11" Omerta Sons Of Italy Orange Wood Hammered Brass Icepick Custom Sardinian 5mm Bayonet Lockback Automatic Stiletto Switchblade Knife by Rubens Blades

5mm Mirror Polished Stainless Steel Bayonet Blade

Tang Etched with Crown Logo and OMERTA

Blade Etched:  SONS OF ITALY

Solid Brass Lightly Hammer Finished Bolsters

Solid Brass Liners

Stainless Steel Button

Custom Orange Wood Handle Scales With Hammered Brass Scale Plate and Sliding Safety

5mm Thick Lockback and Spring with Knurled Catch.

Roller Bearing Set for Knife Recess & Pivot Area For Smooth Fast Action.

No one has ever made a 5mm model and it is awesome to be the first to bring such an item to creation.

These are the best high end quality stiletto switchblades on the market today that are fully custom hand made in the USA with premium grade materials.

The Only Automatic Stiletto Switchblade Knife For The American Wiseguy In You.

Omertà is a Code of Honor that is rooted in the Code of Silence.

Non-cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the illegal and legal actions of others.

Bringing Back Quality With Honor !!!

Omertà Stilettos Are The Only True Italian Made Stiletto Knives Built In America.

Each Piece Is Hand Crafted & Hand Assembled by Rubens Blades in the USA.

Hand Made Works of Art From An Italian-American Artisan

The Stiletto is a blade style first developed in Italy and dates from the late 1400s.

It is thought to be a development of the rondel dagger or misericordia, a needle-pointed weapon with a narrow blade designed primarily for thrusting, though possessing cutting edges.

The Italian word "stiletto" comes from the Latin stilus, the thin pointed Roman writing instrument used to engrave wax or clay tablets in ancient times.

The stiletto began to gain fame during the late Middle Ages, when it was the secondary weapon of knights.

Originally designed as a purely offensive weapon, the stiletto was used to finish off a fallen or severely wounded heavily armored opponent.

The needle-like blade could easily penetrate most mail or find its way through gaps in a knight's plate armor, and was narrow enough to pass through the eye slits of the helmeted knight.

A severely wounded opponent, who was not expected to survive, would be given a "mercy strike".

The Italian stiletto, originally a purely offensive weapon used to kill an unsuspecting or wounded adversary, was later embraced throughout Italy as a fighting knife for close combat confrontations.

The popularity of the stiletto in the Kingdom of Sicily resulted in the development of the scherma di stiletto siciliano (Sicilian school of stiletto fighting).

The stiletto was purely a thrusting or stabbing weapon, and the scherma di stiletto siciliano accordingly taught fighting movements designed to avoid the tip of the opponent's blade (scanso).

Techniques characteristic of the scherma di stiletto siciliano include sbasso (bending to ground), in quarto tagliata (tacking to left or right), and the balzo (leap to evade the enemy’s blade).

A person skilled in the use of a stiletto would thrust the knife deep into the victim, then twist the blade sharply in various directions before retracting it, causing the sharp point to inflict severe internal damage not readily apparent when examining the entrance wound.

During the 1950s, large numbers of folding switchblade or automatic opening knives with locking blades were imported from Italy to the United States.

These Italian switchblades were commonly and popularly referred to as stilettos, since most incorporated a long, slender blade tapering to a needle-like point, together with a slim-profile handle and vestigial cross-guard.

The majority of these Italian stiletto switchblade knives used a now-iconic bayonet-style blade with a single sabre-grind edge (often unsharpened) and a long opposing false edge.

As with the medieval stiletto, the stiletto switchblade was designed primarily as an offensive weapon, optimized for thrusting rather than cutting.

Most of these knives were designed with a locking device which locked the blade in the open position, and this lock, combined with the stiletto blade profile, enabled the knife to be used as an effective thrusting or stabbing weapon (unlike most U.S. switchblade designs of the day).

The Mafia known as Cosa Nostra which translates to "Our Thing"

La Cosa Nostra is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy.

The American Mafia arose from offshoots of the Mafia that emerged in the United States during the late nineteenth century, following waves of emigration from Italy.

Omertà Stilettos Are Truly Our Thing & Demands You Live By The Code Of Honor

Features:

• Lockback Release Stiletto
• Solid Brass Lightly Hammered Bolsters
• Custom Orange Wood Handle Scales
• Mirror Polished Stainless Steel Bayonet Blade

Specifications:

• Overall Length:  11"
• Closed Length:  6"
• Blade Length:  5"