Ladron
"Ladron" Custom Knife
- Size: Length overall: 13.375" (33.9 cm), Blade
Length: 7.5" (19.1 cm), Thickness: .172" (4.4 mm)
- Weight: Knife: 15.0 oz. (425 grams) Sheath: 5.6 oz. (159
grams)
- Blade: O1 High Carbon Tungsten-Vanadium Tool
Steel, Hardened and Tempered to Rockwell C59, mirror polished,
hot blued
- Bolsters, Fittings: Hand-Engraved 304 Austenitic Stainless
Steel
- Handle: Nebula Stone Gemstone
- Sheath: Black Stingray Skin Inlaid in
hand-carved Leather Shoulder
- Knife: The Ladron pattern is named for a
singular haunting mountain in south-central New Mexico, a place that
is rumored to be the resting place of several buried treasures. The
name Ladron is Spanish for "The Thief" and no modern historian knows
how it got the name. My Ladron pattern is inspired by this
mysterious place. This particular custom Ladron has an elegantly
shaped bowie style blade, mirror polished and hot-blued for a rich
and glassy black finish throughout. The hollow grinds are deep and
well-matched, and the clip at the point has a clean swage to
set off the blade geometry. The blade has a full tapered tang and is
fully fileworked with a regular, light, and clean pattern and the
spine is cold-blued to match. The handle is extremely rare Nebula
Stone gemstone, which comes from one source in the world and is a
newly discovered gem of Acmite, Riebeckite,
Anorthoclase, Zircon, and Quartz,
never before known on this planet! This is actually the second knife
ever made with this handle material (see the
first knife in the world ever made
with a Nebula Stone handle here), and the very first custom knife
to have a Nebula Stone handle. The Nebula Stone gem
is tough, heavy, and has a bright lustrous polish, with bright green
nebula-like orbs floating in a black space with rings of green
ribbons shaped like the material that explodes from new stars.
This knife has two pairs of Nebula Stone handle scales tightly
bedded between dovetailed bolsters of zero-care high nickel, high
chromium 304 austenitic stainless steel bolsters, which I
meticulously hand-engraved with a Nebula-like pattern of
swirling, exploding bodies to keep with the flavor and appearance of
the gemstone knife handle. The knife feels comfortable and smooth in
the hand, with the balance point just at the sculpted forefinger
groove.
- Sheath: My client requested one of my display
type knife sheaths; this one is heavy 9-10 oz. leather
shoulder, hand-carved and tooled, dyed green, and has nice panel
inlays of glassy black Stingray skin, even in the formed belt loop. The sheath is hand-stitched with polyester
sinew, lacquered and sealed, and has a nickel plated steel snap
for flap retention that displays some of the beautiful features of
the knife, while protecting the point and the razor edge.
- A truly unique and stunning knife.
Thanks, D. T.!
I have to confess I was so smitten by your site's Nebula stone Ladron picture that I had to show
it to someone who would appreciate its beauty. I e-mailed it to Ron and
Karen with a note that I think of you as Vulcan in his smithy creating
art objects for the ancient gods, but with a few slipping away to us
lesser mortals. They in-turn think of you as a genius in your medium.
Short version, I absolutely love the beauty, feel, grip, balance,
edge, carving..., of the Nebula Ladron. The sheath for the knife is
drop-dead gorgeous . You are truly today's genius in creating knives for
aesthetically pleasing beauty or for combat.
Believe me, as a patron, I am grateful to own my Jay
Fisher Collection at these prices!
Best regards,
D.T.
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