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Mike Craddock

Mike Craddock

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This is the 2nd knife in the last several years. new to the forum and am amazed at the speed you guys turn out knives. I spent 3 weeks on this one.
Comments please.

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Thats a fine job on this one. I make dagger guards quite similar to yours. 3 weeks is nothing.
 
Very nice knife. I like making that style guard, too. I agree with Bruce, 3 weeks ain't bad. Sometimes fast is actually halfast when all is said and done.
 
fitzo said:
Sometimes fast is actually halfast when all is said and done.
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I think you misspelled halfast, Mike... isn't it spelled M-A-T-T?:D


Gorgeous knife, sir! I'd be lucky if I could turn out something one third as nice --in 5 years' time!
 
Three weeks has got me beat by twenty years, that's how long I been intending to make one. Good Job. Nice Looking.

James
 
Thanks for the comments guys.
let me tell you something about myself.
About 40 years ago i met Bill Bagwell he talked knives, and I argued with him over his prices.(Wish now I had bought a boat load of them even at those prices).well I would't pay his price and told him that knife making couldn't be that hard and I would just build my own.
So after talking with Bill for the best part of two day, getting some advise and instructions he said I should try it. His words of wisdom to me was that probley the frist 200 I made would be HOMEMADE then after that they would start to be HANDMADE.
I don't think it took 200 but the more I made the better they got. I,m not saying Bill taught me to make knives (he didn't) but he did inspire me to start.
way back then is when Blackie Collins was getting started, I knew Blackie well and had an ad is BLADE mazz. also knew Jim Small in his hayday, I had sent knives to Lloyd Hale for his comments and got good reviews from him. I made a great number of knives during this time.
I worked a full time job and did knives every nite and weekends for quite sometime. Got burned out and quit.
Now with more time am starting to do it again, the love is still there and just like knives.

Thanks
Mike
 
Three weeks? That's barely enough time for me to screw things up appreciably!

Nice knife. I like the inlay. It's very unique looking.
 
Well, I thnk I speak for almost everyone whenI say that Im glad you started up again. I say almost, because some of us might be saying "oh,no....another guy who makes my stuff lokk like doo-doo":D Mr. Bagwell had it right. It only took me slightly less than 100 tires before I was ready to let anyone else have one of my knives, but these days a new knifemaker has a lot more folks to get advice from and a lot more resources than knifemakers did back in the day. Then learning curve isn't quite as steep, but that is relative. It still takes a fair amount of time.
 
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