Odd question/observation

[iceaxe]

My goal for my folding knife collection is, to be candid, kinda cheesy: at least one quality piece from a manufacturer/maker for each letter of the alphabet. For example, Al Mar, Benchmade, CRKT, Dalton, etc.

I'm not even close yet so this will take years, but I have ideas for most of the letters including X -- Xikar. So here's the odd part: I can't find a decent knife manufacturer that starts with "N". I mean, c'mon, that's a 1 point letter in Scrabble.

Am I missing something obvious? Help me out here...

 

[smcfalls13]

Normark is the only thing I came up with. That was through some creative googling.

 

[T.K.C.]

That is easy. Patrick Nihiser!! He is an awesome custom maker!!!

 

[Evil Eye Earl]

Ron Newton...custom knives
J.Nielson ,J.S.

 

[Thomason]

Nontron - a French made knife similar in a way to Opinel. Don't know if it meets your critera of "quality" or not.

 

[G3]

What about "Y" ?

 

[iceaxe]

What about "Y" ?

Yellowhorse. Not that I'll ever be able to afford one, but at least I know they exist. And I fully expected "Y" to be challenging, but "N?" You'd think someone would have picked a company name that played off the silent "K" in the word "knife."

Oddly enough, most of the 'hard' letters are easy: IC.Cut, Uzi, Vallotton, Xikar...

 

[G3]

Nemesis knives. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cach....com/+Nemesis+knives&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
Their site may be down.

http://www.knifeart.com/nemesis.html

 

[iceaxe]

Nemesis knives. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cach....com/+Nemesis+knives&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
Their site may be down.

http://www.knifeart.com/nemesis.html

Good call, thanks. The Imp has a VG-10 blade, titanium liners, and bocote wood scales for $99.95. That sounds promising.

 

[dpimpc]

Nemesis knives. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cach....com/+Nemesis+knives&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
Their site may be down.

http://www.knifeart.com/nemesis.html

Wow, those are really beautiful. Damn there goes more money.

 

[3Guardsmen]

Although manufacturered by Benchmade, NRA (knives division) has some good "bang for the buck" pieces, and I believe they say, "NRA" on the blade.

Regards,
3G

 

[3Guardsmen]

Normark is the only thing I came up with. That was through some creative googling.

Good call, Scott! Normark (Eric), a BF member makes awesome sheaths. What a project this could become, having a sheath made by a maker from every letter of the alphabet, too.

Regards,
3G