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Original price $6,995.00
Price $3,600.00
This Lockback Dagger Automatic Knife by Ron Best features a Damacus blade with false top edge, carved ricasso with gold inlays. The handle has carved stainless steel frame with fulted gold inlays, Damasteel inlays and tortoise inlays, stainless steel backspacer. The button is on the spine of the knife. #72 inside the frame. Excellent condition. Nice action, lockup and blade seating.
Ron said he would charge $8000 for a similar knife today.
Blade Length 3
Overall Length 8
Closed Length 5
Weight (oz) 5.4
Source Previously owned
Blade Material Damascus
Blade Details Dagger, Spear Point
Handle Material Metallic, Leather & Skins
"I became interested in knives when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I would grind Dad’s wrenches up trying to make a knife. Many years ago, I made a meat cleaver for my dad and enjoyed the process so much that I decided to intensify the pursuit. I have always loved to work with my hands using metal or wood. I was contacted by a collector who wanted an integral knife. I made the knife for him and it turned out great. I don’t use CNC machinery when making my knives. In the year 2007, I became a probationary member of The Knife Maker’s Guild. While at my first Knifemakers’ Guild Show, I won the prestigious W.W. Cronk Award with a D guard fighter with ivory handle. I work very hard to construct my knives and I perfect my knife making skills with the finest materials available and adorn them with engraving of Master Jere Davidson. Later, I received my second Cronk award at the 2008, 25th and “final” year of the W. W. Cronk Art Knife Show in Florida with a black lip pearl fighter. These awards have been instrumental in my continued growth as a knife maker. I always work very hard to obtain non-ordinary construction and I place the utmost importance on perfection on my knife making skills."
