Thuban
"Thuban" Custom Knife
- Size: Length overall: 7.75" (19.7 cm), Blade
Length: 3.6" (9.1 cm), Thickness: .167" (4.2 mm)
- Weight: Knife: 6.1 oz. (173 grams)
Sheath: 3.7 oz. (105 grams)
- Blade: ATS-34 High Molybdenum Martensitic Stainless
Tool Steel, Hardened and Tempered to 59HRC
- Bolsters, Fittings: 304 Austenitic Stainless
Steel, hand-engraved
- Handle: Brecciated Jasper Gemstone
- Sheath: Hand-carved leather
shoulder inlaid with Lizard Skin
- Knife: The Thuban is a great knife, originally
named for a star in the constellation Draco. This custom handmade
knife is made with a beautifully hollow ground and mirror polished
ATS-34 high molybdenum martensitic stainless steel blade. The grinds
are deep, with sweeping grind terminations, well-matched, and thin
and durable at the cutting edge. With the high hardness and
increased toughness of ATS-34, this knife will hold its edge a very
long time. The blade is fully fileworked throughout the tapered tang
with a graduated and detailed filework. Graduated filework means
that as the tang grows thinner toward the butt of the handle, the
filework spacing matches the thinness all along its length, so
becomes highly intricate and detailed. Few knives are made this way
because of the great difficulty of execution. The filework extends
through the underside of the handle tang to the choil. The knife is bolstered
in zero-care, high nickel, high chromium austenitic stainless steel,
mounted with zero-clearance pins for absolute permanence. I
hand-engraved the bolsters with a compact Victorian leaf design that
echoes the intricacy of the knife, filework, and handle. The handle
scales are complex Brecciated Jasper gemstone, a stone that has been
broken apart millions (or perhaps billions) of years ago and then
re-formed under the tremendous heat and pressure beneath the earth's
crust to become a uniformly solid gem of red jasper,
metallic hematite, and quartz. This gem is very hard and durable,
and will easily outlast the knife. The handle rests in the hand
comfortably, nesting in the ring finger groove. The balance point is
right at the front bolster-to-handle scale junction.
- Sheath: The sheath for the Thuban is simple and
elegant, in 9-10 oz. black dyed hand-carved leather inlaid with
panels of Teju (Tegu) Lizard Skin, hand-stitched with polyester sinew,
lacquered and sealed.
- This Thuban is a tight, graceful, and impressive knife.
Thanks, B. P.!
Hello Jay,
Stunning is all I need to say about this knife... I love knives and this one is the best.
It's art form at the highest level. Of all the people I've shown my knives only one has
understood what custom handmade knives are about and it is about the art of the knife. I
could good on and on but I do know you understand what I'm trying to say. Thank you Jay
and I do hope to meet you some day.
God Bless, Take care,
B. P.
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