It has a polished Swedish Damascus blade, pink conch shell scales with mammoth(?) ivory spacers and red liners, vine and thorn filework all around, gold screws, and a lilac star sapphire button set in a 14k gold bezel.
I know that this is a customized, rather than custom, knife but I'd love to know what it started its life as. The brass bolster looks like your standard picklock job with the guards ground off, but if so, he/they did a seamless job on it. The blade is well-ground with good symmetry, a nice 3D etch, and a bright polish. Any idea who made it? The backspring w/lock tab, kick spring, and liners were obviously standard issue parts before Arlin and his files worked their magic on 'em.






