"Ruby" | The Crimson Rosella
WAS $255.00
RRP $255.00
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The Hills have a bird most people only half-notice.
The crimson rosella doesn't announce itself the way the lorikeet does. It slips through the wet gums and the mountain ash, a deep jewel red against blue cheeks and a black-scalloped back, and it's gone before you've properly clocked it. No screeching gangs. Just a bell-clear note and a flash of crimson through the canopy. If the lorikeet is the party, the rosella is the one who leaves early and looks better for it.
Here's the part most people don't know: rosellas aren't born red. The young ones come up green and olive, hidden in plain sight, and grow into their crimson over their first couple of years. They earn the colour. There's something honest about that — a bird that has to become the striking thing it ends up being.
That's Ruby.
She's the counterpart to Lily, and deliberately a little different in the hand. Where the lorikeet runs hard and sharp for the steel obsessives, the rosella is the easy-living one — Sandvik 14C28N at 58 HRC, a Swedish stainless that's tough as old boots, shrugs off rust, and takes a keen edge back in minutes on a stone. Less fuss, more forgiveness. The knife you don't baby. The one that just works, every day, and quietly looks better than everything else in your pocket.
A 75 mm double-bevel blade with jimping under thumb and finger, riding a caged ceramic bearing, dropping open off the flipper into a button lock. Damascus G10 scales, a heat-treated spring-steel clip, 113 grams. Built for a full life outdoors — same as the bird it's named for.
Japanese soul. Australian stories. And this story is a quiet one, red against the green, up where the air's a little cooler.
BLADE: 95.8mm
OVERALL: 207.2mm
FOLDED: 110mm
WEIGHT: 115g
STEEL: Sandvik 14C28N
HRC: 58
BLADE TYPE: Drop Point
GRIND: Triple Bevel + Finger Grip Slots
SCALES: Crimson & Cobalt Blue G10 Damascus
LOCK: Bearing Lock
OPENER: Top Flipper Tab
PIVOT: Caged Ceramic Bearing
ORIGIN: South Australia
| SKU | KOI-001-ROSE |
| Brand | KOI |
| Shipping Weight | 0.1900kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.035m |
| Shipping Height | 0.070m |
| Shipping Length | 0.160m |
| Shipping Cubic | 0.000392000m3 |
The Hills have a bird most people only half-notice.
The crimson rosella doesn't announce itself the way the lorikeet does. It slips through the wet gums and the mountain ash, a deep jewel red against blue cheeks and a black-scalloped back, and it's gone before you've properly clocked it. No screeching gangs. Just a bell-clear note and a flash of crimson through the canopy. If the lorikeet is the party, the rosella is the one who leaves early and looks better for it.
Here's the part most people don't know: rosellas aren't born red. The young ones come up green and olive, hidden in plain sight, and grow into their crimson over their first couple of years. They earn the colour. There's something honest about that — a bird that has to become the striking thing it ends up being.
That's Ruby.
She's the counterpart to Lily, and deliberately a little different in the hand. Where the lorikeet runs hard and sharp for the steel obsessives, the rosella is the easy-living one — Sandvik 14C28N at 58 HRC, a Swedish stainless that's tough as old boots, shrugs off rust, and takes a keen edge back in minutes on a stone. Less fuss, more forgiveness. The knife you don't baby. The one that just works, every day, and quietly looks better than everything else in your pocket.
A 75 mm double-bevel blade with jimping under thumb and finger, riding a caged ceramic bearing, dropping open off the flipper into a button lock. Damascus G10 scales, a heat-treated spring-steel clip, 113 grams. Built for a full life outdoors — same as the bird it's named for.
Japanese soul. Australian stories. And this story is a quiet one, red against the green, up where the air's a little cooler.
BLADE: 95.8mm
OVERALL: 207.2mm
FOLDED: 110mm
WEIGHT: 115g
STEEL: Sandvik 14C28N
HRC: 58
BLADE TYPE: Drop Point
GRIND: Triple Bevel + Finger Grip Slots
SCALES: Crimson & Cobalt Blue G10 Damascus
LOCK: Bearing Lock
OPENER: Top Flipper Tab
PIVOT: Caged Ceramic Bearing
ORIGIN: South Australia
| SKU | KOI-001-ROSE |
| Brand | KOI |
| Shipping Weight | 0.1900kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.035m |
| Shipping Height | 0.070m |
| Shipping Length | 0.160m |
| Shipping Cubic | 0.000392000m3 |
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