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The Hunter’s Edge: 3 Hot Fixed Blades

Steve Shackleford

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October 8, 2012

You can’t beat fixed blades for down-and-dirty, heavy-duty hunting knife use, and three hot factory examples from ShopBlade are more than ready for the woods.

Designed for fish and small game, the Buck 102BR Woodsman (second from top) boasts old-time Buck styling in an affordable ShopBlade price of $39.99. Overall length: 7.75. inches.

For more click on www.shopblade.com/buck-102br-woodsman-knife-y4511?lid=SSfbbl100912

The Medium Hunter “O” Style (third from top) by Scagel Knives features a 5.5-inch blade of A2 tool steel heat treated to 58 HRC. Sporting the convex grind—the favorite grind of Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Bill Moran—the blade is designed for all types of hunting uses.

For more click on www.shopblade.com/scagel-design-knives-medium-hunter-o?lid=SSfbbl100912

Speaking of Moran, Spyderco’s Bill Moran upswept hunter (top) boasts a VG-10 stainless blade and a comfy palm swell handle of fiberglass-reinforced nylon (FRN) at a ShopBlade price of $99.96. For out-of-the-box sharpness, this one is hard to beat.

For more click on www.shopblade.com/bill-moran-black-frn-w-kraton-inlay-upswept-plainedge-w8522?lid=SSfbbl100912

Keeping Loveless Legacy Alive

Joe Kertzman

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October 5, 2011

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Meet Brent Harp, one of the very few Bob Loveless protégés to be trained in Loveless’s shop alongside Jim Merritt. A detective in the Redlands, California, Police Department, Harp first met Loveless in 1986, when he was trying to learn how to heat-treat steel to make his knife blades harder and hold a better edge.

Last month, Harp was featured in Southern California’s The Press-Enterprise newspaper regarding his knifemaking and keeping the Loveless legacy alive.

To read the feature, go to: http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20110918-perris-knife-maker-keeps-the-legacy-alive.ece

Knife Of The Day XV: O’Hare Tanto

Steve Shackleford

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January 30, 2012

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Our Knife Of The Day is Sean O’Hare’s tanto. It sports a flat-ground, 3.75-inch blade of CPM-154 stainless steel, a stabilized buckeye burl handle with a bird’s-beak butt, and a 416 stainless steel guard. Sean also made the leather pouch sheath. His price for a similar piece: $395.

“This one is a bit of a departure from my norm as it is a tanto style,” Sean noted. “I was very pleased with the way it turned out. So far this is the only [tanto] I have made. It sold right away at the New York Custom Knife Show.”

For more information contact Sean at [email protected].

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Mount Rushmore of Knifemakers in BLADE!

Steve Shackleford

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February 22, 2017

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A contemporary version of the Mount Rushmore of Knifemakers, a secret of knife collecting, knives with nice butts, the Bob Loveless knife that changed knife history and more touch up the edge of the latest BLADE®, on newsstands NOW!

BLADE did an all-time “Mount Rushmore of Knifemakers”—the top four makers of the modern era—in the May 2015 issue. Afterward, one of the participants, Dan Delavan of Plaza Cutlery, suggested we do a Mount Rushmore saluting contemporary makers. The result is our poll of leading industry observers that pinpoints the top four makers—four to fit on our Mount Rushmore—from 2000 to 2017. Check out who they are, as well as the ones who just missed, in the latest issue.

Collecting custom knives must be fun and rewarding for you or else why do it? One way to make it fun and rewarding is to be successful at it, and one way to do that is to be aware of the life cycle of popular knife genres. BLADE field editor Les Robertson makes a living staying abreast of the life cycles of hot custom knife genres, something he has been doing for almost 35 years now. Learn what the cycles are, their history and how you can use them to enhance your collection in “The Circle Remains Unbroken.”

In knife parlance the end of a knife handle is called a butt—and knives with the nicest butts often are the kind that attract knife aficionados most. See why this is so and some examples of some of the best of their kind in “Knives With Nice Butts.”

The dropped hunter—aka the drop-point hunter or simply the drop point—by BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Bob Loveless is probably the most emulated custom knife design of all time. Join John Denton and Cutlery Hall-Of-Famers A.G. Russell, D’ Holder and B.R. Hughes as they dissect what made the drop point a knife that changed knife history—all this and much more in the latest issue of BLADE.

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2013 ABS Hammer-In Season Begins!

Joe Kertzman

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March 4, 2013

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The American Bladesmith Society (ABS ) Hammer-In season for 2013 is about to begin with the Great Smoky Mountain hammer-in event in Clyde, North Carolina, on March 15-17. That’s followed in April by the Spring Piney Woods hammer-in at the Moran School Of Bladesmithing in Washington, Arkansas. The ABS Hammer-In Directors have some exceptional demonstrations and special events planned for 2013.

The setting for the Great Smoky Mountain Hammer-In is Haywood Community College, and demonstrators include Adam and Haley DesRosiers, Greg Neely, Butch Sheely, Jason Knight, Scott McGhee and Shane Maust. Click here to download the event flyer.

Bob Loveless’ Secret Helper, a History of Tapered Tangs, Much More in New April BLADE

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BLADE Staff

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February 7, 2011

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An exclusive story by Pat Covert on John Wilson, Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Bob Loveless’ “secret helper,” Joe Kertzman’s study of knives with tapered tangs, the best knives of USN’s G2 knife show and more highlight the April BLADE, on most newsstands NOW!

There are also stories on vintage military knives; textured knife handles; how to logo etch your blades; a profile of 5.11 Tactical; the Knives of CBS-TV’s NCIS; a test of the Gerber Metolius; the latest in corrosion-resistant blade materials; the hero swords of Hollywood’s Golden Age; and more.

In addition, there is editorial mention of such knifemakers and knife companies as: an unknown Gerber/Loveless Mark II; the knives carried by knife enthusiasts Carter Kerns, Pam Gallagher and Bill Van Clief; a vintage Robeson M3, Taylor Huff knuckle knife, SOG Recon, Vietnam-era Solingen Randall, Frank Richtig fighter and John Ek Model 2; Jim Hammond; Mike Quesenberry; Jerry Moen’s cover knife; Bob Loveless; Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer William Scagel; Charles Vestal; John Young; George Trout; Jens Anso; Darrel Ralph; Benchmade; Jurgen Steinau; Elizabeth Loerchner; Shane Taylor; Roger Bergh; Mike J. O’Brien; Don Hanson; Ron Newton; Strider Knives; Zero Tolerance; Spyderco; Kershaw; Anders Hogstrom; Virgil England; Richard Zirbes; Kirby Lambert; TOPS/Buck collaboration; CRKT; Gary Mulkey; Pro-Tech/Allen Elishewitz collaboration; Schrade; Ivan Campos; Blind Horse Knives; D.R. Good; Fred Loving; Jan Dox; Louis Naude; Harvey Holbrook; Serge Panchenko; Rick Marchand; Joe Caswell; Pro-Tech/Emerson Knives, Inc., collaboration; Jeremy Marsh/Steel Flame collaboration; Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer Ken Onion; Chris Reeve Knives; Todd Begg; and Randy Golden.

Carter Cutlery Sale Celebrates Move In January

The BLADE Blogs

BLADE Staff

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November 18, 2010

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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].

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