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That's OK Jeff, no problem. Thanks for the info. Here is a picture of that same style of knife with a stag handle. Very simple, very stylish.
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I guess you should attach a picture when you make a post like that last one of mine. Here it is.
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I really wish that that knife was mine, but it isn't. I got that picture of the net and posted it so that people could see how it looked in stag. I am going to contact Roger Massey and find out how much it is going to cost to own one just like it.
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Nice knives Micheal. I like them all, but for some reason I have a real affinity for the one by Bill Burke.
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That is a nice knife. Too bad there is a pink coloration to the picture.
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Not yet. Hopefully will be able to contact him this week. I really think that is a killer knife in both the sheep horn and the stag, but I like the stag better. His blades have such a nice grind and polish. All around it has the appearance of a very high quality knife.
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Just thought that I should update everyone as to how things are going with my contacting Roger Massey. He replied to my email and we have gotten together on a knife design. It is going to be a real beauty and incredibly affordable as well. The only bad things are that it will be two years before it is mine and that Roger doesn't have any stag. I am trying to hunt down a nice set of stag slabs for this knife, but that stuff is getting really hard to find.
Some mighty fine knives you fellows have posted pictures of. I think we are currently living in the Platnum years of fine custom made knives. I dont think any point in history has had the talent and materials to make the beautiful knives currently being made around the world as we have in this day in time. Lets go back a couple of years though.
The top knife is whats called a DAMASCUS "thistle top" knife. I didn't have enough room to include the tang stamp. I posted this knife on Mr. Levines thread and he indicated that this knife could have been made by the Union Cutlery Co. (KA-BAR)
The bottom knife I purchased from a fellow in Norway some time ago. He told be it is a hand forged Finnish puukko knife called a leuku and was probably made around the turn of the 19th century by an unknown maker north of the artic circle. These knives are general purpose tools by the sammi or lapp people. This knife is "blood kurdeling" sharp. Some of the Finnish lore he passed on to me was.... The lapps will stick a puukko above a childs bed to ward off bad dreams.....A lapp farmer will stick a puukko in the ground at the end of his field while plowing to insure a good harvest.... A Finnish maiden carring an empty sheath signifies she is looking for a suiter. Also, the suiter will be require to carve a cup out of arctic root burl for his girl...I'm not a Finnish folk lorist but that is what he said. The leuku has an arctic birch handle with a silver cap or pommel. It is hard to emphasize how sharp this knife is.
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The top knife is whats called a DAMASCUS "thistle top" knife. I didn't have enough room to include the tang stamp. I posted this knife on Mr. Levines thread and he indicated that this knife could have been made by the Union Cutlery Co. (KA-BAR)
The bottom knife I purchased from a fellow in Norway some time ago. He told be it is a hand forged Finnish puukko knife called a leuku and was probably made around the turn of the 19th century by an unknown maker north of the artic circle. These knives are general purpose tools by the sammi or lapp people. This knife is "blood kurdeling" sharp. Some of the Finnish lore he passed on to me was.... The lapps will stick a puukko above a childs bed to ward off bad dreams.....A lapp farmer will stick a puukko in the ground at the end of his field while plowing to insure a good harvest.... A Finnish maiden carring an empty sheath signifies she is looking for a suiter. Also, the suiter will be require to carve a cup out of arctic root burl for his girl...I'm not a Finnish folk lorist but that is what he said. The leuku has an arctic birch handle with a silver cap or pommel. It is hard to emphasize how sharp this knife is.
Loosenock
