Mike Miller has donated a nice custom knife & wants to see some knife pictures !

V,

Here are the two Miller's I have in my possession.












IIRC, I got them from you.



JAPPFT,


GWB

Guys I like to see every different makers knives just not mine. Show some that normally don't show up here. I enjoyed the Phil Wilsons the other day!

Here ya' go Mike. This is by Paul LeBatard of MS. It is ATS-34 hollow ground,10.5" OAL with a 6" blade




















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Here's a swayback fixed blade by Bret Dowell with ivory scales

Marcus Lin

Stuart Branson forged integral hunter

Here's a Dan Thompson that I'm pretty proud of.



Miller B&T.



Not customs but I really like this GEC B&T,,,,



And this old North Woods B&T that I've had forever.

Here are three from MRK. Top is carbon fiber, middle is weathered elk, and the bottom is mammoth ivory.

Good stuff guys!


Here are three Slaughterville knives by Dale Atkerson, courtesy of Vince M.





Keep it goin'!

GWB

G - tell me about those first 2 - thanks.

Couple Doziers

Alan Davis
B&T
Elmax blade stonewashed
Giraffe bone scales

my fave.......

I REALLY like the looks of the green one!!

Collaboration For Rocky Joe.
T. Bose

Nice to see some Doziers on this forum!

What I ask is better than having a mighty fine knife by Mr. Mike Williams?

Well, IMHO



Having two! LOL


Amber dyed stag on the first,

Walrus Ivory and leather on the second.

I stand to be corrected but I believe Mike calls this "leaf pattern Damascus" on the blade.

Can hardly wait to blood it on a perforated hoglet.

JAPPFT,

GWB

few I got off of bladeforums




top blade is a Ray Laconico. He made some sweet, no nonsense fixed blades.

I like the pic I took for Dale.

Rode hard for 31 years.

That one's exceptional. It looks a lot better to me with the two pins in it.

Hard not to like Dumbo ivory.

Tell me about these two GW

Sir,

Most of the knives I own I have info on the scales, blade material, model name/number and the approximate hardness on the Rockwell scale (according to the maker).

I acquired these two from VinceM, who in turn got them from Mike Miller. About all I can say is they both appear to be stainless. One has a black Micarta scales which I would guess is linen micarta,yellow liners, and to my eye has a flat grind. The other I would guess is a burl hardwood,no liner, jimping on the spine in front of the scales,and perhaps a shallow hollow grind. Both have stainless pins and tube for attaching a lanyard. I stand to be corrected on all points. Of the two, the wood handeled knife is my favorite.

Perhaps Mike Miller might chime in with details. Then we would know for sure.

Best,

GWB

Menefee 16 bore and pintails

They are both made from CPM154stainless.
Black micarta is correct and a stabilized hardwood handle. The hardwood came from a friend and he could not identify it. It was hard before we had it stabilized.

The blade are ground on an eighteen inch wooden wheel which was made by Rick Menefee. He wanted to make a different grinder and I liked the semi hollow it gave. I did have to slow it down to make it manageable.

Geedubya,

Just based on the picture, I'd bet that wood was afzelia from the color and the grain pattern. One of my favorite woods for knife scales personally.

Dale

Thanks for adding info & Afzelia sounds familiar for sure

I'll throw another Dozier in the mix

Yukon Pro Skinner

Thanks. Yes, I especially like that wood handle

OK Thanks for every one adding so far,but it's still going on....

Here is the knife Mike donated, someone will get it sent to them
http://www.vcmcustomknives.com/maple-burl-utility.html

Click that link i the above line but here it is this morning,should make someone a great EDC tool,gutting knife




I am working some details out and I will add a knife or knives to this,just gimme some time ,thanks for the patience & participation......

Ray Kirk and myself have combined efforts and we're adding this knife http://www.vcmcustomknives.com/stag-forged-integral.html to the give away.

Here are a few Coopers for you Mike!!!

We're about getting ready to announce 2 winners here so stay tuned. I'm hoping to be able to have two knives,delivered to 2 winners,in time for Independence day.

Very hard to decide but with the help of Mrs. Vince,here's what I come up with.....


Recurved edge warny B&T / Utility ,donated by Mike Miller >>>>>>>>>>>
>> Goes to >>>>>>>>> member " Field grade" !


The forged stag integral by Ray Kirk ,donated by Ray & me, goes to >>>>> member >>> geedubya !

Guys please contact me with your addresses



Maybe we'll do this again sometime in the future,Thanks to All for adding in,some gorgeous enthusiastic knife photos.

Unbelievable!!!!!!

I never win anything.
Hell, I'm lucky to even catch a green light once or twice a year, let alone win a knife.

Thanks Mike and Vince.
And a special thanks to Mrs. Vince.

Congrats gentleman!

10/4 on that.

I was sick as a dog yesterday, but that perked me right up.

Thanks to Mike M. and Vinnie the "KnifeFather"

Best,

GWB

Field grade your last picture with the bird & dbl. b got you recognition

GW Thanks to Ray Kirk on your knife,and your over all enthusiasm,plus the Mike Williams Pic

Both prizes are sent as of this morning Have a safe & Happy Fourth All.

I will try to do this again this year. There were about 3 or 4 guys here in this thread I wish I were able to make winners ,I hope,if we do another thread like this they will get in on it too. Thanks everyone

Glad you said that.
I's one of my favorite knives so it's fitting.

Thanks again.

Good to see them go to guys that will use them.

mike r

Late to the party, but knife porn nonetheless.

Tobin Smith


TK Steingass

Mink. What dou think of TKs knives?

J,

can't say what the Mink would think.......





But ol' Tex-a-dillo............




he thinks they're pretty sweet!!!!




Best,


GWB

Mike,
I do have a thing for owning, fondling and using knives.

I’m now an old fart, but around 1956, a youngster could pretty much watch TV. Programs such as Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie were standard fare. One particular show, The Adventures of Jim Bowie aired between 1956 and 1958. So that would put me between the ages of 5-8.
The first time I can recollect getting in trouble with/over a knife was some time during this period. I think I was 6 at the time………





Well if ol’ Jim Bowie could throw a knife and stick it. I figured I should be able to do so myself with a little practice.
Now my uncle was an exterminator. The next door neighbor was a policeman who had a really nice workshop in his attached garage. To make a long story short, he contracted with my uncle to exterminate his house and garage during the day while he was at work.

While my mom was doing something else, I moseyed over to see what my uncle was doing. Well, the garage door was open, and lo and behold there was this 3-blade folder of substantial size. Plenty big to catch a 6 year old’s attention. Lust set in and nobody was wathching.

I was old enough to know about stealing, but I figured I’d just borrow it for a while and bring it back and nobody would notice, and that would not be stealing. Yeah, that was the ticket. So I grab it. Nobody saw me and I made a clean getaway.

IIRC I went across the street to the ball filed that was across from our house, to the dug-outs, which were constructed of wood. I figured that if I opened a blade on each end, one was about to stick, when I threw it against the wall.

Yup………… Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie…… and I threw it with all my might. Now I was probably only about 5 feet away. As chances were, the big blade did not stick in the wood, but the little blade did. It broke, and the rest of the knife tumbled to the ground. Now I was really in a fix. I don’t remember what ran through my mind, but I did not return it and hid in the culvert there at the ball park.

For a while nothing happened. Then one evening when I was playing on the swing in our back yard my dad approached me and told me we needed to talk. We sat down and he proceeded to tell me about the fact that our next door neighbor had been robbed, but all they took was a 3-blade pocket knife. He said that the neighbor had told the police that they had seen the garage door open and a young boy leaving out of the driveway. He told me that the cops were looking all over town for the thief, and that when they found him they were gonna’ toss him in the pokey’ and make him live on bread and water or something like that. He said he knew that I played with a lot of kids in the afternoon over at the ball field shagging foul balls for snowcones, and if I heard anything to let him know. It would be better for the thief to turn himself in than to wait till the cops caught him. Well I confessed. IIRC, I got a spankin’ and had to go return the knife to the cop next door and apologize for my actions.

I don’t believe I’ve stole anything since.

But.........


I still do like to play with knives.

JAPPFT,

GWB


























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I'd say you're still somewhere between 5 and 8. Definitely no more than 12.

Don't ever change buddy.
We like you just the way you are.

If you do, I think anyone that's already won should politely excuse then selves from future contests.
I know I will.

Wow -- look at the hollow grind and the swedge on that blade!

That should be a helluva slicer! I'd love to have one like that to take my next moose apart with!

The way the blade tapers to almost nothing in the handle (plus the swedge) makes me wonder if this is a Rick Menefee? (Rocky Menefee perhaps?)

John

Geedubya, you certainly provide your blades plenty of opportunities to work as intended.

Fieldgrade, we all need to try to be as wondrous and clear thinking as we were at age 12. Prior to discovering the wonders of females.


mike r

Sorry for the late reply, but I love his blades. Soldered and pinned guards with clean joints just complete a knife to me. His grinds are second to none. The one I have pictured is just about a perfect field knife. I have had bowies of his that ranged from fast fighters to heavy camp varieties as well....quality is always top-notch. I have a smaller Woods Bowie from him in convexed 3V that is just an outstanding EDC.

I have nothing negative to say about his work, or him as a person. Just a good dude to deal with, as I have found all knife-makers to be that I have dealt with.....and there have been a few....some here even.

I love his knife!