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Custom Knife Fans,
If I was a young knife maker instead of the pornstar that I am...
, anyway, I would have been chuffed at the following paragraph:
"I find myself asking, Where are the new guys making simple but honest working knives? Where are the young makers? Who will take over when the old guard is no more? As I walked through Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer© A.G. Russells 2008 Knife Event, I saw one young maker, Neil Lindsay, who has been working under the guidance of Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer© Dan Dennehy for about 13 years. There were no more young makers there to come to my attention. I worry for our future."
I mean, Ed Fowler couldn't have asked that question after attending a Blade Show where there are lots of makers younger than Mr. Fowler making knives that could be describes as simple. But, he asked the question after a birthday party for a gentleman of 75 years w/ an obviously older crowd in attendance. Zing, right over the head.
Secondly, should a person who is essentially making the same knife over and over again but prices it so far out of most peoples' price point for owning or even using the knife ask a question involving ideas that include simple, honest, and working? No, no he shouldn't.
The rest of the article can be explained away as a nice way of encouraging and mentoring younger makers, but Mr. Fowler kind of soured that idea w/ the above quoted paragraph.
Sincerely,
bob7
If I was a young knife maker instead of the pornstar that I am...

"I find myself asking, Where are the new guys making simple but honest working knives? Where are the young makers? Who will take over when the old guard is no more? As I walked through Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer© A.G. Russells 2008 Knife Event, I saw one young maker, Neil Lindsay, who has been working under the guidance of Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer© Dan Dennehy for about 13 years. There were no more young makers there to come to my attention. I worry for our future."
I mean, Ed Fowler couldn't have asked that question after attending a Blade Show where there are lots of makers younger than Mr. Fowler making knives that could be describes as simple. But, he asked the question after a birthday party for a gentleman of 75 years w/ an obviously older crowd in attendance. Zing, right over the head.
Secondly, should a person who is essentially making the same knife over and over again but prices it so far out of most peoples' price point for owning or even using the knife ask a question involving ideas that include simple, honest, and working? No, no he shouldn't.
The rest of the article can be explained away as a nice way of encouraging and mentoring younger makers, but Mr. Fowler kind of soured that idea w/ the above quoted paragraph.
Sincerely,
bob7