Knives Books

The author of this book is a shining light and her words bring love and healing. The story teaches children to trust in their inner resources and to know that they are always loved and protected wherever they are. When I first read it to my five year old daughter she said it was her favourite story. She looked at the photo on the back and recognized the dog from the story. She decided she knew the dog and loved her. Its a favourite for us at bedtime and it is helping me teach my daughter to trust her own heart and to feel safe in the world.

As an adult reading this book, I am so touched by it. It warms my heart. It is a wonderful picture book that I have also given as a gift to a dear friend, whose daughter is 24 months old. She so loves to have it read to her! And she loves to follow along with the colorful artwork.

Is a wonderful story to all those who want to introduce a love and appreciation of Nature and the Love of Spirit to their young children....is a lesson to older children of the Love and caring a Mother provides, yet how they can find their own way when necessary....and to young and old alike, a reminder of the Spirit of Nature in all things and how we are a part of it All.

Perfect as a gift for your children and friends! Opens discussions about Nature and Love and things "a Mother would do"!

What a Mother Would Do is a delightful book about the inner spirit and the discovery of Trust and Hope. Although written as a children's book, the story within these pages, is a book for the child within all of us. Ms. Rivers helps us to find that place of safety within each of us, that place of a mother's heart, which keeps us going when we feel lost. Reading this simple, lyrical story of a little girl lost and then found, reminds us of the sweetness of inner truths that are so easily ignored during our hectic everyday lives.

An extremely detailed guide to the latest knives. Thousands of photos are scattered throught the book. The book is devided into several sections, including one with articles on general knive topics, listings of all of the best knives of specific class, and company by company guide. Any knive enthuisiast's
dream.

From folding knives and pocket knives to military knives and knives which are small swords, this newly updated and expanded edition of 2003 Sporting Knives provides a clear guide to knives for outdoor enthusiasts who use sporting knives. Knife experts provide articles and reviews of the newest and most useful commercial sporting knives on the market, while catalogs of prices and sources add to the details on their use. An indispensable guide for not only collectors, but outdoorsmen.

Very well written with excellent detail. Great story for lovers of the old west.

This is a different and interesting perspective of the Old West. Good Story and worth the read

This is a highly impressive work. Every individual item discussed is keyed to an individual text and is often accompanied by multi-views and enlargements. In many cases, there is documentation, many of which are letters from manufacturers and government procurement agencies. There is very little referencing to previous works. This is not an omnium-gatherum nor a synthesis of existing works. It is a new beginning.
The only thing remotely as detailed or as useful is Robert Baeurlein's thorough work "Allied Fighting Knives" which is mainly about fighting knives and gives short schrift to working blades, plus most of it is about U.S. patterns and includes much more textual descriptions plus many first hand accounts.
This work divides many types of blades and edged tools up by the major Commonwealth nations wherein they were produced, beginning in the 1880s and continuing up till the present decade.
The major countries and nations covered are Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India. The amount of items covered lessens the further one gets from Britain, but that is understandable. Everything including commercial knives sold to officers and explorers is covered.
There is no coverage of items produced in other Far Eastern areas for Empire and Commonwealth Forces nor anything produced in Africa, thus omitting those formerly white-ruled countries of the former Rhodesia (now Zimbablwe) and South Africa, though both are known to have local cutlery industries.
This may have been due to the lack of contacts consequent to the former political situation of sanctions, whixh precluded both commercial and social contact between Britain and those lands. Or perhapa they just did not make anything there for their forces.
As in any work of this monumentality, it is not perfect. No matter how long one works, there will always be something omitted. It is the nature of the endeavour. The author has added a chapter of last minute discoveries in his attempt to be as encyclopedic as possible. I learned much from this book and I will refer to it again in my own writings.
But, a few minor quibbles. The author fails to distinguish between the use of the two synonyms--matchet and machete. The latter being the original Spanish term and used in North America also, and the former, the official British term. Both are pronounced identically except for the e on the end--the t being silent. Because of his use of the American spelling throughout, he missed the significance of the derivation of the term for a famoous short bladed fighting instrument of WW II, the smatchet, usually pronounced to rhyme with hatchet, but again the t is silent. Smatchet is a contraction of small + matchet just as Bren is a contraction.
He also fails to recognize the tool-weapon issued to native troops of northern Burma by its true name of dah and lumps it in with machetes. He has found a few more patterns of dahs than I have. Of course, these crudely finished implements are so badly marked that moat are unreadable. And he may have included some similar tools made in southern China for local use. These are much better finished than British or Indian issued patterns.
And finally he missed a rather unusual and strange machete made in Australia in WW II. But, with those few exceptions, one with any interest in this material should buy this book. I will just give it an A not an A+. You can throw away that old copy of Stephens now.

Very good review of all military knives of the British empire 1800-today.
Cover F-S Fighting knives in a good way.
Plenty of pictures.
It is something you must buy!

tihs is the book of cutting. I have learned many things from it. Its full of wonderful ideas and tips for cutting.dont look any further because this is the book.

tihs is the book of cutting. I have learned many things from it. Its full of wonderful ideas and tips for cutting.dont look any further because this is the book.

The names of the authors (Shadley and Davis) would be instantly recognizable to knife collectors as the recognized masters of the multi-blade pocket knife, perhaps the most challenging project for beginning knifemakers. As far as I know, this is the only book in print that addresses multi-blade knifemaking directly, and thus am pleased to find that it turned out to be a great buy.

This book describes in detail the whole process of design, construction, and finishing these mechanical marvels. The text is precise, complete, and most importantly for the non-enthusiast, refreshingly readable (light on knife jargon). Illustrated with clear diagrams and pictures on every important step and generously endowed with hints and expert advice from the authors, this book is a classic on this specialized topic. If you have any interest in pocket knives or have ever wondered just how much craftsmanship goes into making one of these knives by hand, you'll be glad you bought this book.

If you was ever intrigued by the multi-bladed folding knives, and wanted to know how to make your own, believe me - this is the book you need. I'm proud to have this book - since it showed me, exactly, how to design and construct all the little multi-bladed fascinating tools I ever wanted. If you want to make your folding knives too, buy this book and back to the bench! And good luck!

Harrower deftly enables the stage to transform into a moving poem. This is a not only a beautiful play but a stunning piece of literature. A recommended read for anyone who appreciates a finely crafted play.

Scottish dramatist David Harrower's KNIVES IN HENS is an eerie and startling play that explores with conviction and an almost off-hand surrealism the connection between language and the world one inhabits through it.

Focusing on a trio of characters in a God-fearing rural community, Harrower paints a stark and coarsely poetic portrait of what happens when one begins to question the very ground on which one walks. Specifically, Harrower centers his attention on a character simply named Young Woman, whose naive sense of the world and her own impulses is eroded throughout the progression of the play, as she discovers the power of language. her own sexuality and the strength of her imagination.

A blindly devoted wife living in a private linguistic and metaphorical world informed by a sheltered upbringing in a pre-industrial village in an unidentified country (although the rhythms of rural Scottish speech color the text), Young Woman ventures outside her field one day to! have her grain milled by a local hated figure of the Miller Gilbert Horn while her husband Pony William tends to a pregnant horse.

Young Woman's encounter with Gilbert Horn serves as the catalyst for her awakening. He provokes her and stirs in her a desire to give expression to her thoughts through the act of writing them down, something she fears to do because she believes writing is sinful. To write, she believes, is to defy God, since God is the one who gives an individual her thoughts and to claim such thoughts as one's own, to voice them, is blasphemy.

As the Young Woman's relationship with her husband becomes more and more strained, Gilbert Horn begins to enter her sexual dreams until she feels she must act upon them. Although it may seem beyond cliche at this point to once again have a woman discover the power of her sexuality, of her body, through a man, Harrower manages to make the Young Woman's transformation seem novel and surprising.

By bringing in an elemen! t of the supernatural, Harrower removes the play from its s! ecular framework and places it in a curiously pagan, ritualized world where Gilbert Horb can indeed be a ghost and sorceror as well as a miller straight out of Eliot's MILL ON THE FLOSS.

A bleak, abrupt soundscape of words hurled, then barely uttered for fear of what they would do, KNIVES IN HENS is a powerful play built on a fragile, but elegant collage of 24 scenes that examine the disjunctive relationship between language and identity, creation and authorship, and the manner in which inexpressible feelings can sometimes conjure a reality more profoundly disturbing than the quotidian world will allow.

For the custom knife collector, this is a book you must have in your library. This book shows the potential of what custom cutlery is capable of.

Jim Weyer is well known in the custom knife world for his superb photographs, most notably in the monthly Blade magazine. This book is the 3rd collection of Weyer's photographs and displays the beauty of the finest handmade knives of our time to best effect. If you are a collector, you owe it to yourself to get this book or better yet, the complete set of books. For the non-enthusiast, this book may just convert you to the world of custom knives.

This book is a great sequel to The Complete Bladesmith, one of the best works I've read on the subject. It is well written and full of sound, practical information for the experienced bladesmith, including everything from laying out your shop (e.g., lighting, ventilation, tools) to building and using a forge to make battle-worthy blades and works of anachronistic art. Contents include essential information about steels and alloys, compounds and formulas, and weights and measures that you need to successfully complete projects, along with advanced forging techniques, power hammer applications, grinding, heat treating, tempering, hilts, metal and wood finishing, leatherworking and scabbard making, damascus steel (pattern-welding), sword making, spear making, and ax making. There are also excellent chapter on Japanese nonferrous alloys. Mr. Hrisoulas's blade crafting skills are first rate and his writing talents readily convey his knowledge and experience in a way that you can immediately apply to your own work. Very well done.

Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction

The second of three knifemaking books by Jim Hrisoulas. The first book "The Complete Bladesmith", is excellent for the beginner to intermediate forger. This second book is more in-depth, and written for those that need knowledge in the field that will not be found elsewhere. The book is for the intermediate student, to the advanced master of the blade. Again, Jim gives his expertise and knowledge openly to the practitioner, who wants to make knifemaking a serious part of life. For those interested in the production of swords, this book that has something to offer you. This volume covers all aspects of the bladesmithing trade, including the varied techniques and details which can forge, what would otherwise be a plain knife, into a working piece of art. Secrets, tips, tools, and techniques, are spelled out with the help of clear diagrams and explanations. Helpful compound tables, plus formulas for the manufacturing of flux, quenching, and etching mediums, are all included in this comrehensive volume. Jim also introduces the techniques for the creation of damascus steel in this volume. Those interested in the manufacture of damascus steel will also find a source of study, in Jims latest book, "The Pattern-Welded Blade", which is strictly for the advanced forger that desires to create damascus and mosaic patterens, and who has worked through Jims first two books. The books by Jim Hrisoulas are the best written in the field, and a most welcome addition to the forging knifemaker. Nels Nelson

This book is awesome! I'm a custom knife designer, and I use it as a reference all the time. If you're into military knives, you'll love this book. Lots of pictures and facts.

One of the most wide ranging knife magazines published in the last thirty years is Knife World, which combines user reports, book reviews, historical articles, and personal experiences. As the magazine is published in tabloid format on newsprint, it is difficult to store and over the years deteriorates. In any case, keeping the whole issue is not usually an option for most of the ads and remisniscences have no residual value to collectors or historians. Thus over the years there have been three selected "Best of Volumes" the last of which appeared in the eighties.
Military issue designs and personal knives carried by service personnel have always been a big collectible interest but until the nineties there was little available except the albums of drawings compiled by M.H. Cole, now deceased. These served and still serve as identification guides but the last one came out in the 70s and they are notorious for mistaken IDs and misattributions.
Though some special books have come out in recent years including the splendid photo studies of M.H. Silvey, John Bruning's OSS Weapons and the now almost unavailable work on Allied Fighting Knives by Buerlein, there has long been a need for more definitive work.
Well, this is not it but it will certainly prove useful to the collector of US blades, both utility pocket patterns and sheath knives. The subjects range from the ubiquitous GI General Purpose Pocket Knife which has been made in the millions through the many sheath knives issued by the Navy for aviators and deck hands to the almost unattainable micro variants of British commando daggers and fighting knives. There is lots more to do but this deserves a place on the shelf of every serious collector of US military patterns.
As to bayonets and other edged weapons (swords and sabres), those subjects have been covered in several highly comprehensive books published in many countries in many languages and are not covered in this publication or indeed in Knife World itself. Edged weapons are to be found in such as the ersthwhile Fighting Knives and the currently issued Tactical Knives as well as in various gun and arms publications.