Just kidding. But I'll keep posting stuff up here, regardless of participation until someone gets tired of my pictures.
I am almost exactly one year behind on taking care of my customers.
I had this one ordered one year ago this weekend by a neighbor's friend up here for a Mn Firearm deer camp.
It'll be a surprise when he gets here in a day or so.

Nice work! Please keep posting pictures! You are talented at your craft.

Karl, that is a beauty.

No doubt in my mind your knives are super functional but I see what you make and regard it as a beautiful piece of art that I would not want to risk ruining. Maybe that's just me being foolish or have you found other people would take that knife in a heartbeat and make it a "showpiece" knife in their collection? Does that pain you if they do this?

I'll tell you what - each and every knife I make is designed and made with full attention to those attributes which would be necessary for full-time hard use.
What the user chooses to do with it is his choice.
It doesn't pain me for them to never see use.
But it thrills me when a customer sends a picture of the knife on their belt when they're horse-back in the Rockies on an elk hunt.
Or laying on the field dressed carcass of a wild boar in Alabama.
Or laying next to the campfire in the B'dub.
I make some higher-end knives that I know seldom ever see freedom from the display case.
And I have to accept that.
But both myself and the owner know that the knife can leap into action in a moment's notice.
And act well.

quote bapabear: "Karl, that is a beauty.


No doubt in my mind your knives are super functional but I see what you make and regard it as a beautiful piece of art that I would not want to risk ruining. Maybe that's just me being foolish or have you found other people would take that knife in a heartbeat and make it a "showpiece" knife in their collection? Does that pain you if they do this?"

That was probably a dumb question to ask a knife craftsman but I am impressed by the design and good looks of what you make and that line of thinking was going through my head. With you having a year's waiting line that speaks for itself on your quality for a functional knife.

My son and I have tried to make the Janesville Badger Knife shows and this year couldn't make it. Will you be attending their next one in March? Maybe I could see your work up close and get a chance to chat.

I'll be there.
I look forward to meeting some more folks off this forum.

quote bapabear: "My son and I have tried to make the Janesville Badger Knife shows and this year couldn't make it. Will you be attending their next one in March? Maybe I could see your work up close and get a chance to chat."

Really nice looking knife. Do you have a link for a website Karl?

quote TomT: "Really nice looking knife. Do you have a link for a website Karl?"

Here you go