My first custom.

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Deus Machina

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Dad tends to get me knives as stocking stuffers. Keychain, pocket, multitools--stuff he expects me to use daily. And I do.
Well, this year he apparently decided I've got enough to use, and that he wasn't going to part with the beautiful ones his uncle made yet, so found a local guy and commissioned one to show off.
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Ebony (or horn, or something like it) scales, patterned spine, that decorative piece is a bunch of pins and tubes all the way through, and my first damascus.
Kind of wanting to make sure I'm doing the blade right with Renaissance Wax, kind of just want to show off.
 
Who was the knifemaker?

I assume you mean the spine is file worked?

African Blackwood is easier to find in pure black than Ebony so it may be that.
 
I'm not sure. A local; my dad's going to check back on that, and hopefully I'll find out next time I see him. It's not the absolute masterful stuff I've seen, but some minor imperfections are part of the beauty of hand work.
Yes, the spine has a filed pattern. I'll need to get a picture of that.
That may be what the grips are. A quick google looks like it, but I really can't tell from experience. They're a deep black, have a vague grain in them, but they're so polished and hard as all get-out that I'd almost think they're resin, except one of the points in the grain hidden in the spine's grooves did want to splinter like wood. Quickly taken care of with a touch of a file.He cleaned but couldn't scrub all the nooks and crannies, and it was laying visually flat until I was nudging polish into the pattern.
 
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