent hunting knife with a 3/16" thick, 1-1/8" wide blade of 0170-6 at 57-59 Rc. which measures 6" in length. The handles are our own stabilized "Red Maple Burl" and the butts (or pommels) are aircraft alloy which does not tarnish. Measures 10-1/2" tip to butt and weighs 7.1 oz. Includes a brown leather sheath.

(B) MA-ID6MB: $125.00