Jeff Harkins and Jerry Corbit custom automatics

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Up for sale - A custom Jeff Harkins "Shard" interframe automatic, and a custom Jerry Corbit fossil walrus ivory 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 gold plating on the inside of the backspacer (inside the handle) but it's hardly noticeable. There's also a slight hint of handling wear to the gold plating at the edge of the two innermost handle screws (visible in the photos).

The Shard was originally $1500.00 from Jeff's table. $1000.00 $950.00 shipped, and no PP fees. Sold

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 action is crisp and smooth with solid lock-up via a ti liner-lock. 8" OAL.

Withdrawn.

Both knives have been stored open in a glass display case.

I prefer cash, but I'm also interested in possible trades for custom slip-joint folders from makers like Bose, Chamblin, Ruple, Ohta, Zscherny, Halfrich, Kawamura, Shadley, etc.

Please contact me if you have any questions. If you need to see a particular detail on either knife, I'll do my best to provide high rez additional photos.

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Thanks for looking!
 
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Any interest in other autos? I have a stainless Don with abalone inserts and Norris damascus blade, Custom Runt J4(aluminum handle) with abalone/Norris damascus blade, a Nate Clark D/A, and a BM Gold Class Activator with carbon scales to name a few. Id love to add that Shard to the collection :D

Money's been tight lately, otherwise Id buy it in a heartbeat!
 
I appreciate the offer, but I'm in the throes of a pretty fierce paradigm shift that has me selling my beloved art automatics to fund some custom slippies.

Kicksprings out; backsprings in (it never ends, does it? :rolleyes:).
 
Oooh, I have another. do you like Johan Gustafson? I have an amazing Swedish Bowie with mosaic damascus?
 
The Corbit is comin' up for air again.

If you're on the fence concerning this one, throw a leg over soon. All of my other up-for-sale knives have been sold, and I'm having some serious second thoughts about letting this beauty go.
 
The Corbit is up again by dint of sheer stubbornness. :eek:

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^ That's merely a reflection on the edge of the bolster.
 
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