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John Lloyd, a retired contractor,resides in Missouri. A great friend. His retirement therapy is making slipjoint folders. Self taught,his work constantly improves.
He hollow grinds,and uses both ss & carbon steels.
John has an extensive handle material collection ,and loves to use various natural materials,and vintage synthetics as well.

I'll pop in time to time to show some knives. I hope you like them

This was a recent build,a bolsterless "shadow" , India Sambar stag, very high grade,I'm thinking the scales on this knife were cut off a roll . With good quality Sambar these days , it is hard to come by and most often if you see it with texture like this,it has been hand cut off of a roll.