Albers Cutlery Company

[WalleyeBob]

Just arrived. Love it! Thank you Eric!!

 

[Bubber]

Wonderful gnarly looking stag!

 

[fishin1635]

Nice canyons and valleys on that one…

 

[WalleyeBob]

Thanks Gents!

Albers stag and Albers ram’s horn below to look at. Both are very grippy. I’ve spent a fair bit of time admiring the lines and colors in the ram’s horn.

 

[waynorth]

Just arrived. Love it! Thank you Eric!!

Thanks Gents!

Albers stag and Albers ram’s horn below to look at. Both are very grippy. I’ve spent a fair bit of time admiring the lines and colors in the ram’s horn.

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Both Nice knives, Bob!! And thanks for the trade!!
That Horn is nicely matched - colors vary, but the texture is perfect!!

 

[WalleyeBob]

Both Nice knives, Bob!! And thanks for the trade!!
That Horn is nicely matched - colors vary, but the texture is perfect!!

Thanks for a great afternoon Charlie!

 

[waynorth]

Thanks for a great afternoon Charlie!

Nuthin' like sharing and bragging in person!! I missed our knife club meeting,
and Bob dropped by for a tradin' and gabfest!!!!

 

[AnW]

ea42 -Eric, any update on your plans for a two blade knife?

If I recall correctly you were planning a clip main with a pen secondary?

Thanks!

 

[Jody744]

Hoping the lambsfoot is next!!!

 

[skyhorse]

A little WIP after the work's done

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Eric

WOW, fantastic

 

[ea42]

ea42 -Eric, any update on your plans for a two blade knife?

If I recall correctly you were planning a clip main with a pen secondary?

Thanks!

Adam I put that one on hold for a bit so that I can concentrate on getting the lamb foot knife done first. Want to try to get some of those out some time during the summer, then work on the two blade jacks.


Making progress on the next batch of jacks, all the shaping is done and just started buffing. Should be done by the end of the week:



Eric

 

[mrknife]

Adam I put that one on hold for a bit so that I can concentrate on getting the lamb foot knife done first. Want to try to get some of those out some time during the summer, then work on the two blade jacks.


Making progress on the next batch of jacks, all the shaping is done and just started buffing. Should be done by the end of the week:

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Eric

and end caps? when will those happen Eric?

 

[AnW]

Adam I put that one on hold for a bit so that I can concentrate on getting the lamb foot knife done first. Want to try to get some of those out some time during the summer, then work on the two blade jacks.


Making progress on the next batch of jacks, all the shaping is done and just started buffing. Should be done by the end of the week:

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Eric

Wow, they look great! Really looking to the Lambfoot as well!

 

[The Amazing Virginian]

Adam I put that one on hold for a bit so that I can concentrate on getting the lamb foot knife done first. Want to try to get some of those out some time during the summer, then work on the two blade jacks.


Making progress on the next batch of jacks, all the shaping is done and just started buffing. Should be done by the end of the week:

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Eric

Looking great.

So . . . time for me to start camping out on my email 24/7 and eliminate all other distractions, like eating or sleeping.

 

[ea42]

and end caps? when will those happen Eric?

That's still a ways off Jack!


Here's the aftermath of opening fifty knives about 400 times whilst hammering pins and cutlering. They're extra stiff before I grind the backs down to thin the springs:






Thankfully I've got this little guy. Had to switch to it long before I was done hammering. I made that little pick about 14 years ago when I was at Canal Street. I think the butter and molasses handle pieces were leftover material from the Schrade Walden days:





Here's the first knife fresh off the buff. Figured I'd get it in before my hands turned completely black. For some reason it's got a bit of an orange hue to it in the photo but in actuality it's more of a darker red :



Eric

 

[Bubber]

Adam I put that one on hold for a bit so that I can concentrate on getting the lamb foot knife done first. Want to try to get some of those out some time during the summer, then work on the two blade jacks.


Making progress on the next batch of jacks, all the shaping is done and just started buffing. Should be done by the end of the week:

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Eric

Of course I’m drooling on myself!

 

[fishin1635]

ea42 OUCH! All that hard work is paying off… those look stunning Eric. I’ve tried a couple knife picks but could never find one that worked for me, kinda tricky.

What are those covers called again?

Ralph

 

[ea42]

Ralph those are red dyed box elder burl. I'll put a picture of the cork oak up a bit later.

Eric

 

[ea42]

OK here's one of the cork oak handled knives, not super clean as it's also just off the buff.



Eric

 

[Fixall]

I'm pretty sure the world wide web is going to crash when the Lambfoot knives are released. I can hardly wait.

OK here's one of the cork oak handled knives, not super clean as it's also just off the buff.

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Eric

That looks phenomenal, such character! Cork oak is such a cool material... You can harvest large sections of the bark (the actual cork) every ten years or so and it will regenerate. I think you can do that like a dozen times without causing any damage to the tree. Cork trees that are harvested also pull something like ten times more CO2 out of the air than not harvested Cork trees. I believe it uses the carbon to regenerate the bark. Just a really cool, useful material.