Chute Knife - Mother-of-Pearl with scrimshaw

A new version of a Chute Knife.  It's very rare that a knife ever has scrimshaw on Pearl.  The scrimshaw image is of a Cheetah on one side chasing her prey of an antelope on the other side.  Mother-of-Pearl is Nature's neon sign with the way that light dances off the Pearl.  The idea of a Chute Knife is for parachute jumping and a chute knife in a leather sheath is at risk for cutting through the webbing or stitching of the leather sheath.  Not so with a metal sheath like this one.  This knife stays put in the metal sheath until you take it out.  I line the sheaths of my knives with velvet, so the way the fibers lay makes it so that when you slide a knife into one my sheaths, the fiber-nap allows the blade to slide into the sheath very easily, but on the flip-side, the way the fibers lay they make it more difficult to pull the blade out of the sheath.  When you start to pull the the knife out of the sheath, the hairs of the velvet have to reverse the direction that they are in, and this gives the blade that initial resistance, and then the blade comes out more smoothly.  The knives still come out of my sheaths very smoothly, but they will never just simply fall out because of the way that velvet nap lays.
The sheath is made from the nontarnishable Monel.  If you don't know anything about Monel, it has almost a silvery-luster to it.  It looks more like silver than stainless steel.  And that's exactly why I use it.  Scrimsahw by Raluca Markow.  Engraving by Paul Markow.
This knife is available through my website at; Rappcustomknives.com.
Enjoy!