What are the "must have" knife books for my library?

Crayola

Crayola

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I have the Loveless/Barney knife making book and recently bought the Gun Digest Book of Knives, 5th edition. My library is sadly empty!!!!! What should a knife nut have on his bookshelf? Anyone got any books they want a few bucks for? let me know on this post please
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Crayola,

I am currently reading "The Wonder of Knifemaking" by Wayne Goddard. It is an excellent book for Knife nuts. It is a good primer for anyone new to the knife addiction or as the title states, anyone interested in knifemaking.
Wayne has a real down to earth writing style that anyone can understand. I highly recommend this one!

Jim
 
Hi Crayola

Here's my favorites:

-Levine's Guide To Knives & Their Values, expanded 3rd edition.

-Hear The Hammer - The story of Montana's Ruana knives, by Smith, Towsley, & Mandell.

-Randall Made Knives, The history of the man and his blades, by Robert Gaddis.

-Battle Blades, A professional's guide to combat/fighting knives, by Greg Walker.

-Knives 2000, edited by Ken Warner.

IMHO, I think these are nice. I'm sure though that other forumites can provide titles that you might appeal to you even more.
 
I don't have a very big knife library either. But I can recommend the KNIVES 2000, Edited by Ken Warner. Also I am currently reading a whittling book that came highly recommended called: Whittling and Woodcarving by E.J Tangerman. I really like the KNIVES 2000, it has some good articles and a really informative directory, plus they issue a new one every year. I think the 2001 is out now.
THANKS!!!
-NAN-

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Kelly,
I must agree with you about Points of Interest! I also recommend "Making Multi-Blade Folders" by Terry Davis and Eugene Shadely. This is a GREAT book for makers OR knife nuts.
Neil

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I just took a look at all of my books. WOW! There sure are a lot of them. I think that they are well worth the money because while I'll never own most of the knives pictured in them, I can still learn about and drool over them. Here they are:


  • Coffee-table picture books
  • Jim Weyer's Knives: Points Of Interest books I-V series
  • Hand-Crafted Knives - Masterpieces By American Knifemakers
  • Joseph Rogers & Sons - The Samuel Setian Collection
  • Loveless - Living On the Edge


    Knife annual-kinda books
  • Knives annuals ('97, '99, '00)
  • The Gun Digest Book of Knives


    Knifemaking books
  • Ed Fowler's Knife Talk
  • The Wonder of Knifemaking by Wayne Goddard
  • Knifemaking by Bo Bergman
  • How To Make Knives by Barney and Loveless
  • Blades 'n' Stuff catalog by Bob Engnath
  • The Jim Hrisoulas series - The Complete Bladesmith, The Master Bladesmith, and The Pattern-Welded Blade


    Price guides
  • Levine's Guide To Knives and Their Values
  • Pocket Knife - Traders Price Guide


    Knife catalogs - each in their own three-ring binders
  • Arizona Custom Knives monthly color catalog
  • Northwest Knives and Collectibles monthly catalog
  • A.G. Russell's monthly catalog
  • The First Knife Auction by Voyles
  • The Knife Collection of Albert Blevins by Bernard Levine


    Knifemakers supply and industrial catalogs
  • McMaster-Carr industrial supplies
  • Grainger industrial supplies
  • MSC Industrial Supply
  • Grizzly industrial supplies
  • Sheffield Knifemakers Supply
  • Texas Knifemaker's Supply
  • Koval Knives knifemakers supply


    Magazines
    Several years of the following:
  • Blade
  • Knives Illustrated
  • Tactical Knives

There are still many more I want - The Sheffield Knives book, the Moran books, the Antique Bowie Knife Book, etc...

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Kelly
My Custom Knife Collection
AKTI Member #A000289

Deo Vindice
 
Crayola, if you ever (which won't happen) get bored with these books. You can always specialize in one field or go to other related blade categories like swords and knife/blade fighting.
 
My favorite without a doubt is Ed Fowler's Knife Talk. It is a wonderfully written book about knives. The stories are great and easy to read, including the techno stuff. There are some great stories there.

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Kodiak Alaska
 
Kelly,
WE HAVE to come up with a KNIFE KNUT certification program!!!!
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Between my knives, customer knives, books, mags, catologs, etc, etc,
My wife has often been known to say: Knife $#(&$, knife #(@)#$, I spend more time picking up knife @_#$)*!!!
Neil

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Just add one:
Swords and Hilt Weapons by Weiden, produced by Multimedia Books Ltd, 1st published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd, London. More on swords than knives but does put everything into historic perspective.
 
I think that all of the Knives annuals are good to have . You can often pick up copies at local gun/knife shows. Other books include;

"The Tactical Folding Knife" by Bob Terzuola
I just picked up a little book that I have enjoyed reading. It is " SWITCHBLADE- The Ace Of Blades" by Ragnar Benson. You can tell that this is an older book as none of todays auto manufactures are mentioned. Still interesting.

Art Sigmon
 
One more book which I have enjoyed and recommended to anybody with interest in Japanese blades:

The Craft of the Japanese Sword by Leon & Hiroko Knapp & Yoshindo Yoshihara.

A terrific book by one of Japan's leading swordsmiths (Yoshihara) whom you may have met at recent Blade shows. Concise, complete, and entertaining. A big plus is the detailed coverage on other sword-related crafts like polishin, habaki making, and scabbard carving which are rarely seen in print anywhere.
 
Thanks for all of your suggestions so far. I have "The Craft of the Japanese Sword", Terzoula's book and Goddard's book on my short list. Some of you have mentioned some books that I have never even heard of before! Thanks again.

P.S.: Maybe us forumite knife nuts ought to WRITE our own book: THe pass around knife book. Any takers?



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How about The Spyderco Story--I bet it has lots of pretty pictures.
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