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Home Products Makiti Folder

Makiti Folder

by Rietveld, Bertie

SKU 20247

Date Added 06/29/2012

# Available This product is out of stock

Price $2,325.00

Overview

This folder features a carved and colored Dragonskin blade, mokume bolsters, and mammoth ivory scales. The bolsters have a tilt mechanism used to close the knife. Pushing both bolsters where they meet the scales towards the spine will release the lock. Perfectly matched ivory scales. Beautiful materials. Excellent work. Includes certificate of authenticity dated June 2011. Brand new from the 2011 Blade Show. Blade Steel: Dragonskin Damascus

Product Details

Blade Length 3.75

Overall Length 8.625

Weight (oz) 3

Additional Specs

About the Maker

Rietveld, Bertie
Rietveld, Bertie

Bertie is a South African knifemaker who started making knives as a hobby in 1979. He is a member of the Knife-makers Guild of Southern Africa, since 1982 and served as Chairman (1997 to 1999.) Member of the Italian Knife Guild. (Corporazione Italiana Coltellinai) since 2000. He started forging his own Damascus in 1991 and is the first producer of Stainless Steel damascus in South Africa, having made his first stainless steel Damascus in 1997. Voted in as a full member of the AKI in 2019. He established an engineering company, Batavia Engineering in 1988, (having studied mechanical engineering), manufacturing belt grinders and contact wheels. This business was downsized in 2000 so that Bertie could spend more time on his passion for knifemaking.