SWEET Little Lockback

Horsewright

Horsewright

Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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A good friend of mine recently sent this Kious folder to me for some repair. One of the scales had fallen off. Simple, easy fix and its sitting here on the desk ready to ship back. Thought I'd share some pics here cause its a sweet little folder.

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I asked him about the engraving and here is the story he relayed to me:

I was at an SCI show and a tiny Italian guy came up to me and started talking to me in Italian. My Italian is, uh, limited, so he grabbed me by the arm and took me to some guy who translated. The gist was that he, the tiny Italian, was a world-famous engraver and he liked my work and wanted to engrave something for me; did I have a rifle or shotgun he could do? I didn't but I had that knife in my pocket and I handed it to him. There were a lot of people around trying to get me to do this or that or meet this person or that gunmaker and we got separated. It wasn't until later that I realized I hadn't gotten his name, and he didn't have my address. I thought that was the last I'd ever see of that knife, but at next year's show, there he was, knife in hand, with engraving you see on it now. He was a nice man and the engraving, as you can see, is spectacular.

Thought the folks here in Traditionals would like to see that lil knife.
 
That Italian guy is a good engraver..... I like the "Purposely engraved for" part.... this was NOT accidentally engraved!

Nice looking knife, too.... I need to look him up...

edit: I don't keep up with custom knife makers, but a search showed that he died back in 2014 in a auto accident... that's a shame.
 
Thanks guys. It was fun just holding onto it, let alone doing a little work on it.
 
Dave, is the Jameson Parker the knife was engraved for the actor? I know he was an outdoorsman.
 
black mamba said:
Dave, is the Jameson Parker the knife was engraved for the actor? I know he was an outdoorsman.
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Yes, though these days he writes for various outdoor magazines. He has an extensive collection of custom knives from some of the most famous makers ya've ever heard of. When I was first starting to make knives I'd go over to his place and study all these knives. See what I liked and what I didn't.
 
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