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Can't believe we are entering a another decade. I hope everyone has a great new year.  As I open up a new iKC calendar, thought it would be a great idea to choose a knife a month to showcase.  Here's my knife of the month for January (I wonder what yours might be?!).  This is the last knife I purchased in 2019.  It's a utility / hunter by TK Steingass - spalted hackberry handle with a 4.5" 1095 blade with hamon.

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Now that's a knife worthy at any table! Nicely done Dennis!

April .... wind and rain, but any major snow is now just a memory!  

Here is one of my favorite knives made by Carlo Cavedon.  It's one of his Longimano models with ivory scales, engraved bolsters and a fantastic mosaic Damascus blade by Russian blacksmith Vlad Matveev.  

A real sweet looking one there Dennis.  That damascus pattern is insane ! !

Dennis Hibar said:

April .... wind and rain, but any major snow is now just a memory!  

Here is one of my favorite knives made by Carlo Cavedon.  It's one of his Longimano models with ivory scales, engraved bolsters and a fantastic mosaic Damascus blade by Russian blacksmith Vlad Matveev.  

For the start of May ... here's a small friction folder by Shelby Mihalevich with a textured and oxidized copper frame.  The Damascus blade is 1.875" long, making for a nice fit in my front or back pocket. 

my that is a nice looking knife!

Well done sir!

Happy June.  To be honest, I have only known one June, and she wasn’t what I would classify as happy!!!   Anyway, as you know, I have a lot of knives.  But, only a few that I classify as “around the house” knives.  Those are ones I always have in the pocket of my fleece comfy pants ... which I literally live in once in enter the house.  I only swap these knives out every 3 years or so ... because I get so used to having a particular one handle all my house cutting tasks.  This one is my Spyderco Dragonfly with a CPM 20CV blade.  Over the years, I have owned a total of  4 different Dragonfly knives and none have disappointed me.

LoL! Well let's hope June the Spyderco is happier than the one you knew! Thanks for sharing Dennis - 

hmmm...  yummy!

I have seen the green, brown, and yellow zome camo before.  But never the red before.  very cool!

I am gifting this knife very soon, so wanted to add it to a calendar before I did. Alan Davis made this unique multi-use knife back in 2015. It's got a 2.3" nitre-blued blade he made from a billet of mosaic Damascus forged by Rob Calcinore. The back spacer has rope filing with the tail end formed into a cap lifter. What makes this knife special today is that the scales are from some, now impossible to find, Blacksite carbon fiber. Beautiful stuff with absolutely zero voids.

I'm speechless Dennis...all I got is WoW!!

As hot as ice cream in August, is this beautiful Sfilato I got from Italian knife maker Carlo Cavedon a number of years ago.  While the Sfilato had its early origins in Sicily, the Sfilato became more associated with the Italian city of Frosolone after it began to be produced there on a large scale towards the end of the 19th century. It was its Sicilian connection that interested me, since my wife’s mother and her family immigrated here from Sicily. I saw that Carlo was working on a new Sfilato with giraffe bone inlays. I thought … Sfilato and giraffe bone (which I like) … what a great combination. I contacted him and asked if he would work with me on some modifications to what he had planned. The end result was to add some engraving and anodize the titanium scales a gold color. The result came out perfectly. While boasting some significant differences from the original days of the Sfilato, it still retains the same recognizable shape.

These are what the original titanium scales looked like before I asked Carlo to do some modifications.

oh yes.  I am loving those mods (upgrades).

The gold actually makes the dyed giraffe bone more vivid.  Very nice!

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