Makers - show us the knife YOU carry.

One of these days I am going to try and keep one of my knives around! Over the years I have carried just about every single model that I make, and each and every one of them has been sold off my belt...

I have found that if I have another makers knife on my belt I can say that its mine and not have to sell it. Plus I just enjoy several other makers knives.

Here is what I carry ever single day..... a glow in the dark SAK and a Jess Horn Spyderco in ZDP-189.

I usually carry a fixed blade also and I switch out on a regular basis. The fixed blades are by P.J. Tomes, Jens Anso, Michael Burch, the Graham Brothers, and Charles May.

Tom
 
Fred.Rowe said:
The red spacer is from a Brunswick bowling ball.
I just can not pass up free materials:D
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It would have taken me many guesses to arrive there (if ever). Very cool - that splash of colour really works.

Here is something we don't see often (to say the least) - a lockback folder that Russ Andrews made back in 1980 and still totes around today:

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Roger
 
Thanks Roger, for posting that.
That knife has been my sidekick for quite a while, and
it's gotten to where I feel like something's really missing
if I don't have it with me.
The blade & lock bar are vascowear, the integral bolsters are 416 SS,
and the scales are maroon Micarta ( now very dark ).
I made it backwards ( mark and nail notch on wrong side ), so it would
be easier to not sell it(LOL)......
 
I just grabbed it up and took a snapshot of my knife. It is a hunter with a
4 1/2 inch blade of 9260 and has a maple handle with my first wire inlay. It rides in my pickup seat next to me. Lin
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bell said:
NOT!

Otherwise, this is a great thread.
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I agree. A 4 year old cant defend him self with a knife. he needs a 38 or a 9mm. nothing with to much kick.:D

just kiding but if your 4 year old is safe with a knife its your choise to give it to him. I let my boys flip the blades on un sharpend knives but thay are not responsible enough to handel a finished blade.
 
This is a knife I bought out of Bob Eggerling's pocket at the Chesapeake Knife Show...from what I hear it might be the only knife he has ever sold... :D

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-Michael
 
Robert,
thanks, but I have seen your knives and man they are right up there with the best. You have got a great eye for design. :thumbup:

Kevin,
I do some inlay, but I'm still working up the confidence to actually offer it.

Great thread. Its would be interesting to know the stories behind some of the choices.
Lin
 
fludunlimited said:
I... but if your 4 year old is safe with a knife its your choise to give it to him. I let my boys flip the blades on un sharpend knives but thay are not responsible enough to handel a finished blade.
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Note that it's got no point- and it's a pretty steep edge. I also said supervised :)

He carries it around the yard, uses it to cut watermelon and apples and do garden digging.

He has cut himself once on it, not bad, but he is learning a lot about how to use a knife in the kitchen and garden.

(He's also really weirdly physically adept. not quite so much on talking well, but he can pull the bottom hinge off a door without assistance, as I discovered the hard way. and he can pound a nail through a board, too. His friends can't even swing the framing hammer)

Maybe it seems extreme, but it's as safe as I could design a knife to be (in terms of idiot proof), he only carries it or uses it with mommy or daddy, and he's learning to respect blades in a more positive manner than endless repeats of "don't touch that".

He's not going to get a bb gun this year, but I sure do plan to teach him about guns the same way- I'm sick of "don't touch, it's bad magic" mentalities around knives and guns.
 
tim...is that a knife you made....pretty cool......any other details on it would be appreciated....i didn't see it on your site....ryan
 
Fred.Rowe said:
Fred - that's a slick-looking piece -what did you use for the spacers?

The red spacer is from a Brunswick bowling ball.
I just can not pass up free materials:D

Good thread Roger:thumbup:
Fred
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Wow.
What a neat idea! I bowled for many years and have about a dozen older bowling balls laying around. Some of them with really cool patterns in them. Hmmmmmmmmm....

Fred,
How difficult were they to cut up?

Ickie
 
lwrhea said:
Robert,
thanks, but I have seen your knives and man they are right up there with the best. You have got a great eye for design. :thumbup:

Kevin,
I do some inlay, but I'm still working up the confidence to actually offer it.

Great thread. Its would be interesting to know the stories behind some of the choices.
Lin
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The story behind my choice is that the ricasso to guard fit up isn't up to the standards that I have for letting it out of my shop. Same as many other makers here.

Ickie
 
ryan9977 said:
tim...is that a knife you made....pretty cool......any other details on it would be appreciated....i didn't see it on your site....ryan
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Yes, it is my knife. It is a new prototype called the MOAB short for "Mother of All Blades" 4" composite blade, .175" thick 6AL4V handles. Most people that have put it in their hands have said that it was suprisingly comfortable despite the angular blocky handle. I wanted to broaden my horizon a little bit with an angular design. It is my favorite knife to date.
 
Scott,
The same for me. I am very particular about the fit and finish on my knives and the wire inlay on that one was not just the way I would have liked. But it sure is a nice one to field test. I have skinned a few deer and hogs with it.
Lin
 
lwrhea said:
Scott,
The same for me. I am very particular about the fit and finish on my knives and the wire inlay on that one was not just the way I would have liked. But it sure is a nice one to field test. I have skinned a few deer and hogs with it.
Lin
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Aren't hogs in Arkansas treated like cows in India? I don't think you're allowed to butcher or eat hog in Arkansas are you? :eek::)
^^^^^stated very tongue in cheek^^^^^^ :p

Ickie
 
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