Albers Cutlery Company

[Travman]

 

[Jon0385]

(Double post of this picture from the guardians thread)
I am absolutely loving this knife!

 

[Viper84]

I owe you guys a few more pictures! I've been working on a little side project (can't really talk about it just yet) that's been eating up all of my free-time, but I'll try to get some better photos soon!

Lamb Foot in Raffir stabilized black and white mammoth ivory.

And a shot of my whole Albers family.

And how it compares to some of the other lamb foot knives in my collection.

Does Eric take custom orders or something?

 

[Fixall]

Does Eric take custom orders or something?

Not that I’m aware of, but I’m not sure. I don’t want to speak for Eric. I hope I didn’t cause his inbox to fill up because of my post, lol.

My lamb foot is just an example of Eric’s awesomeness as a person. About eight months ago or so, I sent Eric four mammoth tusk slabs and some other vintage material. Eric was kind enough to use some of the material to make a knife for me.

 

[BDubbs]

I don’t understand why we don’t see katalox on knives much more often. It’s such a beautiful wood! The depth you get from the curly variety doesn’t show up too well in pictures, but it is so pretty in person!!

I hear it can be difficult to work….

 

[Fixall]

I hear it can be difficult to work….

That wouldn’t surprise me in the least! I haven’t worked it just yet, but I have several pieces of regular katalox that I’ve cut into scales. It’s some solid stuff! It almost felt like african blackwood hard. I imagine the curly stuff, with the grain going everywhere would be a massive pain.

 

[Wharn]

Fixall absolutely stunning! So the mammoth is stabilized? Is it in some sort of resin? I love it.

 

[cudgee]

I hear it can be difficult to work….

I'm sure there was a thread here on the forum about it. And if my memory serves me correctly it was about how difficult it can be to work with. But relying on my memory can be fraught with danger.

 

[waynorth]

Congratulations to everyone who secured one of Eric's Lambs, and thanks for the pics, I'm enjoying them vicariously

There are more to come!!!

 

[Fixall]

Fixall absolutely stunning! So the mammoth is stabilized? Is it in some sort of resin? I love it.

Correct.

It’s stabilized and then cast in black dyed resin. It was kind of experiment to see if the material would be durable enough for a little side project I’m working on. Unfortunately, the material ended up being fairly brittle (people smarter than me suspect it’s the heat from stabilization or the exothermic reaction from casting). I sent material to three makers. There was enough material for 5 - 7 knives total, but I believe only enough material for three knives survived the process.

I just recently cut five new mammoth slabs. I purchased the tusk stabilized and cast, like the last material, but I’m trying something a little different.

After cutting the stabilized/cast tusk into slabs, I sent it out to K&G to be stabilized AGAIN. From there, I’m going to cast each individual slab in Liquid Diamonds resin and see how it goes. Most likely it will be a failure.

Natural, unstabilized mammoth seems to be the way to go.

 

[Fixall]

There are more to come!!!

I didn’t want to say anything!!!

 

[Pàdruig]

I'm not entirely sure what's going on but here is some dark groovy Stag and that makes me happy.

 

[Jon0385]

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, I really hope you get one

Thanks Jon, I hope so too, but I'm happy looking at them

I owe you guys a few more pictures! I've been working on a little side project (can't really talk about it just yet) that's been eating up all of my free-time, but I'll try to get some better photos soon!

Lamb Foot in Raffir stabilized black and white mammoth ivory.

And a shot of my whole Albers family.

And how it compares to some of the other lamb foot knives in my collection.

That looks incredible

There are more to come!!!

Great news

 

[Jon0385]

ea42 what are the chances the future lambs includes a RED cover option?

 

[ea42]

Jon that's always a possibility, the red sleeveboard jacks turned out nice.

Nice pics everyone! Let me know if you find any areas that could use improvement on those lamb foot knives.

Eric

 

[Jon0385]

Jon that's always a possibility, the red sleeveboard jacks turned out nice.

Nice pics everyone! Let me know if you find any areas that could use improvement on those lamb foot knives.

Eric

I really hope you do.

My constructive feedback is the covers should have been red and because the lambfoot blade doesn’t have a belly on it I think there is room to lower the blade more in the well. I only say this because it looks like after a number of sharpenings a proud tip may develop.

My jokes of the covers aside the wood you picked is something else. They’re about impossible to capture in a picture and have a great texture to them. I don’t know what patterns you were considering, but I’m very happy you went with a swayback instead of a Barlow. Also the pull is very satisfying.

 

[sf fanatic]

Jon that's always a possibility, the red sleeveboard jacks turned out nice.

Nice pics everyone! Let me know if you find any areas that could use improvement on those lamb foot knives.

Eric

They are beautiful! The only area of improvement would be to send me an invoice for one with any choice of handles. Of course as you mentioned before an ancient lambfoot would be great addition. .

 

[ErikMB]

They are beautiful! The only area of improvement would be to send me an invoice for one with any choice of handles. Of course as you mentioned before an ancient lambfoot would be great addition. .

What he said but make it two, please. I have a son.

 

[Will Power]

Not an 'improvement' just an option: how about Rat-Tail bolster? Ivory Camelbone could look the part too

Thanks, Will