Books and Newspapers. So I get home ...

[Bastid]

... and open the mailbox. I grabbed what looked like a bunch o' junk and walked back up the driveway. Then I stopped. What is this.

Knife World with color pictures on the front! The second thing that hit me was, "I wonder if the Artistry In Knives "centerfold" ... Yes!

KW has always been my favorite knife publications from the beginning. I'm a knucklehead who enjoys reading and one of my favorite subjects is knives, I just felt it had the best information and it covered a wide area. Not to mention that you always had something by B.R. Hughes to look forward to as well as Bernard Levine and others.

It did not matter to me that KW was in a black and white newspaper format, but they have upgraded the paper this year and the June issue has some color pictures. Times change and this was a good change. Great idea and congrats to Mark for pulling it off.

For a change of subject - a question.

What are your favorite knife books?
Mine are:

The Antique Bowie Knife Book
Sheffield Exhibition Knives
Fire And Steel and Master Of The Forge. (Books about Bill Moran).
Some various Auction Catalogs (some from 30 years ago the latest is the Williamson Bowie Collection.)
Various Guides and Ferguson books.
Jim Weyer's Points of Interest Series.
David Daram's books.
The Sheffield Knife Book
Knives and Knifemakers
Joseph Rogers Exhibition Knives.
Various "How to Make Knives" books by several makers/authors.

 

[Blues]

That's good news, Gus. I may need to resubscribe.

My favorite or most used books are:

Levine's Guide (IV)
Pocket Knives (Levine)
The Working Folding Knife (Steve Dick)
Best of Knife World
Ed Fowler's "Knife Talk"
Price Guide To Knives
Bunch of annuals and other assorted publications

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I'm looking to get the Blade Price guide to knives, and the Bernard Levine book. Ed Fowlers books were great.

 

[roughedges]

Glad to here that KW added some color. It'll only make reading it that much more enjoyable.

I've got a bunch of knifemaking books; Wayne Goddard's are some of my favorites.

Right now, all four of David Darom's knife books and Bernard Levine's IV are sitting on my little coffee table.

 

[jackknife]

There's a wonderful old book on my shelf, long out of print, American Knives" by Harold Peterson. It was one of the first knife books published in the U.S.

Also a good read is the second anual edition of Knife Digest, edited by William Cassidy. Theres a very goood history of Solingen in it as well as historys of Boker, Puma, and Bertram's.

For the military end of things is Allied Military Fighting Knives, by Robert Buerlein. Good history of the development of the well known knives, as well as some of the interesting O.S.S. stuff.