All About Pocket Knives

Here is a picture of the knife 1967redrider is referring to. Sorry, the only picture I have immediately available. This is tooled leather dyed to look like a Boa Constrictor. Only one made! It's a Squeeze Lock Back knife

Tom

Tom that's the snakeskin micarta, the only leather handles we did at CS were the peened leather handles on the NRA Knife of the Year bowie knives. The micarta looks good on the squeeze, got a little more real estate to work with there

Eric

Eric - you did a fabulous job on these! Every one I've seen has been awesome. I've been carrying the snakeskin every day since I got it. The basket weave is super cool, but almost seems too nice to carry. I'll get over it and put it in my pocket one of these mornings

Glad you like 'em wingerac!

That was a good move hitting the micarta with a bit of mineral oil. I think the cleaning process dries the rag fibers a bit but the oil brought it right back. The basketweave is definitely cool, it's the most intricate jigging of any bone I've used.

Eric

Eric,

Thank you for clarifying that the knife handles were Snakeskin Micarta...I was mis-lead when I bought the knife, being told it was tooled leather.

I learned a valuable lesson here!

Tom

Well I received my Red Trout yesterday. I had ordered a "Dark Red Pressed Stag Jigged Bone"
I pretty certain that this is a "Merlot Wormgrove Bone". I kind of thought I had a 50/50 chance of getting the one I ordered. No big deal. I felt bad for Richard. He had a lot of people calling him. Not going to loose sleep over it, but I don't think I can warm up to this one. Does have a nice Merlot color which my pic does not show well. Eric hit the bullseye on these however. Great build quality, and good walk & talk.

All of these Red Trout knives sure are beautiful.

edge213 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 3:18 pm All of these Red Trout knives sure are beautiful.

I'd love to see one of each scale variety, so keep posting them. Really enjoy looking at the variations.

Couple to add to the mix. Couldn't be happier with the way these turned out.

Coreysbu wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:19 am Couple to add to the mix. Couldn't be happier with the way these turned out.

Couple of nice ones. Can't beat Eric's rope jigging.

I'd love to track one of these beauties down if anyone has an 'extra', hehe.
Thanks!

FarSide wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:38 pm Red Trout Pair.jpg

Great shot. That Merlot really pops in that picture.

Coreysbu wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:36 pm

FarSide wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:38 pm Red Trout Pair.jpg

Great shot. That Merlot really pops in that picture.

Thank you. Eric did a great job on these. Love your Blue Rope.

My two beauties. I had ordered a blue rope and abalone. The blue rope was set aside but the abalone was sold. Richards daughter offered me the choice of three remaining knives, I choose what turned out to be the dark red pressed stag bone. Sorry @FarSide, it came in a box labeled as bocote wood. These really are incredible knives. Great vision by Richard and wonderful work by Eric.

Any more Red Trout knives out there? It was a really cool run, thank God for Richard's talented work.

Have noticed some have showing up for auction on eBay lately... makes me wish I had picked a couple of duplicates when I had the chance... It was Richard's conception... but it was Eric's talented work and he continues to produce them now under his own name... Albers Cutlery.