I made this as a trade for some leatherwork from a friend in the UK. He made a custom sword belt for my lady and I made this for his. She picked out our production Bootstrap cutlass, but I wanted to upgrade it a bit. I have done a bunch of spiral fluted handles, but for some reason I never did the pineapple pattern. I wanted to try it and I thought this was a good fit.

This is a prime example of an "upgraded" custom. I will soon be highlighting upgrades on our website.

This is based off of our production 28" cutlass blade. I hand ground a fuller in it and gave it a false edge and pulled the standard edge back a bit then gave the spine a bit of filework.

The hilt is based off of our standard Bootstrap. I upgraded that a bit aswell. Added some file work and some hammer finishing.

The handle is upgraded to a hickory wood handle. I then spiraled it in both directions creating a pineapple effect.

The pommel was custom ground from a bar on the sander to get that pineapple shape.

Her she is:

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more info and pictures here: http://baltimoreknife.com/pineapplebootstrap.htm

Thanks for looking!

Matthew

You realize Matt that the more cool stuff you post, the more impatient I get waiting for my turn! ;-)

Looks nice. I was going to comment that the blade profile looks slightly different but then I reread your post and saw that you had done some alterations.

that thing is awesome. I'm not usually one for cutlasses, but that just has sweet lines and the guard just throws it over the top.

Beautiful work, Im jealous! What tools/technique do you guys use to get the pineapple pattern carved into the handle? Ive been wanting to do this to one of my wood grips for ages but havent been able to figure it out.

Here is another picture to show scale.

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I still have to engrave a lizard on the blade somewhere. That was the request from the customer.