Up for trade - A custom Jeff Harkins "Shard" interframe automatic, and a custom Jerry Corbit automatic dagger.
The Harkins "Shard" automatic has a 4" Devin Thomas high-contrast (non-stainless) tight-ladder pattern damascus blade. It's flat-ground and stone-polished by hand to a plate-glass flat surface with a needle-sharp point. The interframe handle is 416 stainless, textured, bead-blasted, and engraved with a cracked pattern that was first used by Jeff on this particular knife. The blade is opened with a hidden flush-inlaid trapdoor pivoting release.
The kick spring and back-spacer are integral and gold plated. The polished gold plated pivot is engraved with a miniature version of the cracked pattern. The action is absolutely solid and smooth with a strong spring and zero-play lock-up via an inlaid stainless 'liner' lock bar. 9" OAL.
The knife is mint except for a tiny mark on the inside of the backspacer (inside the handle) where the blade tip contacted the surface during some over-zealous pressure while closing on one occasion, but it's hardly noticeable.
The Jerry Corbit auto dagger has a hollow-ground hot-blued and high-polished Robert Eggerling "Braided" mosaic damascus blade with dark blue and magenta highlights. The long bolsters are hot-blued and high-polished Eggerling "Onion Skin" mosaic damascus (a pattern that he no longer makes), with a hidden pivot and a fileworked and inlaid damascus rocker-bar release. The scales are amazing thick butterscotch-colored stabilized fossil walrus ivory with a high polish, held in place with filed, gold-plated screws.
The polished ti liners are vine fileworked all around. The polished stainless backspacer is deeply fileworked and inlaid with blue/grey fossil walrus ivory inside and out. All the ivory inlays are dovetailed in place. The kick-spring has a hand-rubbed satin finish, and the action is crisp and smooth with solid lock-up via a ti liner-lock. 8" OAL.
The knife is mint with a few small superfluous handling marks on the bolsters that are extremely hard to see.
Both knives have been stored open in a glass display case and seldom fired or handled.
I'm interested in trading for custom slip-joint folders, preferably in traditional patterns with natural handle materials, but I'm open to custom slip-joints of all kinds from makers like Bose, Chamblin, Ruple, Ohta, Zscherny, Halfrich, Menefee, Kawamura, Shadley, Howser, Coats etc. "Lesser" valued slip-joints in combination are welcome - it doesn't have to be one-for-one.
Please contact Rick at zos_kia@earthlink.net if you have any trade offers or questions. If you need to see a particular detail on either knife, I'll do my best to provide additional photos.
Click on the thumbnails for larger pics - click on the photo after the jump for full size.
Thanks for looking!
The Harkins "Shard" automatic has a 4" Devin Thomas high-contrast (non-stainless) tight-ladder pattern damascus blade. It's flat-ground and stone-polished by hand to a plate-glass flat surface with a needle-sharp point. The interframe handle is 416 stainless, textured, bead-blasted, and engraved with a cracked pattern that was first used by Jeff on this particular knife. The blade is opened with a hidden flush-inlaid trapdoor pivoting release.
The kick spring and back-spacer are integral and gold plated. The polished gold plated pivot is engraved with a miniature version of the cracked pattern. The action is absolutely solid and smooth with a strong spring and zero-play lock-up via an inlaid stainless 'liner' lock bar. 9" OAL.
The knife is mint except for a tiny mark on the inside of the backspacer (inside the handle) where the blade tip contacted the surface during some over-zealous pressure while closing on one occasion, but it's hardly noticeable.
The Jerry Corbit auto dagger has a hollow-ground hot-blued and high-polished Robert Eggerling "Braided" mosaic damascus blade with dark blue and magenta highlights. The long bolsters are hot-blued and high-polished Eggerling "Onion Skin" mosaic damascus (a pattern that he no longer makes), with a hidden pivot and a fileworked and inlaid damascus rocker-bar release. The scales are amazing thick butterscotch-colored stabilized fossil walrus ivory with a high polish, held in place with filed, gold-plated screws.
The polished ti liners are vine fileworked all around. The polished stainless backspacer is deeply fileworked and inlaid with blue/grey fossil walrus ivory inside and out. All the ivory inlays are dovetailed in place. The kick-spring has a hand-rubbed satin finish, and the action is crisp and smooth with solid lock-up via a ti liner-lock. 8" OAL.
The knife is mint with a few small superfluous handling marks on the bolsters that are extremely hard to see.
Both knives have been stored open in a glass display case and seldom fired or handled.
I'm interested in trading for custom slip-joint folders, preferably in traditional patterns with natural handle materials, but I'm open to custom slip-joints of all kinds from makers like Bose, Chamblin, Ruple, Ohta, Zscherny, Halfrich, Menefee, Kawamura, Shadley, Howser, Coats etc. "Lesser" valued slip-joints in combination are welcome - it doesn't have to be one-for-one.
Please contact Rick at zos_kia@earthlink.net if you have any trade offers or questions. If you need to see a particular detail on either knife, I'll do my best to provide additional photos.
Click on the thumbnails for larger pics - click on the photo after the jump for full size.
Thanks for looking!
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