Looking for info about a knife

[Claudester]

I met an old timer ( a little older than me ) that knew I collected knives and asked me if I could identify a knife his
wife had bought him. He sent me the picture and a sketch of the stamp on the tang but I had no clue of the maker
and after doing a week of searching, came up with nothing. Here are pictures of both.
Thanks for any help

[whippersnapper]

I haven't a clue on the knife, but sure good to see you post, Steve. I hope retirement is treating you well.

[Claudester]

Thanks Terry,
Life is still good. Every once and a while I still go on a knife kick like yesterday. I opened a bunch of boxes and
started fondling some blades. I had forgotten that I had a lot of them. I really don't know if the knife in question is
a custom high quality blade or a piece of scrap. It's just that I told this man I'd look around to see what I could find out
and can't find any thing. At least I tried.

[tr4252]

Hi Steve!

Tom

[Claudester]

Morin Tom,
How are YA!

[Razor_54]

Hi Steve, welcome back.
No clue on the knife, but if I was to guess, I would think Ka-Bar because of the stamp.
Looks similar to KA.

[Claudester]

Hi Razor,
That's where I ended up looking, Ka-bar but noting like it there.
Thanks

[john]

I know almost nothing about knives, but this could be someones personal tang stamp. A home made knife, someone's initials and the number 5 could be the knife makers lucky number or the 5th knife of that style.
In any event it's a good looking knife.

[Tom19176]

I posted this on Bernard Levine's section on Bladeforums, so I hope to have an ID on it soon as those guys are really in the know.....

[Claudester]

I posted this on Bernard Levine's section on Bladeforums, so I hope to have an ID on it soon as those guys are really in the know.....

Thanks Much!

[Tom19176]

I have gotten some replies but no one knows what it is yet. A few asked for a close up of the tang stamp. Can you do that?

[Claudester]

Sorry, I don't have the knife and the gentleman lives across country from me. I will ask him if he
can do a close up.

[Tom19176]

Ok see what he can do. Here is a link to the question about it I posted on bladeforums:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showt ... ther-forum

I am not sure if you have to be a member to see it.

[Claudester]

I met an old timer ( a little older than me ) that knew I collected knives and asked me if I could identify a knife his
wife had bought him. He sent me the picture and a sketch of the stamp on the tang but I had no clue of the maker
and after doing a week of searching, came up with nothing. Here are pictures of both.
Thanks for any help

Well, I found the maker of the knife and verified it by sending him a picture of the knife. His name is Ken Steigerwalt and he is quite the knife maker. Here is a copy of the email he sent me.

Hi Steve,
Sorry for delay. I did make this knife back in the mid 1990's. The scrimshaw was done by my dad.
I hope this helps,
Ken

Here's a link to some of his work.
http://www.knifeart.com/kensteigerwalt.html