Jarrell Lambert

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You don't hear much about him on these forums. There is a piece about him in the current Knives Illustrated. Lambert is a mastersmith, lives in Texas. Anyone a big Lambert fan? Any info to share? Seems like his work is priced towards the low end for a mastersmith.
 
I had the pleasure of meeting Jarrell at the last Arkansas Costom Knife show. The stag handled bowie that he's holding went to some lucky customer before I made it around to his table - it was real sweet.

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Jarrell is a class act, and his work reflects it. He started making knives when He, Ron Newton and Tim Hancock were all working at a power plant as I have heard. I think Jarrell is somewhat responsible for getting the other two involved in forging, but don't hold me to that.

His work is VERY well executed and even better priced. His patterns are distinctive, and easily recognizeable without seeing his mark. I have never seen anything but absolute mastersmith quality from him.
 
I've always liked his stuff. He does very nice, clean, distinguished classic dress bowie, coffin shaped handles in particular.
 
Bailey is correct. Jarrel, Hancock and myself were all 3 working at the South Texas Nuclear Power Facility where we became very good friends. Jarrel helped to culitivate the knifemaking seed in Hancock and started me in the direction of forging.

Jarrel and I go way back and I can tell you he is as good of people as there are. He is a hoot to be around also.

Jarrel's knives are very well built and the fit and finish are very good. He has been using 52100 for many years. He won "Best Hunter" award at the Arkansas show last year.

I just told a collector out west about Jarrel's knives and he made a purchase promptly. A nice 52100 hunter with nickel silver guard and buttcap mounted on some very nice axis deer horn. This included a Kenny Rowe sheath for a mere $375. That's a bargain!

I have an old video I made in Tim Hancock's garage. Tim was showing me and Jarrel what he learned from Moran's damascus class in the late 1980's. Hancock was making damascus and Jarrel Lambert was swinging the 25 pound sledge hammer, I was ........well somone had to be the camera man.

For the money Lambert is hard to beat!
 
I am the proud owner of the Bowie on pg. 72 of the June Knives Illustrated article on Jarrell. It's a pre MS knife but I consider it one of my finest pieces. It's light and balanced and always draws admiration when I show it off. Whats hard to see is the twisted wire wrap that surrounds the handle, a great touch that really shows the attention to detail of a great craftsman. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better maker for the price.
 
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