Knifemakers are artists?

Some knife makers are artists and some are not.It was some great artist from the past who said art is 10% skill and 90% passion.
Chuck
 
well did some watercolor painting at 6 years old, silver/hippie type jewerly in my early to mid teens. then latin percusstion, drums,conga's etc, twentys, playing in bar bands on the collage curcuit, while nude modeling for the collage art dept, talk about a great way to meet chick's! also worked with this gal as a couple, for local artist that wanted a nude couple, no porno here, this was professinal. then i moved to the big city and went into sales/marketing. started knive making four years ago this feb, and the fun is still going strong.
 
Glad to see someone else has the guts to admit they have done something crazy when they were younger..:D :cool: :D
Bruce
 
Well Bruce, I did lots of crazy things when I was younger. They just weren't as refined as some of these I've seen here. I worked on the ski patrol and as an explosives Tech one summer and worked in a law office and when I first got married worked for the blood sucking government and in college we would show skin flicks through our window on the side of one the girls dorm.
I took one winter off to trap for a living and came close to starving because furs weren't worth much then. I have scars and lumps all over from the crazy things I did but they were just stupid crazy things.

Yours and Laurence's past are so out of character that they are interesting.:eek:
 
Showing flicks on the girls dorm wall sounds cool.I always wanted to try trapping,Just never did,That sounds real cool to me...It is all cool stuff....
Bruce
 
I used to draw a lot, I've made a ton of chain mail. Made cypress trelisses and grape vine wreaths for friends and family for a while. I wish I had been crazier when I was younger! Bruce I really empathize with you now. I seem to have a knack for cutting hair and do my wife's hair better than most salons she's been to! I alway thought that would have been a great way to meet women but I didn't think about doing it before I got married.:D My kids seem to have inherited my artistic ability but thankfully they inherited my wife's intelligence!

I think that most good knifemakers have a creative, artistic streak in them and a healthy dose of curiousity that leads them down avenues ignored by most folk.
 
For me it was waking sticks and staffs. It started when I made the first one for my Grandmother over 25 years ago. It was really cool too. Made it from a dogwood sapling in her front yard and a piece of red oak from a big oak tree in the back yard. She loved that walking stick. When she passed on it came back to me. I made a bodark walking staff right after her funeral. Still have that one too. It was my way of dealing with the fact that the land that I grew up on was going to be sold. So, I got that bodark branch out of the biggest bodark tree you ever saw off my Grandma's place. It took me 2 1/2 hours just to saw that branch off. Any time I'd go to the woods I'd always have one of those folding Coleman saws in my pocket or pack. I'd climb all the way to the top of a huge old oak or maple tree to get that cool looking branch that was calling my name. Stepped in many a hole while looking up and walking at the same time!

Over the years I've collected all kinds of great wood for walking sticks. I've made several hundred and will one day get back to it since I have lots of working stock all dried out and ready to go. When I get ambitious I'm going to work on an idea for a survival walking stick/staff with a knife in the handle and a hollow for various survival goodies. To me, that will be the best of both worlds.
 
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