All About Pocket Knives

I've had these for a while but finally now got some nice photos of them. These are both amber stag.

Two more very attractive Tuna Valley knives ! Rookie do you personally select these ? or does someone at T.V. select ones for you ?
Although all of the Tuna Valley handles look quite desirable, you seem to reliably get some of the best.
kj

Some of them, I knew the pattern was going to be released soon, so I kept my eye on all the dealer sites and bought my favorite ones. Some, I just happened to get lucky with whatever was left. And 2 knives I have bought, then found a nicer one later and bought, and sold the first. I've never had the Daniels set any aside for me, although perhaps I could ask them that next time I see them.

A few more photos to add here. None of the knives are new, but I got some nice newer photos of them.

Nice fall day here. I got some nice photos of some Tuna knives.

Rookie, another show of great knives by you ! And that was 2 months ago and no one has posted "Thanks".
So, excellent pics of fine knives, Thank you.
I just received this 3 5/8" EO Jack from Franks Classic Knives. Not only is it a beauty with perfect walk & talk and zero blade play, it is also SHARP ! Right on Queen. Excellent knife.
kj

Beautiful knife kj.

That is a great looking knife KJ. I think the EO single blade teardrop was one of the best TV designs so far, without a doubt in my top 3 favorites. And that run of knives had some of the best mammoth ivory, I love the coloring in it.

Tuna Valley Tuesday

Great looking stag on that coke bottle! Those knives are simply massive. And the redbone on the GEC made cigar congress is always eyecatching. I often wish they would make another pattern with some jig bone on it, just as a treat every once in a while.

Here are a few shots of the burnt stag sweybelly. These were more of an "autumn" theme, even though it is basically winter now. And check out the nice eggs our chickens give us every afternoon!

Rookie I admire your T V collection and your photography.

Thanks Phil. I wish my wife would say that to me, hahahah.

Your knives & your pictures are all absolutely first rate. I would call this 2 blade Stag knife a Large or Jumbo Trapper ?
kj

The COA calls it a Large Sweybelly Trapper

Only Tuna Valley I own. 2010 47/100, GEC red bone.

I love that redbone on those knives. If you take it outside on a sunny day, it stands out like a firetruck. I wish they would release a pattern with jigged bone again, just every once in a while. This was the only knife in the entire Tuna Valley history to use bone.

Is the large 4 blade Cattle knife the only Tuna Valley made by GEC ? If is a very good looking knife and the jigging is a pattern new to me.
kj

No, all knives 2007-2010 were GEC made, and 1/2 of the ones in 2012 were GEC made. The other half were from Queen, and anything 2013 - present is from Queen. I wrote in my descriptions on the list thread which company made each.

Sorry about that. I should have referred to your excellent list. Does the switch from GEC to Queen in 2013 reflect the time that Ken Daniels spent with GEC before buying Queen ?
kj

Originally Perry Miller resurrected the name Tuna Valley in 2005 I believe, along with his friend/partner Dave Mullins. And then in 2007 he had GEC make some prototypes. At that time the Daniels were part owners of Great Eastern cutlery. After 2010 Perry sold the name to the Daniels family, with Mullins remaining part owner, and they planned to continue having knives produced by GEC, but ramp up production to more than just 1 pattern per year. But then in mid 2012 the Daniels had the opportunity to purchase Queen, and so the knives made from mid 2012 on were all produced by Queen out of their Schatt & Morgan custom shop.

Today, although Ken and Ryan Daniels do a lot of behind the scenes work, I believe that Ryan's wife, Courtney, is considered the President. And she chooses the patterns for each release, and signs all the CoA slips.

Thanks for this outline of T.V. recent history. I enjoy the history of knife companies as much as i do the knives.
kj

Great thread Rookie with many fine contributions. I am not a newer brand collector but these knives are fine!

Those 4 blade cigars were the last knives Perry Miller commissioned before he got sick.They came in red bone and stag and were never delivered to Perry and Daniels acquired the brand.Ryan sent many of them and had the bolsters "hammered".I had a pair of each at one time.They were very nice knives.

I've been looking for one of the stag ones with the Oiseau bolster engraving for a long time. I've never even seen one in person, and have never heard of one coming up for sale anywhere. Whoever owns those (there are only 15) probably have no intention of selling them. I've got my feelers out trying to locate one.