Gentleman's Art Dagger by Curt Erickson - Engraving by Julie Warenski-Erickson

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Here we have another gorgeous piece from Curt Erickson, a beautiful "Gentleman's Art Dagger", 12" overall, with 6 3/4" blade of 440-C, double ground, mirror finish, contrasting with hand-rubbed satin finish flats. Handle is highly polished Tiger Iron gemstone with outstanding coloration, definitely of "presentation" quality.

The guard and ferrule are a combination of six different hand-fitted pieces, carved and polished to give the contrasting colors and finishes. The fittings are a combination of blued gunmetal steel and polished nickel silver. Approximately 1 cwt of pave-set black diamonds adorn the ferrule ring and pommel button with a larger stone in the rear of the pommel button.

The sheath is full metal nickel silver with a hot blued gunmetal button with gold inlay to match the knife fittings. The engraving is a combination of 24kt gold and platinum raised inlay by Master engraver Julie Warenski-Erickson.

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Thats all kinds of WOW! As we can expect from these very talented crafts people. Thanks for sharing the image.
Cheers Keith
 
Beautiful knife and sheath Bob. Curt and Julie are indeed world class!

I especially love the amazing handle material and the combination of
French gray engraving (or is it selective bead blasting) and regular
engraving/gold inlay on the amazing nickel silver sheath.

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)
 
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WOW is my first thought seeing that, and I am confident in saying that holding it would be MUCH more impressive than seeing the picture!

Semi-precious stones are a hobby of mine and that is some "gem" grade tiger iron. Julie ALWAYS manages to embellish things to a point that it is hard to imagine the object without the engraving.

Pleasure seeing another beautiful dagger Bob.

Thanks,
Peter
 
Lovely piece.

I'm curious why the use of nickel silver rather than actual sterling. Surely the material cost wouldn't make much or a difference on such a piece...?
 
Joss said:
Lovely piece.

I'm curious why the use of nickel silver rather than actual sterling. Surely the material cost wouldn't make much or a difference on such a piece...?
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I hope Curt can answer this. The only thing I can come up with is that silver will turn black without polishing and polishing isn't something you want to do with an engraved surface.

Marcel
 
There are some alloys of silver that don't tarnish too much. NiSi tarnishes too, and not always gracefully in my experience.
 
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