Bob Loveless on the Worker (or am I hallucinating?)

[mnblade]

Guys,

I have this vague memory YEARS ago of reading a copy of some knife magazine I used to get when I was a kid (Bruce Voyles' mag .... "Blade"?). Anyway, I have this foggy memory of an interview with Bob Loveless where he is talking about heavy-duty work knives and he says that, if he were working, say, on the docks, cutting rope all day, he'd get a serrated Worker knife for a new company called Spyderco. I seem to remember him complimenting the steel and edge geometry of the serrations, etc.

Anyone else recollect this, or am I hallucinating? Maybe it wasn't Loveless but some other well-known maker. Hell, I don't know.

Thoughts?

 

[mnblade]

NO ONE? Maybe I am hallucinating.

Sal? Surely you must recollect this.

 

[Mr Blonde]

No it's in the recent big knives, big bowies etc... book by Paladin Press. It's a collection of old sof articles.

 

[mnblade]

So I DID read that!?

 

[bob7]

I think he also said that if companies like Spyderco existed when he was getting his start, he wouldn't have started. He also, from memory, referred to them as "black-handled" knives. Might be wrong; read something like that a long time ago.
bob7

 

[Mr Blonde]

So I DID read that!?

yep, and you can read it again here.

Wouter

 

[mnblade]

I don't suppose this one (or any other cool articles mentioning Spyderco) is posted somewhere on the spydie site, is it? I couldn't find any, but then again I ain't always the sharpest tool in the shed --- that would be my Endura.