Calisto -by Jay Fisher

[JayFisher]

Another new custom, just the way the client wanted it. An unusual blend of old and new, with 100 million year old fossil alage in chalcedony and jasper with kydex, high strength corrosion resistant aluminum alloy and stainless steel... a great knife for a very patient client!... Thanks, Marty!

Size: Length overall: 8.0" (20.3 cm), Blade Length: 3.75" (9.5 cm), Thickness: .191" (4.8 mm)
Weight: Knife: 6.6 oz. Sheath: 8.1 oz.
Blade: 440C High Chromium Martensitic Stainless Tool Steel, Hardened and Tempered to Rockwell C59, Mirror Polished
Bolsters, Fittings: Nickel Silver
Handle: Fossilized Cretaceous Algae Gemstone
Sheath: Locking, Kydex, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Nickel Plated Steel

See more pictures, including more hardware for this knife on a special page on my site here.

Thanks!
Jay

 

[peterinct]

That algae gemstone is VERY cool material. Looks a lot like a burl of some type.

It is a pleasure seeing another of your creations.

Thanks for posting it.

Peter

 

[JayFisher]

That algae gemstone is VERY cool material. Looks a lot like a burl of some type.

It is a pleasure seeing another of your creations.

Thanks for posting it.

Peter

Pretty wild, isn't it, Peter? The lighter areas are jasper, which is hard and tough enough, but the darker areas with some translucency are chalcedony, very hard and very tough. When this stuff was originally "laid down" before it was fossilized, dinosuars ruled the earth. Neat to think of...

Thanks,
Jay

 

[peterinct]

Pretty wild, isn't it, Peter? The lighter areas are jasper, which is hard and tough enough, but the darker areas with some translucency are chalcedony, very hard and very tough. When this stuff was originally "laid down" before it was fossilized, dinosuars ruled the earth. Neat to think of...

Thanks,
Jay

It is pretty wild thinking about the age and formation of some of the materials we see. Speaking of dinosaurs, I have a few slabs of fossilized dino bone. It is also some cool looking stone, but quite porous.

Is the algae gemstone stabilized?

Peter

 

[JayFisher]

It is pretty wild thinking about the age and formation of some of the materials we see. Speaking of dinosaurs, I have a few slabs of fossilized dino bone. It is also some cool looking stone, but quite porous.

Is the algae gemstone stabilized?

Peter

No, Peter, I don't use any stabilized gemstone; it's all very solid and natural.

Sounds like you have some calcite dino bone. There's quite a bit of it out there, as well as calcite petrified wood. Most of these are not useable for knife handles, they're just too porous and not hard and tough enough. There is plenty of good hard material around, so pieces like you described are probably best used as specimens and not for handles.

Want to know if rock is solid enough for knife handles? Take a 1/4" thick slab of the stuff and slam it on a hardwood table from about a foot high. If it's going to break, it will break then and not on the knife handle.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[Lorien]

that handle shape is not one I've seen from your shop before. Have you made others with handles like that?

 

[peterinct]

No, Peter, I don't use any stabilized gemstone; it's all very solid and natural.

Sounds like you have some calcite dino bone. There's quite a bit of it out there, as well as calcite petrified wood. Most of these are not useable for knife handles, they're just too porous and not hard and tough enough. There is plenty of good hard material around, so pieces like you described are probably best used as specimens and not for handles.

Want to know if rock is solid enough for knife handles? Take a 1/4" thick slab of the stuff and slam it on a hardwood table from about a foot high. If it's going to break, it will break then and not on the knife handle.

Thanks,
Jay

My guess would be that the slabs I have would probably NOT survive that test. They are cool specimens to look at though.

Peter

 

[Dusty One]

Very nice looking work ! A real Beauty....

 

[JayFisher]

that handle shape is not one I've seen from your shop before. Have you made others with handles like that?

Hi, Lorien. Yes, I have, in my patterns page you can see a lot of this type of handle. For a smaller bladed knife, it helps to balance the blade, and gives enough shape to work into to the palm well without having a heavy, weighty rear bolster.

I hope it's warming up in the great north for you!

Jay

 

[Lorien]

it's a beautiful day today! Big race *HAMMERFEST!* on Sunday and a nice stay at a 5 star resort Saturday night with my lovely wife and daughter, (gotta love having connections).

At any rate, the shape of that handle is very nice, and I think that once I get to the point where I can have you make me a knife, it will sport a handle like this one:thumbup:.

 

[JayFisher]

it's a beautiful day today! Big race *HAMMERFEST!* on Sunday and a nice stay at a 5 star resort Saturday night with my lovely wife and daughter, (gotta love having connections).

At any rate, the shape of that handle is very nice, and I think that once I get to the point where I can have you make me a knife, it will sport a handle like this one:thumbup:.

Sweet!
My wife and her sister are back east, visiting family and friends. I am here minding the six dogs...
Lorien, it will be an honor to make you that knife one day!

Ride hard and very, very fast!

Jay