Noah Flipper with Lava Flow FatCarbon and Kintsugi Raden - M390

Product Description for Noah Flipper with Lava Flow FatCarbon and Kintsugi Raden - M390

Maker: Dew (Ryuichi) Hara (click to see more by this maker)
Item num: 110677
** This is handmade and one-of-a-kind **
Blade length: 3.50 in.
Cutting edge length: 3.50 in.
Total length: 8.40 in.
Blade height (at heel): 1.50 in.
Blade thickness (near bolster): 0.14 in.
Blade thickness (at midpoint): 0.14 in.
Blade thickness (near tip): 0.05 in.
Item weight: 6.40 oz.
Shipment weight: 9 oz.
Blade: M390 stainless steel with mirror polished DLC coating and kintsugi raden inlays.
Handle: Lava Flow FatCarbon inlay with kintsugi raden inlays.
Sheath: Protective pouch
Style: Linerlock flipper with ball bearing pivot
Description: Ryuichi (Dew) Hara is the son of renowned knifemaker Koji Hara. Dew grew up in a knife family and naturally got involved with the knifemaking by helping his father and learning his techniques. Koji Hara is well known for creating art knives with tremendous precision and detailed inlays. After working in his father's workshop for over 20 years and completing an apprenticeship with Anthony Marfione, Dew decided to create his own knives.
The blade is perfectly centered and can be easily deployed using the ambidextrous flipper tab. The caged ball bearing pivot gives the knife consistent action.
The blade is M390 stainless steel with a mirror polished DLC finish in the grinds and a satin finished DLC finish in the flats. M390 is a super-steel created by Bohler in Austria. It takes an incredibly sharp edge and holds onto it due to a high concentration of vanadium and chromium carbides. Its unique powder metallurgical process also promotes a uniform carbide distribution and clean steel properties, making M390 a popular steel used in surgical cutting instruments and in applications requiring a high finish.
Showing Dew's heritage, both the blade and handle scales are inlaid with kintsugi raden, combining the traditional Japanese kintsugi and raden process. Kintsugi - translating in Japanese to "'golden joinery' is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer mixed with powdered gold. The result is taking something broken and making it even more exquisite than before. Raden is a Japanese decorative technique that involves inserting mother-of-pearl or abalone shell linings into carved surfaces, dating back to the Nara period between 645-794 AD. The kintsugi raden abalone inlays are stunning!
Handle scales are Lava Flow FatCarbon with inlays that match the blade. 420 stainless steel liners are textured and jewel polished in the interior. The liners surround a polished and anodized titanium backbar. Screw hardware is blackened throughout. The stainless steel pocket clip is mounted for right-side, tip-up carry and is engraved with Dew's touchmark and "1 of 1".
The knife is accompanied by a soft protective pouch and a branded box.
Excellent work throughout!


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