Do you have a knife hero?

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One of them, a guy named Gene Moe.

In 1999, 69 year old Gene Moe was out hunting in Anchorage, Alaska . After putting aside his rifle, he began to skin a deer with his Buck 110 when he was attacked by a Grizzly bear. Mr. Moe was able to fight off the bear with his Buck 110 enough to be able to get to his rifle and ultimately shoot the bear. Moe was badly injured, but he survived. The incident was well documented, and the dead bear was recovered not long after the incident.


Others- Lynn Thompson and Phil Boguszewski, co-creators of my all-time favorite production knife- the Cold Steel Ti-Lite 6 (which turned out to be a great candidate for customization, and auto conversion).

Say what you may about Lynn Thompson, but he has produced some very strong, high-quality knives.

Thanks very much in part to those two gentlemen, I have some of my most prized possessions, and my most prized and treasured knives (below).


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Fantasy: Cocodile Dundee: "That's not a knife. THIS is a knife! Rambo is 2nd. Conan the Barbarian is 3rd (or maybe 2nd). LOL! ;)

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Reality: Spyderco's Sal Gessler who has done more to revolutionalize the retail knife market in the past 30-40 years than anyone else. Pete Kershaw was the 1st on the scene in the 70's but IMO he's 2nd in his overall significance, even though Kershaw/ZT has probably sold more knives than Spyderco ever made because of Kershaw's focus on the lower priced retail market. ZT was a great move forward for KAI in it's time but times have changed. Peter Gerber would be 3rd.

BTW, most of the knives that I own (about 250 out of 350) are made by Spyderco (150) and Kershaw/ZT (100) and most of those are vintage and discontinued models. I'm not buying any "new" stuff from Kershaw/ZT and am only buying a few "new" things from Spyderco.

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"Performance is our primary focus. We’re not making pretty knives. We’re making knives that cut well for a long time. Reliable, high-performance is our marketing pitch. A lot of our market is military, law enforcement, firemen and other people who actually depend upon a knife." Sal Glesser
 
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Well, Gil Hibben, for one. I was twelve, so youse are going to have to be understanding. I was interested in knives from much younger than that, but the Double Shadow dagger was the first knife that I really noticed knives could be more than just practical cutlery. It was also the first knife I tried to draw a passable imitation of.

Greg Lightfoot, later. I had not quite grown out of the tacticool phase of knife-buying, and his customs were waaaaay out of reach to a boy in his mid-teens. But, his collaboration with CRKT was just barely inside what I considered "too expensive" at the time.

Later on, Bob Loveless for writing down how to make 'em. I was a little slow to adopt the internet, so that book was a holy text, to me.

I also read David Boye's book on the subject, and Knife Talk II, by the fella in Wyoming whose name escapes me at present. Willow bow Ranch, and 52100... Ed Fowler! Thankya, Google.
 
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