Imps were small mischievous demons who enjoyed causing trouble and getting into things best left alone. The knife, Imp, carried a blade of Delbert Ealy multi-bar damascus, mosaic damascus grips inlayed with gold lip mother of pearl, a back spacer and lock bar of ladder pattern damascus, a hand tooled and fileworked pivot pin and a multi-part thumbstud eye of ladder pattern damascus inlayed with abalone. Imp was the first of my Dark Light custom hand made knives to be made as a lockback, the first to use my hand tooled custom pivot pin and the first of the smaller DarkLight knives. Imp also featured inlays that were cabochons; that is to say the inlay tops were rounded into domes as opposed to being flush with the surface of the knife. This process exposes more surface area of the inlay and improves the color play in the pearl.

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understanding of art knives, folders, swords, bladesmithing, forge welding, custom knives,

damascus and many other unique and stylized designs. On my site you will see custom knives

such as Witch, Sorceress and Ras al-Ghul using exotic materials such as damascus, mokume

and pearl. These knives will range from unique fixed blades to manual and automatic folding

knives. Many of my knives are designed around myths from various backgrounds - such as

Celtic (knives like Bane Shide), or Egyptian cultures (with knives such as Ammut). The knives

are carefully hand crafted pieces of carving and sculpture. The damascus is custom forged for

each folder and often I will use mosaic damascus and pearl inlays in my pieces.

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