Pocketknives/Kitchen Knives/Fixed Blades
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Another one bites the dust. You were great while you lasted (Not even a month :-[). I think I might be done with knives. At least some little gangster kid will have a sweet blade to rob me with…
[quote author=LandoCal126 link=topic=90.msg15903#msg15903 date=1273797369]My New Kershaw…
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Yup. I mean I was drunk in a park at night on a swing set, but that is neither here nor there.
I really just don't deserve to carry one if I can't hold onto it. Not throwing away anymore $ until I have a pair of jeans with a specific knife stash pocket… -
Some folks rock lanyards on their knives too.
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Forgive me my enthousiasm and abundance of pics, but this just HAS to be done…
It has arrived, CHRIS REEVE 'Sebenza' (small) - with a big, HUGE thank you to mod DougNG for hooking me up...
So stoked. It is light and just big enough for me. Feels amazing. I'm gonna replace the black chord with an Iron Heart tan leather loop/ noose (as you find on the jackets and such) though…
Yep - already deeply in love... And practicing my one-hand opening
THANK YOU DOUG!..
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Nice, any chance we can get a flick of it on you? How you wear it…
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Anything would be much appreciated! Thanks Doug.
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Fuck, I needed that about a week ago… Thanks for the flicks Doug!
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Nice Seul
The only thing I don't like about back pocket carry is that I worry about 1) the knife falling out of my back pocket depending on how I'm sititng and 2) I prefer to put the knife on the other side of the pocket for comfort, but I run the risk of the blade opening up and cutting me when I stick my hand in that pocket
If you look at my SR's though, you can tell I've thrown caution to the wind
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Birthday gift from Jody
Seriously old school. Carbon steel. Thick ass stag. The tip of the blade is so pointy my crappy phone cam couldn't capture it.
It's a Scagel themed knife. From the website if was purchased on about Bill Scagel:
"Born in a snowed-in Michigan cabin during the winter of 1873, Bill Scagel was "officially" Canadian but always considered himself Canadian-American. He was, before making knives, a sheet-metal worker, building metal boats prior to forging blades in earnest. Known for his wrought ironwork, his sailing prowess and his pride in exotic flower gardening, Scagel also was a gunsmith, a machinist and a builder of bridges.
Scagel's most productive years as a knifemaker began around 1910. After a fire wiped out his place in Muskegon, he settled on an acre of land in Fruitport, which became the wellspring of most of the incomparable Scagel-made knives we know today – from small 25-cent parers to full-on 25-dollar Bowies.
Perhaps owing to his Scottish heritage, the reclusive Scagel designed and built his own machining and forging equipment, wasting little. For many years his shop was powered by a gasoline engine salvaged from a 1926 Cadillac -- his way of stiffing the local electric company.
The man's frugality was reflected in his knives, particularly the handles. In one sense a scavenger's delight, Scagel made handles from what he had -- leather, bone, fiber, antler, brass -- but they were undeniably utilitarian, designed to complement the blades to which they were mated. The now-classic lines of Scagel's blades and his quirkily beautiful handles were beside the point, because the man built complete edged tools, made to be worked hard.
Bill Scagel died in 1963, about a year after he'd stopped producing knives. His 52 years of craftsmanship survives in the hands of dedicated collectors, and although it's accurate to refer to Bill Scagel as an artist, a master of 20th-Century American cutlery or "The Father of the Custom Knife," indeed the best nod to his legacy is to recognize it and carry it on."
