Favorite makers you'll never get...

Joss

Joss

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I'm not talking about the makers you don't like, or those that you don't have yet. I'm talking about those makers that are too expensive for you, don't quite fit your collection, those that you are pretty sure will never make it in your curio cabinet...

My contribution is Charlie Bennica. Here are a couple of pics, thanks to Knifelegends.com:

http://www.knifelegends.com/BennicaGalexeTort.htm

http://www.knifelegends.com/BennicaLapis.htm

I see those knives - the first one in particular - and I give a biiiiiig sigh. I love the shape, I loooove turtoise shell ... and I will never get one.

Ultra dupper fancy folders are just not what I'm into. The idea of spending $3,600 to $5,500 on a sub-3" blade leaves me shaken.

But, man, those are pretty...
 
Bob Loveless-I can't see spending the $$. It is worth it, but I don't buy blue chip stocks, either.

Jerry Fisk-Rarified maker at the top of his game, but too rich for my blood.

Ray Appleton-King of the trick lock mechanisms, but WHOOOOOO!!! Very large monies.

Yoshindo Yoshihara Katana-I just don't think that I can ever take the bite on a $25,000-$40,000 blade in shira saya, even though every cell in my body perks at the thought. It would probably be a waste for me, because I cut with every shinken that I own, and that is a paradox that I am not willing to live with. Oh yea, there is a cut you don't want to blow:D mizu gaeshi, anyone?

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Ed Fowler, love his work but a very different direction from my collection.
 
Bill Moran - As much as I want one, I know I will likely never be able to afford it.

Bob Loveless - Once again out of my price range.

Michael Connor - Not out of my price range, but maybe just impossible to get one of his knives.

Buster Warenski - Need I say more.

H.H. Frank - I love his folders, but the price makes them an impossible dream.
 
a few of the many
Wolfgang Loerchner. You'll know what I'm talking about if you ever handle one.
Ron Lake. A stag interframe is a recurring fantasy..

Jim Schmidt.I passed years ago on a stag lockback an unbelievable knife it was priced just above 3 G..that piece would fetch upwards of 8 now..
 
Funny how we all have the same cravings:

Bill Moran: it would have to be a ST24 and that is way out of my range

Ron Lake: maybe out of a lottery but I can't spend the 6K dealers want

James Schmidt: too costly but I love them.

Buster Warenski: not a dagger, a fighter or folder would be fine. just dreamin'

Win
 
I only collect fixed blades and I draw the line for 1 knife somewhere around $ 4000. So I don't exclude any maker, but if their pricetag starts upwards from my mark then allas I don't play in their league.

Marcel
 
Joss,

I saw that Tortise Bennica in NYC.
What you don't see, in the photo, is its custom set of matching tools, just in case you go insane and decide to take it down.

I get the sweats just looking at that photo :eek:

Bennica & Lake

Loveless & S.R. Johnson

P
 
Jim Schmidt for me too.

I absolutely love his work but he made so few knives and the demand is so high...

Even Barry Davis, whose work sells for half of what a Schmidt might cost, is a out of my league. Gorgeous knives, but too rich for me...

I'm lucky to have one Warenski, a very basic skinner from the 70s, but a finely embellished Warenski - perhaps one of his San Francisco daggers - would also be on my list.

Finally, Kressler. An integral subhilt, maybe with a little tasteful engraving and some creamy ivory scales.
 
Joss said:
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean (well, I understood the "Don Fogg" part... :D )
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Ed Fowler.

A wonderful person (from what I've heard), an outstanding writer (from what I have read) - but I just don't understand the pricing on those rather simple knives (and yes, it's been explained to me many, many times - thank you in advance).

Everyone else, however, is fair game. ;)
 
Well, I thought about it and I can't give any names :)
Not that I afford all knives known to man, far from that. My collection is quite modest compared to what I've seen in other people collections.
A couple of years ago I would have said that I'm 100% sure I'll never buy a Loveless or a Moran or a Lake, no way! Then, this year, I radically changed my collection. Among other changes, I sold quite a few knives I wasn't really planning to sell and I got a Lake stag interframe ...
Never say never ;)
 
I'll add a few:
- Jim Schmidt
- Dietmar Kressler
- Harumi Hirayama

There's also that German fellow who makes the most wonderful folders with carved blades and incredibly intricate mosaics of tiny pieces of materials in the handlkes. I can't remember his name right now. Him and Hirayama are 2 that I have simply never seen available on any web site.
 
Joss said:
There's also that German fellow who makes the most wonderful folders with carved blades and incredibly intricate mosaics of tiny pieces of materials in the handlkes. I can't remember his name right now. Him and Hirayama are 2 that I have simply never seen available on any web site.
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Crikey, man, Jurgen Steinau. What is the matter with you?

Best Regards,

Steven Garsson
 
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