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Gevonovich said:
~P, your photographs are just wonderful!! Really like the last one.
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Why, thank you. :)

Yesterday when out walking I spied the especially yellow fall of leaves, and hustled back at first opportunity with more colorful cutlery.

(The day's mainstay in my pocket, while grand, couldn't do full justice to the contrast potential--)
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~ P.
 
Kris, I'll admit I was jealous when that beauty went off the exchange. TK outdid himself on that wonderful Koa handle.

Simply spectacular!
 
Thanks Gev and Jeff, it is a well made piece indeed, the cleanly done solder joint on the guard is top notch.


Kris
 
Today's knife. It's kind of special for many reasons and probably the most beautiful I own currently. Can you believe I took this beauty to the bench and vised and hammered the pivot because it had unacceptable lateral play ? Yes, I did. Now it's perfectly tight and still walks and talks the way it should. The pull is too soft and that needs some caution when using it because the blade is a true razor (chips away sniplets of paper in a hurry...). The knife provides all the artistry, the photographer is a noob... Plain to see.
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Every time I see a French knife, I find myself thinking how nice it looks. That one's no exception - looks great! Gotta get some more Frogs in my life. :thumbup:
 
I'm still on the edge with this one... It's probably a one of its kind. It was produced about twenty years ago on order by an armoury shop in St Brieuc (Daniel Armes), Bretagne (Little Brittany... inside joke) from Coutellerie Issard (Thiers). It was probably still made by Marcel Issard (the father), as recent productions (by Etienne Issard, one of the sons) are more "modern" (understand stainless liners and bolsters. But their ebony is downright splendid). The scales are bighorn ram's horn, very rare and for this reason very mismatched (or the artist in the cutler won over, who knows ?), liners and bolsters are nickel silver, the blade is an excellent stainless steel (comparing with modern products, I'd say 12C27... at first pick). A true oldie with a rough look and modern hidden features... what's not to love ? Well, I'd be in love if it had a true bear trap spring... but it's rather a lawyer spring.
 
My grandfather hesitated for a moment and then he saw my point--that if I was old enough to have a knife, then I was old enough to go into the Wild Country.
"I guess it'll be all right."
I could not wait, Prince and I have waited for this forever. He would protect me from anything we might encounter. There were foxes but the last of the bear had been hunted out.
The Wild Country began below the road which ran along the border of Henry's farm, as grandpa dove Prince and I along the road down the Valley, my excitement grew. I felt like Cortez or Vasco da Gama, for the Wild Country was a place of mystery many square miles in extent, with great areas of marshland and here and there ridges of primeval limestone rock , honeycombed with caves. I felt my pocket and a smile came over my heart...

The Wild Country by Louis Bromfield...well almonst


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Wow, what a sweetheart that one is! Love everything about it.
(Although it's escaping me at the moment... what is the term for that type of extended backspring, that "wraps around" the butt end to meet the tip of the blade?)
 
puukkoman said:
Wow, what a sweetheart that one is! Love everything about it.
(Although it's escaping me at the moment... what is the term for that type of extended backspring, that "wraps around" the butt end to meet the tip of the blade?)
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Thank you sir!
I have always called it a back spring extension, but you had me go off in search of an official name. Here is a link to a BRL discussion.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...d?highlight=backspring+extension+pocket+knife

Hopefully some of our esteemed knife makers/masters will chime in?
 
Thank you, Jon. Now that is one beautiful NYKCo!! Can you explain the letter for us?

Confucius, I adore your feline!! Just a beauty! What is the breed?
 
Thank Gev! She's a bengal, she lives at my mom's house with 2 other cats, 3 dogs, and a parrot...its a ZOO I tell ya!
 
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