Pass arround library - "The Randall Saga" by Dominique Beaucant

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This book belongs to Gus. If you want to read it just say so and send me your address. Good info plus photos of rare Randalls. If you like Randalls you will love it.

After reading it, sign the enclosed paper and make a post like this one to pass it to the next reader.

Thank you Gus!
 
Cool, I think this one belongs to Dogman origianlly.
Thanks for giving someone else a chance to read it!
It would be interesting to find out where the rest are :)
 
If no one wants it right now let me know.

On another note who ever has Modern Handmade Knives by B.R. Hughes.
I would like to get it back. Please email me if you know it's location.
 
Originally posted by Gus Kalanzis
If no one wants it right now let me know.
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No one. If you want me to send it back to you, email me your adress.
 
Hi Flava,

Let's give it until the end of the day. If no one wants it I will send you my address tonight.
 
I was just wondering if anyone knows where the paperbacked version of the Randal Saga is that I had sent out a log time ago...
Bruce
 
Keith meet Bruce :D Bruce meet Keith.
I mistakenly thought it was Bob's book.
 
Hi Bruce, nice to meet you.:) I am not sure if the book is already on it's way to me or not. If it is, do you want me to send it to you after I have finished reading it, or should I keep it in circulation?
 
Hello Keith,Just keep it in circulation if others want to read it.
Gus I wasn't trying to say that it was mine,Iwas just wondering if there was another one than the one I mailed out.I haven't heard from anyone that had had it so I didn't know what had happened to it.I guess I should have put my name in it.No matter,I have the big hard cover version also,and it is still here at home.
Bruce

Happy reading!!!
 
If I can place my name on the list to be next when you are through with it?

Appreciate it, I had some of the others and moved them along a while back, but haven't seen them move further from there? Traveling library is a good thing!

G2
 
Thanks Keith, email on it's way...
G2
 
Gary, I really like that idea of marking my name, location and the date on the inside cover of the book. Hopefully others have thought to do that as well. It would be interesting to follow the history of these books as they make their journey. :)
 
Dodging flaming arrows here...

Being that there is very little information of value in Beaucant's 1st edition paperback, and being that most of what is there is incorrect....and I refer specifically to those few pages (#'s 126-127, and #'s 152-153) of "data", what's all the "hullaboo" about?

If you want to learn about RMK's, then read Bob Gaddis' book, buy the Intersquare RMK CD, or wait for Pete Hamilton's and/or Bob Hunt's books to hit the shelves...

In the meantime if you can learn by looking at pics...(no, Playboy doesn't count...), then M. Silvey's books will do the trick too.

Dom is a nice, albeit strange, fellow; but "The Randall Saga" is a love story...specifically Dom's love for W. D. "Beau(sic)" Randall, and is in no way worth the read from an informative standpoint...
 
Hey Melvin did you feel the heat from that arrow that just passed by your head?:p

Actually, I know nothing about this book, I just like to read all that I can when it comes to knives. If I read this one and read the others that you recommended then I will know for myself if it is a good book or not.

It is good to hear from someone who knows so much about Randall knives, and I am sure knows what he is talking about when it comes to books about this topic. Thanks for the heads up and the recommendations about the other books that I should read. :)
 
It goes something like this...

Dom became infatuated with W.D. Dom wrote a book. Dom sold the rights. Dom is a Frenchman with English as a very distant second language. The publisher printed the book without "proofing" it. The "book" was nothing more than Dom's collected notes based on conversations that he'd had with an aging "Bo" Randall. Bo died. The book was a flop. Dom sued. Dom lost. The publisher sued. Dom lost. Dom bankrupted himself reproducing the book as a revised second edition. The book was a flop based on the success of the first edition. The original publisher sued again. Dom lost, again. Dom's wife sued for divorce and the ensuing legal fight and fees took all of the money in the family accounts. Dom lost or sold his RMK's. Gary and Dom don't talk. The former wife and Dom don't talk. Dom needs someone to talk with, so look him up. The 1st edition book is so full of flaws, that it is, in and of itself, a flaw. I haven't read the second edition version, (limited to 500 hardbound versions), so I can't compare the two. Has anyone here read them Both, and is the second edition any better than the first? End of story...hope you enjoy the book.

I dunno, that's the way I heard the story...but I could be mistaken, French is a very distant second language for me... :rolleyes:
 
Very interesting Mel, thanks. I read the second but not the first. As KWM said, I just like to read about knives. I knew Dom had to sell most or all of his Randall's because of the divorce, that was a shame, he had some real nice ones including some with Leschorn carving. Hmm, wonder why him and Gary dont talk.As you said, he's a little strange, but a real nice guy, I always just thought it was the french/english thing.
Thanks for the info,
Dave
 
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