Herb Derr – Rare Personal Bullnose 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 2018 ~

  Here is rare Sole Authorship piece from Herb, it has a thick, Straight Spine with a big Bullnose tip.  I have not had one of these in more than a year!

Herb forged this with 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  1/4″ Wide!

Herb has only made a few Bullnose Skinners, this example has a slim, comfortable Full Grip handle of Fossilized SeaCow Rib Bone ~ it has beautiful Grain and Natural Color. 

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 rich colored handle is flanked by Nickel Silver Spacers and a Stabilized Spalted Maple forward spacer for color.  

 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.