Pocket Knife - Lancet 'Star Gaze'
EDITION OF 25 PIECES
The Lancet 'Star Gaze' features a beautiful frame in 24K gold koftgari (the ancient Indian art of inlaying gold in tool steel), inlaid with the ring-cut of a 10,000 year-old fossil Woolly Mammoth tusk. The blade is our exclusive 'Wave' damascus with a VG-10 core. The one-hand button lock and the thumb stud are set with spinel gemstones. Sleek, elegant, refined, and comfortable in the hand and to the eye, the Lancet defines the essential gentleman’s folder in the modern world. The ‘Star Gaze’ features some of the exotic materials, artistry, and hand-forged metals that are the hallmark of William Henry's collections; a stunning personality statement to be used and worn for a lifetime, before handing it down to another generation.
FEATURES & SPECS
One-hand button lock system
Leather carrying case
Shipped in an elegant wood presentation box
Dimensions:
Blade 2.75" (69.9mm)
Handle 3.63" (92.2mm)
Overall open 6.38" (162mm)
EDITION OF 25 PIECES
The Lancet 'Star Gaze' features a beautiful frame in 24K gold koftgari (the ancient Indian art of inlaying gold in tool steel), inlaid with the ring-cut of a 10,000 year-old fossil Woolly Mammoth tusk. The blade is our exclusive 'Wave' damascus with a VG-10 core. The one-hand button lock and the thumb stud are set with spinel gemstones. Sleek, elegant, refined, and comfortable in the hand and to the eye, the Lancet defines the essential gentleman’s folder in the modern world. The ‘Star Gaze’ features some of the exotic materials, artistry, and hand-forged metals that are the hallmark of William Henry's collections; a stunning personality statement to be used and worn for a lifetime, before handing it down to another generation.
FEATURES & SPECS
One-hand button lock system
Leather carrying case
Shipped in an elegant wood presentation box
Dimensions:
Blade 2.75" (69.9mm)
Handle 3.63" (92.2mm)
Overall open 6.38" (162mm)
EDITION OF 25 PIECES
The Lancet 'Star Gaze' features a beautiful frame in 24K gold koftgari (the ancient Indian art of inlaying gold in tool steel), inlaid with the ring-cut of a 10,000 year-old fossil Woolly Mammoth tusk. The blade is our exclusive 'Wave' damascus with a VG-10 core. The one-hand button lock and the thumb stud are set with spinel gemstones. Sleek, elegant, refined, and comfortable in the hand and to the eye, the Lancet defines the essential gentleman’s folder in the modern world. The ‘Star Gaze’ features some of the exotic materials, artistry, and hand-forged metals that are the hallmark of William Henry's collections; a stunning personality statement to be used and worn for a lifetime, before handing it down to another generation.
FEATURES & SPECS
One-hand button lock system
Leather carrying case
Shipped in an elegant wood presentation box
Dimensions:
Blade 2.75" (69.9mm)
Handle 3.63" (92.2mm)
Overall open 6.38" (162mm)
FOSSIL MAMMOTH TUSK
Literally the ring section of the fossil tusk of a Woolly Mammoth that walked the Earth at least 10,000 years ago.
Modern humans coexisted with woolly mammoths during the Upper Paleolithic period when they entered Europe from Africa between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago. Prior to this, Neanderthals had coexisted with mammoths during the Middle Paleolithic and up to that time. Woolly mammoths were very important to Ice Age humans, and their survival may have depended on these animals in some areas.
The woolly mammoth is the next most depicted animal in Ice Age art after horses and bisons, and these images were produced between 35 and 11.500 years ago. Today, more than five hundred depictions of woolly mammoths are known, in media ranging from carvings and cave paintings located in 46 caves in Russia, France and Spain, to sculptures and engravings made from different materials.
William Henry's fossil Mammoth tusk is harvested in Alaska and Siberia, often from underwater. Itis a rare and mesmerizing material, a living testimony of the dawn of Mankind.
WAVE DAMASCUS
William Henry's patent-pending Wave Damascus features a core in ZDP-189 (HRC 67) or VG-10 (cryo-tempered to a hardness of HRC 61) for superior sharpness and edge retention over time. The core of the blade is clad with alternating layers of stainless steel and nickel silver. The billet, 45 layers in all, is patterned with a custom die to create the undulating waves that emerge across the bevels of the blade. This material can be dark-etched for contrast, or etched and re-polished for a more subtle pattern.
SPINEL
Natural spinel is a gemstone that has become a great favorite with gem dealers and gem collectors; one might even say that spinel is for gemstone connoisseurs only.
It is a hard glassy mineral occurring as octahedral crystals of variable color and consisting chiefly of magnesium and aluminum oxides.
Some spinels are among the most famous gemstones in the world: among them are the Black Prince's Ruby and the "Timur Ruby" in the British Crown Jewels, and the "Côte de Bretagne", formerly from the French Crown jewels.
KOFTGARI
Koftgari is the name for fine gold (and/or silver) patterns inlaid into parkerized steel. This ancient Indian technique, done entirely by hand, involves creating a very fine cross-hatch grid in the steel and then burnishing 24K gold (and/or silver) into a pattern that is bound by the cross-hatch. Parkerizing involves soaking the steel in a boiling solution of salts to oxidize the steel a deep brown/blue. Beautiful and timeless, koftgari is nearly a lost art.
William Henry's koftgari comes from 2 small villages in India, home of the very few Indian artisans that still master this technique.