Exclusive knife on personal wishes | N&L Knives - изготовление авторских ножей

Several months of manual labor, working with the best materials from different parts of the world.

A blade made of mosaic damascus Nebula from Bertie Rietveld (South Africa), bolsters made of 999.9 silver with the use of three-dimensional metal carving and subsequent processing, a tusk of a centuries-old mammoth, as well as several months of hard work allowed us to create this wonderful, unique project “Golden Lion” and thus take another step forward.

To mastery through practice

During the workshop we were visited several times by the thought to create a knife in an exclusive performance using various techniques of metal carving and with some unusual steel, such as our friend Bertie Rietveld. Although, everything should be logical – create and create, but we were waiting for a special moment. And this very moment has come.

Experimenting with different forms of blades we decided to move away from the classic Drop Point and bring your vision to the performance. Naturally, the blade was polished completely in the mirror on the hands, and the combination of the new shape, the mosaic “Nebula” from Bertie Rietveld and our new method of metal development gave a very interesting result.

The tusk of a centuries-old mammoth

Special attention should be paid to the handle of the knife. Everyone knows that working with bone is a very complex, responsible process and it does not allow mistakes. It is doubly responsible if it is an expensive bone of a centuries-old mammoth. It has a non-uniform density, so when processing it is worth having a good portion of patience.

Hand-engraved silver

The key point of the exclusivity of the Golden Lion is the bolsters made of silver. Everything was done in the best traditions of handicraft work. They melted and cast silver into solid ingots, gave shape to the future element of the knife, constantly checking the accuracy and fit of all parts. A separate stage, which took more than a month, was the hand engraving of the lions. To give a more realistic image, silver was also patinated according to craft recipes, and the manes of the lions were covered with a small amount of real gold.