Mini Coffin with Brown Linen Micarta and Spalted Black Ash Burl (IKBS)

Product Description for Mini Coffin with Brown Linen Micarta and Spalted Black Ash Burl (IKBS)

Maker: John Arnold (click to see more by this maker)
Item num: 99674
*** This is handmade and one-of-a-kind ***
Blade length: 2.60 in.
Cutting edge length: 2.40 in.
Total length: 6.20 in.
Blade height (at heel): 0.93 in.
Blade thickness (near bolster): 0.14 in.
Blade thickness (at midpoint): 0.11 in.
Blade thickness (near tip): 0.03 in.
Item weight: 2.40 oz.
Shipment weight: 4.0 oz.
Blade: Differentially finished, premium M390 stainless steel
Handle: Brown linen micarta with black ash burl inlays
Sheath: Zipper pouch
Style: IKBS folder with locking liner
Description: Growing up in a house where everybody had creative hobbies, John has always enjoyed making things with his hands. A part time knifemaker and retired architect, John Arnold finds both joy and satisfaction in designing and constructing well balanced, well proportioned and beautiful knives. The Knifemakers Guild of South Africa recognized John's skill and accepted him as a member in September 2006.
John designed this compact, reliable folder for everyday carry, yet it could easily be a cherished knife in any collection. The blade is satin finished in the grinds and mirror polished on the flats emphasizing John's clean grinds. M390 is a super-steel created by Bohler in Austria. It takes an incredibly sharp edge and holds on to it due to its high concentration of vanadium and chromium carbides. Its unique powder metallurgical process also promotes a uniform carbide distribution and clean steel properties, making M390 a popular steel used in surgical cutting instruments and in applications requiring a high finish. It offers excellent corrosion resistance due to its high concentration of chromium. The blade is wickedly sharp, with a long, pierced clip.
The blade is perfectly centered with silky smooth action -- easily opened with one hand using the discreet and ambidextrous flipper toggle. The blade uses the IKBS (Ikoma Korth Bearing System) pivot system. This mechanism, which was originally designed to fit balisong knives, uses ball bearings to create exceptional action with no blade play.
Handle scales are brown linen micarta meticulously inlaid with spalted black ash burl wood. The inlay is perfectly performed with the joints between the two materials virtually invisible. The results are stunning! The angular, domed scales are set on bronze anodized titanium liners, jewel polished on the interior. A pierced, anodized titanium pocket clip makes it easy to keep the knife close at hand. The carbon fiber backbar is inlaid with MoonGlow II (luminescent polyester). This inlay glows in the dark, making the knife easy to find even under dark conditions.
Exceptional work throughout!


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