NEPTUN exclusive knife handmade by the master of the knife studio Pavlo Honcharenko, order to buy in Ukraine (Steel - Mosaic Damascus)
- Brand: Майстерня ножів ручної роботи Павла Гончаренка
- Product Code: НЕПТУН - ніж ручної роботи студії Павла Гончаренка
| Загальна довжина клинка mm: | 285±05 mm |
| Матеріал леза | The blade is made of mosaic damask, the hardness of the cutting edge is 60-61hrc |
| Твердість клинка (метал): | Hardness - 60-61 HRC |
| Матеріал руків'я: | Nickel guard and butt, stabilized mammoth tooth, g10, corian (artificial stone), stabilized elk horn, mosaic foams and tube. Strap made of leather cord 3 mm, bead made of corian |
| Довжина леза | 145±05 mm |
- Availability: In Stock
Description
SPECIFICATIONS:
The name of the knife is NEPTUN, an exclusive handmade knife by the master of the knife studio Pavlo Honcharenko, order to buy in Ukraine (Steel - Mosaic Damascus)
Knife type: Fixed blade
Brand: Studio "Handmade knives of Pavlo Honcharenko"
Blade material: Mosaic Damascus blade, hardness of the cutting edge 60-61hrc
Steel sheet: One-piece cast, for the entire length of the knife
Sharpening angle of the blade: Pointed at 36 degrees
Downs: Straight
Blade sharpening angle: Sharpened at 36 degrees 60-61 HRC
Total length: 233 mm
Blade length: 145 mm
Blade width: 30 mm
Blade thickness: 4.2 mm
Handle thickness: 25 mm
Blade finish: Ground, etched
Bolster material (guard and butt): Solid brass
Handle: Nickel guard and butt, stabilized mammoth tooth, g10, corian (artificial stone ), stabilized elk horn, mosaic foams and a tube. Lanyard made of leather cord 3mm, bead made of corian
Handle color: White-blue
Handle impregnation: None
Handle covering: None
Hole for a cord (for lanyard): Yes
Lanyard: Lanyard made of leather cord 3mm
Scabbard:Maple toned cap, Italian vegetable-tanned genuine leather, finished with a water-resistant finish and impregnated with protective solutions, hand-stitched with waxed thread. Hand-embossed texture and artistic coloring, wooden insert in the middle. The suspension is removable, the insert is made of stabilized elk horn. Corian beads.
Model: NEPTUN exclusive knife handmade by the master of knife studio Pavlo Honcharenko, order to buy in Ukraine (Steel - Mosaic Damascus) Model
number: 061
Country of birth: Ukraine
Artisan: Master Pavlo Honcharenko, Ivankiv, Ukraine ( "Handmade knives of Pavlo Honcharenko" )
Best Use: Hunting, Carcass Splitting, Slicing
Knife Condition: New
The price is indicated together with the scabbard.
A sharpened knife is not a cold weapon.
Our knives are very sharp, so open and use very carefully. We are not responsible for injuries related to the use of our knives.
Our products are intended for legal use only by responsible buyers. We will not sell our products to anyone under the age of 18.
Availability changes regularly, upon confirmation of your order, we will inform you about the availability or when the product will be ready. The product may differ slightly from the one shown in the photo.
What is Damascus steel? Mosaic damask.
Damascus steel sometimes seems like something ephemeral and unreal, which came to us from the depths of the ages, the times of knights and crusades. Few knife material is surrounded by such a deep veil of myths and legends, enhancing curiosity and admiration. What is Damascus steel? Is it realistic to buy real Damascus steel? What is the truth in these stories, and what is fiction?
First of all, we will have to debunk the myth about the very origin of Damascus steel. The homeland of her invention is not Damascus at all, as is commonly believed. The first references to the production of this material are found as early as 1300 BC. e. in Eastern Asia. But inventors from different countries came to the welded manufacturing method, which is still used today, almost at the same time. It is known that in the III century the Roman Empire was the supplier of Damascus, in the XI century - Iran. The heyday of Damascus as steel for knives and swords dates back to the 13th century, when production moved from Asian centers to the territory of Germany. Then why "Damascus steel"? The answer is simple and concise - at that time, the city of Damascus was the center of arms trade, where you could buy Damascus steel knives for any taste. As a result, they were given the name of the city of the same name.
What is remarkable about this material? In ancient times, it was believed that Damascus steel has truly unique strength, hardness and durability. It was believed that she was able to cut chain mail like butter. A significant contribution to the emergence of such myths was made by novelists of works on chivalric themes. In particular, Walter Scott was a fan of this material. What are the features of Damascus steel blades?
The category of Damascus steel includes two types of materials - refined and welding steel. For the production of refined Damascus steel, a homogeneous piece of metal is subjected to repeated reforging in order to get rid of harmful impurities and slags. But from the 18th century, this method was replaced by a more effective one - welding. In this case, heterogeneous material consisting of blanks with different carbon content is subject to reforging. This makes it possible to combine different properties of materials. Materials with different indicators of strength, hardness, elasticity and viscosity complement each other, giving the final product a combination of their properties. The layers of iron are soft, preventing the steel from being too brittle, and the components with a high carbon content, included in the composition, give elasticity and hardness.
At the same time, the disadvantage of Damascus steel is weak resistance to rusting due to the large percentage of carbon in the forging elements and the practically zero content of alloying elements. Therefore, after use, Damascus knives should be cleaned of dirt and wiped dry to avoid premature wear. It is worth noting that modern manufacturers have learned to create stainless Damascus steel, which has attracted the attention of fans of this knife material even more.
Previously, materials with different properties and carbon content were combined with welding, alternating folding and forging, and in this way material with different hardness and viscosity was obtained. Thus, at the same time, Damascus steel became hard and flexible enough not to chip and crack with accidental blows or falls. And due to the diffusion of carbon, its content has an average value in the entire workpiece. A more progressive method has become the use of specially designed kharalugs - these are twisted coils of wire made of dissimilar steels, which are subject to further reforging.
Remarkably, the pattern that Damascus steel forms was not the purpose of using twisted kharalugs. During forging and further treatment of the surface with acids, it became a side effect and a kind of symbol of Damascus steel. This is an optical effect that occurs due to the heterogeneity of the forging materials. High-class manufacturers of knives made of Damascus steel achieve not only a leaf pattern on the blade, but also floral patterns and beautiful symmetrical patterns.
Blades made of Damascus steel have long been endowed with supernatural abilities. It was believed that they cut through chain mail like butter, cut swords from other steels, and supposedly knights valued such steel as much as gold. Unfortunately or fortunately, this is not reasoned. Rather, it is a poetic deviation and exaggeration of the characteristics of this material. Blades made of Damascus steel are indeed very strong and hard, have excellent flexibility, but at the same time they will not be able to cut other types of steel or possess magical properties. Numerous metallurgical studies have not proven that Damascus steel can violate any laws of physics.
Today, Damascus steel can be bought in a wide range. Modern manufacturers have high-tech production methods that minimize the amount of slag and harmful impurities. The use of Damascus in the production of knives is quite common - many tourist, hunting and pocket knives can be selected with a blade made of this material. They can be considered premium products due to aesthetic and mechanical performance. Such multi-layered, aesthetically attractive blades will be an excellent option for a gift to a dear person who understands beautiful, effective and functional knives.
Features of wood: stabilized sapwood
Sapwood is reddish-white, sometimes with a grayish sheen. The core is light, pink-brown in color. Without characteristic smell or taste. Annual rings are not too pronounced, but moderately small or medium in size on radial and tangential sections.
The rays are visible to the naked eye, but only so large.
Although most of the texture is fine-grained with straight fibers. But figured maple with a texture is often found, which includes a wavy, quilted, folded pattern or the well-known "bird's eye".
Wood has lower indicators than other types of maples. It is of medium weight (specific gravity 545 kg/m3) and hardness (Yanke hardness 850 pounds).
It has an average durability index, but with proper processing, the wood is relatively stable and not prone to rotting.
What is maple cap?
Splints on the tree with the usual direction of the fibers changed, thereby changing the wood texture characteristic of maple. It is this knotty growth that leads to the formation of strange patterns on the surface of the wood inside.
The cause of the formation of the cap is considered to be stress from trauma to the bark, fungi, wood, viruses or caused by insects. Wood, as a rule, grows quickly, abnormal growth is observed mainly in tree trunks, but also occurs on lignified roots. Due to the rapid growth and various forms of growth, the wood fibers form extremely intricate and beautiful patterns of kapa.
Uses of maple sap
Maple sap is highly valued by artists because of its unique grain texture, structure and relative rarity. Works of applied art, design objects, unique furniture, decorative veneer are created from it.
Interesting fact
In more humid parts of the range, for example, as in the Olympic National Park (English Olympic National Park), which is located near the city of Port Angeles (Washington state, USA), the bark of the broadleaf maple is covered with epiphytic species of mosses and ferns. In similarly humid areas, along the west coast of the United States, maple tree sap is most common.
Maple cap. Kapa processing
A cup made of kapa
Materials obtained from wood are widely used in folk crafts and decorative and applied arts.
Linden, aspen, birch, alder, willow - these trees also provide wood for crafts, and/or rod and linden for weaving. If the material is unusual and rare, it brings the product to a new level - a valuable product or even a work of art, which deserves a larger than local history museum. Among them is a cap (growth), a defect in the development of trees of various species. In terms of physical and aesthetic properties, processed sapwood (birch sapwood is used more often than others) can compete with valuable types of wood that are not harvested in our country, stone, bone. It is hard, strong, dense, with a characteristic fine structure, which is not difficult to emphasize and strengthen with natural methods of decoration and coloring in products made of birch bark and other species.
Caps are classified as growths on trees, local thickenings on branches, trunk, roots. It is formed by highly deformed, silky wood with many dormant buds. The interweaving of annual layers, the pattern of kidney holes and rings forms the visible structure of the wood.
And the very exits of the kidney to the surface — form a complex texture, similar to a frozen picture of drops and splashes. Both qualities, structure and texture, are used in the products.
From the growth of the wood, close to the capu souvel. In it, the wood also forms a complex, but less winding pattern, and there is no variety of kidneys characteristic of kapu. Young shoots often grow from buds on the crown of a living tree. This is typical for suveli. Growths can take the form of local and zonal thickenings. They are found both on the visible part of the plant and underground, where the cap is also covered with bark, like the trunk of a normal tree. Fresh shoots from "awakened kidneys" growing from under the ground near the parent tree allow you to find an underground cap (kapokorin).
Cap growth without special treatment as an interior decoration
Cap is a defect in the development of wood. It is difficult to single out a general or single cause of the appearance. Most likely, crown formation is a complex response of a growing tree to external influences, probably associated with mutations.
Indirect confirmation of this is the presence of multiple canes on the affected tree and its absence on neighboring trees. It is possible that local damage to the plant, disease, triggers growth (leads to protective activity in response to the tree). Kapa is more on grafted trees, trees with strong pruning. There are mentions that walnut plantations with grafted trees served as a rich source of valuable capping material. To improve the "psychological portrait" of the kapa, the concept of stronger, diseased and immune parent tree material is used. This shifts the emphasis from the growth - a disease, to the drop - evidence of the natural growth and "hardening" of the tree. Since the cap is rare, and it is very time-consuming to set up a laboratory experiment of the development of the cap, it is unlikely that such a concept has reliable factual basis.
Canker is found in the irregular formation of wood and bark from the cambium and the abnormal development of accessory buds. In the course of natural, healthy growth, a new annual layer and bark is formed from the cambium.
In kapi, the directions of wood growth are not oriented, the wood layers are bent and crumpled. The emergence of appendages and the presence of dormant buds waiting for their time is a normal consequence of tree growth. Superficial dormant buds can normally develop into shoots. Some find themselves in the thickness of the tree and upon awakening form local thickenings on the trunk. In the case of kapa, the process of nucleation and development of the kidneys is extremely active (by the standards of the tree's life). The buds deform the wood in the thickness of the cap, forming a blistered surface.
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