More Knives in the Door

I have received my knives that I recently ordered:

Shipment of Folding Pocket Knives

Here is the box of knives. A rather small box — but filled with some very nice knives.

Kershaw Launch 2 Folding Knife

Here is the Kershaw Launch 2. It is a automatic, aluminum handle and pocket clip. I photographed these knives outside on an old, weather-beat formerly blue bench. I like how the texture and the lighting works with these shots.

SOG-TAC Automatic Knife

SOG-TAC automatic. The old workhorse, I have had this model knife a handful of times. A good, solid knife.

Emerson CQC-6K Wave Knife

This knife has the Emerson 'Wave' feature, the Wave allows one to pull the (manual opening) knife out of the pocket opened.

Piranha Fingerling

Piranha Fingerling. Piranha knives are all American made, and all are attractively priced, all are automatic knives.

Piranha X Automatic Knife

The last knife is another Piranha. This is the Piranha X.

Mobile Knife Sharpening Booth vrs Weather Mobile Knife 0, Weather 1

Being a mobile knife sharpener and setting up your knife sharpening booth outside year around — you tend to fight the weather!

Here in Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area the weather is generally quite mild — but that is comparing our weather to the areas of the country. Compared to indoors it's wild out there!

My stop at Lunardi's San Bruno is probably the most challenging weather-wise.

Windblown Mobile Knife Sharpening Booth @ Lunardi's San Bruno

Here is a what's left of my booth at Lunardi's San Bruno last March 30th. The wind was relentless, blowing constantly, a big gust every now and then.

This canopy was already weather worn, with a couple of bent struts from days past. It was probably time for it to go.

My View from My Windblown Knife Sharpening Canopy

Normally I am rather prepared for the wind. When it starts gusting I start taking down non-essicentiels. I started to do so here — my sign banners are down — but the wind picked up faster than I could react.

I still had knives on display that I did not want damaged. I did not want the canopy to take off, taking out the tables holding the knives on display, hitting my truck or somebody or something! Being alone increases the challenges.

What I did first is cut out what ever canvas I could reach so that the wind had less to catch, then added bungie cords and whatever weights I had on hand to stabilize the canopy.

Next step was to pack up the knives on display and get them save, then I started working on the canopy. 

Canopy Frame Now Scrap Aluminum

At the end of the day everything was OK. The canopy was toast — but I survived to knife sharpen another day. I cleaned up the aluminum parts of the canopy and gave them away via craigslist, and stopped at Costco the next day and bought another canopy.

I Received A Giant Shipment of Knives!

I received a big box of knives and axes, here is the group picture of all the new goodies:

Incoming SOG, H&K, Condor and More!

We see the big Condor boxes. They have axes and sporting knives in them, then we see SOG, Emerson and HK knife boxes.

SOG, Emerson/Kershaw, Boker and HK Knives

Here are just the knives awaiting being opened and played with!

HK MP5 Knife

First up is this gnarly HK MP5. It is a heavy duty knife. The aluminum body is fairly massive, and has a plain edge black coated blade that is deployed via push button.

Boker Urban Trapper

This is the Boker Urban Trapper. This is a very slim, very light, elegant pocket knife. The body is made of titanium, the body is slim and light, and the blade opens easily with just the lightest touch on the flipper because of the ball bearing hinge.

Pro-Tech Half Breed

Here is a Pro-Tech Half Breed. This knife has a small blade on a full sized handle. A very nice little guy is what I think about this knife.

Emerson / Kershaw Wave CQC - 6K

A Emerson designed knife made by Kershaw. This is one of the 'Wave' series. The wave is a hook that enables fast one-handed opening of the folded knife as it is drawn out of the pocket. The wave is seen in this photo as the 'hook' on the top of the blade just to the right of the thumb stud. The wave is designed to hook onto your pocket as the knife is drawn, opening the blade.

Come by my mobile knife sharpening booth at whatever location is convenient to you and I will demonstrate how it works.

SOG Flash 1 Folding Knife

The SOG Flash 1 is a small, very light pocket knife. The combination of the small size and the light weight G-10 handle material makes a knife that will not depress your trousers.

SOG Twitch XL

The SOG Twitch XL is one of my favored knives. It is American made, solid and strong, slim so not bulky. This one is black anodized aluminum.

HK Turmoil Knife

HK Turmoil knife. A very nice knife. This knife is made in America.

SOG 

I don't have the details on this knife -- I will need to dig up the specs and update this bog a bit later.

SOG Spec Elite 

I need to dig up the specs on this knife also.

Condor Axes

I received a selection of axes, all made by Condor. These axes all have forged axe heads, hickory handles, and leather sheaths.

Condor Axe

This is the middle sized axe.

Condor Greenland Pattern Axe

The larger Condor axe, this one is the Greenland Pattern axe.

Condor Solobolo Fixed Blade Knife with Leather Sheath

Here is a giant big Condor Solobolo. It is either a very large fixed blade knife or a small machete -- take your pick. Carbon steel blade, micarta handle and leather sheath with belt loop.

SOG Snarl Neck or Belt Knife

This is the SOG Snarl.

Received a Box of Knives and Axes

I have replenished my supply of folding knives and camping axes.

Condor Axe, Spyderco Domino, Kershaw, HK Epidemic

Here is the group shot. We see a Condor Camping axe, a SOG Snarl neck or belt knife, and three boxes: HK Epidemic, Spyderco Domino, and two Kershaw Shuffles.

SOG Snarl Neck or Belt Knife

First at the plate is this SOG knife. It is called the Snarl, and it is a skeletonized (if that is not a word it is now) blade with two finger holes and two finger grips. There is a nylon sheath with a removable belt clip — so that the knife can be clipped on the belt, or on the neck with the included neck chain. A lot of knife in 1.9 ounces.

Kershaw Shuffle

Second at bat is the Kershaw Shuffle. This is an inexpensive knife with a lot of function. It has a wide blade with a thumb stud, a lanyard hole, and a bottle opener. All at a very low price.

HK Epidemic OTF Automatic Knife

An Awesome Box of Arno Bernard Knives Just Arrived!

I just received a box of Arno Bernard knives.

Box of Arno Bernard Knives

A picture of the box that the knives arrived in is not really very exciting — but here it is. On top of the box is one of the Arno Bernard catalogs or brochure.

Arno Bernard Knives

Here is a picture of the four knives that were in the box. This picture shows them in their sheaths. All of the Arno Barnard sheaths are made of cape buffalo leather, and all have a belt loop.

Four Arno Bernard Knives

This shot shows the knives partially pulled out of the sheather so that the handle material is more visible.

The handle material — from the top down — crocodile hide, giraffe bone, warthog ivory, and the smallest knife at the bottom has a mammoth ivory handle.

Arno Benard 'Great White' Knife with Crocodile Hide Handle

This knife is the 'Great White' knife with crocodile hide handle. The Great White is in the Predator series. The Great White is 8" overall length, the blade is 3.625"

Arno Bernard groups the knives he makes into different series, by size. The largest series is the 'Giant' series, the the Predator series, then the Grazer series, the Scavenger series, and the smallest is the Bush Baby series.

Arno Bernard Kudu Knife with Giraffe Bone Handle

This is the Kudu knife, with giraffe bone handle. The Kudu is in the Grazer series. The Kudu is 8" overall length, blade length of 3.857"

Arno Bernard Warthog with Warthog Ivory Handle

Here is the Warthog. This knife has a warthog handle. Grazer series. The Warthog is 7.625" long, a blade of 4"

Arno Bernard Dassie with Mammoth Ivory Handle

The little guy is a Dassie, one of my favorite Arno Bernard knives. This Dassie has a mammoth ivory handle. The Dassie is in the Bush Baby series.

All of the Arno Bernard knives are beautiful works of art and must be seen in person! Come see these and more at my mobile knife sharpening booth!

Arno Bernard Knives on Display

Here are all the Arno Bernard that I have on display at my sharpening booth.

A Bunch of Vintage Carbon Steel Knives

I am always out looking for knives — and I have decided that I have too many 'generic' knives.

Vintage Carbon Steel Knives

Here is a set of seven of these knives. Three of these knives have a name marked on them that I can read; three have no visible name, and one has a name marked on the handle that I just can't read.

Collection of Vintage Carbon Steel Knives

Here is a picture of the flip side of these same knives.

The bottom knife, the cleaver, is marked Forgecraft. Forgecraft is a brand that is made by Ontario Knife. The filet knife is a Russell.

I had most of these knives offered for sale on my mobile knife sharpening booth's sale table from time to time, and I put a few of them up — one at a time — for sale on eBay. Since none of this group  have sold, I decided to put them up for sale as one lot on eBay.

Vintage Carbon Steel Knives on eBay

Here is a picture of the auction on eBay. Let me see who will want these guys!

For you at home following along, the link to the eBay auction is here.

A New Box of Knifes Have Arrived: Helle and Wetterlings Axe

I came home to a box awaiting me. I knew what it was — tracking numbers and all. It is a box of Helle knives and a Wetterlings axe.

Helle Knives, Wetterlings Axe

I got four Helle knives and one Wetterlings axe. The Helle knives are in the tubes above the axe.

Helle 'Alden' Knife

This model is the Alden. It is a fixed blade stainless steel blade with a curly birch handle, leather sheath with a belt loop.

Helle Viking Fixed Blade Knife

Helle Viking. This is a carbon steel knife, and the blade is not polished after heat treating, so it has it's natural finish. Curly birch handle. The Viking's sheath has the Norwegian type belt loop — which is a loose leather loop. The advantage to this design is that it allows the knife/sheath free movement so that when you sit down or drive the sheath moves out of the way.

Helle Dokka Folding Knife

Helle — as I remember — makes only one folding knife, this Dokka. Curly birch handles and leather sheath.

Helle Temagami Fixed Blade Knife

The last knife is this Temagami fixed blade.

Wetterlings Backcountry Hatchet

The Wetterlings axe. This model is the Backcountry Hatchet.

Wetterlings Backcountry Hatchet

The Wetterlings ax has a leather sheath, here it is pictured with the sheath removed.