Essential Books on Randall's?

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hannes w

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Hi,

I normally lurk in the General or Spyderco Forum (my main interest in knives) but the time is here to get my first Randall. :o

Over the last two years I handled maybe 10-12 different pieces (No. 1,3,14,18) they all were nice but the available configurations were not 100% what I had in my mind so I didn't bought one.

A couple of days ago I ordered the catalog and I'm thinking about going the full route.

With a current delivery time of 4.5 years I think it's worthwhile to do a little homework and try to see as many different flavours as possible before ordering.

Searching Amazon I found 3 available titles:

+) Randall Made Knives : The History Of The Man And The Blades by R. L. Gaddis

+) Randall Military Models: Fighters, Bowies And Full Tang Knives by R. Hunt

+) Randall Fighting Knives In Wartime by R. Hunt

So are they worth it?
Are there others?
And which one to start with?

Thanks for your help

Hannes
 
You might consider "The Randall Chronicles" by Pete Hamilton. (For 30 years he was the Randall shop foreman--from 1970 to 2000.)
 
Randall Made Knives : The History Of The Man And The Blades by R. L. Gaddis

is a good book and yes its worth it.
 
Hmm slow traffic here, or did I step on somebody's toes?
I want to apologize if the questions in case were not appropriate.

Thanks for your help cut_n_run & SubaruSTI

g

Hannes
 
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