Overview
This knife titled "Duller Shade of Gloss" by Thomas Lofgren features a Henry Hilden multi-bar Mosaic Damascus blade with fileworked spine and false top edge, the blade was ground and designed by Tomas Lofgren, .175" blade stock and 1.262" blade depth, hidden tang construction. The handle is made of fossil mammoth ivory, wenge wood, muskox, black/silver spacers, has a mammoth ivory ball set in the butt. Comes with a Scandinavian style brown leather sheath and nylon zippered case. New from maker!
Blade: The blade steal is forged by the Swedish bladesmith Henty Hilden. Blade grinded and designed by Thomas. Steal is carbon Damascus in 3 bars.
Handle: The handle has a front piece of North Sea mammoth tusk ivory with an age of at least ten thousand years. The rear piece in same mammoth ivory., The light piece in middle of handle is a piece of the forehead bone from Musk ox. The wood in handle is Wenge. After the handle has been shaped it has been split and the wood blasted. Then finally mounted. After blasting the structure of the wood is highlighted which creates beautiful contrasts to other high-gloss surfaces on other materials in the handle. The 3 not blasted pieces has some file work. On the rear part there is a cabochon, made of ivory, inserted.
Sheath: Sheath made of shaft leather. Some pauted pattern in the leather. Colored by hand and with air brush