Kaleidoscopic Fire Burl Carver

One could easily slice a hundred briskets, serve a thousand guests, and enjoy infinite feasts, and still discover new details, whisps of steel, colors ofDychrolam, and uses for the edge of thisremarkable carving knife by Salem Straub. To showcase his newest mosaic damascus pattern, one which lulls its viewer into a sensationlike that of achild peering through a kaleidoscope’s mystical, forever evolving portal for the first time, Salem has forged a full-integral carving knife like no other. The damascus with its symmetry, openness, and limitlessness is forged and present from the butt of the handle to the tip of the blade, through the sculpted guard, along the spine, and everywhere that steel is present. From the bold, all-business 310mm blade complete with fullers along each side, to the design elements of the full-tang integral handle construction, no detail is too small to play into this one-of-a-kind pitmaster tool’s allure. To take hold of a handle that combines the house-made carbon damascus with carbon fiber highlighted by a punch of color courtesy of thedynamic, ‘viewer interactive’Dychrolam composite as its creator rightly describes it, is to experience a force that only Mr. Straub can provide.