Pralines and Cream Knife

This is my all-time favorite knife. I named it Pralines & Cream. I used a forged (as opposed to ground) Damascus blank from Damascus USA in the shape I like best -- a sweeping arc with a drop point and a nice tapered tang. I asked Miles Martin up in Alaska to pick me out some mammoth ivory in a honey or almond color cause I wanted the metal to be copper. The ivory has tiny traces of that characteristic mammoth-blue. The hilt and bolster are copper, and the spacers are cocobolo. It is 8 1/2" long with a 4" blade, weighs eight ounces. Yes, I know copper and brass tarnish faster than the nickel-silver I sometimes use, but this particular copper tarnishes in a gorgeous way that makes it look like it's being heated.

This knife has a wonderful balance and feel to it, and smoothness that my photography can't capture.