2010 submission incoming from Burt Foster

Cool hunter. The wood is really odd and nice and that laminate is one of the more perfect examples of it i've seen from Burt. I like how the handle looks but I gotta say the handle on my Foster hunter (which I miss already) was a little thinner and had more cut out by the trigger and nothing ever felt quite like it.
 
by this time, I'd figure Burt wouldn't finish the handle at all, but just send it to you "kinda rough" so that it could be properly "Garssonized" :p

Bill
 
billf said:
by this time, I'd figure Burt wouldn't finish the handle at all, but just send it to you "kinda rough" so that it could be properly "Garssonized" :p

Bill
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Yeah I was wondering the same thing myself?

Actually can you tell us more about the BF project? I mean if there is anything to know besides that its a ten year showing of his knives.
 
Stephen,

Congrats - it is a stunning knife. The single pin might be more elegant, but I like it just the way it is.

I am in the camp that likes the handle just the way it is. What did Burt mean by the handle was sized for "girly palms"?
 
jonathan brand said:
Yeah I was wondering the same thing myself?

Actually can you tell us more about the BF project? I mean if there is anything to know besides that its a ten year showing of his knives.
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In 2004, I was struck by this set Burt had at the ABS Knife Expo:


I mean stopped dead in my tracks. It was the last day of the show, and I was flying back home in a couple of hours, but this was really something.

Burt and I did a lot of talking on the phone, and he made me the clip point carbon fighter in the photograph with the hamon. Next year, I got the laminated fighter with the spalted maple burl handle. By the third year, it was a damascus set, featuring the recurve damascus camp knife, and I decided to collect 10 years of Burt Foster knives. My hope is to show the suite complete at some art galleries around where Burt is located(South) and give a talk on the opening night....with Burt.

Geode said:
I am in the camp that likes the handle just the way it is. What did Burt mean by the handle was sized for "girly palms"?
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I think my size small-glove hands are about the size of Burt's young daughter's hands. Burt can palm a bowling ball....or my head.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Great proportions, excellent styling.
Enjoy it buddy, you deserve it and kudo's to Burt
Dave
 
Kohai999 said:
I told him I thought it was masterful, and I might want him to shave the front of the handle a bit.;)

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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AWESOME blade, and I was thinking the handle looked just a bit thick in the front also.

I think it will look better slimmed down a bit towards the guard.

COOL project, and I remember thinking how nice that set was from the ABS Expo.

Peter
 
Beautiful knife. Please tell me you're not gonna "Garssonize" the handle! :D
 
Man, Burt did a great job on that blade! I really like the bronze and the sheoak (I've never seen sheoak prior to this post). The 3 pins look fine to my eye although if given a choice I would have gone with one.

The blade pattern looks like "heartbeat" and the wood grain looks like electricity to me. Love the combination and the guard is just right. If you think that's out there you should see the notes Hanson gets from me and the better half when we scrutinize his damascus :D

I laughed hard at the term "girly palms". The first time I shook hands with Royer I felt like I had little girls hands...and I wear XL motorcycle gloves (had to say motorcycle to help the good ole fragile male ego).

Love Burt's work. Congrats Steve!
 
Really cool, Steven. Ten years - that's a commitment. It's the kind of thing that would make many collectors and makers nervous. One would have to have a lot of self-confidence to pull it off, not just confidence in the other - on both sides of the deal. It raises issues like honesty, dependability, stability, viability over time. I wouldn't know what to think of it if I didn't know you and Burt personally, but I do and that's why this makes total sense to me. I salute you both! :thumbup:
 
HTMD said:
Really cool, Steven. Ten years - that's a commitment. It's the kind of thing that would make many collectors and makers nervous. One would have to have a lot of self-confidence to pull it off, not just confidence in the other - on both sides of the deal. It raises issues like honesty, dependability, stability, viability over time. I wouldn't know what to think of it if I didn't know you and Burt personally, but I do and that's why this makes total sense to me. I salute you both! :thumbup:
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After the third installment, it just made sense to me. Burt and I are on such different sides of thought, vision, life.....

When I look at his work, what he is doing with the steel, with the blade shapes, it is really compelling. His knives speak to me, and through them, there is a metaphorical dialogue and with him, we have actual dialogue. Sometimes, it is just him talking, and me laughing so hard it's impossible to breathe. He has enough business acumen to see the plus sides of such an arrangement, without giving anything up(not be a sellout). We already have the 2011 installment picked out, it was to be the 2010 installment, but that is another story.

Flexibility, good communication and mutual respect are necessary factors in order for something like this to be successful. We have six years complete, 4 left to go.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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This one is a pleasure to view, what with the bronze, linking up the great sheoak on one end and the laminate on the other. Great piece. I actually like it as much as that musk ox laminate that Dave Ellis took. Burt's laminates are working on my mind lately.

And this one sure looks like a pleasure to have in hand.

Best,

Bob
 
Anyone who's been on these forums for any length of time has come to know, or maybe it's more accurate to say they have come to know a part of Steve G. Crazy opinionated, maybe just crazy, very articulate, and has been around this business longer than a lot of makers, myself included.

As Steve says, he and I approach a lot of things in life from what he called opposite sides, which is partly true, but I think we see a lot of things from very nearly the same angle. And that's what keeps us talking to one another. Cuz if it weren't for those things, Steve would have actually tried to iajitsu (or whatever it is you do with a sword and a dress) me into the next life and I would have returned the favor by stepping on him.

It really is a pleasure talking to you Steve. I'm often wondering if you know what the heck you're talking about til you're finished, and I realize you probably knew it all along.

Thanks again!
 
STeven,

Congrats on a wonderful addition to your fantastic Foster collection ! :thumbup:
Great materials choice and nobody does laminates like Burt Foster.

Doug
 
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