Thank you for your interest in this knife. My father, Jay Bigler, a hobbyist knifemaker, was pretty much self-taught and didn't begin making knives until after he retired in 1993. He passed in 2016, but had suffered from a severe stroke in 2012 at the age of 82. He was not able to work on knives from that time on. Before that he was prolific in the knives he produced. No two were ever completely alike.

He did not catalog his knives as to when they were made or the materials that he used. However, I have been able to discern a range of years from how he put his name on the knives. The “J BIGLER” semicircle dates this knife sometime from 2004 to early 2012, which is what I think of as Dad’s “late period”.

This is one of Dad’s better knives. It has a burl wood handle and a black (powder-coated?) blade. The black decorative accent on the handle looks like it is a synthetic material. The ornamentation of the short, leather lanyard looks like a tooth – a fang maybe? The knife is 7.25” long with a 3.5” blade. The handle is 3.75”. The “tooth” is 1.25” long.  The total length when in its black-leather sheath is 8”.

Selling “as is”.

As a side note: I am so grateful to all the buyers who have purchased Bigler knives. It makes me glad to know how widely appreciated my father’s work is. Through sales elsewhere, knives have gone to collectors in over 25 states, from coast to coast and border to border.

Item # 76969