Help with a Wood mk.1

[SteveS]

A friend just brought be a knife to sharpen. It's marked:

Wood Knives
mk.1
Venice, Calif.

It opens like a butterfly, but looks like a standard folding knife. It has linen micarta scales.

Does anyone have any information on this guy?

Steve

[tom mayo]

He is very old, lives in Colo now, and made most of his knives in the 70s and 80s. He was an engineer who lived in Venice, Calif, and made knives as a hobby for many years. Mike Irie married his daughter and started the Wood folders up again for a few years. I collect them on a small scale, they are a bit of Southern California knifemaking history.

[Jerry Oksman]

Thanks Tom, I couldn't put my finger on this one exactly. The thing that really bugs me is I remember seeing this kind of knife on a website I just can't remember where I saw it.

[Jason Cutter]

All I can remember is the guy's name is Owen Wood. The Mike Irie connection is what brought it back. Correct me if I;m wrong, Tom, but I think he was the only one making that style of folder. I've seen some older hunting and knife-relaled magazines from the '80's and early 90's and his work looks extremely good. Many of those displayed in the mags were highly embellished too. Jason.

[polishguy]

Howdy, all. The maker's name is Barry Wood. As well as selling his own custom-made pieces, his "swing folder" design was used by Pacific Cutlery for an all-metal version and also marketed by Colt in the same style as his original but with Colt markings and a nice leather belt sheath. Lastly, it showed up being made by Frost Cutlery with a "Frostwood" (colored laminate) handle configuration.

[Jason Cutter]

Whoops - I need a brain transplant right about now... Jason.

[tom mayo]

Owen Wood is a South African maker.

[SteveS]

Originally posted by tom mayo
Owen Wood is a South African maker.

There's someone that makes South Africans?

Steve

PS The owner has decided to sell and it trying to make contact with Les right now.

[Jerry Oksman]

Yes, other South Africans .

I had a website for Owen Wood, but it doesn't seem to work anymore.

[Lloyd Hale]

Coming to Toms defense, at least he knows the difference between Vice and Vise.....

[tom mayo]

or is it visa versa???

[BGF]

I saw one of these knives for sale recently, metal handles, I think,



Can't remember if was on another forum or mabe E-bay?


B.G.