Arpad Bojtos Custom Knife “Hercules and Hydra” Fixed Blade

This is the second knife from the planned series of 12 Hercules' Labors by Arpad Bojtos. The handle is carved mammoth ivory, the sheath is carved hippo ivory, snake wood, buffalo horn, gold and silver. The struggle of Hercules and the Hydra is carved in the steel [the eyes of the Hydra are inlayed with gold]. On the ivory handle is carved the figure of Iolaos, the friend of Hercules, who helped Hercules defeat the Hydra by handing him a torch to cauterize the severed appendage of the Hydra. In the end of the Sheath is the crab, which helped the Hydra by pinching Hercules feet. This Arpad Bojtosknife is featured in the Jan 2008 issue of Blade Magazine on page 99.