Julie Warenski Persian - Sole Authorship

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Kevin Jones said:
Bob, is my above statement true? I believe the particular piece was on Knife Art's site at one time.
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Kevin, yes that was the piece that was on Knife Art, and is the very large dagger in the link you have provided above. I seem to remember seeing Steven Seagal holding and admiring it at some point.

Bob
 
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If I remember correctly, Julie's "Art Dagger" won a "Best in Show" award in a NYC show a few years back.

Peter
 
peterinct said:
If I remember correctly, Julie's "Art Dagger" won a "Best in Show" award in a NYC show a few years back.

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Peter, I think you may be right. I seem to recall it was NY rather than the Solvang show. I'll have to check.

Bob
 
Here are images of one more of the 12 knives that Julie has made since 2005. Just ran across them, forgot I'd taken them.

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Wow!!! Just an amazing talent. Thanks for sharing Bob! :)

You know.... Buster standing over her shoulder or not, it's hard to believe she could make so few knives yet somehow manage to make them museum quality pieces.

I think most folks would have piles and piles of failures, then mediocre work, then years of quality work- before reaching the level that Julie did (not even considering the engraving!!!)
 
NickWheeler said:
Wow!!! Just an amazing talent. Thanks for sharing Bob! :)

You know.... Buster standing over her shoulder or not, it's hard to believe she could make so few knives yet somehow manage to make them museum quality pieces.

I think most folks would have piles and piles of failures, then mediocre work, then years of quality work- before reaching the level that Julie did (not even considering the engraving!!!)
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Hi Nick-

Julie actually had about 20 years of experience, before putting her own maker's mark on a knife. Most of the Warenski pieces produced over the years contain much of Julie's craft work - pretty much all of the later engraving and inlay work (after 1986) and quite a bit of the carving and jewel work (both handle material and metalwork).

Blade magazine featured an article in the mid 90's, shown below, that pictures an example of one of the Warenski "museum pieces", which she no doubt helped to bring to life. It speaks to their combined artistry way back then - the central design of the handguard appears in this image to be an elaborate silver carving, but is actually an inlay of about 700 diamonds. So she had many, many years - a magnificent body of work - well before her name appeared - as maker - on a knife.

Best,

Bob
 
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