murphda2
Super Moderator and KD Blade Show Boss
Next weekend is the AG Russell Knife Event in Rogers, Ar. For those of you who have not visited the shown in the past, I highly encourage it.
As part of this year's festivities, Jim Crowell will be conducting a cutting demo on Saturday at 1 pm. I'm sure that Jim will find a way to dazzle and amaze the crowd with his knowledge, cutting skill, and general great sense of humor (I hope I'm not the butt of too many jokes). For this demo, AG sent Jim one of the Browning produced "Crowell/Barker Competition" knives for him to trick out and touch up.
While visiting Jim's shop yesterday, Mike ("Diamond G Knives") and I had the opportunity to watch (Mike got to help out a bit) Jim finish up this piece for the demo. The minor modifications Jim did to the piece turned out great (though he did manage to cut himself during the sharpening process).
Here are a couple of pics of the modified factory knife as well as a couple of pieces that Jim will have at the show. Photo 1 shows the modified factory knife and the second photo shows a couple of Jim's customs.
Here are the customs. The one on top is a knife that Jim made for a soldier over at Ft. Campbell, Ky it has a blade of differentially heat treated 1095 and black linen Micarta handle scales. The smaller piece is a copy of Jim's Arkansas Park Ranger knife (minus the Park Ranger logo and serial number). It has a blade of CPM 154 CM, guard of 416 stailess, and linen Micarta handle. The sheath for each is constructed of 0.08 Kydex with large Tek-Lok.
As part of this year's festivities, Jim Crowell will be conducting a cutting demo on Saturday at 1 pm. I'm sure that Jim will find a way to dazzle and amaze the crowd with his knowledge, cutting skill, and general great sense of humor (I hope I'm not the butt of too many jokes). For this demo, AG sent Jim one of the Browning produced "Crowell/Barker Competition" knives for him to trick out and touch up.
While visiting Jim's shop yesterday, Mike ("Diamond G Knives") and I had the opportunity to watch (Mike got to help out a bit) Jim finish up this piece for the demo. The minor modifications Jim did to the piece turned out great (though he did manage to cut himself during the sharpening process).
Here are a couple of pics of the modified factory knife as well as a couple of pieces that Jim will have at the show. Photo 1 shows the modified factory knife and the second photo shows a couple of Jim's customs.
Here are the customs. The one on top is a knife that Jim made for a soldier over at Ft. Campbell, Ky it has a blade of differentially heat treated 1095 and black linen Micarta handle scales. The smaller piece is a copy of Jim's Arkansas Park Ranger knife (minus the Park Ranger logo and serial number). It has a blade of CPM 154 CM, guard of 416 stailess, and linen Micarta handle. The sheath for each is constructed of 0.08 Kydex with large Tek-Lok.
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