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KFU

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Matt and I are on our way back from Blade. Dead tired after a couple hours sleep and a 3am wake up call. We met alot of great people and saw alot of knives. In all honesty, I feel good and crappy about my knives now. Seeing some of the mastersmiths work makes you feel almost embarassed ti show a knife!
 
I've seen your knives, Chris. You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Like the title says...Knives For Users. Pretty boy knives will always be around, but I'll take something I can use anyday. In my world there are "show cars" and "go cars" I own a "go car" no show queens here...complete with stone chips small dings etc... Your knives are no exception. Be proud and know that your customers need/want knives that can take punishment and get the job done.
 
Chris - there is no need to be ashamed of what you make.
You and Matt both make really good looking knives that are obviously meant to be used, not safe queens.
A lot of those master smiths are making art knives that will likely never be used to cut so much as a piece of string, much less whittle a tent stake or strike a fire steel.

I hope you guys had a chance to talk to Todd -- I'm real curious to see what you guys come up with for a collab.
 
I hear ya guys. Its just really humbling as well as inspiring to see so much talent go into a knife. We handled a knife by Scott Mcghee, freakin amazing and he uses his knives. Super nice guy and was gracious enough to give me some feedback on a knife I made for myself last night to take with me. He told me it was a nice knife but he would have changed one thing...anyone wanna take a guess what it was?????????
 
Oh, we spent quite a bit of time with Todd. We talked about doing something in the future. Matt and I want to go out to his place so maybe we can do one when we get out there.
 
KFU said:
I hear ya guys. Its just really humbling as well as inspiring to see so much talent go into a knife. We handled a knife by Scott Mcghee, freakin amazing and he uses his knives. Super nice guy and was gracious enough to give me some feedback on a knife I made for myself last night to take with me. He told me it was a nice knife but he would have changed one thing...anyone wanna take a guess what it was?????????
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Polish the blade, or put a more acute point on it?
hard to guess without seeing what you had with you. ;)
 
thin the scales out and widen the tang! This one actually had a polished satin blade with antique flats. Check out his website Vik. He had two fighters there today that were literally perfect. Both Matt and I picked up one and said WOW. Its a damn fine handle when it fits both of our hands. He sandblasted micarta on it and and it would be perfect on a woods knife. Not my style of knife but I would fork out the cash in a heartbeat to get one to use. The thing I like about his work is that he also makes hunter/bushcraft knives and uses them!
 
I can see that -- in the challenge there were a couple of blades referred to as having "broomstick" handles -- i.e. too close to round -- yours was not one of those.
That's actually one of the things I like about the ESEE 6 and Ontario TAK1 -- a fairly wide handle that's not too thick -- they just need a little contouring to make them perfect.
 
I think I need to the tang about 1/8". His handle was obviously a stick tang but he had a very slight taper from front to a little behind center, than a deep contour. Obviously this was a forward focused grip but I think it would translate to a woods knife with a few minor changes. It literally felt like there were contours on the bottom of the handle for each finger. I had to look to validate that they weren't there. Dead center grinds, perfectly tapered tip and tang.
 
Yes man there were some amazing knives, the guy chris is talking about especially. His knives were perfect period. I saw the hamon he had on one in w2 and it caught my eye early on, then chris and I went over later to inspect and wow... inspiring for sure.
 
Isn't Scott Guineahog Forge? If so he's an ABS MS. His stuff really is nice. Him and Wheeler make a lot of similar stuff.

I do agree with him about handles though. Not about yours personally, I've never held one of your knives. But one problem I have with a LOT of knives these days is how easily they become dislodge from my grip. For me proper indexing is more important than anything else in a knife.

I think you guys do great work and don't have anything to be ashamed of!
 
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