Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0283
Cape Buffalo Horn with Red+Blue Turquoise Gunstock
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
Horn from the great beasts of the south binds with river-blue stone to form this honest folding knife. Its steel is forged to endure when the years grow heavy and the fires grow cold. A father might pass this down when his own hands begin to fail.
About this piece
Cape Buffalo Horn with Red+Blue Turquoise Gunstock is a folding knife carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of folding pocket knives. It measures 7.6in 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 Stainless Steel Blade. Stainless forgives neglect — it resists corrosion in a damp pack, a boat or a kitchen sink — at the cost of being slower to bring back to a keen edge.
Fittings and furniture: Combination (Horn/Turquoise). 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.
“Small steel, kept a lifetime, handed down at the end.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 7.6 inches (our reckoning)
- Form
- folder
- Steel
- Stainless Steel Blade
- Fittings
- Combination (Horn/Turquoise)
$57.99
The Muster — swear $242.01 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 — Stainless Steel Blade
Stainless steel. Chromium in the alloy resists rust rather than defeating it. It is forgiving of neglect and slightly stubborn on the stone — sharpen it patiently and it repays you.
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. Cape Buffalo Horn with Red+Blue Turquoise Gunstock is 7.6″ of stainless steel blade, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 574 hertz — keen and steady, clean. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
A folding knife is a compromise struck between a man and the town he has to walk through. The blade goes into the pocket, the hinge accepts the risk, and everyone pretends the thing is merely useful.
02The Making
Working stainless — Stainless Steel Blade. It forgives neglect, damp air, blood left too long on the blade. It gives up a little keenness in exchange, which is a trade most who carry daily are glad to make.
03The Carry
At 7.6 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
The house makes no claim about what this piece will do in your hand. It only records what its pattern has already done in others'.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Cape Buffalo Horn with Red+Blue Turquoise Gunstock
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
Battle Axe Buffalo HuntererSame fittings, other work. It answers for a working length for the close work, when the line has already broken.
$384.99the pair — $442.98
The line
Broadsword HangerReach the piece in thy hand does not have. Meet him before he closes.
$31.99the pair — $89.98
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
- Carbon or Stainless: Which Steel Should You Actually BuyThe oldest quarrel in the trade, settled plainly.
- 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.
Cape Buffalo Horn with Red+Blue Turquoise Gunstock
$57.99