Knife of the Day

[cwo4uscgret]

A special knife with a "back story". One of the last knife shows we attended was the 2014 Dale Warther Memorial Knife Show, formerly known as the Western Reserve Knife Collector's Club Show; which had been held at the County Fairgrounds in Dover, Ohio.

At this show (as all of them) there is a banquet for all the show participants; and each "plate" is given a raffle ticket; where my wife and I sat down there were two tickets on my plate. I gave one of them back; as luck would have it the first ticket pulled (for the grand prize) was the one I gave back! They pulled another ticket - shazaam - it was the ticket I kept!

The Grand Prize, was a Damascus Thumb Knife made by Dan McMullen. It has an engraved plate, commemorating Dale Warther who had been a major player in putting on the show every year. Sadly Dale passed away unexpectedly and too young.

After holding on to this knife for the last 5 years I decided that it was time to give it back to the Club, to be given away at the banquet; with the proviso that every year it would be brought back to the awards dinner and given away as the grand prize. Tomorrow night it will be given away at the dinner; we had planned to drive to Ohio from Texas for the show but I had surgery two weeks ago and the Dr. said no travel...darn it.

So here's the Dan McMullen damascus commemorative knife. It has a stabilized sycamore wood base but I didn't keep any of those photographs.

[cwo4uscgret]

Buenos Aires, Argentina...Beautiful City, lots of people, culture, delicious food - excellent beef. Knifes and Knifemakers.

Several times when my wife traveled to Buenos Aires to visit her son she would go meet with Ruben Calo, a local knife maker in Buenos Aires and buy me a knife.

The first time I went to BA with here we went to Ruben's home where he showed me his shop and what existing inventory of knives he had. I bought a butterfly knife he made and then he gifted me an Argentine Chef's knife; one of the first knives he made. Little did we know that within 6-8 months he would succumb to lung cancer.

Here's the Balisong he made:




and here's the chef's knife:

[Rick McC.]

No pics in your last post, Chief.

[cwo4uscgret]

Rick - I can see them...you couldn't!

Fixed. I had copied "attachments" from another discussion forum.

[Caleb]

Very nice!


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[cwo4uscgret]

The Texas Knife Maker's name is Ott; not sure who he is or was but he made a great knife:

[RKP]

^^^ Damn, that's beautiful !!

[Caleb]

Originally Posted by RKP

^^^ Damn, that's beautiful !!

Agreed!


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[cwo4uscgret]

Gary Root Neck Knife. Damascus, walrus tusk cross section, unknown tusk tip handle.

[DrHenley]

Here is my latest knife, a chef's knife in AEB-L steel hardened to 62 Rockwell. Handle is stabilized spalted oak from the back yard.

It's a prototype for knives I want to make for my three sisters for Christmas.



Who knew rotten wood could be so beautiful, LOL