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Comment by Jan Carter on August 14, 2015 at 21:36

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This is some of the saddest news I have heard in a long time.  Mr. Ablett was a fine maker and a rare man left in the trade in Sheffield.  Our prayers are with him for his health

KnifeMaker Comment by M. Carpenter on August 14, 2015 at 4:32

Trevor Ablett has now more or less closed his workshop due to ill health and so knives from one of the finest Sheffield knife makers are no longer available. He spent a lifetime in the trade.

KnifeMaker Comment by M. Carpenter on August 9, 2015 at 5:01

KnifeMaker Comment by M. Carpenter on August 9, 2015 at 5:01

This is a pre 1900 bowie knife by by Joseph Allen & Sons of Sheffield.

Comment by Jan Carter on June 10, 2015 at 9:36

This is so very cool!!!

On June 15th 2015 it will be eight hundred years to the day since King John agreed to limit his powers and sealed the Maga Carta. This Sheffield made folding knife is hand made and produced by one of the last remaining cutlers in Sheffield and whilst a fine item in it’s own right the ancient oak grips make for a superb commemoratice piece of what was an epic event in Brtish and world history.

The grips with which this folding pocket knife is made are from a 13th century oak beam. The a beam was from an ancient building and given that the oak had been seasoned by the time it was used and had been taken from a tree old at the time the oak is probably one hundred years older.

KnifeMaker Comment by M. Carpenter on June 9, 2015 at 7:54

The Magna Carta knife is on http://www.sheffield-gb.com

The Waterloo knife is on typenet.com I had a hard drive crash and managed to get one site working straight away but the other took quite a time so the display of the knives is currently somewhat illogical. The great find of the red cloth is as a result Saturdays spent visiting london museums and reclamation yards. We visited a display of Waterloo photographs and the photographs were backed with cloth made by the same mill who made the cloth during the early 19th and 18th centuries and we traced it and bought some.

Comment by Michael Squier on June 9, 2015 at 7:42

M. Carpenter, where can we see pictures of the knife?

KnifeMaker Comment by M. Carpenter on June 9, 2015 at 4:30

We have obtained a quantity of the scarlet cloth made by the same mill that made the cloth for the tunics of the British infantry at the battle of Waterloo and of course also the Redcoats in our American colonies. We will be turning it into knife sheaths and draw string bags for our Waterloo knife. The Waterloo knife is made with the wood from an historic building in St. James's where the Waterloo dispatch was delivered after the battle

KnifeMaker Comment by M. Carpenter on May 19, 2015 at 10:52

Coming up is the 800th Anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta which was the bases of many democratic rights in both the UK and USA. We have acquired some 13th century oak from beams from an historic building.It's the oldest wood I have ever seen used for a knife.

Comment by Michael Squier on April 29, 2015 at 9:13

I actualy saw this knifes twin at the last show, another Thomas Fenton. He had a sheath too, Im so jelous. 

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