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Home Products Model 17 Astro

Model 17 Astro

by Randall Made Knives

SKU 1046408

Date Added 09/22/2022

# Available This product is out of stock

Original price $850.00

Price $750.00

Overview

This Model 17 Astro by Randall features a satin finished spear point blade with false top edge, .236" blade stock. 1.392" blade depth, full tang construction. Black linen micarta scales, fastened with removable stainless steel bolts. A slot in the heavy tang and matching hollow inside the handle may be used to carry matches, fishhooks, line and other survival items. The Model 17 was especially designed for the seven Mercury astronauts, who carried them on America's first manned space flights. Astronaut Gordon Cooper did the final design, and two of these historically valuable knives are on display in the Smithsonian Institution. Includes black leather sheath with stone and original paper wrapping. Excellent condition.

Product Details

Blade Length 5.625

Overall Length 10.375

Weight (oz) 10.6

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Knife Type Full Tang, Has Sheath

Blade Material Stainless Steel

Blade Details Drop Point, Spear Point

Handle Material Metallic, Micarta

About the Maker

Randall Made Knives
Randall Made Knives

Few modern knifemakers got started without first being inspired by something they read or heard about Bo Randall. He pioneered handmade knives at a time when no one else was even considering it. Instead of trying to keep that market to himself, he promoted the business for everyone concerned, establishing a museum for visitors in his shop and offering encouragement to budding knifemakers. The models offered by Randall have been developed over a period of 80 years from personal experience, extensive research and the study of hundreds of designs submitted by individuals around the world requesting custom-made knives. Each model has been thoroughly field-tested and has proven to be properly shaped and designed for its particular use. Randall knives are 100% hand made and no two are exactly alike. Demand is so great for all models that there is typically a wait of a few years to deliver a new knife ordered from Randall. Bo and his son Gary managed the business side by side for over twenty-five years. Gary continues the tradition of hand crafting knives that bear the Randall Made trademark along with his sons, Jason and Michael, of the next Randall generation. Inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame in 1983. W.D. "Bo" Randall passed away in 1989.