Herb Derr – Personal Skinner

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HERB DERR

  I have been a Dealer for Herb Derr Custom knives for over a decade, long before I had a website I sold Herb’s knives at Gun & Knife Shows, most often to repeat Customers.  Herb’s pieces are sole authorship ~ he forges his own Damascus, grinds his own blades, makes his own Leather Sheaths and still finds time to Teach courses at a Community College on how to make Damascus.  

Fort Henry Custom Knives is proud to be a Dealer for Herb Derr 

  Direct from the Maker from the Blade Show 2013 

  Here is another Sole Authorship piece from Herb, he Forged it with a straight Spine blade and a Wide Drop Point tip in some of his best Bird’s Eye Damascus.  This is a knife with artistic attributes, but I guarantee it will perform as good as it looks.  

  Herb explained that his high contrast Carbon Damascus blades have over 2,500 layers. The blade on this big Skinner is 1  3/8″ Wide!

The knife has a comfortable Full Grip handle of Fossilized Stellar Sea Cow Rib Bone ~ HERE  is a link to some information on the extinct Stellar Sea Cow.  

The rich colored handle is flanked by Nickel Silver Spacers and a Stabilized Spalted Maple forward spacer with incredible Grain! .  

On this knife Herb has also added some Vine Filework on almost the entire length of the Spine which looks great but serves a dual purpose of also replacing Thumb Ridges for grip enhancement. 

 The Heavy Leather sheath has African Ostrich Skin as the inlay.  Herb also added some Custom Tooling around the mouth of the Sheath. Nice snug fit and a wonderful compliment to the knife. 

Don’t miss out on this one.