Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0136
wood Designs Zebra Trapper
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
Dark stripes etch the bone of this humble folder, mimicking the shadows of the deep forest. Within its modest frame lies a resilient blade, forged to endure the endless tasks of the farm and forest. It asks for no glory, only the honest work of a long and useful life.
About this piece
wood Designs Zebra Trapper is a folding knife carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of folding pocket knives. It measures 7.3in overall by the house's own reckoning, the forge having stated no measure, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.
The blade is 4116GS Blade. Read the steel against the work you mean to give the piece; the forge's own designation is stated here rather than guessed at.
Fittings and furniture: Bone. The fittings are where a piece is honest or is not — a guard, a pommel and a grip that are fitted tight will not shift under work.
Ownership and carry are two different questions. Most provinces permit possession of what they forbid on the street, and blade-length ceilings apply to carry rather than to what may be shipped to your door.
Knife laws by state — free, all fifty and the District.
“It waits in the pocket like a held breath.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 7.3 inches (our reckoning)
- Form
- folder
- Steel
- 4116GS Blade
- Fittings
- Bone
$189.99
The Muster — swear $110.01 more and the house bears the carriage. Otherwise it is $16.00 flat, however much steel rides. Walk the halls
Proof of age is required before any steel leaves these walls — always, for every soul, without exception. Read why this gate stands.
Muster a war-ready kit around this pieceTrade old steel toward itNothing is charged. The oath is held until you set your seal to it.
The house will hold it in mind for two days. Come back inside that window and a tenth of the reckoning is forgiven.
The Trial of the Blade
Swing it before you own it. This exact piece — its reach, its weight, its steel — is put in a fitting hand and set against a living foe for three exchanges. What you feel is what you would carry.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for the pocket — carried every day, opened a thousand times, kept a lifetime.
The lineage of its steel — 4116GS Blade
Blade steel. Whatever alloy an edge is cut from, the same three things decide how it behaves: hardness, geometry, and how it is kept. Learn those and no marketing name will fool you again.
Read the chapter on this steel →This blade belongs in the hand of
The everyday carrier
One who wants steel at hand without a belt sheath: rope, tape, cord, packaging, and the small work of a whole life.
Keeping it alive
Dry it, oil it, store it out of the sheath for the long keep, and sharpen it before it is blunt rather than after. The house gives the whole method away for nothing.
The Upkeep Writ — free →The road it walked to this wall
1. Forged at the maker's fire
The piece is made by the forge that makes it — we do not pretend to have hammered it.
2. Received and looked over by the house
It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.
3. Sealed with the Seal of Provenance
The house records what it knows about the piece — and refuses to claim what it cannot prove.
4. Sent out from the house's own walls
It ships from us, with the record travelling beside it.
These four stations are the house’s standing doctrine for every piece it carries, not a tracking record of this one blade. Where the house cannot prove a claim, it strikes the claim rather than dressing it up.
The voice of the steel
Every piece in this house has one true note, and it is not a recording. wood Designs Zebra Trapper is 7.3″ of 4116gs blade, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 596 hertz — keen and short, true. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
The pocket knife is the most inherited object in the world after a wedding ring. It waits in the pocket like a held breath, is used ten thousand times for nothing much, and then once for something that matters.
02The Making
Steel: 4116GS Blade. The house states what the forge stated and nothing more. We do not embroider metallurgy.
03The Carry
At 7.3 inches this is the working length — long enough to matter, short enough to live on a hip without argument. The great majority of blades ever carried by anyone fell inside this span.
04The Reckoning
Steel keeps no loyalty. It does what the arm does. The ledger ends where your part of it begins.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of wood Designs Zebra Trapper
What it leaves open
Swung honestly, it keeps you close. No piece covers every yard of ground — that is why no one ever carried only one. Beside it the house would hang something that reaches past the guard before he closes.
The Armorer’s Bench
What it leaves wantingNo one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.
The press
White Smoothbone Bowie with Leather SheathSame fittings, other work. It answers for a working length for the close work, when the line has already broken.
$124.99the pair — $314.98
The line
Pole Axe, Head OnlyReach the piece in thy hand does not have. Meet him before he closes.
$109.99the pair — $299.98
Kindred Steel
All of The Pocket Knives →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- How to Clean a Sword: Step by Step in 10 MinutesTen minutes of care is the difference between an heirloom and a rusted disappointment.
- Keeping an Edge: Sharpening, Stropping and StorageHow to keep steel keen without ruining it — the whole discipline in one reading.
- The Law of Carry: What You Must Know Before Buying Edged ArmsThe house sells steel. It does not sell exemptions from your local law.
Learn this steel — free, from the house
Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.
- The Oakeshott typologyHow swords are actually classified, type by type.
- Tangs and fittingsThe hidden steel that decides whether a hilt holds.
- What sharpness actually isAngle, apex and burr — why an edge cuts and why it stops.
- Stones, files and machinesWhat to sharpen this edge on, and what will ruin it.
wood Designs Zebra Trapper
$189.99