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There is a thread about another "Adam Smith" who was selling "damascus" (ie pattern-welded) knives some years ago. I'll post a more complete resume at another time, but I want to get this clear here immediately. This is my comment on that thread:
My 2023 post:
I'm sorry to hear that there is someone else with my name who is messing up his/our reputation. I'm in the process of getting back into knifemaking after a long period of making only on a personal and intermittent basis.
I was a full time knifemaker from about 1976 to 1989, Knifemakers' Guild member from 1980 to 1986, check me out in the 1981 Knifemakers' Guild digest or Ken Warner's Knives annual books from 1984 and 1987. I spent 1984 doing nothing but pattern welded and related work, sort of as a research project. Anyone who calls pattern welded knives "Damascus" probably isn't me! (Yes, I know, the ship has sailed on that debate!)
I'm just replying here because if you search on google for "Adam Smith Knives" this thread comes up, and may create a confusion with my site. I'm doing no pattern welded knives at this point.
My domain is adamsmithknives.ca. I'm based in a hamlet in southern Ontario, in Canada. (I don't know where the other Adam Smith is.)
Thanks for your (collective) patience.
My 2023 post:
I'm sorry to hear that there is someone else with my name who is messing up his/our reputation. I'm in the process of getting back into knifemaking after a long period of making only on a personal and intermittent basis.
I was a full time knifemaker from about 1976 to 1989, Knifemakers' Guild member from 1980 to 1986, check me out in the 1981 Knifemakers' Guild digest or Ken Warner's Knives annual books from 1984 and 1987. I spent 1984 doing nothing but pattern welded and related work, sort of as a research project. Anyone who calls pattern welded knives "Damascus" probably isn't me! (Yes, I know, the ship has sailed on that debate!)
I'm just replying here because if you search on google for "Adam Smith Knives" this thread comes up, and may create a confusion with my site. I'm doing no pattern welded knives at this point.
My domain is adamsmithknives.ca. I'm based in a hamlet in southern Ontario, in Canada. (I don't know where the other Adam Smith is.)
Thanks for your (collective) patience.
