Kansas City, MO - December 5th, 2003 - A watch, a pen, money clip, a sleek Xikar knife-all the functional accessories a man can carry. As you dress for the office, a day of hunting, or whatever your day entails, your watch goes on, you check to see if you have your wallet and maybe your favorite pen, but what about your pocket knife? The Xi-118 Elan knife's certified antique handle with scrimshaw detail and heirloom quality is elegant enough to carry in a suit pocket and the stainless blade steel, hardened to Rockwell HRC 57 is sturdy enough for the outdoors.

This elegant pocket knife is the perfect unexpected gift for the outdoorsman, hunter and executive who has everything. The Elan Scrimshaw, with antique ivory handle and hand-scrimshaw work by artist Rick Hutchings is sold as a limited-edition series with only 50 of each series made. This unique art form that began in the United States, is created by scratching the already polished ivory with a carbon steel tipped needle. When the artwork is complete, "Hutch"rubs ink into the scratched surface and the image permanently appears on the ivory handle. Hutchings, who has been perfecting the art of scrimshaw after seven years, spends about four hours handcrafting each Xi-118 Elan handle.

First in a series
The first series, perfect for the adventurous hunter or outdoorsman, includes the African big five game: the leopard, water buffalo, rhino, lion and elephant. The American grand slam series will soon follow with the grizzly bear, bighorn sheep and white tail deer. A nature series, including a hummingbird, rising trout or dragonfly, is immediately available and can be previewed on the Xikar website. (www.xikar.com). The suggested retail price of these elegant knives is $300.

The Xi-118 Elan Scrimshaw knives are not only sleek and useful but elegantly detailed. These knives can be personalized with the recipients name engraved on the blade, or even engraved right into the ivory! Each limited edition Xi-118 Elan comes with a certificate of authenticity and serial number, listed on both the certificate and on the knife itself.

The personalized touch makes them all the more reason to treat a knife as gentleman's jewelry. Xikar believes once a man carries one of their sleek, sophisticated knives for a day, he'll never know what he did without it. We think so too.

About Xikar

Today, XIKAR cigar cutters and gentlemen's folding knives are sold worldwide through more than 3,000 dealers.

Most recently, the company has introduced several new products including the Xi3 Cutter, Xi 007 Twist Punch, MTX Multi-Tool, as well as a full line of fine pocket knives. These include the XI-118 Elan, the XI- 138 Excel, the XI-158 Excursion and the XI-188 Extreme. Product specifics can be found on our website at www.xikar.com.

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Xikar Press Contact: Betsy Donnelly Media Relations email: betsy@xikar.com voice: 1-913-236-7757

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