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 "Though
I call this extra special knife “Moby Dick’s Revenge”, my
first real fascination with Whales came while watching
“Pinocchio”… especially the whale’s teeth when they were
swallowed up inside it! A few years later my father took me to the
Natural History Museum and I got to see real whale’s teeth close
up for the first time. They were even more amazing, scary and
breathtaking than I remembered from the movie!
Of
course by then I head read “Moby Dick” several times. However,
I found myself always feeling for the whale, and not the whalers.
To kill such a magnificent beast just seemed awful. However, I
always thought that a knife made from the tooth of a whale, would
be one of the all time great challenges and joys! To me, the knife
would be made of the strongest materials I could find… special
44C steel, “heavy” brass, Ironwood, and an extra brass spacer
(something I’d never done before)… as if the knife would both
symbolize the power of the whale, and also somehow give the whale
something to defend himself against the fools who hunt him! Though
a total series of grand luck, I was given a naturally harvested
whales tooth several years ago. It was as if someone was tempting
me to actually make what I had already decided would be called:
“Moby Dick’s Revenge”. I doubt if I’ll ever get something
this rare to work into a knife again! I worked on the design
for weeks, and this magnificent piece emerged almost as if from a
fog. I even gave it a “double sortie notch”. One for the
Whale, and one for the dream come true”.
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