Frost Cutlery Fixed Blade Hunting Knife
The Frost Cutlery brand features blades that are durable. Frost Cutlery colors and textures handle materials and combines different materials to make handles. Frost Cutlery bills itself as "The World's Fastest-Growing Cutlery Company."
What metal is used to make hunting knife blades?Most of the Frost Cutlery hunting knife blades are made from 420 or 440 stainless steel, with higher chromium and carbon contents to improve corrosion resistance and edge retention. The Buck Creek knives and some of the Hen & Rooster knives are made of carbon steel. In the case of the Hen & Rooster, the carbon steel blades will have a "C" after the item number.
What materials are used in fixed blade hunting knife handles?Frost Cutlery uses a wide variety of materials in their hunting knife handles including:
- Aluminum - a lightweight material which resists corrosion.
- Bone - can be easily colored and carved.
- Composite materials - usually using a thermoplastic composite.
- Cord-wrapped Metal - a metal tang wrapped with parachute cord.
- Horn, also called Antler or Stag.
- Leather washers - stacked.
- Leather - wrapped.
- Wood, including Raizwood, Pakkawood, Walnut, and Zebrawood.
- Zytel - a DuPont trademark for a nylon-based thermoplastic.
- Many of the Frost Cutlery handles use a variety of materials separated with spacers of various materials.
The Frost Cutlery tangs used most often are:
- The full-tang, which is simply the bottom part of the metal running completely down the length of the handle. This also means that the metal is one continuous piece and the handle itself is two halves joined to the bottom tang of the knife.
- The half-tang, which is similar to a full-tang, except instead of the bottom of the metal running completely down the length of the handle, only runs halfway down the handle of the knife. The blade is still one continuous piece; it just does not run completely down the handle.
- The rat tang, which matches the full tang in length, but it forms a metal rod running to the butt of the handle and usually threaded at the end.
- The encapsulated or enclosed tang, which is smaller than the handle. The handle is then fitted around the encapsulated tang.