Very expensive knives.
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Rend with tooth and claw!
You know that they can tell which cultures use cutlery or when it came in in the archaeological records by looking at the over-bite. Pre cutlery the teeth met edge to edge as it had to tear or hold food. This changed once knives & forks came in.
Must say though that though I've owned and used some expensive knives it's my little sub £10 carbon Opinel that I use the most.
Still folk can soend what they want too on.knives, it's their bawbees and if it gives them joy, cool. If folk never aspired to better though then we'd still be using the sharp edge if a rock. (And most folk I know couldn't get their knives as sharp.as a newly knapped peice of flint).
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
I have a nice penknife that was my grandad's in the trenches of ww1. I have a little sharp dirk which was my granny's when she was a wee lass on Skye. I have knife from my dad which he bought in Tripoli at the end of ww2. And I have a knife which I forged last week on a course. I consider myself very knife glad. And, well, you know that bit in Inidana Jones and the Last crusade when Indy is asked to choose the true Grail? I feel like that about a knife - what matters is that I choose wisely from any of these or the tiny crkt peck in the dark, or the elderly mora, or some other knife I think a buck which a friend from the U.S. Gave me. And I think nearly got detained at customs for! I know some people have posh knives and if they love them fab. I'm glad to have something that works actually with me!
Wonder what our ancestors would have "paid" / "traded" for a highly polished axe head in comparison to one fresh knapped ?
Would have been little or no difference in performance.....
But ooo its shiny and desirable...
Would have been little or no difference in performance.....
But ooo its shiny and desirable...
I've a picture some where of a flint hand axe where the maker deliberately worked 'round a fossil shell inclusion. Personally I think it's one of the most important ginds in as to what humanity is. So long ago and yet the maker; and probable owner, worked around this shell to make their flint axe pretty, desirable and different. It's a beautiful piece and it speaks to.me.
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No but i'd spend more a laptop then I would a knife...
You cant watch porn on a Knife...
That surely depends on whether it has a mirror finish or not?
If you use it then this
PFK by British Red, on Flickr
Becomes this
PFK Now by British Red, on Flickr
Which is fine by me
What is the bolster made of? In the used pic it looks brass, but when new it looked more silvery. Absolutely beautiful knife. I just happen to be working on one very like it but with a somewhat shorter blade for every day carry in a back pocket.
The bolster is nickel silver. The discolouration is tarnish from the air, tree sap, blood, sweat but no tears ,
It polishes off easily enough, the blade patina less easily.
It polishes off easily enough, the blade patina less easily.
The most expensive knife I've owned was a Rob Bayley Raven, part trade, part cash.
There was no way I would have had the
to use it though,and i advertised it on ebay.com straight away.
[And sold it]
Ive been using a paul baker bushman tz which cost £290 new, but I got used for £90, for the last 5-6 years.
However, I have gone a wee bit crazy these last couple of weeks, and got a brand new bark river Bravo 1.5, in A2 steel, which is a beautiful knife, and I went a bit mental today and pulled the trigger on a brand new Fallkniven TK1 with an Ivory Micarta handle, from a shop, which is my dream knife, but I feel a bit guilty about tbh. :sulkoff: And Ive lost my appetite.
But she is absolutely stunning:
Thats it now. No more knives for the rest of my life.
[I bought an AW woodlore in 2003, for £150 with both sheaths, and used it, then sold it a few years later, for £375. I never did get along with it.]
There was no way I would have had the
to use it though,and i advertised it on ebay.com straight away. [And sold it]
Ive been using a paul baker bushman tz which cost £290 new, but I got used for £90, for the last 5-6 years.
However, I have gone a wee bit crazy these last couple of weeks, and got a brand new bark river Bravo 1.5, in A2 steel, which is a beautiful knife, and I went a bit mental today and pulled the trigger on a brand new Fallkniven TK1 with an Ivory Micarta handle, from a shop, which is my dream knife, but I feel a bit guilty about tbh. :sulkoff: And Ive lost my appetite.
But she is absolutely stunning:
Thats it now. No more knives for the rest of my life.
[I bought an AW woodlore in 2003, for £150 with both sheaths, and used it, then sold it a few years later, for £375. I never did get along with it.]
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Most expensive I own is a benchmade 162-1. It's not a bad little knife, but it gets left at home for my beat up old generic £7 4inch fixed blade skinner almost every time. Best knife I've ever owned
Very small handles on those apparently. Nice knives though.
The most expensive knife I've owned was a Rob Bayley Raven, part trade, part cash.
There was no way I would have had the
[And sold it]
Ive been using a paul baker bushman tz which cost £290 new, but I got used for £90, for the last 5-6 years.
However, I have gone a wee bit crazy these last couple of weeks, and got a brand new bark river Bravo 1.5, in A2 steel, which is a beautiful knife, and I went a bit mental today and pulled the trigger on a brand new Fallkniven TK1 with an Ivory Micarta handle, from a shop, which is my dream knife, but I feel a bit guilty about tbh. :sulkoff: And Ive lost my appetite.
But she is absolutely stunning:
Thats it now. No more knives for the rest of my life.
[I bought an AW woodlore in 2003, for £150 with both sheaths, and used it, then sold it a few years later, for £375. I never did get along with it.]
Very small handles on those apparently. Nice knives though.
Thanks Mark. 11.5cm, but yeh, they do look very skinny from the top view...
I've moved up, so to speak to a knife made by HillBill from a mora via a Helle. These are knives I use all day every day, if I get the chance, plus my SAK of course but I also collect knives and some although I would never use, make me smile to own, when they stop making me smile then there gone.
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Its the Julius Peterson (sp?) 25th anniversary woodlore i believe. Hand forged in sweden..... Same smith who made him a knife in the Sweden episode of Bushcraft.
Cheers mark, that handle is beautiful
I remember the episode. i think woodlore sell/sold peterson blades, didn't know he did a woodlore though
I remember the episode. i think woodlore sell/sold peterson blades, didn't know he did a woodlore though
Most expensive I've ever seen and I'm still not sure if it's a typo, I would want it to come with a butler to carry it for me 😆
