Sharp colours!

Today, while the sun was shining, I took out my Chris Reeve Knives folders, and made some pictures!

As always: click on the pictures to make them bigger!

Kind regards,

Jos

Fountain pens

Sometimes I take a break from knives... and buy a fountain pen!

This is my collection so far. Top to bottom:
Pelikan Souverän M800 Grand Place
Pelikan Souverän M600
William Henry F8-5 Cabernet
Montblanc Meisterstück 145 Classique (90th anniversary edition)
CONID Regular Ebonite Bulkfiller Streamline

Gudy Van Poppel "series folder" sextet!

Posted these before, thought it was time for a family picture!

As always: click on the pics to see them bigger!
Have a nice day!

Dirk de Wit knives

The atlas in the background is a reproduction of a 1698 atlas by a fellow named Frederick De Wit. He might be a very distant forefather of Dirk de Wit, who, you guessed it, made the 2 knives. The top one he calls his "revalidation" knife, and is part of a series which was made after Dirk got struck by disease. Damasteel blade, brass handle, micarta scales. The bottom one is a knife that Dirk built on my request. Damasteel blade, mammoth ivory inlays. Fit and finish on both knives are second to none. Dirk is one of the greatest folding knife makers in my opinion.

 (as always: click on the pic enlarge!)

-NOTIFICATION-

If you see a post on "Messenforum.nl" made under the name "Blastmaster1972" with a date later than April 2015, that post was NOT made by me.
The forum-owner there is abusing his administrator powers to make fake posts in the name of members that have left his forum.
Be advised.

Heinz Kocher

Here's a picture of my 3 Heinz Kocher knives. I don't know much about this maker, but I do know that they are some of the most nicely fitted and finished knives I've seen. All 3 have some kind of "assisted opening" mechanism, that makes the blade open a little bit. All 3 mechanism are different. This man is a technical genius! Handle material on the top one is Desert Ironwood, on the bottom one Mother of Pearl, on the middle one "Katec".

As always: click on the picture to enlarge!

I haven't posted here in a long time. But I decided to re-start this blog, and also made a facebook "bloggers" page.

Last knives I posted here were from 2012, so I have a lot of catching up to do!

Here's a "teaser" pic with my latest knives, purchased on the DKE knifeshow.

Top to bottom:

- big "frontflipper" by Martin Annegarn (MaKnives)
- a little brass "Bolt-Action" pen, made by Jan Pap
- a small kitchen knife made by Alessio Salsi
- an assisted-opening folder made by Heinz Kocher

Kind regards,

Jos.