SMKW Knife Overload!

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I just returned home from a Smokey Mt. vacation, and it was only natural that I stopped by Smokey Mt. Knife Works. To tell the truth I spent a few hours there Sunday and another stop this morning for a few more hours! For a knife nut this place is heaven. I CF'd and CE'd so many nice folders. Traditonal patterns from all the major manufactures, folders and fixed bladed customs, old folders from private collections, and makers long past.:)
Almost anything with an edge, they have it! I got to fondle and caress one of the Councel tool hudson bay velvicut axes! O MY :D The GB and Wetterlings where in full force as well.

This is the Traditonal forum after all so, I'll share what I made off with. A Schatt & Morgan Muskrat with the fire oak jigged bone scales that are nearly a perfect match to a Robeson Barlow I already have. Next where three GEC Ben Hogans. The Yellow Rose, yellow smooth bone, an autumn gold jigged bone, and last but not least the blue looking glass abalone, (my wife even oggled this one!). These, along with sundries for knife making and my wife's haul of non knife related items.

I had a fantastic time and it's always on my "to do" list when going East! I would love to spend a day there just looking at all the displays of edged tools, knives from worlds makers, and displays of their knives that are (not for sale?). :thumbup:
 
Nice. Congrats on the new ones.
Pics, please?
 
I had a similar experience at SMKW a few years ago...great store!

Bought a wonderful Case Pocketworn Barlow.
 
Sounds like you had a good time and made off with a boatload of knives the GEC Ben Hogan is a really cool and simple pattern I didn't know SMKW even handled Great Eastern Cutlery.
 
I was there over the Labor Day weekend.

When you pick out the knife you want they put your last name on it and have it sent up to the checkout and you buy it on your way out.
I picked out a knife for myself and my wife, who had gone about the store on her own, had picked out a knife that she intended to surprise me with.
When I got up to the checkout, they handed me both knives because they both had my last name on them. It ruined my wife's surprise but all was good.

Great store and a great area to visit as well.:thumbup:
 
I envy you. I never had the chance to enter such a big and "loaded" knife store.
But...there is one problem after all...as they say in the general forum...
"Pics...or it didn't happen!" :D

Fausto
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I make it a point to stop in there every time a take a vacation to TN. Definitely the most impressive knife store I've ever visited... The only complaint I have with SMKW is that their amazing selection makes it so dang hard to decide what knives to buy, LOL. :)
 
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