Shahzad Ahmad sent 3 knives to add to our inventory. These are all 1095 high carbon steel and well made. Each comes with a quality hand made leather sheath that also has a place for a fire steel.
Mo
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Website Relaunch
I’ve been working hard and now the updated version is of SonoranDesertKnives.com is live 5 days earlier then expected.
Just like the older version of the website, you can still find the knives listed under each of the makers name, yet a whole lot easier to use. The new site also features knife categories by Knife Types and a search engine.
SonoranDesertKnives.com will now be almost exclusively custom knives. There are some that are factory manufactured, but these are limited editions, rare or hard to find knives and vintage knives. Most of our modern manufactured knives have been moved to our new sister website, RangerSurvival.com
We’re still adding knives to our website almost daily, so please check back often. If you like to new website (or not), please drop me a line and let me know.
Thank You,
Leopold Lacrimosa, Owner
Leopold@SonoranDesertKnives.com
Beautiful Damascus Bowie
Anyone who knows me knows I have this thing for Bowie knives. I feel there is no better all around knife than a Bowie knife.
Adnan Monger sent me this beautiful Damascus Bowie knife.
14.5″ Long with a 9.5″ blade length. Brass guard and butt cap and a colored giraffe bone handle.
If you’re interested in owning this one of a kind beauty, click here!
Clark Liner Lock Folder
I don’t know who this Clark is, but this is one beautiful knife. The fit and finish is simply amazing.
For more info and to purchase
Look Who’s Coming to the Knife Show
The Copper State Cutlery Knife Show
Dec 17 & 18
Tucson Expo Center
List of Knife vendors
BOB HAM
BRAD EDGINGTON (K & G)
CHARLES TURNAGE
CLAYTON COWART
DANIEL STUCKY
JARED WATTS
JEFF STOVER
JOE ALI
DOUG LONEY
KEN MCFALL
LEE BEENE
LEOPOLD LACRIMOSA
MATVEY SHINDEL
RANDY LEE
RAY KIRK
STEVE GODFREY
JOHN HILL
JOHN BROWN
DAN ZVONEK
TODD KOPP
CHARLES PROKOPP
DAN STUCKY
To reserve your table, call John at 602-520-6002
Roger Hatt Custom Folder
Canadian Roger Hatt has been making knives since 1994. When you get a Hatt knife, you get a beautiful bang for your buck.
Beautiful Damascus drop point folder with walrus ivory scales.
More information and to purchase the knife here
Legends of Knifemaking: Paul Fox
Jesse Paul Fox Jr, known by his middle name Paul, was a long-time member of the Knifemakers’ Guild and owner of Pioneer Woodcarving. As Fox’s friend and fellow maker Tim Britton noted on The Knife Network, “Paul may have been one of the most creative knifemakers of all time. He was perhaps best known for his electric-motor-driven folder and a series of very fancy knives that were a lot like sculpture. He won the W.W. Cronk Award at the Knifemakers’ Guild shows till they asked him to stop entering and let someone else win.
Paul Fox 1938 – 2012
According to Britton, Fox had a great sense of humor. “Paul had a Chevy Suburban that he bought at a North Carolina State Surplus auction for $700,” Tim recalled. “It was ugly, yellow and very beat up. He took it to Hendricks Motors of NASCAR fame and had them put a full race motor in it. Damned thing would fly and Paul loved nothing better than challenging redneck racers and usually beating them. Guess you have figured out by now, that dude was a character!
“Paul was very much at home with locals—guys from the garage, bread-truck drivers, etc. He was one of a kind, like so many of us in knifemaking. I can still see Paul using the remote control boat to chase geese off his pond!”
– See more at: http://www.blademag.com/featured/knifemaker-paul-fox-dies#sthash.pOlrVOOm.dpuf
See his available knives here
Legends of Knife Making: Jimmy Lile
James Buel Lile 1933-1991, known as Jimmy Lile or The Arkansas Knifesmith, was an American knifemaker from Russellville in Pope County, Arkansas, who made the Rambo Knife for the films First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II
In 1971, Lile became a full-time knifemaker and was known as “Gentleman Lile” or “The Arkansas Knifemaker”. He was particularly known for his Survival knife designs known as “The Mission” series, created by request for Sylvester Stallone to use in his first two Rambo movies. These designs would go on to influence other knife makers in the 1980s. In addition to creating the Rambo knives, Lile designed and made several Bowie knives that he presented to Governor Bill Clinton and U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Other owners of his work included John Wayne, Peter Fonda, Fess Parker, Bo Derek, and Johnny Cash.
When Lile was approached with the specifications for the “Rambo” knife, he was told to design it not as a mere “prop” but as a basic tool to perform a variety of tasks. Lile adapted a basic clip point Bowie knife which could be used to chop wood and slice food while retaining an edge. He employed a waterproof hollow handle design to store matches, needles, thread, and a compass; the hollow-handle allows the knife to be fitted to a pole to make a spear or gig. The handle was wrapped with nylon line that could be used for fishing or making snares. The tips on the guards were made into a standard and Phillips screwdriver and the spine was serrated. Lile chose to forge the blade of 440C high-carbon steel, which he claimed could cut through the fuselage of an aircraft.
Lile was elected president of the Knifemakers Guild in 1978 and was an early member of the American Bladesmith Society. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the ABS in 1977 and acted as a liaison between the two groups. His “Lile Lock” folding knife is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In 1984 he was inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame.
See Lile knives for sale on the website
Cholla Wood & Turquoise Clip Point Hunters
Here’s a matching pair of beautiful clip point hunters made by Massachusettes knife maker Roger Query. Now living in Phoenix, Arizona, he’s using natural Cholla Wood found in the desert for handles. Reconstuted Arizona Turquoise is used to fill in the Cholla Wood holes giving these knives a nice weight and balance between the knife blade and the handles.
You can find out more on these knives by clicking here
Mike Tamboli Folder
Mike Tamboli of Glendale Arizona has been making knives for over 30 years. He has won many awards for his work in miniatures as well as regular sized custom knives. He has had his knives featured in many of the popular knife periodicals.
Here is one of recent folders which has just been added to the website:
