Pictures of Ron Newton knives.

Keith Montgomery

Keith Montgomery

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Ron sent me a whole bunch of pictures of his knives and I was wondering if you guys would like to see them. I was thinking of posting a picture a day for the next 2 1/2 weeks or so. What do you think?

If anyone else has some nice pitures of Ron's knives I would love to have you include them in this thread. I am going to put the first one here and then you can tell me if you want to see more.:D

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This is Ron's Mastersmith test dagger. It has a fluted elephant ivory handle with twisted gold wire inlays in the flutes, gunblued fittings with citrine gemstones set in 14 kt. gold stone settings. It has an 11" flatground mosaic damascus blade with multicolor gunblued pattern.


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Just posting one pic a day? How can you be SOOOOO cruel?;)
Come on, give us some more...
 
Patience is a virtue. It's just not one of mine. Only one picture a day? R u nuts?!?!;) You gotta gimme more than that, Keith. Here's my contribution - this is the knife that won "Best Bowie" at the most recent Arkansas Custom Knife Show, and let me tell you, there were a lot of outstanding bowies present. I could hardly decide which blew me away more - the blade or the handle. The pic is by Ron Newton as well.

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Cheers,

Roger
 
Roger ,that is a beaut.You sure have some nice toys.:eek: Keith any chance at getting a bigger pic? It looks like there is some very detailed work going on.
 
Interesting handle on this bowie. I have trouble figuring what it is exactly. Is it engraved steel?

Thanks,

JD
 
Here is the second installment. I am sure I don't need to say this, but Ron is defintely one of the most incredible talents in knifemaking today. This is an absolutely incredible folder that showns superb workmanship and a fantastic combination of materials.

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Angel Wing Folder is the name of this knife. It has a mosaic blade and bolsters with angels and halos, carved gold lip pearl scales and anodized vine filework titanium liners. It is a linerlock.
 
Joss,

Here's part of the text of an e-mail Ron sent me about this knife:

"I make only one of these handles per year. (Too darn tedious to make any more than that) :)

It is a stainless steel handle with over 300 microscopic tig(tungsten inert gas) welds on the inside of the handle.It's actually done under a 40 power engraving microscope with an automatic welding lense. It starts out by twisting stainless steel rods in a machine I built just for this process. Two rods are twisted clockwise and two more rods are twisted counterclockwise. The sets of rods have to be twisted the exact number of turns in order for matching the left hand and right hand twists together uniformly. Once the rods are twisted they are cut into short lengths and joined together by tig welding. The key thing is that two separate handle halves are fabricated. Once they are made they are then joined together. There is a lot of forging, bending, heating and welding involved to make this handle, not to mention all the special fixtures and jigs I use.The neat thing is once this handle is completed there is not even one single visible weld that can be seen. I can guarantee there is no other maker building a handle like this. A couple years ago one of my bowies with this handle took Best of Show at the Arkansas show. Many have mistaken this handle to be deep relief engraving which I also do.

Hope that gives you an idea of what's going on in the handle."

As you can see - it's a pretty labor-intensive process to achieve that unique effect.

Cheers,

RogerP

PS - Keith, that folder you just posted in unbelievably beautiful.
 
This is the maximum size picture that the hosting site that I use allows. Sorry. The problem is that I am cheap and use free hosting sites. Maybe I am going to have to give phototime.com a try. Any other suggestions for really good pay as you go picture hosting sites?
 
Picture number three is a *Cut and Shoot* pistol knife. It is a reproduction of an 1850s Belgium made antique .17 caliber cap and ball blackpowder. It has one clip point blade and has a folding hammer and trigger mechanism and a detachable screw in barrel that is hot blued and gold inlayed. Ron had to disassemble an antique from his collection so that he could get the mechanism and dimensions correct.

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This is a new area in knife collecting that Ron has managed to get me interested in. Now I just have to find out what the Canadian regulations are regarding these blackpowder pistol knives.

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These are awesome, I've got the bug as well. I'm wanting to build some of them, I have a friend here in town that builds black powder rifles. I've been talking to him for the past couple of weeks about building some of these. Can anyone lead me to more info on them? Thanks for the post. Dwayne

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Thank you for the kind offer gaben. Can you tell me what kind of access I would have to these pictures? Would I have to email them to you and then have you post them for me?
 
That's the easiest way, or I could set you up with an FTP site with a userid and password.

Let me know.
 
Figured that I would do these as a set.

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First Samuel Bell Reproduction:
Antiqued old elephant ivory handle with checkering on one side and fine silver pique work on the other. Stainless fittings, forged O-1 blade and silver sheath with Jim Downing engraving. This knife won the Antique Bowie Award at the 2000 Blade Show (tied with Harvey Dean, first time there was ever a tie).

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Second Samuel Bell reproduction:
Checkered pearl on one side, pearl with fine silver pique on the other. Encased silver handle, O-1 blade, stainless fittings, silver sheath with ABS 25 year silver anniversary medallion installed in frog button. This knife has Ron's first ever attempt at engraving. It won the Antique Bowie Award at Blade 2001 (tied with Harvey Dean again), won the Best Fixed Blade award at S.E.C.K.S. North Carolina 2001.

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Third Samuel Bell reproduction (original from the Mark Zeleski collection):
Checkered elephant ivory handle, both sides (rare for Samuel Bell to make both sides of a handle look the same), silver fittings, silver sheath with Ron Newton engraving in Samuel Bell style, 1050 water quenched blade. This knife will be exhibited at Blade 2003.

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This time I am going to show a pair of folding art daggers.

The first one has gunblued steel scales with gold inlays and french grey engraving, gold pearl oval inlays and fileworked gold anodized titanium liners. It has a five function trick opening action, linerlock. Auto funtion can be turned on and off without tools. There are AA grade rubies in gold stone settings on latch release.

This knife won Best Art Knife award at the 2003 Arkansas Custom Knife Show.

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The second knife has carved stainless handle frames, deep relief engraving, gold inlays and gold pearl oval inlays. It has running leaf engraving on spinebar and fileworked anodized gold titanium liners.

It is a presentation auto/linerlock with gold latch release (one on each side of knife).

This knife will be exhibited at the 2003 Blade Show.

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These pics are absolutely mind-blowing! Thanks for sharing and giving us more than one per day.
 
I got to play with that top folding art dagger at the Arkansas show - it's a truly incredible piece of cutlery. As I recall, the auto on / off switch was very slick and very discreet - you'd have a pretty hard time finding it if you didn't know where to look and what to do. Great pics of fantastic knives.

Cheers,

Roger
 
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