Twisted Stainless Damascus (Hehn-Damast) Fighter – Double hollow ground 220mm blade – Mammoth Ivory interframe handle (same damascus) with specific heat treatment resulting a copper color – Leather sheath
Fritz Schneider stainless damascus – Eduard Vos gold inlays – Ironwood handles
CPM 420 V – Mammoth ivory scales – Harald Schlott engraving
Original integral ring fighter, interframe mammoth handle. Stainless damascus. Early 90’s
Classic subhilt by 2 legendary makers. I assume Johnson made the blade and finish whilst Velarde made the handle and overall grinding.
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Both integral 154-CM. The amount of time it took Loveless to make each knife from a solid block of 154-CM steel is the equivalent to making three regular ones. As he once said, you should be insane to be willing to make an integral subhilt. These knives are featured in in the R.W. Loveless-Luigi Peppini book. Value approx $50k for the Wilderness, $65K for the Big Bear Subhilt…
From Weyer’s Knives Point of interest #1 (1984)