The Smoky Mountain Razor made its reputation on a handle. Owners rank it among their favorite grip shapes in the whole Battle Horse Knives line, a contoured micarta profile that fills the hand and locks in for safe work, and when a gear press panel picked eight elite bushcraft knives for 2018, the SMR made the cut, praised as true to bushcraft's outdoor legacy and as hefty yet beautifully balanced. The name looks south to the Smokies, the mountains American woodcraft grew up in.
DLT stocks the SMR in scandi: 4 inches of O1 behind a spear point that drills and carves, full tang on 4mm stock, 8.625 inches overall at 8.3 ounces, with micarta in natural, green, or black matte. If you are weighing it against the Salt Fork, the choice is all handle: nearly the same scandi blade, but the Salt Fork runs the longest grip in the catalog for the largest hands, while the Razor's contour is the shape-first pick most hands settle into. Handmade in Cambridge, Ohio.