Chris Reeve pictures, please?

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Gentlemen,

I was curious to see pictures of the man behind those so well made knives, but Google didn't help...would you have any pictures of Mr. Reeve (and maybe his team too) to share?

Thanks!
 
You gotta get the CRK DVD, its a 2 disc set. One is the One piece knives, the other disc is sebenzas and mnandi. Mr. Reeve is all through the video as well as many of his employees. Its a Must for the CRK fan...........I have spoken to him twice and it was truely an honor.
 
Here you go........
I took this one of Chris at Blade this year with Curtis Iovito from Spartan. (Chris is on the right)

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Does Chris still retain his South African accent even though he's been Stateside for so many years?
 
HistoricalMan said:
Does Chris still retain his South African accent even though he's been Stateside for so many years?
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Think about it he was in his 30's when he moved to the US. He may have adopted a few local idioms but he sounds more South African than I do:D
 
Woah, no, I definitely hear his South African accent coming through. It's very commanding in his speech, although you can tell he has ever so slightly picked up an American twang.

It's hard to pinpoint the exact accent as there are eleven official languages in South Africa and I am no expert, but you can most definitely hear the stereotypical South African accent that sounds like a blend of the English, Dutch, and Australian accents.

Thank you for those links by the way, very interesting!
 
HistoricalMan said:
It's hard to pinpoint the exact accent as there are eleven official languages in South Africa and I am no expert, but you can most definitely hear the stereotypical South African accent that sounds like a blend of the English, Dutch, and Australian accents.
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In the time that Chris and I grew up in Durban (the 60's-70's) there were only two official languages. English and Afrikaans. We learned both languages at school and most of us are fluent in both. So as English speaking South Africans our accents are tainted heavily by Afrikaans.

Durban was predominantly English and indeed was held out as the most anglophile city in South Africa.

As for sounding Australian...... no reason to be insulting:D
 
Alfaholic said:
As for sounding Australian...... no reason to be insulting:D
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Ahaha. It just sort of sounds slightly Australian to me. It's like how some people think the English and Australian accents sound similar. I spent the first eighteen years of my life in the United Kingdom so I get plenty of Americans thinking I'm Australian, but that boggles my mind because both accents sound drastically different to me!

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What does an American accent sound like? :D
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It's difficult to explain! It definitely stands out to people like myself who grew up in a foreign country though. It's just.. American sounding! Haha.
 
What I was kidding you all about is, we have people in America who can't even understand each other's accents. And those are just the native accents, not even the major immigrant accents.
 
Really,

How do us americans sound to foreigners?? I can say that the I love english and Irish accents.. Spanish from Spain sounds very elegant, and German sounds very harsh. Does american english sound..... bland?? Just curious is all. I live in the south and have a southern accent and my wife is from New Hampshire and can't put her R's in the right places, lol....
 
Incahiker said:
Really,

How do us americans sound to foreigners?? I can say that the I love english and Irish accents.. Spanish from Spain sounds very elegant, and German sounds very harsh. Does american english sound..... bland?? Just curious is all. I live in the south and have a southern accent and my wife is from New Hampshire and can't put her R's in the right places, lol....
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I'm curious as well, I guess it's one of those things that you just won't truly be able to understand.
 
The Irish sound like quaint Americans. (Irish women just sound sexy!)
The New Zealanders sound like lost Australians.
Australians sound like lost Americans.
Kenyans sound like practical English farmers from the Midlands.
Afrikaans-speaking South Efricens sound like lost Germans.
English-speaking South Ufricuns sound like the English who lost something.
Americans sound like, well, Americans! No matter where they hail from in the US.
Canadians sound like Americans desperately trying to speak like the English.
Chinese (those I’ve met) sound like Californians.
The Scottish (those from the far north) sound like South African Afrikaners speaking Icelandic.
The Welsh sound like they’re singing and waiting for you to join in.
As for myself, I’ve been accused of being German, American, Australian, Irish, Welsh and even South-African. I’ve also had people deny my South-African heritage, because I sounded too English! I’ve had my accent called ‘cute’ by a young American lady. I’ve had the hostess at a dinner apologise for serving me pork as she thought I was an Israeli. Maybe it’s time I took the tongue out of my cheek....

PS One day I'll buy one of Chris Reeves' knives. But I'd like to buy it from the man himself.
 
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He does have a slight South African accent, but is very clear and well spoken. There are americans that have lived here their whole lives and I have no idea what they are saying. Where I work, its almost like the united nations.......lol. There are people there from nearly every nationality and some are just simply impossible to understand. I dont know how they ever got their green card !!! Thats another story..........
 
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