Yellowhorses?

I have a couple of Yellowhorse knives. I just assumed he bought Buck 110's and then modified them with his engravings, blades and inlays.
 
I'm with wolf on that fritz. I've seen those before and the signature looks the same as on the fancy one's that I have. I believe those are put out as kind of an entry level model to attract buyers that don't have the budget for the others.

I should see David on the 20th and I'll ask him about those.
 
They ain't much, but I'd say they're real.

High profit production pieces trading on the name.

Artists often have stuff like this going......a guy's got to make a living.

I expect that apprentices do a lot of the work on the more elaborate knives with a lot of hand-work.

An artist with some apprentices can turn out a lot of stuff fast.
 
BG42EDGE, that one imafritz linked and others available from Deadwood look laser etched. They just have an apprentice place the knife in a jig, the computer is programmed with the logo or artwork and runs them off. You are probably right about apprentices doing a lot of the work on limited runs that involve hand work. That is very common in the commercial art world.
 
I suppose that's entry-level apprentice work.

If the Yellowhorses are like most artists, more and more stuff is done by apprentices as the years go by and eventually some things the actual artist never even touches.....just inspects.

Their best stuff is exquisite work, no matter who actually does it.
 
I'm betting that the handle work (on the ones in the link) is outsourced to a laser engraving company.
 
I just picked up this one from David Yellowhorse because it fit into one of my collection themes; dog prints.

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Chris Reeve's show nails/claws, a bit difficult to see in this image, but they're there:

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GreyWolf Custom Knives shows claws too:
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The dog in my avatar is part wolf, part Siberian husky (he passed away last your, but I had him since puppyhood). When he walked in wet sand, snow, or hard mud you could always see the claw marks. The prints are accurate.
 
Buck_110 said:
Chris Reeve's attention to detail is always second to none. That Sebenza represents canine paw prints perfectly; with nails and not claws.
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I disagree. A wolf's prints have claw marks.

The Grey Wolf custom doesn't look quite right.
 
Buck_110 said:
Aren't canine tracks(paw prints) usually represented without nails? Those look more like bear tracks than anything else.
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To your question here, yes, canine tracks are often represented without nails, but that is inaccurate. They are commonly misrepresented in popular art.
 
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