Model B14 by Bailey Bradshaw.....

To my surprise I really like it! IMO its better than the original on which it is based!

Stephen
 
I'm drawn to that really nice sculpted handle. I have always loved the way a Loveless (for example) flat side panel merges into the round, to give a little edge to view and grip.

In this one the shape of the guard and forward half of the handle is simple and oval, and then it sharply morphs into a palm-fitting pull.

AAA+ to the designers and to Bailey's implementation. :thumbup: Very cool.

Coop
 
jdm61 said:
I saw that movie on cable once and have been trying to find it again for a while. What, if any actual fighting form was Karyo using and teaching to Coyote? If I remember correctly, Hermes bought the Kious subhilt for his boss, who turned out to be the bad guy who Coyote fought at the end of the movie. Do you remember what some of the other knives on the dealer's table were?
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I am pretty sure that there was either a Fairbairn-Sykes or an Applegate-Fairbairn as well..can't remember the others clearly, recall a Buck or Lile, if memory serves......the heavy in the beginning that kills the hooker and guts Coyote is either using a Spyderco Police or an Endura.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
I like it a lot :thumbup:

STeven and I talked on the phone quite a bit and discussed this knife. I can appreciate Bailey feeling "off" by departing from his own, personal path...but I think it came out as a win/win.

I am surprised to read the comments about wanting to see more grinds like this from ABS makers.

Well, let me preface this by saying that I whole heartedly agree with STeven that THIS knife demanded having that grind. But typically a blade ground to the spine will be thinner and lighter. And yes, I'm 100% confident that Bailey already knows that ;) :p I'm pretty sure that's what he wanted to do with this one.

So is it just a style element that makes you folks want to see it more?

Well, back to the knife, I think it's great and I'm excited to hear STeven's report once he gets to handle it :) :thumbup:

Beautiful work Bailey! :cool:
 
Beautiful looking knife STeven. I know I would be VERY happy to have it.

Bailey does great work and that is a good example of it.

Peter
 
Kohai999 said:
Been lovin' on the Model 14 ever since....the movie made it look like one of the sexiest fighters I had ever seen....handled a few before placing my order with Randall, and they were.....better....but what Bailey made is the "Best", imo

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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One of the many joys of the custom knife making world. Congrats STeven and Bailey. An awesome version of a great design. Nice when these custom projects end up win/win as this one did. :thumbup:

- Joe
 
NickWheeler said:
I am surprised to read the comments about wanting to see more grinds like this from ABS makers.

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So is it just a style element that makes you folks want to see it more?
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Yes, I find it visually interesting, and in my mind this is a design element that has not been explored sufficiently by ABS makers.

It's even more interesting with a damascus blade that wasn't forged to shape. In fact, some of my favorite knives in the Point of Interest books are knives made out of a chunck of straight laminate damascus, and then ground to shape. I think this is one of the best way to take advantage of damascus (visually). Jim Schmidt used that trick for some of his bolsters, and that has also become a visual signature of Barry Davis.
 
I think Bailey may end up cursing Garsson's name (well, more than usual anyway :p:p) because I can bet there are going to be a few people that want their own Bradshawed Randall. I know I would love to see Bailey's Model 1.

NickWheeler said:
I am surprised to read the comments about wanting to see more grinds like this from ABS makers.

Well, let me preface this by saying that I whole heartedly agree with STeven that THIS knife demanded having that grind. But typically a blade ground to the spine will be thinner and lighter. And yes, I'm 100% confident that Bailey already knows that ;) :p I'm pretty sure that's what he wanted to do with this one.

So is it just a style element that makes you folks want to see it more?
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While I like the look of this knife very much - and understand that the concept fundamentally dictated this type of grind, I am not in the "we need to see more of this from ABS makers" camp. Particularly when the blade length stretches out to full size bowie dimensions... welll.... not my cuppa.

Roger
 
Just so my comment not be misunderstood, I'm not saying that we need to see more such grinds on full sized bowies. That might or not work depending on the piece (Tim Hancock comes to mind as one who's pulled it out quite nicely, IIRC). Each piece is different. I'm just saying that it is one way to raise the visual interest which is not much used.
 
STeven Garsson and Bailey Bradshaw,
Nice, nice knife and thumbs up to re-interpretation of a classic, yet for me, heavy design. When I saw Exposure I was more taken w/ the Kious knife as it looked, through Hermes use, as a faster in the hand and more effective fighter than the Model 14. My few handlings of a Model 14 confirmed for me that it was more a camp knife, hacker or a hold-point facing out as the Hordes made a frontal assault style fighter. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and way to be so creative Mr. Bailey:thumbup:.
Chris
 
bob7 said:
STeven Garsson and Bailey Bradshaw,
Nice, nice knife and thumbs up to re-interpretation of a classic, yet for me, heavy design...... When I saw Exposure I was more taken w/ the Kious knife as it looked, through Hermes use, as a faster in the hand and more effective fighter than the Model 14. My few handlings of a Model 14 confirmed for me that it was more a camp knife, hacker or a hold-point facing out as the Hordes made a frontal assault style fighter. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and way to be so creative Mr. Bailey:thumbup:.
Chris
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The Kious Exposure subhilt is ABSOFRIKKINLUTELY a double edged razor blade with a nice handle.....the Model 14 was designed as more of a general utility knife, with the lines and weight confirming that....from time to time, places like Nordic Knives will have a Kious subhilt for sale around the $1,000 mark, and if this is a style that you like, it is superbly well done.....Primary point why I don't own one is the more dagger shaped blade....the assymetry of the handle conflicts with my aesthetic.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
STeven,
I'm just glad you both had the fortitude to go through w/ the concept to a masterful knife.
Chris
 
jdm61 said:
I saw that movie on cable once and have been trying to find it again for a while. What, if any actual fighting form was Karyo using and teaching to Coyote?
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Was searching around the internets, and came up with this:

".........the knife fighting advisor to this film is Christopher Kent. Kent - who is a student of Dan Inosanto - is a teacher of the Filipino martial arts. The basic techniques and the numbering system that are shown in this film are common to several Filipino Arnis systems."

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Kohai999 said:
Was searching around the internets, and came up with this:

".........the knife fighting advisor to this film is Christopher Kent. Kent - who is a student of Dan Inosanto - is a teacher of the Filipino martial arts. The basic techniques and the numbering system that are shown in this film are common to several Filipino Arnis systems."

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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Thanks for the info, STeven.
 
I'm curious why Bailey Bradshaw was commissioned to build this knife?
 
Lorien said:
I'm curious why Bailey Bradshaw was commissioned to build this knife?
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Because Bailey is a martial artist, specifically a swordsman(there a damned few who build knives), who shares many of my philosophies and character traits..sharing my propensity for honesty, vulnerability, doggedness and vengeance, when called for.....he has become a good friend over the years.....first he built me a sword, and it has become my mainstay sword, I keep three or four swords at any given time for use, and this one has become numero uno.....it is absolutely and resolutely a swordsman's sword(JSA) and not for a beginner, at least a short statured, spindly armed beginner.:)

So, because we have a good rapport, and mutual understanding beyond the superficial, he was chosen to build this....there are others who COULD have done it, but this knife means so much more to me than a simple business transaction, for reasons indicated previously.

STeven Garsson
 
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I got out of the U.S. Navy and started tattooing in Seattle in 1991. One day, around 1992, my business partner(knife selling business, just getting started) walks in with the movie featured above, in the US, it is called Exposure, with Peter Coyote and Tchéky Karyo as Hermes, the Knife Master.

How can you not love a character named Hermes, the Knife Master?

Decent movie, pretty good acting, knife fighting scenes are better than many in the movies, but overall, still a bit hokey....however, if you are a knife knut.....

Anyway, there is this really cool scene where Hermes is getting Peter geared up to learn knife fighting and they go to a cantina(isn't that where everyone in South America purchases fine bladeware?), where the proprietor has a cloth laid out with about 6-8 fixed blades, including a Randall Model 14 and a Joe Kious subhilt. Peter takes the Randall, Hermes decides on the Kious....after watching the movie, I immediately called Joe Kious, and became a dealer of his, specifically for this knife, probably moved about 8 of them, at least 6.

Been lovin' on the Model 14 ever since....the movie made it look like one of the sexiest fighters I had ever seen....handled a few before placing my order with Randall, and they were.....better....but what Bailey made is the "Best", imo

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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STeven, this movie is based on a novel Named "A Grande Arte" - something like The High Art - by Brazilian Novelist Rubem Fonseca. Fonseca is one of the foremost action/police novel writer who created the Mandrake character played by Peter Coyote. Mandrake is featured in a number of his books.

The movie is fairly different from the novel (that I read a few years ago) but has more knife action than book, and that is a good thing I would say. This is one of the VERY few examples I found over time where the movie is better than the book.

That scene where they pick up their knives is something to remember, and got my knife bug all fired up when I first saw the movie back in 1991.

This is the scene dug up in youtube:

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=PhmgtuUlZSg&feature=related

Jeff Velasco
 
BrB said:
That scene where they pick up their knives is something to remember, and got my knife bug all fired up when I first saw the movie back in 1991.

This is the scene dug up in youtube:

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=PhmgtuUlZSg&feature=related

Jeff Velasco
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BIG thanks, Jeff....what I took for a Lile or Buck was a Randall as far as I can tell, three Randall's total; the finger grooved Model 14, the Model 2, Applegate-Fairbairn, the Kious, and what looks like some model by Walter Brend on the far right.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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