Safari Model Liner-Locker: a classic you can keep in your pocket

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For many of us growing up, being given your first knife was an important right of passage. It said so many things, that you were becoming a man and your father trusted your judgement enough to give you your own knife.

Of all the knives I have sold the Safari Model Liner-Locker is the most popular by far. There's something about having one of these in your pocket that brings you back to the first knife your dad gave you.

This classic design is from South Africa. To open the knife, you push over the top with your thumb. As a result, this type is more pocket friendly since they don’t have the thumb stud.

The scales are cow bone. I have a variety of colors that I use.
Each knife is unique because you never know how the bone will take to the dye. Each knife has a different hue and pattern and makes each a one of a kind.

I use different kinds of file work on my knives.

This specific pattern I call Sotho Hut, since it reminds me of how the tribal people decorate their huts. It is simple yet artistic.

Be you a lefty or a righty - I'll create a custom knife just for you.

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It's important that the knife fits the client. It's important that it's something that is not only beautiful but functional as well.

Sure- it must be sharp and cut things but it also has to become an extension of the person who carries it.

A custom knife is like a tailored suit - it just looks and feels better.

I recently made this design for a left handed-client and his friend. This is the 5th left-hand-folder (liner-locker) I've created.

Notice how there's a sheen and texture and translucent quality to the grip? That's rams horn and makes for a unique tactile and visual custom knife. The owners couldn't be happier with the outcome.

Keep in mind - the holidays are coming up and a custom knife is a gift the man or woman in your life will treasure always - because it was made just for them.

Bois d'arc - makes for beautiful knives.

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One of the key design elements in any knife is the handle.

Not only must it be strong ( and functional) but beautiful as well. A client of mine brought me a stack of Boise de Arc (bow wood) which I value for it's unique yellow - golden prong color contrasting brown rings. The heavy, close-grained yellow-orange wood is very dense and is also prized for tool handles, treenails, fence posts, and other tools requiring a strong dimensionally stable wood that withstands rot.

Straight-grained osage timber (most is knotty and twisted) was prized by Southern Native American tribes for it's excellent use in bows. The trees acquired the name bois d'arc, or "bow-wood", from early French settlers who observed the wood being used for war clubs and bow-making by Native Americans.

Meriwether Lewis was told that the people of the Osage Nation "esteem the wood of this tree for the making of their bows, that they travel many hundred miles in quest of it." Many modern bowyers assert the wood of the Osage orange is superior even to English Yew. In Arkansas, in the early 19th century, a good Boise de Arc bow was worth a horse and a blanket.

I'm currently using it for the wood of choice in a series of handles for some custom "Hog Hunters" I'm working on - but first the wood has to dry out completely. Looking at the rings - it should make for some beautiful knives.

Drop point hunter

The blade of this drop point hunter is 4 1/4" and the overall length is 9 5/8". The scales are stabilized Maple Burl and the bolsters engraved nickle silver.

Orders

I would like to mention that custom orders are always welcome!! Contact me by email: ianvanreenen@suddenlink.net or call me 806 236 8333

Warm Regards
-Ian

Knife Show

Hi to all you knife lovers
I will be at the Lone Star Knife Expo en Fort Worth this weekend. Come see me there, I will enjoy visiting with you!!
The knife show will be at the Fort Worth Stockyards Station, Stampede Room, 139 Exchange Ave.
Show Times:
Saturday 9am-6pm
Sunday 10am-4pm
Admission: $10/day

This show is once a year, so don't miss it!! It is a opportunity to meet and purchase knives from some of the best knifemakers in the world!

See you there!!

Stag Hunter

OAL: 9" Blade length: 4 1/4"
Steel 154 CM
Guard 416 Stainless steel

stag handle
Blade is hand rubbed, hardened to 59 Rc and mighty sharp!! Nickle silver but cap
Spanish notch on blade
Turquoise spacer
Comes with leather sheath

Price: $360
Free shipping in lower 48

ianvanreenen@suddenlink.net
806 236 8333

SOLD!

Antler Hunting Knife

AOL: 9 5/8"
Blade: 4"
Steel 154 CM and gaurd 416 Stainless SteelBlade hand rubbed and hardened to 59 Rc. Very,very sharp!!
Spanish notch on blade
Handle white tail antler with turquoise spacer
Comes with leather sheath.

Price: 360 (free shipping in lower 48 states)

You can contact me by email: ianvanreenen@suddenlink.net or use the buy now button. Feel free to call me if you have any questions 806 236 8333

Regards
Ian

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SOLD!

Stag Hunter

OAL 9"
Blade length: 41/8"
Steel 154 CM; Bolsters 416 Stainless Steel; Scales Stag with mosaic pins. Blade satin finished and hardened to 59 Rc. Super sharp!!
Comes with leather sheath
Price $360 (Free shipping in lower 48 states)

Send me an email to ianvanreenen@suddenlink.net if you are interested or use the buy now button.
Best Regards
Ian

SOLD!

I am happy to show case these two Texas Toothpick folders I finished yesterday.Scales ATS 34 steel was used for the blade and springs and harderned to 59 Rc. Liners and bolsters are 416 stainless steel. The blade is perfectly centered and flush in open closed and half stop positions. I did Roman knot file work on springs and blades. File work done on liners, top and bottom. Very nice walk and talk.
Blade length: 3 3/8"
Closed length: 4 1/2"
OAL 7 7/8"

I would like to mention that I used pre-ban ivory on the scales and these knives are not for sale internationally only in the USA. I adhere to US and UN legislation on ivory.

Both are for sale for $560 (Shipping not included)

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SOLD!