klineh
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...and he sent me back a couple of resurrected beauties! Glenn is very talented dude.
Sorry, I don't have any "before" shots, but here's the molted shells Glenn returned with the knives...
And the back story...
This Laguiole Fontenille Pataud was originally a shadow pattern in ebony wood. One day I had the brilliant idea to cinch up a little blade wiggle with some vice grips and some not-so-gentle pressure. *CRACK!* And all of a sudden I found myself in need of an expert knife modder to put some new duds on my mangled knife. I've always been one to learn the hard way...
Fortunately, I had been a longtime admirer of Glenn's work and decided to seek him out.
Meanwhile I picked up this barehead jack on the auction site stamped: "RUD. BUCHEL / MERSCHEID / SOLINGEN". Very awesome knife, super thin blade and snaps like a gator. But the covers of unknown wood were rotting and separating from the liners. Figured I'd see if Glenn could do something about that as well.
I wanted to keep the classy looks of the shadow pattern on the Laguiole, but desired a more durable (read: idiot tinkerer proof
) material. We settled on ivory paper micarta.
For the jack I wanted to stick with wood and Glenn sent me a picture of what he had on hand. I let my girlfriend make the choice and she went with Brazilian Walnut.
After twiddling my thumbs for a couple months (with regular updates from Glenn!) here's what showed up on my doorstep...
I couldn't be happier with either. As many of you know, Glenn's quality of work is exceptional. I consider myself very lucky to have stumbled upon this corner of the internet where such wealth of information and skilled craftsmen can be found. Thanks again Glenn :thumbup:
- Jon
...and he sent me back a couple of resurrected beauties! Glenn is very talented dude.
Sorry, I don't have any "before" shots, but here's the molted shells Glenn returned with the knives...
And the back story...
This Laguiole Fontenille Pataud was originally a shadow pattern in ebony wood. One day I had the brilliant idea to cinch up a little blade wiggle with some vice grips and some not-so-gentle pressure. *CRACK!* And all of a sudden I found myself in need of an expert knife modder to put some new duds on my mangled knife. I've always been one to learn the hard way...
Fortunately, I had been a longtime admirer of Glenn's work and decided to seek him out.
Meanwhile I picked up this barehead jack on the auction site stamped: "RUD. BUCHEL / MERSCHEID / SOLINGEN". Very awesome knife, super thin blade and snaps like a gator. But the covers of unknown wood were rotting and separating from the liners. Figured I'd see if Glenn could do something about that as well.
I wanted to keep the classy looks of the shadow pattern on the Laguiole, but desired a more durable (read: idiot tinkerer proof
) material. We settled on ivory paper micarta.For the jack I wanted to stick with wood and Glenn sent me a picture of what he had on hand. I let my girlfriend make the choice and she went with Brazilian Walnut.
After twiddling my thumbs for a couple months (with regular updates from Glenn!) here's what showed up on my doorstep...
I couldn't be happier with either. As many of you know, Glenn's quality of work is exceptional. I consider myself very lucky to have stumbled upon this corner of the internet where such wealth of information and skilled craftsmen can be found. Thanks again Glenn :thumbup:
- Jon
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