handmade folding knife from the Jay Bigler Knife Collection

Description

Thank you for your interest in this knife. My father, Jay Bigler, a hobbyist knifemaker, was pretty much self-taught and didn't begin making knives until he retired in 1993. He passed in 2016, but had suffered from a severe stroke in 2012 at the age of 82. He was not able to work on knives from that time on. Before that he was prolific in the knives he produced. No two were ever completely alike.
Unfortunately, he did not catalog his knives as to when they were made or the materials that he used.
However, I am beginning to discern a range of years from how he put his name on the knives.
The small semicircle gives its creation somewhere between 2004 and early 2012.
Closed, the knife is 3 1/16
inches. Fully opened, it's about 5.5 inches. The blade is 2 7/16 inches. The wood on the knife has been applied to be raised above the metal. It feels like there is a small bit of epoxy at about 7 o'clock from the "J Bigler" semicircle. I am sure that it could easily be buffed out. The liner lock relocks when the blade is at 90 degrees when trying to close the blade.
Selling "as is".
As a side note: I am so grateful to the buyers who have purchased Bigler knives. It makes me glad to know how widely appreciated my father’s work is. Through sales here, knives have gone to collectors in over 20 states, from coast to coast and border to border.