Galaxy Traditional Bootshape Backlock Folder
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Gold inlay and engraving M315 Stainless Steel - engraving by Julien Michal
Tactical Flipper Collection
Left:
Category: Tactical Flipper
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Black Oxidised Zirconium
Handle: Lightning strike carbon fibre
Right:
Category: Tactical Flipper
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Damasteel
Handle: Lightning strike carbon fibre
Barrel Liner Lock
Category: Barrel
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand polished carving (M315 Stainless Steel)
Traditional Backlock with Pietersite
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: M315 Stainless Steel interframing Pietersite (rare gemstone from Namibia)
Fittings:
- 18 carat gold bale
- gold inlay and engraving by Julien Marchal
Hand carved tactical flipper.
Category: Tactical flipper
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand polished M315 Stainless steel.
Liners: Grade V Titanium (Ti6Al4V)
Mechanism: Liner lock with Ceramic bearing balls for pivot & indent.
Backlock with pietersite inlay
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Medium sized traditional backlock interframe folder
Blade, spring and stop: Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel
Handle: M315 stainless steel inlaid with 4 *Pietersite gemstone inlays per side
* Pietersite is an extremely rare hard (Moh 7.2) gemstone from Namibia
Backlock in boot knife shape with lapis lazuli inlay
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Large traditional backlock in the shape of a boot knife
Blade, spring and stop: Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel
Handle: M315 stainless steel inlaid with 4 Lapis Lazuli Inlays and 2 round Gibeon meteorite inlays surrounded by fine gold
Pins in the blade, spring and the gold around the Meteorite inlays is pure 24 Carat
Barrel PrismArt Liner Lock
Category: Barrel
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand polished PrismArt carving
Fittings: Solid 18 Carat gold screws
Thiers blacklip mother of pearl
Category: Thiers
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Hand carved 416 stainless steel
Handle: Blacklip mother of pearl
Concorde damasteel
Category: Concorde
Blade and Handle: Heat-treated Damasteel
Pins: 18 carat gold
Ball release, blacklip pearl handle
Category: Ball-release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Engraved and fine gold inlay in Titanium
Handle: Polynesian Blacklip mother of pearl
Traditional Backlock – PrismArt
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand polished PrismArt carving
Fittings: Solid 18 Carat gold screws and pins
Concorde – Cape Damascus
Category: Concorde
Blade: Spirograph carbon damascus by Ettore Gianferrari
Handle: Spirograph carbon damascus by Ettore Gianferrari
Thiers mammoth & meteorite
Category: Thiers
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Mammoth ivory
Cork screw and ball release ivory
Left
Category: Other – Cork screw, hand forged the traditional French way
Screw: Damasteel
Fittings: Sterling silver
Handle: Hippopotamus tusk
Right
Category: Ball release
Model: Large ball release folder
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Legal Ivory – 194o’s piano key
Artwork: Scrimshaw by Hilton Purvis
450# Alphen Damascus
Category: Liner Lock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Alphen Damascus
Fittings:
- Solid 18 Carat gold pins,
- Lock spring grade V titanium (Ti6Al4V),
- Indent ball - Silicon nitride
Ball release mother of pearl gold inlay
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Engraved Titanium with fine gold inlay
Handle: Mother of pearl
Backlock meteorite
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 416 Stainless steel interframing 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Backlock meteorite & gold inlay
Category: Traditional backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Titanium, interframing 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite with fine gold inlay.
Miscellaneous
Top
Category: Thiers
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Mammoth ivory
Bottom
Category: Ball-release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Starburst carbon damascus by Ettore Gianferrari
Handle: Mother of pearl
HBP - Damasteel
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Damasteel with a concealed pivot pin and 18 carat gold pins
HBP – Hand-carved SS (416) Handle
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand-carved 416 stainless steel
This model has a concealed pivot pin originally developed for solid Gibeon meteorite handles.
Ball release liner lock
Category: Ball release
Model: Large ball release folder
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Legal Ivory – 194o’s piano key
Artwork: Scrimshaw by Hilton Purvis
Ball release liner lock
Category: Ball release
Model: Large ball release folder
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Legal Ivory – 194o’s piano key
Artwork: Scrimshaw by Hilton Purvis
Miscellaneous
Top
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Hand engraved and gold inlaid Titanium
Handle: Blacklip mother of pearl
Middle
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand carved 416 stainless steel
Bottom
Category: Traditional Backlock interframing Blacklip pearl
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Blacklip mother of pearl with gold inlay
Orion's Belt Backlock
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 416 Stainless Steel Interframing 4.6 billion year old Gibeon Metorite, 3 diamonds set in 18 carat gold
Gibeon Metorite: Miscellaneous
Left:
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite with aconcealedpivot pin and 18 carat gold pins
Right:
Category: Thiers
Blade: Damasteel (coloured)
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Mammoth Tusk
Miscellaneous Damasteel
Left:
Category: Concorde
Blade and Handle: Heat-treated Damasteel
Pins: 18 carat gold
Right:
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand-carved 416 stainless steel
This model has a concealed pivot pin originally developed for solid Gibeon meteorite handles.
Miscellaneous Gold Inlay
Left:
Category: Ball release Liner Lock
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Gold inlay 416SS, silicon nitride release ball
Handle: Goldlip Mother of Pearl
Fittings:
- Liners grade V titanium (Ti6Al4V),
- Indent ball - Silicon nitride
Right:
Left:
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 416 SS interframing 4.6 billion year old Gibeon Meteorite
Fittings:
- Gold inlay by Armin Winkler
- 18 carat gold bale
Miscellaneous
Top
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Damascus by Ettore Gianferrari
Handle: Coral
Bottom
Category: HBP with concealed pivot pin
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand carved 416 stainless steel
Artwork: Lily carving
Backlock with pietersite inlay variations
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Large sized traditional backlock
Blade, back spacer and stop: **Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel. The blade has 5 gold pins where the nail nick would be.
Handle: 416 stainless steel inter-framing 2 *Pietersite gemstone inlays per side and with 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite surrounded by an inlay of fine gold each side.
** All pieces have been hardened then cryogenically treated in liquid Nitrogen and double tempered. This gives the blade unsurpassed edge holding and strength.
* Pietersite is an extremely rare hard (Moh 7.2) gemstone from Namibia
There are no visible rivets or pins at all , it has a 5mm bronze pivot internally blind hole threaded into the handles so the pivot is not visible externally.
Backlock with pietersite inlay variations
Above
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Large sized traditional backlock
Blade, back spacer and stop: **Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel. The blade has 5 gold pins where the nail nick would be.
Handle: 416 stainless steel inter-framing 2 *Pietersite gemstone inlays per side and with 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite surrounded by an inlay of fine gold each side.
Below
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Medium sized traditional backlock
Blade, back spacer and stop: **Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel
Handle: 416 stainless steel inter-framing 1 *Pietersite gemstone inlays per side and with basket weave engraving with gold inlay work by Julien Marchal
** All pieces have been hardened then cryogenically treated in liquid Nitrogen and double tempered. This gives the blade unsurpassed edge holding and strength.
* Pietersite is an extremely rare hard (Moh 7.2) gemstone from Namibia
There are no visible rivets or pins at all , it has a 5mm bronze pivot internally blind hole threaded into the handles so the pivot is not visible externally.
Carbon Fibre Selection
Above
Category: Ball release
Model: Model ”27″
Blade: RWL-34
Handle: Carbon fibre
Below
Model: “SLIMVUBU”
Blade: 3.5mm Nitrobe-77
Handle: Lightning strike carbon fibre
Ball release with damasteel and carbon fibre
Category: Small ball release folder
Blade and bolster: Damasteel
Handle: Lightning strike carbon fibre
Small ball with pietersite and meteorite
Category: Ball release
Model: Small ball release folder
Blade and Backspacer: Heat treated Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Pietersite a very rare gemstone also from Namibia
HBP – Gibeon Meteorite
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 4.6 billion year old meteorite
The pivot is not visible being a 5mm bronze pivot internally blind hole threaded into the handles so the pivot is not visible externally. Specially developed so that the meteorite is not visually flawed by a visible pivot.
Length: 92mm closed and 163mm open
Awards: received the knife of the year award in 2005 Solingen Germany for this system.This is also a true collector special.
Miscellaneous
Top
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Medium sized traditional backlock interframe folder
Blade, back spacer and stop: **Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel
Handle: 416 stainless steel inter-framing 1 *Pietersite gemstone inlays per side and with basket weave engraving with gold inlay work by Julien Marchal
** All pieces have been hardened then cryogenically treated in liquid Nitrogen and double tempered. This gives the blade unsurpassed edge holding and strength.
* Pietersite is an extremely rare hard (Moh 7.2) gemstone from Namibia
2nd from top
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 4.6 billion year old meteorite
The pivot is not visible being a 5mm bronze pivot internally blind hole threaded into the handles so the pivot is not visible externally. Specially developed so that the meteorite is not visually flawed by a visible pivot.
Length: 92mm closed and 163mm open
Awards: received the knife of the year award in 2005 Solingen Germany for this system.This is also a true collector special.
3rd from top
Category: Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Pietersite inlay
4th from top
Category: Small ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Gibeon Meteorite
Handle: Pietersite
2nd from bottom
Category: Small ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Gibeon Meteorite
Handle: Mammoth ivory with scrimshaw
Bottom
Category: “Shirt pocket model”
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Carved 416 interframing Lapis Lazuli from Afganistan.
Three small Ball release knives
Top
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Hand carved sterling silver
Handle: Ebony
Artwork: Eagle engraving on bolster
Middle
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Mammoth Ivory
Bottom
Category: Ball release
Blade: RWL-34 Steel
Bolster: Textured anodised Titanium
Handle: Wild olive root
450# All Damasteel
Category: 450# Liner Lock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Damasteel
Fittings:
- Lock spring grade V titanium (Ti6Al4V),
- Indent ball - Silicon nitride
450# All Damasteel
Category: 450# Liner Lock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Damasteel
Fittings:
- Lock spring grade V titanium (Ti6Al4V),
- Indent ball - Silicon nitride
Additional Information:
- Commisioned by James Purdey & Sons London
Galaxy Traditional Bootshape Backlock Folder
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Gold inlay and engraving M315 Stainless Steel - engraving by Julien Michal
Tactical Flipper Collection
Left:
Category: Tactical Flipper
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Black Oxidised Zirconium
Handle: Lightning strike carbon fibre
Right:
Category: Tactical Flipper
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Damasteel
Handle: Lightning strike carbon fibre
Barrel Liner Lock
Category: Barrel
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand polished carving (M315 Stainless Steel)
Traditional Backlock with Pietersite
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: M315 Stainless Steel interframing Pietersite (rare gemstone from Namibia)
Fittings:
- 18 carat gold bale
- gold inlay and engraving by Julien Marchal
Hand carved Tactical Flipper
Category: Tactical flipper
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand polished M315 Stainless steel.
Liners: Grade V Titanium (Ti6Al4V)
Mechanism: Liner lock with Ceramic bearing balls for pivot & indent.
Backlock with pietersite inlay
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Medium sized traditional backlock interframe folder
Blade, spring and stop: Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel
Handle: M315 stainless steel inlaid with 4 *Pietersite gemstone inlays per side
* Pietersite is an extremely rare hard (Moh 7.2) gemstone from Namibia
Backlock in boot knife shape with lapis lazuli inlay
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Large traditional backlock in the shape of a boot knife
Blade, spring and stop: Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel
Handle: M315 stainless steel inlaid with 4 Lapis Lazuli Inlays and 2 round Gibeon meteorite inlays surrounded by fine gold
Pins in the blade, spring and the gold around the Meteorite inlays is pure 24 Carat
Barrel PrismArt Liner Lock
Category: Barrel
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand polished PrismArt carving
Fittings: Solid 18 Carat gold screws
Thiers blacklip mother of pearl
Category: Thiers
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Hand carved 416 stainless steel
Handle: Blacklip mother of pearl
Concorde damasteel
Category: Concorde
Blade and Handle: Heat-treated Damasteel
Pins: 18 carat gold
Ball release, blacklip pearl handle
Category: Ball-release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Engraved and fine gold inlay in Titanium
Handle: Polynesian Blacklip mother of pearl
Traditional Backlock – PrismArt
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand polished PrismArt carving
Fittings: Solid 18 Carat gold screws and pins
Concorde – Cape Damascus
Category: Concorde
Blade: Spirograph carbon damascus by Ettore Gianferrari
Handle: Spirograph carbon damascus by Ettore Gianferrari
Thiers mammoth & meteorite
Category: Thiers
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Mammoth ivory
Cork screw and ball release ivory
Left
Category: Other – Cork screw, hand forged the traditional French way
Screw: Damasteel
Fittings: Sterling silver
Handle: Hippopotamus tusk
Right
Category: Ball release
Model: Large ball release folder
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Legal Ivory – 194o’s piano key
Artwork: Scrimshaw by Hilton Purvis
450# Alphen Damascus
Category: Liner Lock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Alphen Damascus
Fittings:
- Solid 18 Carat gold pins,
- Lock spring grade V titanium (Ti6Al4V),
- Indent ball - Silicon nitride
Ball release mother of pearl gold inlay
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Engraved Titanium with fine gold inlay
Handle: Mother of pearl
Backlock meteorite
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 416 Stainless steel interframing 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Backlock meteorite & gold inlay
Category: Traditional backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Titanium, interframing 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite with fine gold inlay.
Miscellaneous
Top
Category: Thiers
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Mammoth ivory
Bottom
Category: Ball-release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Starburst carbon damascus by Ettore Gianferrari
Handle: Mother of pearl
HBP Damasteel
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Damasteel
HBP – Hand-carved SS (416) Handle
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand-carved 416 stainless steel
This model has a concealed pivot pin originally developed for solid Gibeon meteorite handles.
Ball release liner lock
Category: Ball release
Model: Large ball release folder
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Legal Ivory – 194o’s piano key
Artwork: Scrimshaw by Hilton Purvis
Miscellaneous
Top
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Hand engraved and gold inlaid Titanium
Handle: Blacklip mother of pearl
Middle
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand carved 416 stainless steel
Bottom
Category: Traditional Backlock interframing Blacklip pearl
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Blacklip mother of pearl with gold inlay
Orion's Belt Backlock
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 416 Stainless Steel Interframing 4.6 billion year old Gibeon Metorite, 3 diamonds set in 18 carat gold
Gibeon Metorite: Miscellaneous
Left:
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite with aconcealedpivot pin and 18 carat gold pins
Right:
Category: Thiers
Blade: Damasteel (coloured)
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Mammoth Tusk
Miscellaneous Damasteel
Left:
Category: Concorde
Blade and Handle: Heat-treated Damasteel
Pins: 18 carat gold
Right:
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand-carved 416 stainless steel
This model has a concealed pivot pin originally developed for solid Gibeon meteorite handles.
Miscellaneous Gold Inlay
Left:
Category: Ball release Liner Lock
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Gold inlay 416SS, silicon nitride release ball
Handle: Goldlip Mother of Pearl
Fittings:
- Liners grade V titanium (Ti6Al4V),
- Indent ball - Silicon nitride
Right:
Category: Traditional Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 416 SS interframing 4.6 billion year old Gibeon Meteorite
Fittings:
- Gold inlay by Armin Winkler
- 18 carat gold bale
Miscellaneous
Top
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Damascus by Ettore Gianferrari
Handle: Coral
Bottom
Category: HBP with concealed pivot pin
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Hand carved 416 stainless steel
Artwork: Lily carving
Backlock with pietersite inlay variations
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Large sized traditional backlock
Blade, back spacer and stop: **Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel. The blade has 5 gold pins where the nail nick would be.
Handle: 416 stainless steel inter-framing 2 *Pietersite gemstone inlays per side and with 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite surrounded by an inlay of fine gold each side.
** All pieces have been hardened then cryogenically treated in liquid Nitrogen and double tempered. This gives the blade unsurpassed edge holding and strength.
* Pietersite is an extremely rare hard (Moh 7.2) gemstone from Namibia
There are no visible rivets or pins at all , it has a 5mm bronze pivot internally blind hole threaded into the handles so the pivot is not visible externally.
Carbon Fibre Selection
Above
Category: Ball release
Model: Model ”27″
Blade: RWL-34
Handle: Carbon fibre
Below
Model: “SLIMVUBU”
Blade: 3.5mm Nitrobe-77
Handle: Lightning strike carbon fibre
Ball release with damasteel and carbon fibre
Category: Small ball release folder
Blade and bolster: Damasteel
Handle: Lightning strike carbon fibre
Small ball with pietersite and meteorite
Category: Ball release
Model: Small ball release folder
Blade and Backspacer: Heat treated Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Pietersite a very rare gemstone also from Namibia
HBP - Gibeon Meteorite
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 4.6 billion year old meteorite
The pivot is not visible being a 5mm bronze pivot internally blind hole threaded into the handles so the pivot is not visible externally. Specially developed so that the meteorite is not visually flawed by a visible pivot.
Length: 92mm closed and 163mm open
Awards: received the knife of the year award in 2005 Solingen Germany for this system.This is also a true collector special.
Miscellaneous
Top
Category: Traditional Backlock
Model: Medium sized traditional backlock interframe folder
Blade, back spacer and stop: **Heat treated stain resisting Damasteel
Handle: 416 stainless steel inter-framing 1 *Pietersite gemstone inlays per side and with basket weave engraving with gold inlay work by Julien Marchal
** All pieces have been hardened then cryogenically treated in liquid Nitrogen and double tempered. This gives the blade unsurpassed edge holding and strength.
* Pietersite is an extremely rare hard (Moh 7.2) gemstone from Namibia
2nd from top
Category: HBP
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: 4.6 billion year old meteorite
The pivot is not visible being a 5mm bronze pivot internally blind hole threaded into the handles so the pivot is not visible externally. Specially developed so that the meteorite is not visually flawed by a visible pivot.
Length: 92mm closed and 163mm open
Awards: received the knife of the year award in 2005 Solingen Germany for this system.This is also a true collector special.
3rd from top
Category: Backlock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Pietersite inlay
4th from top
Category: Small ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Gibeon Meteorite
Handle: Pietersite
2nd from bottom
Category: Small ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Gibeon Meteorite
Handle: Mammoth ivory with scrimshaw
Bottom
Category: “Shirt pocket model”
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Carved 416 interframing Lapis Lazuli from Afganistan.
Three small Ball release knives
Top
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: Hand carved sterling silver
Handle: Ebony
Artwork: Eagle engraving on bolster
Middle
Category: Ball release
Blade: Damasteel
Bolster: 4.6 billion year old Gibeon meteorite
Handle: Mammoth Ivory
Bottom
Category: Ball release
Blade: RWL-34 Steel
Bolster: Textured anodised Titanium
Handle: Wild olive root
450# All Damasteel
Category: 450# Liner Lock
Blade: Damasteel
Handle: Damasteel
Fittings:
- Lock spring grade V titanium (Ti6Al4V),
- Indent ball - Silicon nitride