good knifemakers think alike (and they all live in arkansas)

It certainly is a well designed and appealing knife Dan has.

This thread has wet the appetite of knife making. Someday, maybe for me.



munk
 
aha........on the brink, eh munk?

now that I know that......:eek: :p :D



j/k



ya know, munk....you may not be too far removed from what eventually motivated me into knifemaking. I became increasingly dissatisified with "other people's ideas" on what a knife should look/feel like and wanted things "my way". After getting some folks to collaborate to help bring some of my ideas to life, I finally dove in it myself and haven't looked back since. ;)
 
I could never have made that knife , oh Pendentive one.
I don't have the patience for small stuff. I can do leather to a certain extent, but joining metal and other materials in a precise, attractive way is just too much for me.
I have drawn a hundred different knives, it was my way of killing time in school, but I never could get my own knifemaking hobby off the ground. I built a shop in the garage, had a sander, drill press, vise, tool rack, lights , everything. Then my parents decided to start keeping our four dogs in there so they wouldnt bark at night.
4 dogs defecating and urinating on the floor all night every night.
I stopped even trying to use my little shop for fear of contracting the Hanta virus.

ANYWAY

My original thought was that there ARE indeed quite a few knifemakers in Arkansas. For some reason, the Razorback state seems to draw knifemakers.

Jimmy Lile for one, Dan Koster is another, and I know there are many more, I just cant remember all the names.
 
I just had a thoughtfull and neat post wiped out by my two year old. I'll return to this later. He touched the keyboard and deleted.

It's a Good thread.


munk
 
I told Dan this once:

I never cared for the Pen knife that much. I didn't hate it or anything, but couldn't see why it existed. I liked the forward weight profile of the blade design, but still couldn't see what a Pen could do that an AK of the same size could not. Yeah, that's how I was thinking.

Then I read in another knife forum a comment about the guys on HI hanging around and wanting a knife to be named after them. I ended up defending the Pen.

Recently, I quoted Bob Milek on cartridge design, where he said the fact that someone wanted a cartridge was enough justification for its existence.

Many of you guys wanted exotic blades for special runs at HI. I'm more of a utility guy, but everything is good at our table.

Yeah, Dan, you're right; I would like to pound steel. This thread went in an interesting direction, started by someone saying the blade at the top of the page was a great design. I asked for what? I just wanted to know. Because there is no right way or wrong way when you are talking about reasonable men making knives for a variety of purposes.

munk
 
pounding steel would seem like a good way of keeping warm in the dark & chilly winters in Montana.....;)



Arkansas knifemakers:

Jerry Fisk
John Fitch
Jim Crowell
David Anders
Joe Flournoy
Ronnie Foster
Tim Foster
Bert Gaston
Roger Massey
Ron Newton
James Walker
Tom Krein
Bob Dozier
...
(to name just what comes off the top of my head - there has to be at least a hundred more)
 
munk said:
Do they weigh the same?
munk
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On my not very accurate kitchen scales the Pen Knife is 15.5 oz's and my AK 12" is 13.5. Also the AK seems like it has a longer blade, so not any one area of it is real heavy if that makes any sense. It chops more like a bowie. The pen knife chops more like a khuk.
 
Daniel Koster said:
pounding steel would seem like a good way of keeping warm in the dark & chilly winters in Montana.....;)



Arkansas knifemakers:

Jerry Fisk
John Fitch
Jim Crowell
David Anders
Joe Flournoy
Ronnie Foster
Tim Foster
Bert Gaston
Roger Massey
Ron Newton
James Walker
Tom Krein
Bob Dozier
...
(to name just what comes off the top of my head - there has to be at least a hundred more)
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The Mineral Mountain Guy Ted Frizzell? Isn't he from AR?
 
Daniel Koster said:
Arkansas knifemakers:
Ronnie Foster
...
(to name just what comes off the top of my head - there has to be at least a hundred more)
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I have a really nice little 5" blade hunter by Ronnie Foster crafted out of 1084 with a beautiful hardening line, or hamon, with an ebony handle.:D
 
Yeah, Hollow, that's what I thought. The weight difference is important in knives of that small size, but so is the blade shape and weight distribution.

You could take two AK's of the same class, 15", and they might chop completely different from one another.

(course, I don't think anything 15" chops...)

I have a little Balance model. It chops like a khuk- so weight forward is the blade and slender the neck near the bolsterl.

I've looked at the Pen knife. It seems to me Dan duplicated much of the angle of a khuk by the swell of metal near the end of the blade, and met the weight forward criteria. He made a khuk in a slightly different form, but it was a khuk and did what khuks do.

munk
 
munk said:
It seems to me Dan duplicated much of the angle of a khuk by the swell of metal near the end of the blade, and met the weight forward criteria. He made a khuk in a slightly different form, but it was a khuk and did what khuks do.
munk
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To me it feels most like a WW2 but the curve on the spine is not as angled.
 
munk said:
Then I read in another knife forum a comment about the guys on HI hanging around and wanting a knife to be named after them...
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I think the only knife that would be named after me is a piece of steel pipe. I should go to Home Depot and buy a 20" piece of pipe. I'd put a 20 degree bend in it and file in a small cho-like indentation. I'd call it the Bruise knife.

I'll be famous. I should start a sign-up sheet.
:D
 
munk said:
Then I read in another knife forum a comment about the guys on HI hanging around and wanting a knife to be named after them. munk
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I still think we should have "The Burafandango" and " The Ed Know Special" :D
 
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