HEAVY DUTY 1950's Style 12" Open/ 30cm Italian Flat Guard Picklock  Wasp 5mm Classic Handmade by Renzo Pascotto with Select Buffalo Horn (Dolphin Stamp)

Features a 5 1/2" Mirror Polished Bayonet Styled Blade. Measures 12" overall Open (30cm). 6 1/2" closed.   Super Heavy Duty Piece with a thick 3/16" inch (5mm) backspring, blade, and kickspring. When measured with the brass liners the backspring is more than 1/4" thick. Body has the "Wasp Waist design" which was found on the higher end models of the 50's. ( The handle flares out slightly (widens) approx 3/4 of the way down). This size has never been made before by Pascotto. 

Heavy Duty Sliding safety with extra heavy Brass Lined Nickel Silver "Flat Guard" Designed Bolsters . These knives are handmade and assembled the old way by Renzo Pascotto . The kick spring is a "slip-in" style. Extra Select Horn Handles. 

Blade is marked on the tang "PASCOTTO RENZO MANIAGO ITALY". Backside is marked with the "DOLPHIN" logo which shows that the finest handle material was used on the knife and has the initials of the supplier of such. Blade is mirror polished and nicely ground. Picklock design; means you must take your index finger and thumb and pull back where the blade locks to unlock it, (most modern classics have a swivel bolster release design). (Older Model classics and Limited Editions feature the Picklock design closure). Weighs 10.4 oz.

Genuie Buffalo Horn Handles. (Model Shown is the model you will receive).  Quality Italian Classic for your collection. Note these are very hard to find and that approx only 35 of this size came to the US. Interest in Pascotto's Handmade classics are in high demand, due to his age and declining health, as he is one of the few master switchblade cutlers left in Maniago.