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Sam and I have grown to be pen pals thanks to my friend Norbert. Thx Norbert 
Sam sends me pics of knives and dogs and we have the same taste in both
Last year at Blade Sam delivered my Hurak and made a large impression on not only me with his fantastic work. His agressive blade shapes and excellent handles are just simple put......twisted steel and sex appeal
At blade I put in an open order for next years Blade that was to be discussed as time got close.
Today a pic of some excellent dogs and a pic of a knife called the Tsavo came in
If you are not familiar with Tsavo I will give you some back ground
The Great Coloniel John Patterson was givin the comission to build a bridge across the River Tsavo in what today is Kenya
To make a long story short there was a band of young male lions that decided to feed on the laborers
There where so many botched attempts to kill the lions they took on an almost super natural presence with the workers and caused a state of terror that basically halted the bridge being finished and at a time when there was a race going on to complete a railway I can only imagine the heat that was put on Patterson to complete both tasks , killing the lions and completing the bridge
I have been to that area and have read the tale many times. I even have a first addition of the Colonel's book
In the end Patterson killed the lions and built the bridge but the tales of terror and mishap that will always follow this tale are legendary and every hunter that has dreamed of Africa retells them. Movies like The Ghost In The Darkness helped make the tale more well known, but I knew it as a boy.
Usually a lion is old or injured when it turns to eating man but what was amazing was that these lions where not old and in relative good health
My theory is like I have mentioned these lions followed the large track laying group of labores feeding on the workers who died of disease and sickness. The bodies of the deceased wkere left behind in not much more than a shallow grave which makes for an easy meal. They can lay track relatively quickly except when you come to a mountain that needs blasted or a river that needs spanned.
When the large work party stopped the lions caught up, simple as that and there taste for flesh was primed and ready to go
Sam likes to name his knives from his many dogs and in this case a pair of lions that at the time caused enough brutal carnage to go down in history as some of the greatest man killers of all time
I LOVE It
The TSAVO
BTW great leather
Sam sends me pics of knives and dogs and we have the same taste in both
Last year at Blade Sam delivered my Hurak and made a large impression on not only me with his fantastic work. His agressive blade shapes and excellent handles are just simple put......twisted steel and sex appeal
At blade I put in an open order for next years Blade that was to be discussed as time got close.
Today a pic of some excellent dogs and a pic of a knife called the Tsavo came in
If you are not familiar with Tsavo I will give you some back ground
The Great Coloniel John Patterson was givin the comission to build a bridge across the River Tsavo in what today is Kenya
To make a long story short there was a band of young male lions that decided to feed on the laborers
There where so many botched attempts to kill the lions they took on an almost super natural presence with the workers and caused a state of terror that basically halted the bridge being finished and at a time when there was a race going on to complete a railway I can only imagine the heat that was put on Patterson to complete both tasks , killing the lions and completing the bridge
I have been to that area and have read the tale many times. I even have a first addition of the Colonel's book
In the end Patterson killed the lions and built the bridge but the tales of terror and mishap that will always follow this tale are legendary and every hunter that has dreamed of Africa retells them. Movies like The Ghost In The Darkness helped make the tale more well known, but I knew it as a boy.
Usually a lion is old or injured when it turns to eating man but what was amazing was that these lions where not old and in relative good health
My theory is like I have mentioned these lions followed the large track laying group of labores feeding on the workers who died of disease and sickness. The bodies of the deceased wkere left behind in not much more than a shallow grave which makes for an easy meal. They can lay track relatively quickly except when you come to a mountain that needs blasted or a river that needs spanned.
When the large work party stopped the lions caught up, simple as that and there taste for flesh was primed and ready to go
Sam likes to name his knives from his many dogs and in this case a pair of lions that at the time caused enough brutal carnage to go down in history as some of the greatest man killers of all time
I LOVE It
The TSAVO
BTW great leather
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"Rendez vous" in less than a month with of better photos. Sam worked a lot, I am going to have to make many pictures....
