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Alexander Noot's Blog – April 2013 Archive (7)

Knife makers of the Dutch Knife Exhibition part 7 the final episode.

So now we land on the final few tables that I photographed at the DKE. I hope you enjoyed seeing the pictures even a tenth as much as I enjoyed taking them because if so you had a lot of fun.

The first one today is a maker called Martin Annegarn or MAknives who makes some very cool high precision folders. Martin works from a tiny home workshop but he does…

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Added by Alexander Noot on April 28, 2013 at 11:15 — 6 Comments

Knife makers of the Dutch Knife Exhibition part 6

Today we're staring off with Sander van der Veld or Field Knives

Sander is a hobbyist knifemaker who recently started. His specialty is a model he calls the PFB or Pocket Fixed Blade. Which is a…

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Added by Alexander Noot on April 27, 2013 at 0:43 — 2 Comments

Knife makers of the Dutch Knife Exhibition part 5

Now as everyone knows sometimes people come from far for these knifeshows.

The dealer who's next did come from as far away as South Africa.

Here's some of the things they brought with them

André van Heerder knives. I loved this one because of the pattern that snakes between the carbon fibre scales and the lovely damascus…

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Added by Alexander Noot on April 26, 2013 at 6:27 — 1 Comment

Knife makers of the Dutch Knife Exhibition part 4

Folder and fixed blades both today.

First of these is Filip de Leeuw of Deviant Blades who makes some awesome folding knives. His Forté is titanium framelocks. But he's also done a friction folder that got picked up and will be released this summer.

Filip works pretty much with nothing but Premium materials like Mammoth, Carbon Fibre, G-10 etc. And makes for a very nice folding knife. He told me…

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Added by Alexander Noot on April 25, 2013 at 6:10 — 2 Comments

Knife makers of the Dutch Knife Exhibition part 3

Today we get started with a man who is soo precise with a hand file that he's gotten the nickname "the human CNC machine" among Dutch knifemakers.

His name is Gert van Elsen and he does virtually all his work by hand.

One of the things he loves to do is…

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Added by Alexander Noot on April 24, 2013 at 4:11 — 3 Comments

Knife makers of the Dutch Knife Exhibition part 2

Picking up where I left off yesterday. Starting with a local that lives in the city where the show was held, Tiel.

Eric de Feijter is a stock removal knifemaker that does his own Heat Treat. His specialty is in knives that are heavily scandinavian influenced but he's also tried his hand at some scagelesque knives and knives influenced by american knife styles.

Here he is at his table.…

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Added by Alexander Noot on April 23, 2013 at 2:12 — 5 Comments

Knife makers of the Dutch Knife Exhibition part 1 (attempt #2)

Last Saturday I visited the one knifeshow my little country has every year. (It's ok, there's a couple more in Germany, Belgium and France every year as well and they're just around the corner so don't feel TOO bad for me)

Entering the room I found it to be very well visited. After browsing for a couple of hours I took out the camera and started taking pictures....then I put away the camera and took out my cellphone because apparantly that takes better pictures in the terrible…

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Added by Alexander Noot on April 22, 2013 at 14:21 — 6 Comments

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