Some freedoms were won on the battlefield. Others were preserved at home.

The Liberty Belle honors the generations of American women who built families, kept farms and businesses running, raised children, held communities together and quietly carried the ideals of this country forward.

Their names don't always appear in history books. Their work wasn't usually marked by monuments. But generation after generation, they helped shape the America we inherited.

The Liberty Belle is a compact 7-1/4-inch Woody handmade personal-carry knife, with an Alabama Damascus blade and Python Micarta handle — substantial enough to work, yet sized to be comfortably carried and used every day.

Old Glory Red, White & Blue liners run beneath the scales, joined by brass hardware and a patriotic mosaic pin — a little American color built right into the knife.

Each Liberty Belle comes with a handmade top-grain leather sheath by Lonnie Hyatt Leatherworks of Salem, South Carolina.

A distinctly American knife honoring the women whose strength was not always loud, but whose influence has been unmistakable.

Because liberty wasn't only won. It was carried forward.

That last line is the keeper for me. It circles right back to the personal carry nature of the knife while also completing the story: liberty was carried forward — and now Liberty Belle is something you carry.

One of 250 knives. 50 states. 1 nation.

Every America 250 • Bi-and-a-Half knife is made to order, one at a time, just for you. No two will be exactly alike — and we wouldn't have it any other way. Please give me and the boys in the Woody Shop up to 60 days to make yours. It may not take that long, but we certainly appreciate the time.

And by the way, the one pictured here started this story. Yours will carry it on, faithfully following the original pattern.