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My favorite is my Tanto #2, shown on my webpage under kit knives section. It is my favorite for sentimental resons for several reasons:
1) It was a blade made for a kit by the late Mel Sorg, The Madpoet. Tanto #1, which he made to my specs, had warped during heat treat. So, he ground a new blade several weeks later and since he does all his work freehand, it came out not very tanto-ish at all, but still a superb knife!
2) The other sentimental value it has is that I finished during the time our not-quite-two-year-old Golden retriever, Phoenix, was struggling with metastisized bone cancer. I finished the knife a few weeks before she passed away, and I etched her name in the feminine Japanese form on the choil. We loved her very, very much, and it serves as a nice memory.
I had intended this knife to be a heavy use outdoors knife, but because of the reasons I mentioned, it will occupy a place away from harm forever, hopefully.
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My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/kydex.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/madpoet/main.html
1) It was a blade made for a kit by the late Mel Sorg, The Madpoet. Tanto #1, which he made to my specs, had warped during heat treat. So, he ground a new blade several weeks later and since he does all his work freehand, it came out not very tanto-ish at all, but still a superb knife!
2) The other sentimental value it has is that I finished during the time our not-quite-two-year-old Golden retriever, Phoenix, was struggling with metastisized bone cancer. I finished the knife a few weeks before she passed away, and I etched her name in the feminine Japanese form on the choil. We loved her very, very much, and it serves as a nice memory.
I had intended this knife to be a heavy use outdoors knife, but because of the reasons I mentioned, it will occupy a place away from harm forever, hopefully.
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My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/kydex.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/madpoet/main.html