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About a year ago my name came up on Tom Overeynder's list for a knife. As my plan for the new knife was to send it to Brian Hochstrat to be engraved I asked Brian to assist me in choosing a knife from Tom that would be a suitable canvas for the engraving project that Brian and I had been discussing. We ended up choosing Tom's Model 15 split tail dagger . I chose black lip pearl for the inlay and asked Tom to add a blade fuller to the knife as an additional design element .
About the same time my knife was ordered Tom contacted Brian and asked Brian to engrave a "spec" knife for himself. Tom wanted the engraving on the knife to be something special and he also asked Brian which of his ( Tom's) knives Brian would prefer to engrave . Brian shared the conversation he had with me with Tom and as luck would have it Tom also chose his Model 15 for Brian to engrave.
Now that two of the same model of Tom's knives were to be engraved by Brian at approximately the same time I asked Tom to change the way the handle was designed on the dagger I was to receive
Tom gave Brian "carte blanche" in the design- engraving of the knife .After some research and a lot of reading Brian chose to engrave Tom's knife with a scene from the Italian poem Orlando Furioso.
I was lucky in being able to see some of the early progress- design of Tom's knife and called Tom and asked him if I could purchase the engraved knife from him when it was completed.
As work was progressing on the "spec" knife that Tom had now agreed to sell me I spoke with Brian about the engraving design that I had chosen for my knife..
Brian suggested to me that perhaps we should choose to go in a different direction with the engraving on my knife by continuing the theme from the "spec" knife.
It didn't take long for me to decide that Brian's was right.
I will let Brian explain the story behind the engraving of "Angelica's Rescue, and "Rodamonte's Doom. "
Paul Kessler
1. full spread 4 panel image: *Click thumbnails to open the image. Click the image again ( if necessary) so it opens to it's full resolution and size.
2. partial 2 panel image blades closed:
3. partial 2 panel image blades open:
4. display case open:
5. display case closed:
About the same time my knife was ordered Tom contacted Brian and asked Brian to engrave a "spec" knife for himself. Tom wanted the engraving on the knife to be something special and he also asked Brian which of his ( Tom's) knives Brian would prefer to engrave . Brian shared the conversation he had with me with Tom and as luck would have it Tom also chose his Model 15 for Brian to engrave.
Now that two of the same model of Tom's knives were to be engraved by Brian at approximately the same time I asked Tom to change the way the handle was designed on the dagger I was to receive
Tom gave Brian "carte blanche" in the design- engraving of the knife .After some research and a lot of reading Brian chose to engrave Tom's knife with a scene from the Italian poem Orlando Furioso.
I was lucky in being able to see some of the early progress- design of Tom's knife and called Tom and asked him if I could purchase the engraved knife from him when it was completed.
As work was progressing on the "spec" knife that Tom had now agreed to sell me I spoke with Brian about the engraving design that I had chosen for my knife..
Brian suggested to me that perhaps we should choose to go in a different direction with the engraving on my knife by continuing the theme from the "spec" knife.
It didn't take long for me to decide that Brian's was right.
I will let Brian explain the story behind the engraving of "Angelica's Rescue, and "Rodamonte's Doom. "
Paul Kessler
1. full spread 4 panel image: *Click thumbnails to open the image. Click the image again ( if necessary) so it opens to it's full resolution and size.
2. partial 2 panel image blades closed:
3. partial 2 panel image blades open:
4. display case open:
5. display case closed:
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