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Greetings all,
These two knives are my most recent additions from Dan Farr and they are pretty special pieces. The hunter was an ordered knife that I had the opportunity to see at various stages of completion at Dans shop. The design is the same as Dans basic personal use hunter, though this one is a bit dressed up with creamy caramel mammoth ivory for the handle and Dans first engraving on the guard. The slightly re-curved blade is 3 7/8 in length, with an overall length of 8. The blade is forged CPM 1V a steel which has performed very well for Dan in the field. And I know this litte guy cuts, cause I got to try it out before it was finished. As with all of Dans knives, the handle is a perfect fit in the hand.
The next knife is one that Dan had on his table at Blade and I owe a huge thank-you to my buddy Danbo for being my proxy shopper and snagging it for me. Growing up, Dan had always been a huge fan of the Loveless chute knife. As with many of us (though perhaps few of us would admit it now) the purposeful but beautiful design sparked many a youthful flight of fancy of cutting himself free from his parachute rigging, then stalking wild game with the trusty blade lashed to a pole.
Dan had always wanted to make a chute knife of his own, though he wished to render his own interpretation of the design rather than reproduce the original. The result is pretty darned cool:
This particular blade is forged from an experimental steel that Crucible is specially developing for bladesmiths. It does not yet have a name, as the final specs and composition have not been decided upon. Blade length is 5 1/8 with an overall length of 10 1/8. The blade sports not one, but two sets of perfectly-executed curved plunge cuts and displays a very active hamon (which can be better seen in the photo below). As luck would have it, Dan used the same colour mammoth and the same basic engraving pattern as used on my hunter. But in typical Farr fashion, when it became clear that the knives would in fact form a set, Dan wished to tie them together even further. As a consequence, each 3/16th inch pin on the knives was painstakingly engraved with a small leaf on a stippled background. VERY nice touch:
Since Coop had agreed to shoot the pair, I imposed upon him further to give me beloved Farr competition cutter its turn under the lens. Youve seen it here before, but never quite so well as this:
My thanks to Dan and Coop and to you all for your attention.
Roger
These two knives are my most recent additions from Dan Farr and they are pretty special pieces. The hunter was an ordered knife that I had the opportunity to see at various stages of completion at Dans shop. The design is the same as Dans basic personal use hunter, though this one is a bit dressed up with creamy caramel mammoth ivory for the handle and Dans first engraving on the guard. The slightly re-curved blade is 3 7/8 in length, with an overall length of 8. The blade is forged CPM 1V a steel which has performed very well for Dan in the field. And I know this litte guy cuts, cause I got to try it out before it was finished. As with all of Dans knives, the handle is a perfect fit in the hand.
The next knife is one that Dan had on his table at Blade and I owe a huge thank-you to my buddy Danbo for being my proxy shopper and snagging it for me. Growing up, Dan had always been a huge fan of the Loveless chute knife. As with many of us (though perhaps few of us would admit it now) the purposeful but beautiful design sparked many a youthful flight of fancy of cutting himself free from his parachute rigging, then stalking wild game with the trusty blade lashed to a pole.
Dan had always wanted to make a chute knife of his own, though he wished to render his own interpretation of the design rather than reproduce the original. The result is pretty darned cool:
This particular blade is forged from an experimental steel that Crucible is specially developing for bladesmiths. It does not yet have a name, as the final specs and composition have not been decided upon. Blade length is 5 1/8 with an overall length of 10 1/8. The blade sports not one, but two sets of perfectly-executed curved plunge cuts and displays a very active hamon (which can be better seen in the photo below). As luck would have it, Dan used the same colour mammoth and the same basic engraving pattern as used on my hunter. But in typical Farr fashion, when it became clear that the knives would in fact form a set, Dan wished to tie them together even further. As a consequence, each 3/16th inch pin on the knives was painstakingly engraved with a small leaf on a stippled background. VERY nice touch:
Since Coop had agreed to shoot the pair, I imposed upon him further to give me beloved Farr competition cutter its turn under the lens. Youve seen it here before, but never quite so well as this:
My thanks to Dan and Coop and to you all for your attention.
Roger
