Reeves Hollow handle clone knives

Oh BB went down that long ago. I was last there when some member started a thread about my Hattori site refering to me as "a Bladeforum member".
Thanks I can see the photos, albeit pretty small. Am I correct that the Grind is not the same as the Chris Reeve originals? Below is a MKIV.
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I do not wish to steal anything (look at the woodlore clones out there) when i first saw the design of these knives in the eighties i could not see a better idea for a fixed blade (survival knife) 40+ years later i still cannot see a better design, also i did not start this post to start any arguments, so please respect that. Paul.
 
Thanks for all the advice, let me tell you how "dire" the UK scene is, our only knife forum edgematters i put on some titanium credit card knives to be stored in your wallet i wanted approx $12 each and i would accept the posting, and i sold NIL ZERO !!!
 
Frankly clones are frowned upon here with quite a bit of prejudice for those making and selling.
Now the titanium credit card knives would probably sell like hot cakes (and for considerably more than $12) if they were of decent quality and you had the appropriate membership level.
 
P Hardwick said:
Thanks for all the advice, let me tell you how "dire" the UK scene is, our only knife forum edgematters i put on some titanium credit card knives to be stored in your wallet i wanted approx $12 each and i would accept the posting, and i sold NIL ZERO !!!
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Perhaps it's more telling about your product than EM.
 
There are still makers producing custom hollow handled survival knives. If you want to make a version of the traditional Chris Reeves knife, we would be happy to see it. But, you are implying a one piece knife ground from a single bar of steel. I did not see anything like that in your photos.

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These are from one piece of either D2 or 01, with a bronze buttcap with MOD compass in, i will take some larger pictures, edgematters is a joke of a site, i have no reason to give it bad or good publicity look on there sharp items for sale and see for yourself how many cards i sold
 
i would do different blade designs of course, like i have a Falkniven S1X
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Please try to look at this from the view of someone who doesn't know you. The more you keep stating you are making knives just like "Chris R" or "Falkniven", the worse you sound. It makes it sound like you lack the ability to design your own, which I seriously doubt is true.

Secondly, blaming another site for issues that no one brought up or even knew about, makes it look like you are a problem child. Again, I'm not saying that you are, I'm simply giving you an idea of how you are coming across to people who don't know you.

Many others have already pointed out that Chris Reeves has a pretty tight lock on the hollow handle design. If you wanted to sell something hollow handled, you aren't going to be able to get the type of money his blades command. I'm sure you are already aware of that. It might be worth your time to get one of your blades to a publication that will be willing to do a writeup on your knife. That would get you some credibility as well as exposure.

I personally think your idea is great, and look forward to seeing what you come up with.
 
I cannot put larger images up, these are really my design i cannot remember seeing a CRK with a large blade , i think i remember a tanto though, how do i put larger pics up?? Buck 110 for scale. Paul. PS Also someone suggested they were not a one piece knife they are!! I do not lie.
 
P Hardwick said:
I cannot put larger images up, these are really my design i cannot remember seeing a CRK with a large blade , i think i remember a tanto though, how do i put larger pics up?? Buck 110 for scale. Paul. PS Also someone suggested they were not a one piece knife they are!! I do not lie.
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Yes there was a Tanto. No offfense Paul, but there seems to be sufficient differences between these original CRKs and your photos that I am not sure I'd use the word "clone".
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Thanks for your input folks much appreciated indeed. I looked at the thread on the Mr M White memorial bowie offerings, my jaw nearly dropped off in pure admiration at the work done in the states, i know the UK has some superb makers as well- Jim Jackson, Keith Moorby Geoff Hague Alan Wood to name a few, but crikey you have some serious talent in the US. It is a crying shame that if you make knives in the UK you are classed as a knife wielding moron!!! Does anyone know of any knife appraisers in the US that i could send one of mine to, to offer an unbiased view of the knife?? Regards to all Paul. PS HO HO HO and all that festive rubbish that we endure on an anal (not annual ) time of year.
 
P Hardwick said:
Thanks for your input folks much appreciated indeed. I looked at the thread on the Mr M White memorial bowie offerings, my jaw nearly dropped off in pure admiration at the work done in the states, i know the UK has some superb makers as well- Jim Jackson, Keith Moorby Geoff Hague Alan Wood to name a few, but crikey you have some serious talent in the US. It is a crying shame that if you make knives in the UK you are classed as a knife wielding moron!!! Does anyone know of any knife appraisers in the US that i could send one of mine to, to offer an unbiased view of the knife?? Regards to all Paul. PS HO HO HO and all that festive rubbish that we endure on an anal (not annual ) time of year.
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You obviously have machining talent to be able to make a one piece knife like that but your picture taking skills suck (big time). Please take some high resolution pictures of the entire blade shown in one picture and make sure the picture is taken directly perpendicular, not an an angle like yours are. Also, take a good closeup picture of the handle/blade joint to show its one piece construction. Take another showing the threaded cap unscrewed and the threaded portion of the handle hole. What are the handle dimensions?

All the following comments refers to the larger blade with the red corded handle.

How thick is the blade? if you posted it I missed it. How hard is the blade (Rc)? Who did the heat treatment? Tells us about it. Have you tested the knife thoroughly doing lots of wood chopping, wood splitting, wood shaving, cutting up meat, etc, to see how well your blade holds up? Consider making a short video of this testing. Also, a step by step picture essay of you making the knife in various stages of machining would certainly be interesting to me and many others on this forum.

Are your handles round? If so in my opinion round handles tend to suck and that is why most useful handles since ancient times are oval or semi-rectangular. I would think you would be able to machine some flats on round handles to achieve this but I am not a machinist.

I actually owned one of Chris Reeves' South African made knives which I bought from his USA importer while Chris was still living in south Africa. I hated that round handle after I actually handled it and years later I actually traded that same knife back to Chris himself for one of his BG42 Sebenzas after his move to the USA.

You should just call them Hardwick one piece knives since it doesn't look like a Reeves clone to me but are similar to a Reeves. I don't think Reeves has made any one piece knives in years so I don't think you are going to hurt his one piece knife sales.

Let's see some good pictures!

P P Hardwick
 
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hi, I have a keith Moorby knife, would it be very collectable?? it is a lovelly thing with original scabbard?? regards
 
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