Damascus Balisong Butterfly Knife with Beautiful Brass and Rose Wood Handle Handmade Original Traditional Filipino Butterfly Batanga Knife Black Mamba Knives USA | DB-25

Description

Short frame, long-wearing timber. The DB-25 puts rose wood against brass on the compact balisong chassis we build in Memphis, over a blade forged from stacked 1095 and 15N20 and etched until the figure comes up. It is aimed at somebody who already flips, who wants something small enough to work over an armchair instead of a cleared table, and who would rather have wood under the fingers than cold metal.

Rose wood earns its place on a flipper

Rose wood is one of the few timbers you can put on a knife that gets handled hard without regretting it later. It carries its own oils inside the cell walls, which is why a finished rose wood scale shrugs off water without any finish over it, and why it keeps a soft luster after years of skin contact instead of going dull and gray. It is also heavy, roughly twice the density of walnut, and that shows up directly in the numbers on this listing.

Half an ounce you can actually feel

Same 6.2-inch frame, same 3.1-inch blade, same brass, and this one weighs 6.5 ounces where the bull horn version of the identical frame weighs six. The whole difference is handle material, and it sits out at the ends where it has the most leverage on how the knife swings. In practice this one carries through a rotation with more authority and takes a little more effort to arrest. Which is better is personal: flippers who like a weighted, deliberate feel choose the wood, and people chasing speed choose the horn.

The one thing that will ruin it

Solvents. Acetone, brake cleaner, alcohol wipes, and most degreasers pull rose wood’s natural oils out of the surface and leave it looking thirsty and pale. Warm water and a cloth, then a light wipe of the right oil if it looks dry, is the entire routine. If you want this timber on a longer knife with steel bolsters and a tool-steel blade, the D2 rose wood build is the closest relative we make.

Grind, hardness, and what the edge does

The blade is taken down flat from the spine, left thin behind the cutting edge, and finished by hand after an oil quench lands it between 58 and 60 on the Rockwell scale. That window is a deliberate compromise for a knife people drop. It is hard enough to keep a clean working edge through real cutting and soft enough that a bad landing on the point bends metal rather than breaking it off. High-carbon laminate also comes back fast: a few passes on a medium stone restores it, which matters when you flip a live blade regularly.

How it leaves the shop

Billets are forge welded, drawn out and cut here in Tennessee. The channels are milled, the wood is shaped oversize and then brought down flush to the brass by hand, the pins are peened and dressed, and the two handles are filed until they close level against one another. That last step is bench work no machine performs for us, and it is most of what you are paying for. The knife travels in a protective pouch and box rather than a sheath, since a balisong lives closed and a sheath adds nothing to it. Every order leaves Memphis with a lifetime warranty. Balisong laws vary by state and by city, so check what applies where you live before you buy.

Model: BMK-DB-25