Woolly Mammoth Fossil Ivory Grip Damascus Blade Knife | Boneyard Alaska

One Knife. Forty Thousand Years in the Making.

The Scar. Every piece of fossil ivory tells a different story, and this grip stopped me. The artifact crosshatch pattern on the left side is something unusual — a natural surface texture cut perfectly vertical. Maybe left by very sharp rock left to be in the permafrost over tens of thousands of years that looks almost intentional. Maybe it is just me but I have worked on a bunch of ivory. I didn't want to diminish it,  like it was meant to be seen. I worked around it rather than through it, letting that character stay exactly as the ice age left it.

The grip is genuine Woolly Mammoth fossil ivory sourced by The Boneyard Alaska from ancient Fairbanks permafrost. The colors run from pure ivory to deep chestnut, with that one-of-a-kind crosshatch marking the left panel. The blade is San Mai Damascus — a Japanese forging tradition that layers a hard high-carbon core between patterned Damascus steel for an edge that is both razor-sharp and beautiful to look at.

This is a fixed blade knife that works as hard as it displays. It belongs in a collection, but it doesn't have to stay there.

Specifications

• Overall Length: 7-1/2"
• Blade Length: 3-1/4"

What Makes This Knife Special

• Solid genuine Woolly Mammoth fossil ivory grip
• Rare natural artifact crosshatch on left grip panel — unrepeatable
• San Mai Damascus blade
• Fixed blade construction
• Natural fossil character preserved throughout
• Fossil ivory sourced by The Boneyard Alaska — discovered and gathered by the Reeves family from ancient permafrost deposits. No modern animals were harmed.