Here is a knife Rocky recently built for me. It is similar to his brothers 16 bore, with green micarta over orange liners. The steel is AEB-L.The green is lighter than what the photo shows.

Looks good! Rocky has skills and builds a well done knife.

He's gonna do me one up, too....

Very nice knife
I like that pattern quite a bit

Nice knife.

I believe it was Dale Howe that told me that he was relating a statement that was attributed to Tony Bose that goes something like this. May not be a word perfect rendition, but should convey the sentiment.

"What knife would you rather own. Something stamped out by a kid chained to a machine in China, or one from someone doing what he enjoys, who crafts each blade individually and with attention to quality and detail"

Years ago there used to be a saying. Support live music, hire live musicians.

I figure I'd much rather someone I know and like have my hard earned dough than someone I don't know or don't like. I have had the pleasure of speaking with all the fellows from whom I've purchased their knives directly.

I tell them the general parameters of what I want, ask for their input, then ask them to use their imagination and go where their fancy leads. I have yet to return a knife.

Perhaps its egocentric of me to think that they might have me in mind when they are crafting my knife, and that maybe, just maybe, I can have a small part in their success. I'd like to think so, cause I sure have them in mind when I'm skinning a critter with one of their creations.





Rocky Menefee's version of his brother Rick's "16 bore". AEB-L and ebony. I call it my "sweet-sixteen"





Rocky's 16 bore and my birthday Tom.




All in, all done.


JAPPF,


GWB

Rocky is a hell of nice guy, he will bend over backwards to please, i really enjoy talking with him, i have purchased a few knives off him and will post them but my pics do not compare to Geedubya, he makes most pics dull in comparison!, rock on Rocky!! Keep up the good work.

G could have a nice sideline career in product photography. When I try to take pics I just wind up pizzed and frustrated. And yes Rocky is A+++.

Dale, with all due respect,

Prolly not!

It's like this. I make jerky, cook, give away game meat, reload for about 60 different chamberings, refinish gunstocks, tinker with rifles, take a few pix. From time to time folk ask me to do something along these lines. They offer to pay. I tell them no. Those things are my "avocation". They can't be bought, only accepted(actually I'm sure I have my price, no one's offered enough yet,LOL). If I were to take pay, then someone would have a claim on my time and efforts.........

JAPPF

GWB

GWB, the colors of those feathers on that Tom are killer, really beautiful would love to have one for the Cowboy Hat, do you need a knife!! Lol

Respectfully, what does need have to do with anything. Of course I want another knife. LOL

JAPPF,

GWB

PS: See if I can't help you out with some tail..........feathers.

I could of answered that but it was just a smart ass comment, i know your a knife slut! Lol take care buddy.

Sheath material he gathers

Damn, that bottom rattler looks huge. Head like a punkin'!

Yea that kinda was a jug headed snake.

Any snake that big near me is more than likely gonna get a load of bird shot to the head

Post them up!

Crappy pics but here they are, Rocky is very good dude to deal with.

I like the middle handle.

Me to! just about perfect for a hunting knife.

I agree, looks like a great hunting knife...

INTHEMTNS, what's the blade length on that middle knife?

Yup,


ain't stabbed/killed anything with it,



but it works fine on previously perforated porkers



when it comes to skinning.




IMHO,


JAPPF,

GWB

jest fer schitz n giggles,

more of Rockys creations


Buckeye Burl and ATS-34 IIRC












GWB

Snakewood, Ivory and ATS-34(IIRC)











GWB

JAPPF,


GWB

Nice pics G! That Snakewood is some cool stuff, that middle one is got a 4 1/8 handle 3.5 blade, after seeing that cool camo on Geedubya's i needed one, i am sure Rocky would build yeah one you wont regret it.

Awesome pics!!

I always get hungry after looking at Geedubyas pics, you would be welcome at my fire anyday G!!

You guys and your pics cost me too much money

TF,
Look at it like your on the "cutting edge" when it comes to investments.

Just go out an make more money and you'll have more to invest... LOL



Jamie,

You may have to come down and sample some Texican cooking.........



10 oz. fillets from a beef tenderloin.



seasoned with a carmalized "Bulleit to the gut" reduction sauce.




Texas Barking Spider Beans made with bear sausage and ham chunks






Marinated, bacon wrapped chicken thighs stuffed with cilantro, jalepenos, onion and bell pepper.




[img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/glenn1221/food/IMG_72221_zps46d8eab8.jpg[/img]

Egg taquitos on corn tortillas

[img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/glenn1221/food/IMG_69641_zps0902260a.jpg[/img]


[img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/glenn1221/food/IMG_69661_zps28c7afb6.jpg[/img]

and that's just at home.



We eat much better at deer camp. LOL


JAPPF,

GWB

Looks like you eat like a king! I would love to make it down there one day, just might have to loose a few pounds before i come, that tenderloin in bacon is making my mouth water.

Gonna be gone perforating porkers for a few days, but Rocky contacted me and asked that I post these pix he snapped with his phone.

So here ya' go..........













JAPPF,


GWB

Those all for you!

I do not think any of those will be/are mine.

Rocky has 3 for me that are either finished or in different stages before completion, one being a large filet with gigged black g-10, one being a large skinner with snakewood, and one other. None of those are pictured here.

Once completed, I believe RJM will be taking a number of those pictured above to a knife show to be held in the near future. Perhaps he will chime in.

Best,


GWB

Very nice! He mentioned to me that he is preparing for a show, that might be where some of those are going.

KGA Knife Show
I was told he would only have 4 or 5.

Ill have a few for the show. If the weather stays cold like this ill have more but if I gets nice im gonna start snake huntin or walleye fishing.

This one is a smokin' hot design. I like it a lot. I'd like it even more with some of those long Menefee swedges along the spine.

Rocky made a little dandy for me and even put my initials in the sheath. This is a great piece of work. And to think that he said these were not a great piece of ironwood.

Mike

That's a good lookin' knife. The ironwood burl looks exceptionally good. He did a nice job on the sheath as well. Nice design too. I can see a lot of use for a knife like that. That blade would 'pop' even more with some of those Menefee swedges along the spine.

Rocky is making me a 16 bore. I sent him some baleen that my bud watch4bear gave me, for scales. He's going to surprise me on steel and liners (but I see yellow in the teaser pic). He'll haul it to the show, so it'll be a while before I get to breast a bunch of birds with 'er.....

Well whatcha' know

Not only can Rocky make knives, but he take pix also.

Do like the blade.


Best,


GWB

Talked my brother into helping build a pocket knife. I've been forgetting to post a picture of it so it's been carried and used lately. Overall I believe it turned out real slick.

very nice cranky72

Looks good. Wanna trade??

Sure I'll do some trading but not for that one.

You got a Lanny clip. I got a Lanny clip. Just saying.

lookin' good there Rocky!!!



Best,


GWB

I want in on the trade. I've got a nice coyote pelt (looks like you need one), and a guided turkey hunt !!!

Well,

another Menefee, (about which I've heard a bunch)

Welcome to the forum.........

Hey Rusty,

by way of introduction,






I'll see you a guided turkey hunt and throw in a guided hunt for Texican hoglets and a case of Lone Star Beer.

JAPPF, (just another porker perforating fool)


GWB

Oh Boy, the middle brother is posting.

Looks like we better get the holes ready. It looks and feels bad down here.

Well GWB, I don't think I can beat that! It sure is green in that country!

Don't worry Badley I think the statute of limitations is over for any stories I have on you.

Yup,

spring has sprung and we've been getting a ton of rain.

As to beatin'

nah!

join em'

just mosey on down when Rocky comes and I'll treat ya' both.

Best,


GWB

3 tornados ,hail, rain, wind, and now lighning flashes- typical spring day in Oklahoma.

I can tell you I'm going to need more than one Bud Diesel to not be a complete hysterical sissy bed wetter around rattlers. Man they creep me out. Whenever we go antelope hunting I'm like the kid in the swimming pool after watching Jaws...

Moore ok got hammered again. Damage to some exact same area as 2013. A friend of mine's sister had only been in her rebuilt home a few months. Gone again. i would think property there would get real cheap.

Tulsa got hit bad up around Keystone and Sand Springs.

I saw a tornado form Nw of my house. Same storm that went farther north and hit more. My place got got 3/4 inch hail

Mike I had 9 different big birds in the yards this afternoon.

Hate tornados but at least you got some moisture. All we have is fires up here. Everything is burning up.

Shop flooded it came in so fast. I think are fire problem is fixed for the time being.

Spent the day with my nephew. He wanted " to catch a diamondback real bad" like most six year olds want to. So with a little luck we found one about his caliber.

Cold today -I would think it was like picking 20.00 dollar bills up. I figured the crap-E would have hell.

I think you are trying to turn my boys into Swamp People !!!

All the Menefee's have a standing invitation to "The Swamp". Please factor in the heat & humidity before leaving home though. Those twins are tough as boot leather!

Walleye season almost here so I'm building a knife for it.

Ya know, one has to watch those Menefee boys.
I got a package in the mail the other day from Rocky Menefee. A little while later I get a call from him sayin’ that he had sent me some knives. He sez, “take a look, see if ya’ like any. If so tell me which ones, and send the rest back. Then I’ll let you know what you owe me.
So without further ado, here’s what he sent me.

















Let me know which ones you would keep.




Semi Skinner: Snakewood, 154, AEB-L steel,





Semi Skinner: Stag, 154 CM steel



[img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/glenn1221/Blades/IMG_0348.1_zpsvz84jaw0.jpg[/img]

Skinner: Dyed Bone,W2 steel and a nice hamon.



[img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/glenn1221/Blades/IMG_0349.1_zpsgaejehhe.jpg[/img]

Boner: Jigged black paper micarta, 154CM steel



[img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/glenn1221/Blades/IMG_0350.1_zps8rx3k7wq.jpg[/img]

Filet: Jigged g10, 154CM steel




Before I tell ya’ which I’m keeping a short anecdote…………...........

It’s a story about Pablo and Juan.

Seems Pablo and Juan are friends from a certain country down south. A good number of years back they each motivated north to seek their fortune.
Each day they go to the intersection of a major traffic artery. Plenty of cars going to and fro, but caught at a long light. This gives Pablo and Juan lot of time to walk by with their sign asking for money.

Well this has gone on for a number of years.

Pablo lives in a fine house. His wife drives a Cadillac Escalade and his kids go to private school.

Juan however is barely making ends meet. His wife has to make her own tortillas from masa and his kids look like rag-a-muffins on their way to catch the bus to school.

Finally one day Juan asks Pablo “how come you do so good and I do so bad. We both panhandle the gringos for dinero.

Pablo sez to Juan, let me see your sign.

Juan does. His sign says……… will work for food, anything will help.

Pablo sez to Juan, no, no, no, you’re doing it all wrong. Here is the sign I use………

[img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/glenn1221/may2010onward/IMG_8320_zps26031ac8.jpg[/img]


So, although I’d luv to stay and hear your answers, my sign and I gotta go to work to pay Rocky for ALL those knives. LOL


JAPPF,


Jose C.

I think you made the best decision by keepin' all of em'. That snakewood skinner looks especially good. So does that fillet knife.

They all look nice but I belive you all ready have one of each so send that snakewood to me and Ill send Rocky some $$$ for it!

The black paper jigged knife is the one!!

I looked over yesterday and saw Rocky Jigging some butterscotch. Its the best thing since Snuff.

Hats.off.to Rocky. Helluva marketing plan. I think I have G's adress somewhere

That last GW batch looks real good. Congrat's to GW and great job Rocky,Happy Easter

Finally found a good one yesterday evening.

As long as the head is still attached it ain't 'good'.


That is a wicked marketing strategy. No way that 'Boner: Jigged black paper micarta, 154CM steel' would leave me.

Rocky, you can drop a few of them hides in the bottom of that can if you have extras... I'll have Larry stitch 'em up.

Just tried jigging some of that butterscotch. Looks pretty good to me.

Very nice!

That jigged micarta is pretty darn slick!

Beautiful work Rocky.

I like it a Lot! Nice color, wonder if theres any of that left? for that Other one we were talking about! Dam big Snake too! You can keep them down south!

?

You're not right.

Really like the semi.

Rocky sent me this pic today of one he just made for me

Dam thats a fine looking Knife!

Mighty fine!!!

I know you will enjoy it.

Best,

GWB

Getting ready for a little Snake-B-Q

What are you doing with the skins?

bbassi on the 'fire was wanting to buy the copperheads I was killing in the neighborhood, I believe he was gluing the skins to the backs of self bows.

I stand to be corrected,

but IIRC, here is a dab of one.......



JAPPF,


GWB

This is a killer photo
Love the composition
Thanks for sharing

Looks like my fishing rod in the back-ground

My 16 bore showed up today. Rocky is a good guy. Sure done a nice job. And had to deal with me and all my whiny requests. He did agree to use some baleen for scales that watch4bear gave me. And it turned out superb......

Did that hatchet used to be a ball pien hammer?

That's a good lookin' knife Don. I like how he polished up that ricasso, and I like the finish on that blade too. That's a good, practical design that I'm sure you'll get a lot of use out if...especially killin'n as many critters as you do. Reckon it'd work we'll for skinnin' out pronghorn and mule deer heads too. Anyways, can't see that you need to be doin' any of your own grindin' on that one. Sweet blade. Leather or Kydex...?

I like that knife alot Don, ya did well.

Looks like the finger is on a good mend too.....

neither. I'll build something later for it. Maybe one of each.....

Dale the hatchet was a hammer. Another make named Greg Shahan helped me built that and I love it. It's a handy tool.

Looks like Rocky is really knocking out some fantastic looking blades.

Like the one he just did for Don, Iv got one with snake wood handle about done, same type knife!

Greg is a great guy. He's invited me up several times just havent had time.

And useful as well. Can't wait to cut open some brookies with my 16bore

Nice thread. Well, you guys keep posting pics like these and I will be getting a 2nd mortgage! GWB - be worth a trip to stop in sometime!

Tried out my new fillet knife on a nice walleye this evening.

Clean very many with that knife?

Nice knife, I always leave the rib bones on the fish tho!

Employing one of Rocky's blades.......






is a whole lot better than attackin' king kong with a rubber knife




JAPPFT,


GWB

Nice work GW. How was your weekend at the petting zoo?

You and Don kill more $ch!t than anyone I know of...!

Nice pork tenderloin, and nice looking knife too!

Nah,
Hunts is the real deal,
I'm just a city boy.

GWB

Works like a charm!


GWB

Barbecue!!

That's nice.
Ronnie

That's a fine looking knife! Rock need details man! Dandy sheath also!

must be cold in OK. the sheath has goosebumps......

Looks like some of that Buffalo Shin bone.

Ps. Everything on the place is stuck including the boat.

Looks good

That's a beauty Rocky!

Now those two are fine looking! I see them getting alot of use!

I recived the 2 Knives posted by Rocky yesterday, they are Very Nice, my 1st Custom fillet Knife, and the little snakewood knife is just Great! Im already thinking about another one from Rocky. Just Like to say Thanks again ! John

Great pickups there John.

Spoke with Rocky last week. He said he had a blade that was hafted in Coconut husk micarta. I said I'd never seen such. Well now I have.........





Here it is, along with one of my "not ready for prime-time" sheaths.





Blade is ATS-34. Super thin hollow grind.




It should cut like a scalpel.

I do believe this is the sharpest blade I have received from Rocky to date.

Best,

GWB

It's 'sharp', alright......But I don't know how it cuts.

Well I cut out the leather for the sheath in the pix with it yesterday, and trimmed with it as well.

here is this........



cheap wal-mart copy paper, 10 oz. veg tanned leather.

IMHO, not too shabby for an ATS-34 blade that cost about 1/3rd of what many custom fixed blades go for.

I'll be going to my lease on the 18th. May get a chance to peel a porker. Will update.

JAPPFT,

GWB

So it's dull as a laser...!

Looks good Rocky, loving the orange jiggy.

Looking good Rocky

Yes Sir Very Nice Rocky !!!

Very nice indeed

Thats Killer!

That coconut micarta is pretty cool!

My first, but won't be the last Rocky blade



his pic, not mine. My iphone pics turn out crappy.


the coconut shuck micarta is way cool.

Very cool.

I like that a lot

Some light duty use,
2 thumbs up

Rocky is starting to create his own style. It's fun to watch the progress.

Yessir , proud to be part of the progression

I have a couple of Ricks Knives and 2 of Rockys, with another one to be made soon

Years ago there was a sayin'

Support live music, hire live musicians.

Seems like it would work with knife-makers also.

Best,


GWB

Life's a beach........

I watched the astronauts walk on the moon while at the beach in Galveston Texas in 1969. My whole extended family spends a week in July there each year. I used to fish a lot, but these days, not so much. I got the filet a while back and Rocky sent me a skinner and the the jigged dumplin' last week. I haven't been to my lease lately, and am sufferin' from SDD (Skinning Deficit Disorder). Since I didn't figure on porkers at the beach, I left the Ram's horn skinner at home. I did bring these two.

So when my son caught a some fish, I figured what the hey, not hoglets, but better n' nuthin...........













Its a pleasure to filet with a sharp knife. The dumplin' is shaving sharp, and the filet is no slouch. Like the proverbial "knife through butter". AEB-L and jigged g-10.

Good stuff Rocky!

Best,

GWB

great pics, thanks for sharing.

I could see a dumplin' in my future.

looks like it would make a great boning knife for deer.

Gee
What is the name of those fish?

Don't know which I like more, the hat or the knifes!

Greg

Rick,


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gafftopsail_catfish


we just call em' gafftops.


I mentioned I don't fish much now, but that was not always the case. When I was a boy and would fish the piers and jetties at Sylvan beach in La Porte, at Rollover Pass in Bolivar, the pleasure pier in Galveston or jetties at Port Isabel. Use dead shrimp, squid or catch piggy-perch and use em' for cut bait.

Around the piers and rock groins there was always a hoard of hard-head catfish, which were bait-stealers and were trash fish that only blacks ate. However gafftops were prize.

Both Gafftops and hard-head catfish wriggle like hell when you grab them to take the hook out. Their pectoral and dorsal fins have a poisonous spines and you had to be careful not to get stuck cause if you did it always got infected. Then you had to go to the doctor and get a tetanus shot.

We always went bare-footed and folks would throw hard-heads down on the pier/jetty or cut their throats so they would die. Had to be careful not to step on one or kick it with your foot.

Like catfish they got a hard head and tough mouth and sometimes its easier just to cut the hook than to try to get a hook out (as in the picture above). I used to be pretty good at sliding the dorsal fin between my big toe and second toe, pressing down and then taking the hook out.

Hadn't thought about that in years. My grand-pa was not a union barber so he closed his shop on Wednesday. He, my grand-ma and I would leave early Tuesday afternoon and make the trip to Galveston, then take the ferry across to Bolivar then head to Rollover Pass, fish all night till about 9 AM the next morning. We'd make the two to three hour drive back to north Houston. I'd crash and he and my grandma would clean the fish.
Back in the fifties' the pier at Rollover Pass, for a boy, was the Holy Grail, and fisherman's heaven. Jesse was tight with a buck, but when we went to Rollover Pass, he would spring for live shrimp (something as a boy I never had enough money to buy). We would "free shrimp" with long cane poles.
I'd catch the schitt out of "Specs" and sand trout, and now and then even a gafftop. Folks would come up and say to my Grand-pa, "what bait" is that boy usin'. He would look at me and smile, then look back at the person asking the question. "It ain't the bait", he'd say, " that boy just know's how to hold his mouth right" and we'd both giggle to ourselves, cause we both knew that answer frustrated the hell out of folks.

Best,

GWB

I've been to those places when I lived in Brazoria County. Their most outstanding features (in the Summer) is that they are hotter than $ch!t. Texas City Dike too. 100% humidity and 105 degrees Fahrenheit gives a whole new meaning to 'hot'. No wonder those Karankawa Indians were so damn mean...they were either getting burned up by the heat and humidity, eaten alive by mosquitos, or drenched and blown around by torrential rains and hurricane winds. It had to be a miserable a$$ place back before the advent of air conditioning.
It 'is' still a rather good place to go for hunting and fishing. I've killed a lot of doves in the Boliver area and down at Port O'Connor. And shot ducks and geese all over the place down there. Seein' your post above brings back a lot of memories. I'll say this...you 'use' the heck out of the good stuff you have...in this case custom knives. Were I a maker, I would be delighted to see my creations put to such good use as you do with em'.

He's on the look-out for more coconut husk!

Coconut shuck makes a killer handle. You have to see it in person to appreciate.

This lil' dumplin is pretty sharp.......



Figured I'd better wrap it in sumpin' so I wouldn't always be slicin' my fingers when I went to fondle my boner.......




Not ready for prime time, but I'm havin' a ball playing with leather.

Best,

GWB

GW ,both knife & sheath look great !

looks great

Both look outstanding.

They both look great and the sheath definitely looks prime time to me

That is cool!

I want a dumplin and a 3 finger big time.

Just a few weeks away from antelope, then lots of whitetail culling to start testing my 16 bore against perennial favorites from Wilson, Ingram and Krein...

Big Thanks to Rocky for the knife and the pond to fish!

Pond looks full. It's a special place 6 generation know

It will shave you!

Damn... that's fine work!

x2

Looks like some nice stag. Better not of been mine!

Nice.

Not only did Rocky knock it out of the park, he knocked it out of the parking lot and across the street and into the river

Outstanding work




Absolute killer Mammoth and Parson's made a spectacular sheath with inlay of rattle snake Rocky caught


Next up is one with coconut scales. Love this one too

Orange liners




If you haven't yet, you should give Rocky a try. Super great guy and makes a heck of a knife. Thanks Rocky for taking such good care of me, once again.

Both look really nice, both killer models but digging that skinner.

That coconut is pretty neat.

I agree, Rocky has been great to work with.

correct on both counts.

I am trying to gather up some of Rocky's blades before he realizes how popular he is and ups his prices.

Beautiful lines on the Hamon. Both look very good

Both very nice! love the Mammoth! Rocks starting a knife for me now with some killer Rams horn handles! be my third one of his Knives!

Rocky, please add my name to your wait list & give me a call whenever I'm up. Nice Work!

.....you turn your back for one second! lol

Its not yours..........IT WAS YOURS

That is one of the best lookin' patterns I've seen in a long time.

whats he call it?

It's a copy of ricks Reno knife. I just made that one a touch bigger.

There seems to be a disproportionate amount of nice knives coming out of Oklahoma these days.

Rocky, I think that the Reno pattern you have is one of my top picks. Their is enough belly on that knife to skin anything that bleeds.

Really like that one too.

Are there any Rocky made knives with bolsters pics?

Anyone?

I'm not sure that he has made any with bolsters. I'll ask him next time I'm over.

I don't have a picture, but I know I've seen 'em so I know he's done at least one or two with bolsters.

Sounds good!

A matching pair from Rocky



Dumplin' and a skinner.

Rocky has outdone himself with these 2.

Both are thin and sharp.


If you haven't gotten Rocky to make you a blade then you are missing out!

Nice.

Really like the skinner. What's the OAL?

by my measurements, 7 5/8" with a 3 1/4" blade.

fits my hand like a glove.

Boy thats a very nice pair! like the yellow!

He calls it butterscotch

That's as nice a combo as I can think of.

Yessir, he did good

Some light work.

Are those dove and "special early season" venison? lol

Something like that. Rocky does do a bolster if a customer requests one. Said he doesn't have any pictures of his knives with one and wouldn't know where to look to find one.

not hard use.........




but mighty sweet, none the less.

JAPPFT,


GWB

Whats the matter G cant find a beer or wiskey that goes with peanut butter????

not at all kind Sir!..





I find that oats go well with peanut butter and honey.

JAPPFT,


GWB

KMA shoulds known

Great pics GWB!

Just got my little dumplin' from Rocky yesterday. I couldn't be happier with it. The knife turned out great and you couldn't ask for a nicer guy to deal with. Thanks again Rocky


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Specs: AEB-L steel with the Menefee heat treat
Tapered tang
Jigged Butterscotch Micarta Scalea with Black Liners