Sometimes, it's also about the presentation! Here's a set I recently completed:

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"Tunguska and Manicouagan": These are a special set of fine "Raptor" style kerambits in custom
matching artistic case. The stylized double-edged knives are based on an ancient Sumatran design
of a hand sickle for harvesting rice. The graceful shapes suggest power and movement, the icy crystal
designs of the Tunguska meteor and fiery features of the Manicouagan meteor contrast the steel
canvas of blades, reminiscent of the iron in a meteorite’s core and one of the building blocks of our
universe.
The blades are hardened and tempered 440C high chromium martensitic stainless tool steel,
Rockwell C59, mirror polished and double edged with a combination taper grind and hollow grind,
with fully tapered tangs and full vine filework. The bolsters are hand-engraved 304 high chromium,
high nickel austentitic stainless steel. The gemstones are blue Sodalite (sodium aluminum silicate),
which has been found in meteorites, and red Jasper (cryptocrystalline silicon dioxide). The sheaths
echo the designs of the individual knives in inlays of both red and blue rayskin in leather shoulder,
hand tooled and stitched. The knives rest in a custom case, built to reflect great strength in wedged
mortise and tenon joinery, with a base wood of Mahogany and accents of carved Bloodwood and
Ebony. The rectangles and triangles in the joinery of the case is balanced against the curved flowing
shapes of knives within, illustrating containment of movement by constructed form.
thanks for your patronage, Dave K.!

Spectacular as usual, my friend! Steel, wood, and leather--you seem to have mastered them all, Jay!