This beautiful #38 Grinling Whittler is covered in Sambar stag. It’s warm in the hand and sharp as all get-out. Great Eastern Cutlery is making modern classic slipjoints.
You can see a great review of this knife by survival instructor Kevin Estela of Estela Wilderness Education — check out “Pocketful of Nostalgia.”
If you’re wondering how it got the patina… I eat apples.