This originally started as a call to CRK (Bridget) about my desire to have a black-lip pearl Mnandi. She said I was about the 10th person to call and request such a knife, and immediately handed me over to Chris.
After a short dissertation on why he hasn't yet figured out how to achieve a pearl inlay based on the way that they machine the inlay material, I hit a dead end. So I went my next choice in lustrous handle material, horn. So here is a scan of the one and only (for now at least) Horn Mnandi. The horn is Cape Buffalo Horn. Almost jet black with minor streaky hints of brown and a few streaks of gold. It glows like glass (or celluloid) and led my wife to suggest what a great birthday present it would make for her.
I hope the scan conveys even a little how gorgeous the horn is.
By the way, the desire for a dark, lustrous inlay material came from a love of fine pens. I have a Waterman with a burgundy laquer barrel and a gold clip. I just felt that the glossy inlay was more suited to completing the illusion of a fine pen-in-the-pocket.
After a short dissertation on why he hasn't yet figured out how to achieve a pearl inlay based on the way that they machine the inlay material, I hit a dead end. So I went my next choice in lustrous handle material, horn. So here is a scan of the one and only (for now at least) Horn Mnandi. The horn is Cape Buffalo Horn. Almost jet black with minor streaky hints of brown and a few streaks of gold. It glows like glass (or celluloid) and led my wife to suggest what a great birthday present it would make for her.
I hope the scan conveys even a little how gorgeous the horn is.
By the way, the desire for a dark, lustrous inlay material came from a love of fine pens. I have a Waterman with a burgundy laquer barrel and a gold clip. I just felt that the glossy inlay was more suited to completing the illusion of a fine pen-in-the-pocket.
