iKnife Collector
The online community of knife collectors, A Knife Family Forged in Steel
A new iKC calendar and a new year of knives!
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.
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Dennis Hibar on
-
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.
-
KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Andy Larrison on -
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.
-
-
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.
-
Permalink Reply by Lars on
-
LoL! Well let's hope June the Spyderco is happier than the one you knew! Thanks for sharing Dennis -
-
Permalink Reply by Kevin D on
-
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.
-
-
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.
whiteriverknives.com
Latest Activity
KnifeMakerblack mamba knives replied to black mamba knives's discussion Anyone else noticing printed "Damascus" creeping into the collectible side of the hobby?
2021 CalendarJ.J. Smith III replied to black mamba knives's discussion Anyone else noticing printed "Damascus" creeping into the collectible side of the hobby?
2021 CalendarJ.J. Smith III replied to black mamba knives's discussion Handles that keep changing after you buy them
KnifeMakerblack mamba knives replied to black mamba knives's discussion Handles that keep changing after you buy them
© 2026 Created by Jan Carter.
Powered by
