For the first time, original Russian Spetsnaz knives are offered on American market. All these knives were handmade in Russia and passed rigorous tests by military Spetsnaz. Each knife has a unique identification number. Tough construction, great balance, and ability to stay sharp are just a few attributes of these special knives. The design and reliability make them very attractive to military personnel, hunters, and collectors.
Award-winning knifemaker John Lewis Jensen will have two knives on display at 724 Studios in San Francisco Nov. 4 through Nov. 19, according to Jensen’s e-mail newsletter.
The knives will be exhibited in a show entitled “MOveMENT” sponsored by the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco in celebration of the guild’s 60th anniversary, and will coincide with the one-day symposium, “Forging Communities.”
A story on how Jensen makes his “Desk Daggers” will appear in the upcoming book, “BLADE’s Guide To Making Knives, Vol. 2.” The book has a tentative release date of late April 2012.
For more information visit Jensen’s Website at www.jensenknives.com or e-mail him at [email protected]. Or, call him on his cell at 323-559-7454 or his alternate cell at 401-829-9959.
Knifemaker Claude Montjoy of Clinton, South Carolina, passed away Sept. 23. He was 74.
A member of the South Carolina Association of Knife Makers, Montjoy was a full-time maker who sold his first knife in 1982. He made knives by the stock removal method and built folders, including slip joints, locking liners and interframes, and also hunters, boot knives, fighters and some art knives.
Services were held Sept. 24. Condolences may be expressed online at www.grayfuneralhome.com.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Joanna, 301 Magnolia St., Joanna, SC 29351.
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
Fox News analyst S.E. Cupp (at right in accompanying photo), who will appear on the Don Imus Show tomorrow morning on the Fox Business Channel, is a huge supporter of veterans and wounded veterans. She recently attended a hunting trip for wounded veterans coordinated by Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Ken Onion (left in accompanying photo) and others. In the process, Cupp got elbow deep dressing out a bear and also learned how to throw knives made by Bobby Branton.
“I donated a set of throwing knives to Ken Onion to keep them busy between hunts,” Branton stated. “Ken said that they threw them 15 hours a day for three days. He sent a picture of S.E. Cupp throwing and he has video, too. He said she caught on quick and turned out to be a good thrower. I’m proud everyone enjoyed my knives.”
Thanks to Onion, Branton and others, the wounded vets had a great time, and Cupp was exposed to the world of custom knives—good news on all fronts.
In this clip (1 of 5 in a series), Murray Carter and his guest talk with Okayasu Kazuo in October, 2010, at his knife shop in Tokyo. Kazuo played a critical role in the Japanese Knifemakers Guild since its founding in 1978.
ABS master smith Kirk Rexroat made the Gillette (Wyoming) News Record over the summer, in a well-written newspaper feature describing his otherwise quiet Wright, Wyoming, neighborhood that has become accustomed to hearing his hammer hit the anvil on a typical afternoon.
To excerpt a few paragraphs:
The mechanical whacking could be a little unsettling if the neighbors didn’t know what it was, but it is just something that they expect to hear once in a while along the otherwise quiet street.
After a few more thumps, another pause, and a man wearing soiled leather gloves and mirrored sunglasses walked into the sunny yard next to the hut. His mountain man white beard gave way to a wide grin and a warm hello.
A forge roared behind him, heating steel that will be painstakingly massaged and ground into some of the highest quality knives in the world on the two 100-year-old trip hammers.
The 53-year-old man is Kirk Rexroat.
Just because he has reached the status of Master smith in the knife-making world doesn’t mean that Rexroat has stopped learning.
The mine welder and metal fabrication specialist has been shaping custom knives for about 30 years, but it isn’t a lack of innovation that has made him world renowned.
“He made his first knife with sandpaper in our living room out of an old truck leaf spring,” said Rexroat’s wife, Holly, while shooting him a glance. “Your knives have come a long way since then.”
To read the entire article, go to: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700146156/Wyo-knife-makers-craft-still-has-edge.html
