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Philip Booth Custom Model 18 Minnow, SG-2 San Mai, Red Lava Flow Fat Carbon.
This is a Philip Booth Custom Model 18 Minnow. This Minnow has a SG-2 San Mai steel blade and lockbar. This custom knife has Gun Blued 1018 steel bolsters with a 1095 steel back spring and 410 stainless steel liners. The handle scales are Red Lava Flow Fat Carbon. This fantastic little custom comes with a red knife pouch. Shift The Bottom Of Front Scale towards the Gut and the Back Scale Towards the spine to deploy this scale release .
Philip Booth comes to knifemaking through the fine arts. He is an award winning painter, printmaker and knifemaker. At 10 years old he made his first knife by hammering a 16 penny spike and wrapping the handle with tape. Not much of a knife but at 10 years, a huge accomplishment. Philip sold his first knife in 1991 and is now a full-time maker and voting member of The Knifemakers' Guild. All the knives are made entirely by hand using the metal reduction methods on a one-at-a-time basis. This gives the maker ultimate control and makes each knife unique. Materials for each knife are laid out before each knife is begun, much like a painter laying out his pallet. Knives can be designed around a particular piece of pearl or ivory, and many take advantage of a certain pattern in the Damascus steel. In this way close attention can be paid to pattern, texture and color.
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This is a Philip Booth Custom Model 18 Minnow. This Minnow has a SG-2 San Mai steel blade and lockbar. This custom knife has Gun Blued 1018 steel bolsters with a 1095 steel back spring and 410 stainless steel liners. The handle scales are Red Lava Flow Fat Carbon. This fantastic little custom comes with a red knife pouch. Shift The Bottom Of Front Scale towards the Gut and the Back Scale Towards the spine to deploy this scale release .
Philip Booth comes to knifemaking through the fine arts. He is an award winning painter, printmaker and knifemaker. At 10 years old he made his first knife by hammering a 16 penny spike and wrapping the handle with tape. Not much of a knife but at 10 years, a huge accomplishment. Philip sold his first knife in 1991 and is now a full-time maker and voting member of The Knifemakers' Guild. All the knives are made entirely by hand using the metal reduction methods on a one-at-a-time basis. This gives the maker ultimate control and makes each knife unique. Materials for each knife are laid out before each knife is begun, much like a painter laying out his pallet. Knives can be designed around a particular piece of pearl or ivory, and many take advantage of a certain pattern in the Damascus steel. In this way close attention can be paid to pattern, texture and color.
