Draco - Borka Ground - One of One
Price $1,600.00
Product Details
Blade Length 3.5
Overall Length 8.375
Closed Length 5
Weight (oz) 8.1
Source Previously owned
Additional Specs
Knife Type Tip Up Clip
Blade Details Clip Point
Handle Material Metallic
Other Details Tactical
About the Maker
Bergam, Dalibor
Dalibor Bergam lives in Croatia. "My love for knives began very early , my grandpa gave me my first knife when I was a little kid , maybe 7 or 8 years old.. ever since than I was hooked! I tried making my first knife right after finishing college of Civil Engineering. I couldn't find a job...so I thought that was the perfect time to try and build my own knife. I always wanted to make my own knife...but that proved to be harder than I thought! Funny thing is that I had absolutely no prior knowledge in metal working and things like mill , lathe or a surface grinder were all strange to me and really didn't know how they looked like let a lone how to work with them. Soon after my initial idea of making knives I got my first materials , sheet of Ti and two sheets of s30v , needless to say I screwed up titanium and s30v completely... My first tools were my grinder and a drill press... now my grinder was a piece of crap , took about one day to grind a blade pre heat treat, after I got it back from HT it would take another day to finish it . Little by little I was investing all my spare cash into new equipment and better tools... and I can tell you that you always need more tools and machines. When it comes down to why I make knives the way I do, so thick and overbuilt, I guess the simplest answer is that I just love them overbuilt! And each knife I make, I make it just as I'm making it for my self!!! I remember when I first saw a Strider.. fell in love on the first glance, soon after I got my first SMF and was blown away by the toughness and yet simplicity of the design! As you can all see Strider was a huge influence on my work, love the huge pivot and the external stop pin as in my opinion it's the absolute toughest combination for a hard use knife."
Borka Blades
Borka Blades (Sebastijan Berenji) is a highly sought after custom knife maker with a skill set that knife aficionados flock to. Sebastijan was born and raised in Yugoslavia, and became a U.S. Citizen in 2016. The company is named after his late mother, Borka. Some years into his knifemaking career, he designed a folder that was unique and that again had knife fanatics buzzing. Not only did he turn the heads of aficionados, he captured the interest of Microtech Knives CEO, Anthony Marfione, who proposed doing a collaboration.