Heinze Leiber knife

Trent Rock

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My Canadian buddy sent me pics of this Heinz Leiber knife he got about 10 years ago
Any thoughts on Heinz Leiber knives?
Are they collectible/valuable or just run of the mill custom knives?
I couldn't find anything on the net except a listing that said he uses D2 steel
Thanks for ANY info on this Canadian maker, all :)

Also
He can't seem to remember what the handle material is :eek:
He thinks it's mastodon or something like that :confused:



 
Very nice looking knife. The engraving looks good and D2 is good steel. I never heard of the maker though.

Peter
 
The handle looks like elk antler to me.

Can't help you with the maker other than that he was from the Peace River area. I think on the B.C. side.
 
it's definitely high quality. Can we get a photo of the spine?
 
I try and get a photo of the spine
I think my friend is Somalia for a few months

BTW....There is no E in Heinz
I messed up the topic title and it can't be fixed by me :mad:

I asked my buddy why he bought it
He's not a knife collector per se
"I don't know..I just felt like having ONE nice custom knife to have and use occasionally", he told me.
He travels a lot and was gonna be in some small Canadian town and heard there was a custom knife maker in the town........................
 
it's a beautiful knife, and if I stumbled across it, I would most likely keep it. I don't know how many other folks would share that view, but it's a lovely blade in my eyes.
 
Heinze had a shop at Hudson Hope British Columbia. He sold most of his work out of his shop to drive by customers,and had a strong following in europe.
He has been mentioned in Blade magazine a couple of times over the years.
He is no longer making knives as I he suffered a stroke, I heard but can't confirm he has passed on.
The handle slabs on your knife loks like moose antler, He used a lot of local handle materials, and some ivory,
 
i agree, looks like moose, not elk antler. there's 5 elk 30 yards from me right now. don't see any antler like this; dunnn, the're all cows.
roland
 
I'd expect that the knife has moose antler as he has lots of them all over the property on display. We were at his home/shop in summer of 2007 and spoke for some time to his wife. At that time he was alive but not seeing visitors. The shop is still there and we did pick up a brochure of his but I don't think there were any knives left. He has a very large and nice property.
 
well, he looks like a guy who thinks things through fairly carefully and takes his time, so judging by the size of the knife, (big game sized) and by the pictorial, I also assume it would be moose antler. But I'm no expert by any means.
 
basically these handle slabs are relatively, broad and flat and smooth.
most elk antler would have more curve over that width, and surface would be more rugose. also color, mature elk antler is a very dark brown towards the base (and this could be a piece of that, but i don't think so), but more greyish away from base.
IMO, elk needs a piece from the base of a large rack to make an attractive handle, all the rest looks grey and lacks "interest", which is usually what you see.
roland
 
I am sorry to hear about Hienze. We use to stop in at his place either going to or returning from the Yukon, although it has been a number of years. He always had a great selection of high quality pieces in his shop to look at.

Geoff Rutledge
 
Thanks for all the replies
I know someone in here would know about Heinz! :thumbup:

It sounds like he was pretty well known in Canada
That is cool he had a shop/store that you could walk into and get a knife
I love hearing stories about guys like that
A bunch of land and makin' knives that people like
That is what it's all about ;)

I think you guys are right on the moose handles
I think he said he was thinking about getting mastadon handles and got moose instead
I just sent him an email to see if I could refresh his memory

I'm kinda confused
Are mastadon bone/tusk scales FOSSILS or the real deal?
Do the tusks not get "fossilized"??
Seems like the material would be REALLY expensive :confused:
The whole SUPPLY and demand thing
Since they are now extinct...

The more I look at the knife
The more I like it
Did Heinz do the engraving himself , I wonder?
It looks like it would feel great in the hand
 
my guess is sole authorship.
 
Trent Rock said:
Did Heinz do the engraving himself , I wonder?
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by sole authorship, I meant that I thought the knife maker also did the engraving. Just an assumption.
 
Perhaps the engraved moose on the bolster indicates the scales are moose? The moose looks great as do the pins.

Right behind the moose it appears if that could be a signature/mark. Sort of looks like an H L combined.

Peter
 
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