Photos Sharing CRK Art - My CRK Collection

As posted in the facebook group;

Back in 1997 CRK was a very small operation. Chris did a lot of the knifemaking himself. He was still grinding a lot of the blade at the time, especially the damascus ones. He was also still doing the graphics on decorated Sebenzas himself. He'd gotten a request from a friend to do one that looks like sparks coming off a grinding wheel. The result was Regular #155, which I posted here a couple months ago.

From time to time, Lisa will revisit an old design, often making several variants of it. I like the Sparks design so well that when I was offered one of the new ones to match my original of the design, I grabbed it. I didn't realize until it how good of a match it is.

But I got an even bigger surprise when I compared the birthcards. These 2 knives are only 2 day off being exactly 20 years apart! Not only that, the exact 20th birthday of the original was a Saturday, so the youngster was made on the first workday after pappy's 20th birthday!



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Great post and an amazing pair of knives! It’s terrific to hear the background and history.
 
Amazing!

i should be receiving my first Chris Reeve knife in August. A small plain Sebenza. Never thought I would own one.

Congratulations on your collection.

Steve
 
Lone_Wolfe said:
Thank you. That knife just makes it easy. :)
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I won't argue your point except to say, for me it was your composition against the glass table top with knife reflections + cloud reflections even more than the knife! :)

That is the stuff CRK calendars <and dreams> are made of! ;)
 
PeteyTwoPointOne said:
I won't argue your point except to say, for me it was your composition against the glass table top with knife reflections + cloud reflections even more than the knife! :)

That is the stuff CRK calendars <and dreams> are made of! ;)
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I hope to get good enough to take pics for the calendar some year!

BTW, I'm doing a lot of my pics with mirror setups these days.

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Haha well I only made the first several pages and there was only two then I believe.
 
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