When it comes to knives, I love hunters and skinners.
A while back I was perusing the Art of the Knife by Joe Kertzman.
On page 211 under the heading Hunters can be Art Knives there is a picture of S.R. Johnsons interpretation of RW Loveless Lambs.
The gut hook knife doesnt do much for me, but the other two. Wow!
It didnt take long to find out at $8k to $10K that I'd have to live with the Johnson I was born with, and that those two werent going to happen.
I had Gene Ingram do a set, which I've shown here previously, but Gene does not do bolsters. Every time I looked at the picture of the Johnson repros, I would get a tickle of lust.
I contacted TK and asked him if he would do a Loveless repro. He said send pix. I did. At first I thought of stag but over a period of time and discussing it with TK we decided on ivory linen Micarta for the scales. The steel is CPM 154. The furniture is 416 Stainless and the pins are Black micarta that was driven into stainless ferrules.
So here is what he came up with. BTW the micarta is sanded to 2400 grit and the blades are polished to a mirror finish. The execution of these knives are as faultless as any I own.
One caveat, I was not able to go to my lease between May and July. During that time, between the cows, hogs and coons, four of my five spin cast feeders spun out and were destroyed. In addition both my ATV's conked out. Consequetly as the places I hunt are typically further off road than I want to trek, so no unzipping of hoglet this last go 'round.
I did recently spend a week at the beach................
ya'
GWB
A while back I was perusing the Art of the Knife by Joe Kertzman.
On page 211 under the heading Hunters can be Art Knives there is a picture of S.R. Johnsons interpretation of RW Loveless Lambs.
The gut hook knife doesnt do much for me, but the other two. Wow!
It didnt take long to find out at $8k to $10K that I'd have to live with the Johnson I was born with, and that those two werent going to happen.
I had Gene Ingram do a set, which I've shown here previously, but Gene does not do bolsters. Every time I looked at the picture of the Johnson repros, I would get a tickle of lust.
I contacted TK and asked him if he would do a Loveless repro. He said send pix. I did. At first I thought of stag but over a period of time and discussing it with TK we decided on ivory linen Micarta for the scales. The steel is CPM 154. The furniture is 416 Stainless and the pins are Black micarta that was driven into stainless ferrules.
So here is what he came up with. BTW the micarta is sanded to 2400 grit and the blades are polished to a mirror finish. The execution of these knives are as faultless as any I own.
One caveat, I was not able to go to my lease between May and July. During that time, between the cows, hogs and coons, four of my five spin cast feeders spun out and were destroyed. In addition both my ATV's conked out. Consequetly as the places I hunt are typically further off road than I want to trek, so no unzipping of hoglet this last go 'round.
I did recently spend a week at the beach................
ya'
GWB
