11" square button Latamas switchblade. All the steel was hand
forged by Jerry Rados in Turkish twist Damascus. One knife was
twisted "left/right/left" and the other twisted "right/left/right" so that
they are a mirrored duplicate of each other. Scale material is
mammoth bark ivory with midnight blues, dark greens, some black and tans with a carmel base color. All 4 pieces were cut from the same side of mammoth tusk. One knife has flat guard bolsters and a flat style vintage grind on the blade while the other has standard style round guards with swept grinds on the blade. Both knives have been vintage profiled with all the edges melted and peeled. Full wrap-around filework on the .090" Damascus liners and Damascus spring. Slide safeties are on the sides of the scales, to the right of the square buttons and are also Damascus. All the steel was taken up to a full mirror polish before etching and then hot salt bluing. Even the screws the knives were built with were hot salt blued. Both knives are "proto-types" as they are the first Damascus square button Latamas produced by Burnknives.
As shown: $5000 each piece.