Jess Horn
Stag Escutcheon Folder · Open
Stag & Escutcheon
A Jess Horn folder in the maker’s gentleman idiom — slim, balanced, and quietly luxurious. The hand-rubbed satin blade carries the JESS HORN tang stamp and runs on the close-fitted pivot that built his name.
The scales are richly figured amber stag, set with a polished nickel-silver oval escutcheon waiting to be monogrammed, and capped by a bright nickel-silver bolster. Natural material, mirror-fitted metal, no wasted line.
- Maker Jess Horn
- Origin Eugene, Oregon
- Pattern Stag Folder · Escutcheon
- Blade Hand-Rubbed Satin
- Handle Amber Stag
- Fittings Nickel-Silver Bolster & Escutcheon
- Marking JESS HORN (Tang Stamp)
Lock type, overall length, blade length and weight to follow — measured by hand.
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Jess Horn
Eugene, Oregon · 1968–2016
Jess Horn began making knives in 1968 and spent nearly five decades refining a singular pursuit: the gentleman’s folder, done without compromise. Working out of Eugene, Oregon, he built his reputation on clean lines, natural materials — fossil ivories, stag, horn, pearl — and a level of fit and finish collectors returned to again and again.
His pivot-pin design became a signature within the trade: by engineering the pin so only its center section — precisely one one-thousandth of an inch proud of the blade — touches the blade, Horn achieved an action smoothness his peers acknowledged was effectively impossible to imitate. Even in his lifetime, his knives were allocated by lottery at the shows he attended.
The gentleman’s folder, done without compromise.
Satin & Mark
The Escutcheon