New Knife

[Ky-Flinter]

I finally got around to putting a handle on this blade over the holidays.  I picked up the blade blank at the CLA show in Lexington last year.  I thought the maker's mark stamped in the blade was kinda cool.  I found out later that Herder has been making blades in Solingen, Germany since 1623.  The fork logo on this knife was trademarked in 1802.

The blade was sort of a clip point Bowie style when I got it.  I ground both the back and the edge profiles to look more like a colonial long rifleman's knife.  I found the antler shed where I deer hunt every fall. 





What do you think?

-Ron

[Longknife]

Ron, It looks like one of those $250. knives on the CLA website...Nice job!! Ed

[Dennis Glazener]

Ron,
Isn't this the blade that I tried to buy then found out you had just bought it? The table was over near where Tom Patton had the "Free Born" rifle on display. I am pretty sure it is and you really made a nice looking knife from it.
Dennis

[Ky-Flinter]

Thanks for the compliments.  

Dennis, your recollection is close.  The actual story is the fellow had 2 of these blanks and he wanted to sell them together but I talked him into selling me just 1.  The table was just outside the entrance to the "original" section near Mr Guslar's tables.  Right after we completed our deal, I saw you and some of the other ALR guys at James Levy's table, so I went over and, of course, showed off my new acquisition.  James showed us pictures of a Herder knife with that logo that was found in a 18th century shipwreck and he had made a copy of the knife using the same blank as I had.  When you heard there was a second blank, I took you to the table, but the second blank was already gone.  Couldn't have been 5 minutes.  Dennis, I just wanted to set the record straight....  can't have folks thinking I "snaked" you on a deal...  

-Ron

[Levy]

Ron:  Great looking knife.  It certainly didn't look like that when you showed it to me at the CLA Show.  I do remember the incident with you guys going back and trying to find the second blade without any luck.  Smokey Mtn. Knifeworks still has some in there catalog for sale.  I used one of the Herder blades to copy the knife that was recovered from the San Jose Y Las Animas which wrecked in 1733 in the Florida Keys.

James Levy 

[Brian Jordan]

Great job on the knife!

[Dennis Glazener]

Dennis, I just wanted to set the record straight....  can't have folks thinking I "snaked" you on a deal...  Wink

-Ron

Yes I remember now. Never thought you or the other guy snaked me. Just too late! Nice knife!
Dennis