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Overall Wh Smallthbone Dm Leather Sheath

$174.99·14″ overall·Damascus Blade·fixed

In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16

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Born from folded shadows and bound in silent bone, this fourteen-inch hunter carries the weight of ancient forests. It waits in its leather shroud, a quiet companion to the one who walks the high ridges under a dying sun. Every curve speaks of the final, necessary silence of the wild.

About this piece

Overall Wh Smallthbone Dm Leather Sheath is a fixed-blade knife carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of fixed-blade knives. It measures 14in overall as stated by the forge, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.

The blade is Damascus Blade. Carbon and tool steels take a finer edge and take it faster, and they will rust if left wet. Wipe the blade dry and keep a film of oil on it and it will outlast you.

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.

Steel that never folds. Nothing about it is negotiable.— the Lady, quietly

Overall
14 inches
Form
fixed
Steel
Damascus Blade
Fittings
Bone

$174.99

The Muster — swear $125.01 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 it

Nothing 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 hard use — one piece of steel, no joint to fail, nothing to fold shut.

The lineage of its steel — Damascus Blade

Pattern-welded steel. Layers of differing steel forge-welded and folded, then etched so the weld lines show. The pattern is real structure, not print — and it wants oil, because the etch leaves the surface hungry.

Read the chapter on this steel →

This blade belongs in the hand of

The worker of the outdoors

One who trusts a sheath over a pocket, and wants an edge that will never close on a wet hand.

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. 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. 2. Received and looked over by the house

    It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.

  3. 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. 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. Overall Wh Smallthbone Dm Leather Sheath is 14″ of damascus blade, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 305 hertzbright and short, warm. Strike it and hear the piece itself.

Written before it was ever sold

The Blood Ledger

  1. 01The Pattern

    Fixed steel is the field pattern. It was sharpened for the long walk, the cold camp, and the animal that had to be opened before dark. Nothing about it is negotiable, which is exactly why it is trusted.

  2. 02The Making

    Hardened steel — Damascus Blade. This is the modern end of the trade: alloys that hold an edge far past the point where old steel gives up, at the cost of being stubborn on the stone. Sharpen it rarely, sharpen it properly.

  3. 03The Carry

    At 14 inches this is a belt piece with presence. It will be seen. Most of what a blade this size does in the world is deterrence, and deterrence only works when it is visible.

  4. 04The Reckoning

    Every blade in this castle outlives the argument that bought it. Buy accordingly.

Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Overall Wh Smallthbone Dm Leather Sheath

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 wanting

No one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.

German Gothic Axe

The line

German Gothic Axe

Reach the piece in thy hand does not have. Meet him before he closes.

$104.99the pair — $279.98

Red Pick Bone Diamondback

The dark

Red Pick Bone Diamondback

Same fittings, other work. It answers for something small and quiet, carried where no one looks for it.

$104.99the pair — $279.98

Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.

Learn this steel — free, from the house

Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.

Overall Wh Smallthbone Dm Leather Sheath

$174.99

The Long Memory

Leave a name and the house will send word when new steel is hung — and nothing else. No selling of the roll, ever. Leave whenever you wish.

Warborn Trial