Joe Kious knife

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Hello
Can anyone offer any information on this knife? I don't k ow anything about it and would like to learn such as how old it is what it's called etc. Thanks!
 
credden said:
Hello
Can anyone offer any information on this knife? I don't k ow anything about it and would like to learn such as how old it is what it's called etc. Thanks!
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Looks like an early...late 70’s, early ‘80’s....double-edged Fighter in what looks to be in great condition.

Considering you joined yesterday and are not a Paying Member, please read the Forum Rules at the top of this page and do not ask how much it’s worth.

Congratulations on a very nice piece by a very nice man, God Rest him.
 
Joe made very few, if any fixed blade knives after he moved to Kerrville, TX. His forte was high end folders after he arrived here. I think Dudley is correct with his opinion about the late 70s. Does it happen to have the mark "Alamo TX" on the other side? If so then it is certainly prior to or around 1978. Based on Joe's overall fixed blade production, yours is relatively rare in the grand scheme of things.

Joe did participate in an M4 project a very few years ago with Warren Osborne, Jerry Halfrich and I think Tom Overeynder making hunting knives for testing that relatively new steel, but as I recall they were all drop point hunters and nearly identical. Tom and Jerry are the only two left to verify the details of the project, but I made and donated the sheaths for each of the knives. The whole deal was for the benefit of Wounded Warriors as I recall.

You have a really nice example of Joes earlier work.

Paul
 
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Thanks Paul. It does not have the Alamo Texas mark anywhere on it. Thank you so much for the info.
 
I concur with Paul and the others that have posted above, Joe made that one when he was still in Alamo, so some time before 1991.
 
Joe Kious was one of the nicer guys I ever met. Used to see him at Blade when I lived close enough to go every year. Still have a couple of his folders...
 
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