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Hunter’s Edge: Scagel Knives Medium Hunter

Steve Shackleford
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Ready yourself edgewise for the upcoming fall hunting season with a classically designed outdoor knife, the O Style Medium Hunter from Scagel Knives.

    Based on the style of Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member William Scagel, the knife sports a 5.5-inch blade of A-2 tool steel heat treated to 58 HRC to take an edge and hold it for field dressing and other game chores.

    A convex grind—the favorite of another Cutlery Hall Of Famer, Bill Moran—enhances blade geometry, and a spalted maple handle with a single guard completes an attractive, ergonomic handle.

    Weight: 7.5 ounces. Overall length: 10.125 inches.

    For more info click on http://www.shopblade.com/scagel-design-knives-medium-hunter-o/?lid=blss082712

Loveless Dagger Worth Keeping in the Collection

Joe Kertzman
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As preeminent Bob Loveless knife collector John Denton says, “The dagger is up there with the New York Special. It is really beautiful, and I just keep those back in the collection.”

Denton continues, “Bob was not as much about fit and finish as Steve Johnson, but more about making a knife feel so good in the hand. He always said, ‘Make a knife look so good you want to pick it up, and feel so good you don’t want to put it down.’ And that worked. His design and balance were critical to making the knife market shoot to the moon.

“People have been telling me since the 1960’s when they got a Loveless knife, that it was so pretty they did not want to use it, but Bob wanted it to look good, and he also wanted people to use them.”

The dagger in a full, tapered tang, Micarta handle and double guard looks and feels good. It is from the John Denton Collection. Photo courtesy of Denton.

Practicality Was Art To Bob Loveless

Joe Kertzman
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“Bob wanted his knives to be working tools, not just art objects. In his mind, practicality was art to Bob Loveless,” Steve Johnson is quoted by Durwood Hollis as saying in the book Knifemaking With Bob Loveless.

As a young man in the early 1970’s, Johnson worked with Loveless as a junior partner in the business, learning to build knives. In fact, for several months, Steve lived with Bob in the same house. A full-time maker, Johnson freely admits that the time he spent in the Loveless shop made a huge difference in his life. 

Pictured is one of the few knives marked “Loveless Johnson” reportedly still in existence. The image is courtesy of John Denton and the John Denton collection.

Hunter’s Edge: Gerber Metolius

Steve Shackleford
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Get twice the cutting versatility in skinning and dressing game for the upcoming fall hunting season with the Gerber Metolius.

    The folder has drop-point and skinning blades, the latter with a safety ball for the tip to prevent accidental puncturing of the organs of the animal while cutting inside it. The drop point works on a lockback mechanism, the skinning blade via a push button. Each blade is 3.2 inches long.

    The knife sports a Gerber Softgrip overmold handle for enhanced purchase. Overall weight: 4.8 ounces. Length open: 7.9 inches.

    An easy-carry ballistic nylon sheath is included.

    ShopBlade’s price to you: $44.99.

 

For more info click on http://www.shopblade.com/gerber-metolius-2-blade-folding-knife-y6983/?lid=blss082212

 

Merritt-Loveless Knives Do Indeed Hold Merit

Joe Kertzman
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Merritt-Loveless Knives Do Indeed Hold Merit

“The Loveless knife design is all about function,” Jim Merritt once noted. “A Loveless knife is made for the guy who wants to have the best knife possible for field work.” Merritt worked side-by-side with Loveless in his shop for 30 years, and toward the end was making Loveless’s knives on his own, with Bob pitching in and helping whenever he could.

This pair is a prime example of the combined efforts of Bob Loveless and Jim Merritt. Their skill as knifemakers is simply without peer.

The knife photo is by Durwood Hollis and was used in the book he authored titled Knifemaking With Bob Loveless.

Vote For Your Favorite Expendables 2 Knife!

Steve Shackleford
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Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables 2 action blockbuster took the box office by storm this past weekend, in no small part thanks to the knives made for the movie by Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Gil Hibben.

    All of which got us to thinking …

    Which of Hibben’s knives in the movie is your favorite? Is it (starting from top above), the Legion Fighter on the cover of the November BLADE® (on newsstands NOW), the Toothpick, the Alamo Bowie or the Double Shadow?

    Let us know via a post, e-mail or whatever electronic means you need to use in order to vote.

    And please, only one vote per person!

    All of the above pictures except for the cover are by Mike Carter.

For the latest knives, knife trends, knifemakers, what knives to buy and where, knife legislation, knifemaking instruction, and much more, subscribe to BLADE® Magazine, the World’s No. 1 Knife Publication. Click on http://www.shopblade.com/blade-magazine-one-year-subscription-us/?lid=blss082112

Game Edge: Fall Hunting Knives

Steve Shackleford
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With fall hunting season close at hand, you need the best in today’s latest outdoor knives.

    Enter our new “Game Edge: Fall Hunting Knives” series on ShopBlade.com!

    First up: the Outdoor Edge Butcher-Lite Knife Set.

    The set includes a 3-inch caper, 4.25-inch gut-hook skinner, 6-inch boning/fillet knife, 7.25-inch wood-bone saw, a tungsten-carbide sharpener, a rib-cage spreader and a set of game-cleaning gloves.

    Straight from the hunting knife genius of Outdoor Edge’s David Bloch, the set has every tool you need to skin, quarter and debone big game. The set is belt-carried in a nylon roll pack, with each piece easily accessible for instant use.

    ShopBlade’s price: $59.99.

    For more info and ordering information, click here.

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