Cosimo De BENEDETTO

Jakeywax31 said:
As Bob had mentioned earlier. A few of us commissioned a very special knife from our friend Cosimo De Benedetto Cosimo De Benedetto . What a pleasure it was to work with him on thes knives. I’ve worked with a few makers and Cosimo is the gold standard for me. Always kept me in the loop and gave updates whenever possible. There may be an ocean in between us but answered all my nagging questions in a timely fashion.

Now to the knife. What a beauty !!!! Here are some of the particulars of the knife.

Bohler K720 carbon steel (An analog of O1 I believe.)

Intricate triple rat tailed bolsters

Jigged brown bone.

For size we went with the 93 lambsfoot.

These are so wonderful and so excited to own it. What a work of art. The action and pull are just perfect. I cannot see a single flaw in this knife. I’ve included a few photos of the first group that came in along with close ups of mine. Proud to say that 13 of these have been commissioned.





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Thanks for you time spent bringing these to life Paul.
 
Jakeywax31 said:
For size we went with the 93 lambsfoot.

These are so wonderful and so excited to own it. What a work of art. The action and pull are just perfect and I cannot see a single flaw in this knife. I’ve included a few photos of the first group that came in along with close ups of mine. Proud to say that 13 of these have been commissioned.
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Cosimo is a brave soul, to take on this commission!! More than a couple of knifemakers have found it difficult to produce multiple knives of one pattern!! Especially such a creatively detailed knife as this one!!
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Jakeywax31 said:
As Bob had mentioned earlier. A few of us commissioned a very special knife from our friend Cosimo De Benedetto Cosimo De Benedetto . What a pleasure it was to work with him on these knives. I’ve worked with a few makers and Cosimo is the gold standard for me. Always kept me in the loop and gave updates whenever possible. There may be an ocean in between us but answered all my nagging questions in a timely fashion.

Now to the knife. What a beauty !!!! Here are some of the particulars of the knife.

Bohler K720 carbon steel (An analog of O1 I believe.)

Intricate triple rat tailed bolsters

Jigged brown bone.

For size we went with the 93 lambsfoot.

These are so wonderful and so excited to own it. What a work of art. The action and pull are just perfect and I cannot see a single flaw in this knife. I’ve included a few photos of the first group that came in along with close ups of mine. Proud to say that 13 of these have been commissioned.





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Those turned out great!
 
Jakeywax31 said:
As Bob had mentioned earlier. A few of us commissioned a very special knife from our friend Cosimo De Benedetto Cosimo De Benedetto . What a pleasure it was to work with him on these knives. I’ve worked with a few makers and Cosimo is the gold standard for me. Always kept me in the loop and gave updates whenever possible. There may be an ocean in between us but answered all my nagging questions in a timely fashion.

Now to the knife. What a beauty !!!! Here are some of the particulars of the knife.

Bohler K720 carbon steel (An analog of O1 I believe.)

Intricate triple rat tailed bolsters

Jigged brown bone.

For size we went with the 93 lambsfoot.

These are so wonderful and so excited to own it. What a work of art. The action and pull are just perfect and I cannot see a single flaw in this knife. I’ve included a few photos of the first group that came in along with close ups of mine. Proud to say that 13 of these have been commissioned.





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#2 reporting in. Great quality. Thanks Cosimo for creating these excellent knives and thanks Paul for wrangling the Horsemen.

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My name has been mentioned for a while on BF and I owe this to my great friend Jean Marc (Achillepattada)
My first experience with knives, dates back to 2010 with building 2/3 fixed blade knives a year.
Only in 2019, after seeing some slipjoint (Tony Bose, Bill Ruple, Ricardo Romano etc..) I was
fascinated and decided to start building them.

I started with little equipment inside my garage however with a lot of desire to do ...
My tools were a few files and a drill, I was reading anything related to knife making,
watched tutorials on youtube.
My first slipjoint were not very fascinating, now with the help of some BF members/Friends I am trying to correct some flaws on my works

Finally after 5 years I found the courage to submit my work to an exhibition "Coltelli ai Castelli"
It was a great experience, I saw wonderful works of other makers, got to meet and
talk with Knifemakers of the highest caliber, I mention only a few among them the great Sardinian knifemakers, Gigi Sechi and Giuseppe Galante, the wonderful knives of Denis Mura, Riccardo Mainolfi, Franco Bonassi and many others.
And with great surprise , I received the award for the best folding knife (slipjoint).

I would also like to thank all my forum friends for the trust they are giving me by taking of my work


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Cosimo De Benedetto said:
It has been a while since my name has been mentionned on BF and I owe this to my great friend Jean Marc (Achillepattada)
My first experience with knives, dates back to 2010 with building 2/3 fixed blade knives a year.
Only in 2019, after seeing some slipjoint (Tony Bose, Bill Ruple, Ricardo Romano etc..) I was
fascinated and decided to start building them.

I started with little equipment inside my garage however with a lot of desire to do ...
My tools were a few files and a drill, I was reading anything related to knife making,
watched tutorials on youtube.
My first slipjoint were not very fascinating, now with the help of some BF members/Friends I am trying to correct some flaws on my works

Finally after 5 years I found the courage to submit my work to an exhibition. NOME DELLA MOSTRA
It was a great experience, I saw wonderful works of other makers, got to meet and
talk with Knifemakers of the highest caliber, I mention only a few among them the great Sardinian knifemakers, Gigi Sechi and Giuseppe Galante, the wonderful knives of Denis Mura, Riccardo Mainolfi, Franco Bonassi and many others.
And with great surprise , I received the award for the best folding knife (slipjoint).

I would also like to thank all my forum friends for the trust they are giving me by taking of my work


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Congratulations on a well deserved award at the exhibition. Your work is impeccable in every way and I am proud to own and use two pieces of it.
 
#5 checking in 😊😎 Heirloom sums it well. Perfect action, heft, and size. Extremely grateful to be a part of this. Thanks to Paul Jakeywax31 Jakeywax31 for teeing up and coordinating the build, Jeremy sbh06 sbh06 for the beautiful matched supple slip, and kudos to maker Cosimo De Benedetto Cosimo De Benedetto - appreciate the insights about your beginnings. I think waynorth waynorth might appreciate the size and action on these 😉 Biggest shout out to Angry Waiter Angry Waiter . Love you brother. Horsemen ride 🐎

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Cosimo De Benedetto said:
It has been a while since my name has been mentionned on BF and I owe this to my great friend Jean Marc (Achillepattada)
My first experience with knives, dates back to 2010 with building 2/3 fixed blade knives a year.
Only in 2019, after seeing some slipjoint (Tony Bose, Bill Ruple, Ricardo Romano etc..) I was
fascinated and decided to start building them.

I started with little equipment inside my garage however with a lot of desire to do ...
My tools were a few files and a drill, I was reading anything related to knife making,
watched tutorials on youtube.
My first slipjoint were not very fascinating, now with the help of some BF members/Friends I am trying to correct some flaws on my works

Finally after 5 years I found the courage to submit my work to an exhibition. NOME DELLA MOSTRA
It was a great experience, I saw wonderful works of other makers, got to meet and
talk with Knifemakers of the highest caliber, I mention only a few among them the great Sardinian knifemakers, Gigi Sechi and Giuseppe Galante, the wonderful knives of Denis Mura, Riccardo Mainolfi, Franco Bonassi and many others.
And with great surprise , I received the award for the best folding knife (slipjoint).

I would also like to thank all my forum friends for the trust they are giving me by taking of my work


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Congratulations ! 👍
 
Cosimo De Benedetto Cosimo De Benedetto - I love your work. I admire your initiative, skill and great progress as a knife maker. Congratulations on your recent award. This is just the beginning, I am sure. 👍

BUT if I may digress and make an observation - as I have written before, I think somewhere in this thread started by my friend Jean-Marc Âchillepattada Âchillepattada (I might be only one or 2 people on the planet who don’t use FB or IG - that’s on me and my own problem - nonetheless - I don’t understand why a Knife Maker looking to advertise and sell his/her product would have a Facebook and/or Instagram account which is PRIVATE - ONLY open to other FB or IG account holders. You don’t provide access to any contact information or viewing of your work with your private account status, for those of us who do not use FB or IG. :(

Maybe you have enough business and a backlog of orders anyway and your private FB and IG settings controls your market just perfectly for you. Of course, you are not the only maker set up this way - Gigi and Giuseppe and Davide Sechi too, among many others. No matter, I don’t get it. o_O For me and others this has been a great frustration (though maybe has saved me thousands of $$s over the years ;)). I could have long ago chased down your contact info from Jean-Marc or others but though I could see and “follow” your work in this thread, I still have had no option to look over your available offerings - or follow you work - other than here. Just saying.

I do love your beautiful knives and celebrate your success.
 
RayseM said:
Cosimo De Benedetto Cosimo De Benedetto - I love your work. I admire your initiative, skill and great progress as a knife maker. Congratulations on your recent award. This is just the beginning, I am sure. 👍

BUT if I may digress and make an observation - as I have written before, I think somewhere in this thread started by my friend Jean-Marc Âchillepattada Âchillepattada (I might be only one or 2 people on the planet who don’t use FB or IG - that’s on me and my own problem - nonetheless - I don’t understand why a Knife Maker looking to advertise and sell his/her product would have a Facebook and/or Instagram account which is PRIVATE - ONLY open to other FB or IG account holders. You don’t provide access to any contact information or viewing of your work with your private account status, for those of us who do not use FB or IG. :(

Maybe you have enough business and a backlog of orders anyway and your private FB and IG settings controls your market just perfectly for you. Of course, you are not the only maker set up this way - Gigi and Giuseppe and Davide Sechi too, among many others. No matter, I don’t get it. o_O For me and others this has been a great frustration (though maybe has saved me thousands of $$s over the years ;)). I could have long ago chased down your contact info from Jean-Marc or others but though I could see and “follow” your work in this thread, I still have had no option to look over your available offerings - or follow you work - other than here. Just saying.

I do love your beautiful knives and celebrate your success.
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Hi RayseM,
thanks for all the compliments.
Unfortunately I had to make my FB and IG profiles PRIVATE, for the simple fact that some people take photos of the published knives and pass them off as their own works.
They get paid and the knife will never arrive

Thanks
 
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Hello Ray RayseM RayseM ,

You're absolutely right, some very good Italian knife-makers are not the best sells specialists you will find 🤣
But I can't insure you that it's not because they have too many customers or want to select them. Sometimes they are only not confortale with marketing, some other time they don't realize immediately they could have clients all around the world (you will agree that gaining the trust of American enthusiasts is not so easy ;)), etc
But be sure that I will help Cosimo to satisfy your curiosity 😁🍻

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