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Eat Up These Edged Combatants
Paraded in the Knives 2013 book like dress soldiers at a welcome-home party is a pair of Daniel Winkler fixed blades in camouflage finishes, and cord-wrapped and otherwise synthetic handles. They each measure 9.75 inches overall and feature extended “striker pommels.”
Soldiers will no doubt take as much of a liking to the twosome as the Editor of Knives 2013, further catapulting them to the top of the “Editor’s Favorites from Knives 2013 Book” list. (Eric Eggly, PointSeven Studios photo)
Carter Cutlery Sale Celebrates Move In January
To celebrate a planned move in January, Murray Carter’s Carter Cutlery is holding a special sale Nov. 19-21, according to a Carter Cutlery news release.
Based in Vernonia, Oregon, Carter Cutlery reportedly will be moving to a much nicer, larger and more centrally located facility that is handier to “the Portland metropolis.”
For more information, e-mail mailto:[email protected].
Rhett Stidham Passes Away
Rhett Stidham, long-time knife collector and purveyor who probably will be best remembered for founding the Randall Knife Society, succumbed to a long illness Saturday, April 23.
Along with wife Janie owner of Meadows Edge retail knife store in Meadows of Dan, Virginia, Rhett was a familiar site at knife shows, selling and trading Randall knives and just about any knife, for that matter, that caught his fancy. A big man with a big smile and laugh to match, Rhett, along with Janie, was constantly on the road attending knife shows all over the country until failing health curtailed his busy travel schedule.
In the early years of his knife experience, Rhett specialized in selling and trading antique pocketknives, and later included custom knives and even knives by William Scagel among those he sold and traded before starting the Randall Knife Society. He also wrote and published the society’s newsletter and coordinated the RKS meetings at the BLADE Show. Early on, he wrote a book about the old (1900-1919 and 1931-1939) Napanoch Knife Co. of Napanoch, New York. As these words were written, this year’s RKS meeting was to be held as planned at the BLADE Show.
Funeral arrangements were pending.
New Knives From Ruger/CRKT
Sturm, Ruger & Co. and CRKT announce new knives designed by a selection of award-winning custom knifemakers.
The designers include Ken Steigerwalt, Ryan Johnson of RMJ Tactical, Bill Harsey, Matthew Lerch and Robert Carter.
CRKT has the knives produced under license from Ruger. They include a selection of EDC, tactical, hunting and utility patterns in an assortment of sizes and materials.
Of the five designers, Harsey designed the most knives: three. His are the “Go-N-Heavy” folder highlighted by a hard-anodized, sure-grip handle and a 3.5-inch blade, the “All-Cylinders” folder with a black, stonewashed 4-inch blade and a “revolver cylinder-style” pivot, and the “Accurate,” a fixed-blade hunter with a reinforced nylon-fabric sheath. The folders have drop-point blades with a choice of plain edge or Veff serrations. The Go-N-Heavy stores in a nylon-fabric sheath.
Johnson’s designs are the “Cordite: Compact” straight knife sporting a 2.5-inch drop-point blade and a paracord-wrapped handle with a “revolver cylinder style” bead, and the “Powder-Keg” fixed-blade survival knife featuring a 4.75-inch blade and rubber overmold full-tang handle with an inset Ruger medallion. The former has a glass-reinforced nylon sheath, the latter a leather sheath.
Lerch’s design is the “Follow-Through” flipper folder with a Ruger-inspired, diamond-checkered, glass-reinforced nylon handle.
The locking liner knife has a 3.75-inch drop-point blade and a two-position pocket clip. Steigerwalt’s design is the “Crack Shot: Compact” assisted opener with a 3.5-inch drop-point blade and a Ruger American Rifle-inspired, glass-reinforced nylon grip with pocket clip.
The blade is stonewashed and available in a plain or serrated edge. Carter’s design is two sizes of the “2-Stage,” a tactical flipper folder with a choice of a 4- or 3.58-inch (the “2-Stage: Compact”) tanto blade in a plain edge or with Veff serrations. Each knife has a machined/hard-anodized aluminum and stainless steel handle, and four-position pocket clip.
For more information visit Ruger.com/micros/crkt.
What Knife Do You Carry?
According to our readership surveys, BLADE®’s the “Knife I Carry” monthly column is definitely a reader favorite. We ask subscribers and newsstand buyers to email or mail high-resolution .tifs or .jpegs of themselves holding their favorite knife, the one they carry daily or most often, and a short paragraph telling us why and what they like about it, or what cutting chores it excels at. Any story about the knife at all is fair game.
You can participate, too, and be entered in a drawing to win a free pocketknife. Here’s how:
Tell us what knife you carry. Add a little history or an anecdote. Try to include a photograph (if digital, at least 600 KB but no larger than 2 MB) of you with your knife. We will publish your comments in an upcoming “The Knife I Carry.” Your name will then be entered in a drawing to win a free, high-quality, name-brand pocketknife. Mail to: BLADE®, P.O. Box 789, Ooltewah, TN 37363-0789, or e-mail [email protected]. If you send your entry by e-mail, please include your physical mailing address in case you win the pocketknife.
Check Out This Neat Download On Sharpening & Caring For Knives
The new Sharpen A Knife & Care For A Collection download is live in ShopBlade.
It’s a beautiful download, with incredible information from expert sources, an easy read and nice addition to the digital reference library. Here’s the link to the product in the store:
http://www.shopblade.com/product/sharpen-a-knife-care-for-collection-download/
The price is $6.99 – for 11 chapters of fantastic knife sharpening and care tips, tricks and techniques.
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