Damascus Steel Folding Knife Hand Engraved Olive Wood Handle

This Damascus steel folding knife might be the perfect for that hard to buy for person. Pocket sized, useful and anything but boring. Embellished with hand engraved scroll work, the swirled pattern of the Damascus steel and the lovely olive wood handle. Hand engraving is a process by which a highly skilled artisan makes decorative cuts into metal. The tools used for this are like tiny chisels and must be kept very sharp and at precise angles to product the shiny cuts.  Damascus steel is created by folding layers of steel with varying levels of carbon and manipulating them to create many different beautiful patterns. Damascus steel blade: 256 layered blade steel: hand engraved scrollwork handle: olive wood from Pakistan measures: approximately 6.5 in open, 3.57 in closed