Quick Steel wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:28 pm
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The experience that oozes from this site must be rubbing off on me Garry, cuz I only had to glance at your bowie and I knew it was a Marble's build, even before I saw the tang stamp. Those hand guards are the most unusual I've seen, I like them a lot. Very cool knife buddy!
USN 2000-2006
Adaptable and (usually) affable knife enthusiast, unsure of his knife collecting destination but enjoying the journey
Case taste, Rough Ryder budget
Some very knice fixed blades! The ERN is particularly interesting. Is the tiny secondary dagger carried in the handle of the large one?
USN 2000-2006
Adaptable and (usually) affable knife enthusiast, unsure of his knife collecting destination but enjoying the journey
Case taste, Rough Ryder budget
Dan In MI wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 5:41 pm
Some very knice fixed blades! The ERN is particularly interesting. Is the tiny secondary dagger carried in the handle of the large one?
No Dan, it is fitted into that V notch. The knife is in the larger slot behind it. Actually I'm not sure what occupied that slot originally; I added the tgny one.
knife7knut wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 7:27 am
A few I dug out tonight: a couple of choora daggers;an unmarked stag hunter;an ERN dagger w/tiny secondary dagger;& a Svoboda dagger.
K.K. I reckon we got similar taste in collecting... I'd call it "E-Clectick"
Sharpnshinyknives wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 10:21 pm
I got these two in today. I have been selling a few from my personal collection to pay for these. The Hattori is now the most expensive knife in my collection. Master Hattori is now 80 years old and only makes a few of each knife when he makes knives. This is one in honor of his 80 years. Chinese Quince burl wood handles. 97 layer V-gold San Mai Damascus blade with a single bevel edge. Malachite spacer and all nickel silver components.
The second one is a Moki bird and trout with amber carved bone stag handles. A Master Sakurai special edition. AUS-8 stainless blade.
Please DELETE these photos!!! You are making want to spend a LOT more $$$ Than I have!!!
Sharpnshinyknives wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 10:21 pm
I got these two in today. I have been selling a few from my personal collection to pay for these. The Hattori is now the most expensive knife in my collection. Master Hattori is now 80 years old and only makes a few of each knife when he makes knives. This is one in honor of his 80 years. Chinese Quince burl wood handles. 97 layer V-gold San Mai Damascus blade with a single bevel edge. Malachite spacer and all nickel silver components.
The second one is a Moki bird and trout with amber carved bone stag handles. A Master Sakurai special edition. AUS-8 stainless blade.
Please DELETE these photos!!! You are making want to spend a LOT more $$$ Than I have!!!
It’s been over 24 hours I can’t edit this anymore. Sorry for the pain and agony. I felt that when I saw these, got obsessed with having them. Decided the only way was to sell off others from my collection to match the amount paid. I feel like I have too many knives and it makes sense to downsize and concentrate now on having higher quality and fewer knives, at least it does to me when I have hundreds of knives and have run out of space to display them all. Leaving knives in boxes and tubes is not enjoying them and I’m at that point. Maybe you should sell off some and buy some of these?
Sharpnshinyknives wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 10:21 pm
I got these two in today. I have been selling a few from my personal collection to pay for these. a Moki bird and trout with amber carved bone stag handles. A Master Sakurai special edition. AUS-8 stainless blade.
Please DELETE these photos!!! You are making want to spend a LOT more $$$ Than I have!!!
Leaving knives in boxes and tubes is not enjoying them and I’m at that point. Maybe you should sell off some and buy some of these?
Well I reckon' you have a point...sometimes LESS is MORE and they are some BEAUTIFUL knives!!!
Nice Katanas Garry. That's the correct name isn't it?
Do you ever chop down targets like stickmen or scarecrows with them?
Cool swords regardless of your answers!
Yes, they are both Katanas. They don't really belong in this thread but I was feeling frisky. My favorite targets are filled 2 liter water bottles. Any serious Katana should easily cut through such a target. However, in many videos upon cutting the two halves of the bottles they are left with raggedy edges. My rims are always perfectly smooth and even. If a Katana can't do that then the sword is simply a decoration.
K7K, your facons are beautifully worked in silver. Obviously. I imagine these were used for fancy dress occasions. I can't visualize a gaucho riding across the pampas adorned with such elegant knives. But perhaps I'm wrong.
USN 2000-2006
Adaptable and (usually) affable knife enthusiast, unsure of his knife collecting destination but enjoying the journey
Case taste, Rough Ryder budget
Glad you like them,T-Dog. I find them very difficult to photograph. For example, in the photo above the blades look dull tho in reality they are highly polished.