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New Mears/Alan Wood Woodlore

Cuphead,

Don't try to undercut me man - mine was a valid offer! ;)

I love that knife - any chance of giving us a top down shot of the spine and handle?

TF
 
Rockywolf said:
Gorgeous. Where did you find one? I admire them, just not the price. Enjoy!
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When jca21 said "i've looked everywhere on the net for one and only come across a few on ebay listed as a 1000 bux" , he was pretty much bang on :o. I found it on eBay by having a saved search, and then used some pretty intense rationalization with myself for about 10 seconds before clicking "Buy it now". Usually I just remind myself of my friends who will drop that amount of money on yet another golf club, or 2-3x that much for a bike that will do about the same thing as my 25 yo mountain bike :)

This will definitely be used and enjoyed, and handed down to my kids and on down the line hopefully.

TedV said:
Very nice, can you make a shot of the spine (both blade and handle?)
I'm #71 on the waiting list - ETA end of 2010 ( so that will be 4 years in total on the list)
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Here's a pic from the original posting by the seller (it would take me a while to get my camera stuff set up again, and I'm heading off to work)

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I know that the price can't be justified by any huge performance advantage over similar custom blades or even a Mora... as with many such purchases it's difficult to argue with folks who think you've been taken advantage of. Nonetheless, for me it's inspiring to hold it and use it.

It will be used even at home. We have lots of fires in our wood stove through the winter here (gets down to 40 below at times), and for practice I always start them with a firesteel and natural tinder, and a few feather sticks. I've already checked and confirmed that this throws sparks off a firesteel beautifully (about like my Fallkniven F1).
 
That looks like a great knife, and hope it serves you well. Congrats on getting your grail knife! I hope we all can say that 1 day.



It may be the pic, but is that a slight gap between tang and handles at the top of the handle?
 
tonym said:
That looks like a great knife, and hope it serves you well. Congrats on getting your grail knife! I hope we all can say that 1 day.



It may be the pic, but is that a slight gap between tang and handles at the top of the handle?
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Hi,

I'm not sure whether that's just glue or in fact a tiny gap... it doesn't allow even a very thin piece of paper (like those flimsy receipts) to catch in there. When holding it in hand and looking straight on, it's not as evident. One nice thing about intending to use this, is that I'm not as attentive to those details :)
 
Walkabout said:
Hi,

I'm not sure whether that's just glue or in fact a tiny gap... it doesn't allow even a very thin piece of paper (like those flimsy receipts) to catch in there. When holding it in hand and looking straight on, it's not as evident. One nice thing about intending to use this, is that I'm not as attentive to those details :)[/
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:thumbup: :thumbup:
 
Buddy of mine just linked this thread to me, said he is very envious :) I think it may be his grail knife too :D

Congrats! :thumbup:
 
They are a great knife Walkabout and congradulations on your purchase and intent on using it....here is mine which was a very early version...the grips don't have the same colour as yours.....

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Mine has been used and sharpened a fair bit and when you come to sharpen yours don't worry if you are using japanese waterstones and holding the blade flat against the scandi edge...that you see an element of hollow grind in the scandi edge itself...meaning that the inner middle of the edge stays bright whilst the lower and top part are taking the contact with the stones...

I spoke to Alan Wood about it....( you could catch him on the phone back then before his order book went crazy ) and he said he gave the edge a bit of a hollow grind to help the novices who were getting these knives from Ray ( when they attended his course ) to sharpen them.

In hind sight had I known before I started sharpening on the wetstones that he had done this I would have used my Spyderco sharp-maker for the first few touch ups to the edge and gone to the wet stones after a few months...that way I would have saved a bit of time...as it was I decided to take the hollow grind down to flat...more or less from the off...and probably wasted a bit of steel on the edge...although it is'nt much in terms of the life of the knife...but you might as well benefit from my trial and error...;)

After a while of using the original sheath which came with it above I decided to make my own after I found a useful colour combo swedish firesteel on the "knivesshipfree" web site...I think they still sell them...and whilst the wood is'nt the same type it is close enough colour wise to make for a decent "pairing"....

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Enjoy the knife...it is very comfortable in hand...and is always a talking point whenever I use mine...as it seems to be recognised everywhere :)

I would keep a print out of the sale though in terms of insuring it on your house contents or whatever...you might well need proof of value because they have gone up a lot on the secondary market from the time I got mine...and if you paid more for it I would'nt give it any second doubts...it will hold it's value well and will give you great satisfaction in owning it.:thumbup:
 
Walkabout

Beautiful knife! Please post pictures of it in use when you do! It is a beauty and like you I feel Ray is just one cool guy!
 
PeterPHWS said:
They are a great knife Walkabout and congradulations on your purchase and intent on using it....here is mine which was a very early version...the grips don't have the same colour as yours.....
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Nice knife and sheath!

Thanks for the info about the sharpening :)

Thanks everyone for the comments!
 
Well, my daughter asked for a fire tonight in our wood-burning stove, so the Woodlore got to see some action :)

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Thanks for posting this up. I didn't know these came with tapered tangs until I saw your pic.
Iz
 
I really dig that knife and Ray is a hero of mine. Extremely awesome score.
 
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