Archived SI Article on R.W. Loveless Knifemaker, a must read for the knife nutty

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I saw this article posted once and I thought it would be great reading for anyone who hasn't read it. In the article the knifemaker whose knives I've seen on the internet with sale prices of $10,000+ poo poos on knife collectors. That said it was a great article, great read about a master at his craft.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1123591/1/index.htm

PS I found it after trying to learn more about 154CM. Wiki listed Bob as the knifemaker who introduced the steel to knifemaking?
 
Thanks for posting that, it really helped me grasp the mystique that surrounds Loveless and his knives.
 
Interesting.

A Loveless quote from his Wall Street Journal obit:

"The kind of American who acquires a lot of expensive things so that he can show them off to his peer group and thereby acquire more status is the kind of American that makes me puke."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703960004575482091920070062.html

Its good, that I like to use (most of) my knives. Its sad, that I dont own a Loveless knife to use for skinning deer etc.
 
A simple yet profound Man. Someone I can look up to- so unpretentious yet prolific. Thanks for the read cchu.
 
That was a good post. Well worth a read, even if only for those parts of the history of knifemaking science that one might not be familiar with.

But it was much more. This was an interesting guy. A bit weird, but aren't we all. I either would have hated this guy, or would have been his best friend. Can't tell which.

I'll bet he had that resentment against the collectors because they drove up the prices and faced him with the curse of financial temptation. With his knives getting to be worth so much money, he probably had to re-examine his motives all the time. "Am I being corrupted by success?" That kind of thing.
 
He lived in my hometown. Ran into him once around 20 years ago in a gun store. Kind of gruff but pleasant enough. When he died, I called the local newspaper and tried to get them to run an article about him since he lived in Riverside so long. The reporter I talked to seemed to think I was exaggerating when I told him Loveless was famous to the knife making/collecting world. They never did run article on him, though I think the L.A. Times did.
 
That's always the case it took Jimi Hendrix going to London and Europe and the Beatles coming to America to blow up...grass is always greener! That's very cool that you met him though!

riversidedep said:
He lived in my hometown. Ran into him once around 20 years ago in a gun store. Kind of gruff but pleasant enough. When he died, I called the local newspaper and tried to get them to run an article about him since he lived in Riverside so long. The reporter I talked to seemed to think I was exaggerating when I told him Loveless was famous to the knife making/collecting world. They never did run article on him, though I think the L.A. Times did.
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