Reese Weiland
Damascus Automatic
Damascus Blade & Inlay
The Rastor Auto — a push-button automatic from Reese Weiland. Four and a half inches of deeply curved Damascus blade, pierced with a row of filework holes, swinging out of a mirror-polished frame.
Damascus on the blade and the inlay panel both — a working auto brought to art-knife finish.
- Maker Reese Weiland
- Model Rastor Auto
- Form Automatic Folder · Push-Button
- Blade Damascus · Hawkbill · 4.5″
- Handle Damascus Inlay · Polished Frame
- Overall 10.5″
- Weight 17.7 oz
Closed · Damascus Inlay
The Hawkbill Blade
Frame & Pivot
Reese Weiland
Knifemakers Guild · Member since 1988
Reese Weiland’s interest in knives began at twelve, through an uncle — an amateur archaeologist who made knives out of saw blades. A Christmas book on knifemaking followed, and the boy answered it by forging a sword from a piece of junk and giving it back to his uncle.
He joined the Knifemakers Guild in 1988 and made his first folder the next year. Folders have been his work ever since — today the overwhelming majority of it — built across the full range of mechanisms: automatic, semi-automatic and switch-mode, in high-end Damascus and mammoth ivory.
“I made a sword out of a piece of junk and gave it to my uncle.”
Filework & Push-Button
Closed Profile