Joe Allen, deceased

Oh heck.

Joe made a really nice knife, and was one of the nicest people you could ever talk to. I have 3-4 of his pieces. I'll miss him.
 
Awww man. He was truly a nice guy. My condolences to his family and friends.
 
That is sad news, I enjoyed seeing his knife posts. Condolences to his family and friends.
 
That's sad to hear - I enjoyed his knives and his contributions here. RIP.
 
……..lovely knives from lovely makers who are lovely men are a real treat to own.

Haven‘t been on the forum in a while and am saddened this is the first post I open.

Sincere and heartfelt condolences to Joe’s family and friends. Shall treasure his knives all the more
 
That’s a bummer. Great guy. He sold me some handle scale material a month or so back and sent along a few extra pieces. In his pm to me with tracking he told me about the bonus material (which turned out better than what I originally asked him for btw) and I thanked him. His simple reply was “us brothers of the blade have to stick together...”
I tried to send him some extra dough but he wouldn’t take it. Really nice fellow. Class act. Wish I would have known him better.
 
Dang, very sad news indeed. I'd sold my BRKT Scagel medium bowie to Joe last year, and the man was extremely polite and easy to work with. A true gentleman and one of the good guys on here. He will be missed.

RIP Joe Allen
 
I didn’t know Mr. Allen but my condolences to all those who knew him and to his family.
Todd
 
I never purchased a knife from Joe but did reach out a few times and he was always great answering questions and chatting about his work. Sad to hear that he isn’t able to continue the craft but his knives will live on forever in many collections!
 
Sad to hear. I have followed Joe for years and always enjoyed seeing his knives as he would post them. Had the most polite demeaner. RIP Joe.
 
Joe made me a few Saddlehorns over the years and they are fantastic knives. What was even better than his knives were the conversations we had when he was making them. Super guy who’s work, in my opinion, was always underrated. He will be missed.
 
I met Joe a couple of times a number of years ago while he visited Tony at Wilfred Works. Apparently he visited often in the early years and picked Tony's brain a lot. Some days after Tony passed (Nov 2020), I was visiting with Tony's wife Karen and his son Reese and Joe stopped by the shop to express his condolences. He spent quite a bit of time there that day reminiscing and was quite shocked, saying over and over how he just couldn't believe Tony was gone. He was kind of in a daze about the whole thing and I could tell Tony's loss touched him deeply. You can imagine how disturbing it was for me to find out about Joe's passing a short time later (June 2021).

I have to thank my forum buddy Mike Robuck for letting me know about Joe's death, since I hadn't been spending as much time on BF as I used to. I would not have had a clue for a long time that Joe was gone and would have missed the opportunity of helping his widow by purchasing some of Joe's knife making tools. I was able to buy his two BIII Bader grinders and abrasive belts, Rockwell tester, 5L liquid nitrogen dewar, his patterns (disassembled example knives), tool and knife steel, and his parser plates and shields, and other small bits and pieces. I was going to be buying all of these things from somewhere as I was going to be retiring the following year (Dec 2022) to make a go at knife making on my own.

Anyway, I thought you folks might like to know what happened with some of Joe's knife making tools. I am thankful and humbled and I consider it a blessing and an honor to be able to use these tools as Joe did. I hope to be able to carry on with the same passion that Tony and Joe had for making knives for whatever time I have left in this world.
 
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