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Sebenza's used to run about 57 on the scale. Too weak in my opinion. But hey, people love them and if it works for them good deal. Not a favorite of mine but I wouldn't turn one down if it was free or the price was right. Which would need to be well below MSRP for me.
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If my luck holds I'll be getting a Smoke Creek in K390 from Phil Wilson himself in about a month. Also have an M4 caper coming from Tim Olt made on the Kestrel Caper pattern. Should RC at 63-64. That's why I had a few knives up for sale recently. I'll post pictures of both when I receive them. Pretty excited about both.
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A lot of sharp looking knives here....
The knife makers I like are like the gunsmiths I like .....dead.
Morseth knifes what I like. Father and son both long gone. Russel copied a few , Maybe Loveless made 'em. Russel just slipped away also.
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If my luck holds I'll be getting a Smoke Creek in K390 from Phil Wilson himself in about a month. K390 is good stuff. If you don't like it I'll buy it from you!
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A lot of sharp looking knives here....
The knife makers I like are like the gunsmiths I like .....dead.
Morseth knifes what I like. Father and son both long gone. Russel copied a few , Maybe Loveless made 'em. Russel just slipped away also.
I have owned several Morseth knives. A few Loveless, a few Randall's and a bunch of others that are long gone now. Morseth never impressed me. Phill Hartsfield made a wicked blade that was not high on the looks level but functionally few can compare to. When I was in the Marine Corps stationed in Tustin CA I would go to Phill's shop about every week. He was only there one or two days a week so I would make it down there to talk to him. He was a very interesting man with even more interesting customers. He would never tell you their names, but he would tell you the stories. He backed his knives 100%, above and beyond any other maker out there. He may not have been so concerned on looks, but his concern of function was second to know.
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Hard to beat the Brusletto laminated steel original Morseths, for sharpness, durability and holding an edge.
Maybe that's why they are so expensive and hard to find.
My gal bought one for me in Eddie Bauer , on Wabash Ave. in Chicago in 1969 for $ 35.00 . That was a time when you could buy a rifle or handgun in Chicago. VL&A was down the street a bit.
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Hard to beat the Brusletto laminated steel original Morseths, for sharpness, durability and holding an edge.
Maybe that's why they are so expensive and hard to find.
My gal bought one for me in Eddie Bauer , on Wabash Ave. in Chicago in 1969 for $ 35.00 . That was a time when you could buy a rifle or handgun in Chicago. VL&A was down the street a bit.
You can find them they aren't that expensive. I nice one will go around $500 As for hard to beat Brusletto, Plenty of steels beat it easily.
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I really love my Zenmeister, sadly he passed away many years ago, I met him a knife show and bought 2 of his knifes # 86 folder and a fixed blade hunter both unused and still in mint condition. I read about his death several years after purchasing these knifes, and checked the value, which is skyrocketing. marking on the fixed blade knife reads handZmade #119. will post photo's If I ever figure out how to do that here, lol. its the only true custom knife I own, I do have several from big name company's like bark river, case and schrade.
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Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana!
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Just got these two. Top one is a Phil Wilson Smoke Creek in K390 at Rc64, tan micarta with orange insert. Bottom one is a caper by Tim Olt, 0.10 thick M4 at Rc 63-64, green linen micarta with red liner. Anxious to try them both. Had another M4 by Tim and was super impressed with the steel at that hardness. Have wanted a Phil Wilson for a while.
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Damn nice fshaw.........love that Smoke Creek
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fshaw you won't like that Smoke Creek. You should just sell it now to me!
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I like the ones who answer your emails or texts, for starters.
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In no particular order:
Scott Gossman Ray Laconico Dave Wesner aka Kelsey Creek Carothers T.K. Steingass T.M. Hunt Tim Olt aka MRK
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A few worthy of checking out for sure!
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