Knife: The name means bright and cheerful, and
this knife fits. This has to be one of the more beautiful knives I've
made. The Alegre tanto blade pattern served well, and I added some blade
length to bring a more balanced size to this piece. The blade is hollow
ground and mirror finished 440C high chromium martensitic stainless
steel, for the greatest longevity and value of investment with the
highest corrosion resistance of any polished stainless tool steel. The
tanto is a tough, strong geometry, with plenty of thickness behind the
point. The hollow grind is accurate, clean, crisp, and well matched,
with gentle sloping grind terminations and clean lead-off geometry. The
blade has full filework, from tip to choil, accurate, clean, and bold.
The fully tapered tang is mounted with sculpted and polished bolsters of
304 austenitic stainless steel, which I've meticulously engraved in a
medieval pattern, cleanly cut and shaded. I've invested many days on
this hand-engraving alone, and it came out beautifully, well worth the
time. The engraved design goes well with the intricate Orbicular
Amethyst gemstone handle, a colorful play of purple background and white
orbs with fine concentric rings, crystalline structures, and healed
seams throughout. This is a tough, hard stone polished to a bright
gleaming finish. The agate orbs are floating in a bed of purple amethyst
gem, beautiful, and all natural in color. I always wonder at the
millions of years of geologic process that it takes to create such a
gemstone, and the closer you look at it, the more amazing it is. Though
I've seen and have some other Orbicular Amethyst, this piece is unique
in its pattern and color and character. So there won't be another knife
like this one.
Sheath: The sheath for this knife had to be a
stunner, so I chose multiple blue-gray inlays of frog skin in black,
hand-carved 9-10 oz. leather shoulder, hand-stitched and lacquer sealed.
The color and pattern of the frog skin compliments the orbicular pattern
in the gemstone.
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