Handmade Damascus Steel Balisong Knife | Rose Wood & Damascus Steel Bolsters Handle | Premium Butterfly Knife with Leather Sheath | Personalized Gift | BMK-726

Description

A full-size Damascus butterfly knife on rosewood, with the pattern carried into the bolsters rather than stopping at the blade. The handles are skeletonised, the blade is pierced with a long teardrop cutout above the ricasso, and the whole thing reads as one forged object instead of a blade bolted into hardware.

What this size feels like in the hand

This is the long one. It carries noticeably more mass out at the ends than the compact butterfly knives in this catalogue, and that mass is the point. Rotations start slower and finish more deliberately. Aerials hang a beat longer. If you have been flipping a short trainer and want something that feels like a real object rather than a toy, the extra handle length is what you are paying for. If you are brand new to the balisong, expect the first week to feel clumsy, because that momentum will not forgive a lazy wrist.

Rosewood scales, Damascus bolsters

Pairing rosewood with Damascus steel bolsters is unusual on a butterfly knife. Most makers put brass or plain stainless in that position. Running the pattern into the bolsters makes the piece read as a single object rather than an assembly. Rosewood is dense and naturally oily, and it darkens under hand contact, so six months of flipping will deepen the colour around the spot your fingers land most often. That change is permanent, and it is the piece recording your use.

The billet is the same recipe behind our forged fixed blades, which means it will spot if you put it away damp. A wipe and a thin film of the right oil for carbon steel after a session covers it. If layered steel is new to you, how a Damascus billet is forged explains what those lines actually are. For a shorter footprint in a semi-stainless tool steel, look at the D2 tool steel butterfly knife.

Skeletonised, and why

Both handles are cut through with a run of holes and the blade carries a shaped opening above the ricasso. Removing metal there does two useful things: it takes weight out of the middle of the swing without touching the bolsters, and it lets you see the layer pattern from both faces at once. It also gives grit somewhere to fall out of rather than pack into, which is a small mercy on a knife that spends its life being dropped and caught.

The grind and the point

A slim clip profile with a fine, forward-set tip, ground thin and finished by hand. That tip is the part that meets a floor when a catch goes wrong, so treat it as the fragile end of the knife and it will stay square. The bevel is stropped before the knife is packed and will slice paper on arrival.

Sheath, legality, provenance

A black leather belt sheath, tooled on the face and closed with a snap, is included. Balisong law varies from one jurisdiction to the next and confirming yours is a buyer’s job. Every stage of this knife, from welding the stack to setting the pivots and cutting the final edge, happens in Memphis, Tennessee, and it is covered by our lifetime warranty.

Model: BMK-726