Very Rare Loveless

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Michael Lovett

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This is a rendition of a very rare Loveless Mini Semi Skinner. The Loveless Shop was kind enough to provide me with the pattern a couple of months ago, and I just finished the second one.

154-cm blade steel, 416 s/s fittings, and ancient African Bull Elephant Ivory.

These are very small little knives, with a blade of only 3 1/4" t 3 3/8" in length. Made this one up for a good friend.

As usually, Coop did a fantastic job of getting the picture! Mike and Manuela
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This is a pair of Lovett-Loveless Connection Dropped Hunters sent out the same week. One is in the traditional Green Canvas Micarta, and a solderless guard. The other is Black Canvas Micarta cut against the grain to give it more of a carbon fiber look. Although it doesn't show in the pic. It has a very strong grain to it. The guard is in the soldered style.
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Michael Lovett said:
This is a rendition of a very rare Loveless Mini Semi Skinner. The Loveless Shop was kind enough to provide me with the pattern a couple of months ago, and I just finished the second one.

154-cm blade steel, 416 s/s fittings, and ancient African Bull Elephant Ivory.

These are very small little knives, with a blade of only 3 1/4" t 3 3/8" in length. Made this one up for a good friend.

As usually, Coop did a fantastic job of getting the picture! Mike and Manuela
Lovett_KL09-ww.jpg
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Well Mike, it seems that most every time we hear about a Loveless knife these days its preceded by "a very rare" so unfortunately the phrase loses it's punch somewhat. ;)

However, your knife is absolutely gorgeous. The fit and finish seems impeccable and don't think I have seen a more perfect example of antique elephant ivory. And as usual, Coop captured it wonderfully. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
No argument - those are lovely knives. The black micarta is a nice twist.
 
There is an industry of makers replicating Bob Loveless' work. Mike is on top of the pack. I will add that I am VERY impressed with the F&F each time I handle one. That's why I show that solder joint as do.

(Tech tip sidebar for Mike: Adding a smaller pic doesn't make it 'easier to view'. It only slows the loading process that much more for the dial-ups. The larger images are 900 pixels wide, good for 95% of the viewing audience. That's the new gold standard. :) Lastly, if you always put the tags on a completely separate line without abbutting a sentence, they will 'left justify' and your sentence will read as it should.)

Back to the deserved praise....

Coop
 
That little Semi is beautiful, Mike. And the DPs are not too shabby, either.


Win
 
As Usual, a great looking piece of work, you keep that up and you may convert me to a fixed blade collector, although, I understand I will have to wait a zillion years to get one.:D

James Todd
 
Beautiful work Mike. Sure do like my Integral City Knife, looking forward to my non-Integral sometime in the future :)
 
michael....very nice work as usual....i really like the black micarta with red liners.....can you share why this pattern is very rare....did loveless not make that many....any story behind this pattern you can share.....ryan
 
FAntistic Knives Mike I love that Skinaa
and mr Green is sahweet!
 
Thanks so much everyone! and Thanks for the help Coop! I need all I can get.

The reason that this little skinner is so rare is because of its size. The smallest Semi Skinner out of the Loveless shop is usually the Small or Mini. Which has a 31/2" blade. The grip is the same width top to bottom as a Dropped Hunter. This little toy only has a 31/8" blade. The owner just measured it for me. and the grip is also quite a bit narrower.

I have rather smallish hands, and this knife fits like a dream. Bobs hands are sorta small as well. But the knife is to small for a lot of customers. But it makes for a really nice little package!

There are matching versions of the Dropped hunter, and the Utility. I would really like to make up a three piece set of them. I think they would be very unusual.

Hey Keith! I didn't have access to mo own site other than to look at it like anyone else. The fellow doing it charged me about 50.00 any time I wanted to put a pic up on it. That was with me providing the picture. After being on the forums awhile, i figure that there can't be much more to posting a pic on a web site than on the forums. I may be wrong. I really do need a new site. Something I have some control over.

Thanks so much every one! Mike and Manuela Lovett
 
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