Segment on CBS Sunday Morning a While Back - Richtig?

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I was perusing Ed Fowler's book and came across his article on Frank Richtig, with the Ripley's cartoon of him pounding his knife through a (rather extremely well annealed?) buggy axle. Anyway, the Richtig knives Fowler got his hands on impressed him very much and he wrote that Frank's methods died with him.

This prompted me to vaugely remember a segment done on CBS Sunday Morning... many moons ago (well, by my standards) which told the story of a descendant of a bladesmith working to reconstruct his lost technique with some scientific detective work. I'm almost certain they flashed that same cartoon - and hence the story was about Richtig. Did anybody happen to catch this too and have a better recollection of it?

A sift through the archives came up with very little on this.

Thanks in advance,
Grant
 
Richtig became something of a celebrity when he was featured in Ripley's Believe it or not. Bernard Levine has a synopses of this maker in his chapter "Pioneers of Modern Hand-Made Knives" (Levine's guide to knives and their values 4th edition). Richtig never divulged his steel tempering process.

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Dont ask me why I still have this scrap of paper w/ this info on it,as I dont know,the program was on sunday a.m.Charles Osgood,the person doing the research is Dale Novak=Richtig's nephew.He lives somewhere in Nebraska.And that is all I have.

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MJH
 
MJH,

Thanks, you've come up aces! Wouldn't you know it, but there is indeed a Dale Novak listed as residing in Clarkson, Nebraska (Frank Richtig's hometown). I might write him a letter about the program.
 
I have an article with pics here from Knives Illustrated 1995. Dale Novak is the great nephew of Richtig. He makes knives in the same style only they say better. He's at 12 West 3rd., Clarkson,NE 68629
Shoot me an email if you want me to photocopy this and mail to you.
 
Lifter4Him,

Thanks. I'll see if I can hunt down a copy of Knives Illustrated '95 and photocopy it myself (OSU and Columbus area libraries are pretty good!). If I can't, I'll let you know.

Since I got such a great response so quickly with this query, I'll stretch and ask if anyone happened to videotape the TV program and is willing to make a copy, or if they know the date it was broadcast.
 
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