Knife makers ...are there any here ?????
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here are a few of my favorites.
http://www.klhoffman.com/
http://www.elishewitzknives.com/
http://www.crawfordknives.com/
http://www.kenonionknives.com/
http://www.striderknives.com/
Knives are like cues. The one you like and fits you might not be the choice of someone else. Get what you like.
I use my spyderco with a serrated blade as my tip pik for my cue tip.
http://www.klhoffman.com/
http://www.elishewitzknives.com/
http://www.crawfordknives.com/
http://www.kenonionknives.com/
http://www.striderknives.com/
Knives are like cues. The one you like and fits you might not be the choice of someone else. Get what you like.
I use my spyderco with a serrated blade as my tip pik for my cue tip.
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I Buy and Sell mid to high-end Custom Knives on eBay as Knife*aholic.
I'll be listing more Customs and Rare Production Folders within the next week.
Just sold off over (30) Elishewitz Customs and have another 100+ in my Collection.
As someone mentioned earlier, "It gets in your Blood and you can't quit".
I started collecting in the late 1960's and have over $500k invested. It's a disease.
I'll be listing more Customs and Rare Production Folders within the next week.
Just sold off over (30) Elishewitz Customs and have another 100+ in my Collection.
As someone mentioned earlier, "It gets in your Blood and you can't quit".
I started collecting in the late 1960's and have over $500k invested. It's a disease.
anybody here into balisong aka philippine butterfly knife? i believe there is a following for this kind of knife.
here's a shop in batangas city, philippines, where balisongs originated.
they come in different sizes, from the miniscule ones to ridiculously huge ones, like a gardener's grass cutter.
here's a website for balisong collectors
http://www.balisongcollector.com/
here's a chick twirling a balisong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uwq8-ynH2w
a scene from kick-ass where nicholas cage gave his daughter a balisong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9-KItONrNw&NR=1&feature=fvwp
more pics
from http://www.pbase.com/balisong/image/53766028
from http://taal.com.ph/index.php/local-products/balisong/
http://www.wowbatangas.com/tag/pocket-knives/
here's a shop in batangas city, philippines, where balisongs originated.
they come in different sizes, from the miniscule ones to ridiculously huge ones, like a gardener's grass cutter.
here's a website for balisong collectors
http://www.balisongcollector.com/
here's a chick twirling a balisong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uwq8-ynH2w
a scene from kick-ass where nicholas cage gave his daughter a balisong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9-KItONrNw&NR=1&feature=fvwp
more pics
from http://www.pbase.com/balisong/image/53766028
from http://taal.com.ph/index.php/local-products/balisong/
http://www.wowbatangas.com/tag/pocket-knives/
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I looked at the Sebenza 25 and their website. Is Chris's ability to create a knife as superior to other knives as he so confidently insinuates. He's got me sold on his quality for sure. His knife sharpening is it different than other knife makers? Sorry for the multiple questions.
JoeyA
anybody here into balisong aka philippine butterfly knife? i believe there is a following for this kind of knife.
here's a shop in batangas city, philippines, where balisongs originated.
they come in different sizes, from the miniscule ones to ridiculously huge ones, like a gardener's grass cutter.
here's a website for balisong collectors
http://www.balisongcollector.com/
here's a chick twirling a balisong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uwq8-ynH2w
a scene from kick-ass where nicholas cage gave his daughter a balisong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9-KItONrNw&NR=1&feature=fvwp
more pics
from http://www.pbase.com/balisong/image/53766028
from http://taal.com.ph/index.php/local-products/balisong/
http://www.wowbatangas.com/tag/pocket-knives/
When I was in the Philippines many years ago, I purchased a butterfly knife. They are fun to open after you get some practice with them. When I first smuggled it back to the states, at first, my friends thought it was some kind of a "switch-blade" because if you have never seen one opened quickly, you might think there was some kind of button on them to make them open so fast.
Many years have passed and I have long since lost track of it. It is probably sitting on some lake bank, having fallen out of my back pocket where I used to keep it when traveling alone fishing the small ponds and lakes of Mississippi.
JoeyA
hey JoeyA...
here's my take and only mine; and as others mentioned they have have a different eye or approach...
Chris' knives were a big hit when he first produced them. his mind is geared tho technically and he at one time built 'basically' customs including sebenzas. but as his product became more renown, and rightly so, he moved from SA to idaho and now makes what i think of as "production kind-of-customs". his tolerances are keen in the nX10,000ths so his folders one hand opening are akin to warm butter smooth. his materials will last for millennium with just simple care. he even supplies each knife with a tool to take it apart to clean. if you have trouble re-assembling send it to him and he will do it at no charge and re-sharpen it too. if the ti scales [handles] are marred they will re-blast them for a nominal fee.
and 'i think' [could be wring here] that many of today's blade makers owe a lot to him. but on the other hand, so many of them are far more artistic and exceed him in many ways. but for 'me' a knife is a tool and he makes a great tool.
i don't carry a knife as an EDC item. i hardly remember to bring cash or my driving license when i go out [i leave photocopies of my license in my glove boxes or saddlebags just in case]. but at home i use pretty exclusively my Sage II [a Spyderco product] for opening cartons, boxes and cutting same for trash. and i find it to be a great tool and when i bought it i think i paid about $125, now i think they are about $150 or there about.
it is my preference for a flat grind silhouette [no hollowness in the grind] which is more simple to produce, easily sharpened with just a strop to where i really can shave with it. the Sage II uses S30V steel [the sebenza 25 uses S35V [at least as good if not a little better] which is still easy to sharpen but still retains it edge beautifully.
my guess for someone looking toward a custom and wanting to know how to appreciate a knife and to get a really, really good knife would be one from Chris.
nothing fancy. that is not where i feel you should begin - just my opinion tho.
Chris semi-hollow grind is not unique, but i like it on the 25.
also, every knife that i know of that comes out of his facility is PERFECT. he is a tech head and his staff are just like him - dedicated to quality. but again i will add, his products are not of the same ilk as some of the artistic and 100% custom makers.
and finally again "i think" there is not one serious collector that doesn't have at least one if not more of Chris' knives in his or her collection.
so now you know all i know...
how about you teaching me how to play pool like you? i think that would be fair.
all the best,
smokey
here's my take and only mine; and as others mentioned they have have a different eye or approach...
Chris' knives were a big hit when he first produced them. his mind is geared tho technically and he at one time built 'basically' customs including sebenzas. but as his product became more renown, and rightly so, he moved from SA to idaho and now makes what i think of as "production kind-of-customs". his tolerances are keen in the nX10,000ths so his folders one hand opening are akin to warm butter smooth. his materials will last for millennium with just simple care. he even supplies each knife with a tool to take it apart to clean. if you have trouble re-assembling send it to him and he will do it at no charge and re-sharpen it too. if the ti scales [handles] are marred they will re-blast them for a nominal fee.
and 'i think' [could be wring here] that many of today's blade makers owe a lot to him. but on the other hand, so many of them are far more artistic and exceed him in many ways. but for 'me' a knife is a tool and he makes a great tool.
i don't carry a knife as an EDC item. i hardly remember to bring cash or my driving license when i go out [i leave photocopies of my license in my glove boxes or saddlebags just in case]. but at home i use pretty exclusively my Sage II [a Spyderco product] for opening cartons, boxes and cutting same for trash. and i find it to be a great tool and when i bought it i think i paid about $125, now i think they are about $150 or there about.
it is my preference for a flat grind silhouette [no hollowness in the grind] which is more simple to produce, easily sharpened with just a strop to where i really can shave with it. the Sage II uses S30V steel [the sebenza 25 uses S35V [at least as good if not a little better] which is still easy to sharpen but still retains it edge beautifully.
my guess for someone looking toward a custom and wanting to know how to appreciate a knife and to get a really, really good knife would be one from Chris.
nothing fancy. that is not where i feel you should begin - just my opinion tho.
Chris semi-hollow grind is not unique, but i like it on the 25.
also, every knife that i know of that comes out of his facility is PERFECT. he is a tech head and his staff are just like him - dedicated to quality. but again i will add, his products are not of the same ilk as some of the artistic and 100% custom makers.
and finally again "i think" there is not one serious collector that doesn't have at least one if not more of Chris' knives in his or her collection.
so now you know all i know...
how about you teaching me how to play pool like you? i think that would be fair.
all the best,
smokey
Autos IMHO are the coolist, but under many STATES LAW, you may not even own em. Arizona is very liberal on AUTO.
But it is still not allowed under Federal 'switchblatde' LAW.
But it is still not allowed under Federal 'switchblatde' LAW.
I highly recommend attending the 44th Annual Knifemaker's Guild Show, in Louisville, KY September 20-22.
www.knifemakersguild.com
There you can see the work of all the best makers and find something that fits your taste and budget.
Go early. The best makers sell out. Some have a drawing just for the opportunity to make a purchase.
www.knifemakersguild.com
There you can see the work of all the best makers and find something that fits your taste and budget.
Go early. The best makers sell out. Some have a drawing just for the opportunity to make a purchase.
hey chris, I was a custom knife purveyor for several years.(specializing in custom switchblades as well as microtech & other production autos). I really had fun at the annual Blade Show at Cobb Galleria outside of atlanta. In those days I did most of my dealing in one of the cool bars in the galleria. lol
heres a couple I still have. Charlie Dake D/A and Darr
ell.. Ralph D/A Stilleto.also a knife my friend Larry Chew calls the Slayer.one with black G10 handles.
heres a couple I still have. Charlie Dake D/A and Darr
ell.. Ralph D/A Stilleto.also a knife my friend Larry Chew calls the Slayer.one with black G10 handles.
