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A 78.28 Fighter

by Bone, Ralph, Hipp, Charles, De Leon, Enedino

SKU 1091965

Date Added 10/22/2024

# Available 1

Price $745.00

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Overview

This Model A Fighter by Ralph Bone and Charles Hipp features a satin finished clip point blade with a sharpened top edge, .244" blade stock and 1.266" blade depth, hidden tang construction. The handle has a brass double guard and brass butt cap, rosewood grip with black and brass spacers. Has some scratches and patina, has been resharpened, otherwise good condition. Comes with a brown leather sheath. Stamped A 78.28

This knife was made by Enedino De Leon in 1978, after Hipp purchased ownership of the Ralph Bone Knife Co in 1976.    De Leon taught Hipp everything that he learned about knife making.  Hipp had never made a knife, until he purchased the company in 1976; previously, he was a saw blade maker.  According to De Leon, he (De Leon) made all the knives that were sold at Ralph Bone Knife Co, from the time that Bone left in mid-1974 until De Leon left in 12/1978. -  Huxley Walters

Product Details

Blade Length 7.75

Overall Length 13

Weight (oz) 12.1

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Knife Type Hidden Tang, Has Sheath

Blade Material Carbon Steel

Blade Details Clip Point

Handle Material Metallic, Wood

About the Maker

Bone, Ralph

Ralph Bone made high quality handmade fighting and sportsman's knives in Lubbock, Texas from 1964 to 1970. Bone was best known as a custom knife maker, for the first one half of his life and later, as a custom gun maker and highly innovative master engraver, which he pursued until his death. Actually, Ralph Bone made his first knife when he was nine years old. He produced knives, thereafter, until he died. Enedino De Leon joined the company in 1969, as a Marine Corp veteran. Bone taught De Leon to make knives and conveyed to me, late in his life, that De Leon was his favorite knife maker. He also made knives in association with Ed Spencer (the precision rifle barrel maker), G W Stone (Bone made the knives; Stone did the marketing), Sam Arnett (financial partner of Ralph Bone Knife Co).

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Hipp, Charles
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De Leon, Enedino

Enedino De Leon became the custom knife-making protégé of Ralph Bone at the “Ralph Bone Knife Company”. As a result of that tutoring and De Leon’s talent and ingenuity, De Leon soon became one of the most talented and highly sought after custom knife makers in America. De Leon made knives for over 45 years until he passed away in 2015.

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