Anton van der Westhuizen Naked Full Drop Timascus Skyline

Description

The Anton van der Westhuizen Naked Full Drop is a striking Wharncliffe custom knife handcrafted in South Africa by Anton van der Westhuizen, a member of the Knifemakers’ Guild of Southern Africa. The “naked” design strips the build back to pure form, letting the blade pattern and material work carry the piece without unnecessary embellishment.

The blade is forged in a Timascus Skyline pattern — titanium damascus hand-ground to a razor edge, with a layered, striated pattern that catches light and shifts with the angle of view. Set into the handle are genuine Gibeon meteoriteinlays, sourced from a meteorite roughly 4 billion years old that fell in Namibia, displaying the distinctive Widmanstätten crystalline pattern unique to iron meteorites — a material that can’t be reproduced or forged by hand.

This is a true collector’s piece: precision fit, exceptional action, and heirloom-quality finishing from a maker recognised for pushing South African custom knifemaking forward.

Key Features:

• Wharncliffe blade in Timascus Skyline pattern
• Genuine Gibeon meteorite inlays (~4 billion years old)
• Widmanstätten crystalline pattern from Namibian meteorite material
• “Naked” full-drop design with minimal embellishment
• Handcrafted by Knifemakers’ Guild member Anton van der Westhuizen
• Heirloom-quality fit and finish