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Home Products 21st Century San-Mai Tanto

21st Century San-Mai Tanto

by Lightfoot, Greg, Lambert, Kirby

SKU 1129261

Date Added 10/10/2025

# Available This product is out of stock

Original price $795.00

Price $775.00

Overview

This Fixed Blade by Greg Lightfoot features a carbon fiber/Damascus core san-mai up swept blade with .221" blade stock, 1.152" blade depth with hidden tang construction. The handle has a wrapped grip with camo stingray underlay. Tsuka Maki by Kirby Lambert - this is written on the back of the COA. Comes with a sharkskin leather sheath and COA dated 2021. Has some light oxidation on the spine and a couple sheath scuffs. Excellent condition otherwise. 

Product Details

Blade Length 6.75

Overall Length 11.125

Weight (oz) 8.2

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Knife Type Hidden Tang, Has Sheath

Blade Material Damascus, San Mai

Blade Details Upswept/Trailing

Handle Material Wrapped

Other Details Tactical

About the Maker

Lightfoot, Greg

"I started out in 1988 thinking I could make a better knife than the ones I was buying, and I've been a full-time knife maker ever since. I was a Machinist in my former job, and I knew how to work with steel. Rod Olson was an early mentor and showed me the ropes of tactical folder engineering. Tony Marfione taught me how to do a hollow grind in 1999, and in 2000 his L-CC went gold at the Atlanta Blade Show. Another early design influence came from Joel Pirela; I thought he made a sweet knife and a number of his designs inspired my own. I met Jared Van Otterloo in 2014, and his energy and passion for knives and social media gave me new ideas. I loved his folder design ideas, and he had the ability to support and enhance my own designs and make them better."

Lambert, Kirby
Lambert, Kirby

"I believe that in order to make a superior knife you must use superior materials. That is why I work with top grade, high-tech materials. The steels I generally use in my folders and fixed blades are CPM S30v, CPM 154 CM, BG-42, and Damasteel. The handle materials I mostly use range from G-10, Micarta, and carbon fiber to mother of pearl and fossilized mammoth ivory. I exclusively use 6al/4v titanium for the liners in my folders. I mostly make my bolsters from materials such as 6al/4v titanium, damascus, carbon fiber, timascus or mokume. When making Japanese style blades I generally use 1050, 1084, or L6. The handles will usually consist of a phenolic handle covered in stingray skin then wrapped with a nylon cord that has been impregnated with resin to give it maximum strength, toughness, and longevity. I am constantly striving for perfection in creating, for what I feel is one of the highest quality knives on the market today."