Your knife books and literature

[tongueriver]

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[TC]

Great thread idea! Though I only recently bought my first knife book: Randall Military Models Vol. II by Hunt.

 

[Alberta Ed]

Nice collection. Richard F. Burton's Book of the Sword (1883) is a classic. And of course, Larrin's Knife Engineering. Mors Kochanski's Northern Bush Craft is worth a read.

 

[tongueriver]

Keep those cards and letters comin.'

 

[snuffle]

Most of my knife-related and knife-adjacent books. With some others mixed in, and a couple missing, not sure where they got off to.

 

[tongueriver]

Great Library! Lots I don't have or even heard of!

 

[Another Shepherd]

Wonderful book: https://knifesteelnerds.com/2020/07/22/new-book-knife-engineering-steel-heat-treating-and-geometry/

 

[catspa]

Hey Cal, I only have half a dozen knife books. If I can count toolmaking books with a knife chapter, or sharpening books, my average’ll rise considerably.

I do, however, have a 5th edition of Levine. Alas, you have the nicer bookshelves - mine are home built of plywood.

Parker

 

[tongueriver]

... you have the nicer bookshelves - mine are home built of plywood.

Parker

Haha; mine are sawdust and glue= particle board and woodgrain paper.

 

[Larrin]

Here are most of mine.

Which Randall book should I buy?

 

[coolbreezy37]

I have a lot of books on firearms, I wish I had books on knives. I did have a 1965 shooters bible that had a large section on custom knives from Randall, Moran, Ruana, etc. I think I still have that book.

 

[wharncliffe]

Here's the bulk of what I have, mostly swords and military knives.

 

[tongueriver]

Excellent library!

 

[polish avenger]

Not purely reference, but most of my go-to stuff.
-Mark

 

[Legendary_Jarl]

I just got this one:

German combat knives 1914-1918 by Christian Méry. It is accompanied by the closest thing I have at this time and place to the knives the book is about which is that little Linder dagger. My Böker Trench Knife would be more appropriate but I don't have it with me right now. Fun fact #1: I don't speak a drop of German and yet, thanks to being alive in the XXI century I can use my phone with the google translate app to upload images from which text is detected and translated by the app. Fun fact #2: I never expected to find this picture in the book:

 

[Larrin]

I have a lot of books on firearms, I wish I had books on knives. I did have a 1965 shooters bible that had a large section on custom knives from Randall, Moran, Ruana, etc. I think I still have that book.

I just got the 1965 and that is apparently not the one you are describing. Can you check?

 

[coolbreezy37]

I just got the 1965 and that is apparently not the one you are describing. Can you check?

It could be gun digest. I believe it was from 1965. I don’t have that book anymore.

 

[Larrin]

It could be gun digest. I believe it was from 1965. I don’t have that book anymore.

Ok you mean the 1966 Gun Digest. It has a Ken Warner article in it on knives. Apparently the first article to cover custom knives. This is perhaps debatable given there had been articles in various publications about Randall knives, but perhaps if we mean articles on high end knives as a whole rather than an individual maker it fits.

 

[coolbreezy37]

Ok you mean the 1966 Gun Digest. It has a Ken Warner article in it on knives. Apparently the first article to cover custom knives. This is perhaps debatable given there had been articles in various publications about Randall knives, but perhaps if we mean articles on high end knives as a whole rather than an individual maker it fits.

that sounds about right, I haven’t read it in about 10 years.

 

[The Grendels]

Here are my books about all things sharp and pointy, with three books about material science and one old timey gun book thrown in for good measure.