Lol, sorry about my knife for sale link. I like your knife, when I googled, all I found on him was he was making knives in the 70's, long time ago. I like the Damascus pattern, not overly intricate, just nice. I bought a Chris Reeve folding damascus, pattern so detailed, beautiful knife, sharp too, it's too nice, I cannot see myself ever cutting anything with it.
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The SOG is in the book , the other is a Sly ll Both were made by Jimmy.
I understand someone bought the rights to his stuff. Not sure what other original knives they have/had ?I think the ones on the website are in fact made by Vaughn Neely !? Even had the pre-death LILE font. That’s kinda confusing.
The post-death knives manufactured in their shop had a Dot above the LILE , to differentiate.
I bought the book they put out , basically since I knew them , and I own a knife pictured in the book. Kinda cool
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I have several of his knives,always well made and worth collecting.If you decide to part with it please let me know.
As a surgeon I can tell you with authority, the the vertical height of the blade edge to saw tooth edge already created a soft tissue passage on the entrance wound, the soft tissues are pliable enough that upon withdrawal of the knife the saw teeth will not re-engage the tissues, unlike a barb on a single fish hook protrusion which generally is grossly disproportionate in size and angle to the shank of the hook.
I can promise this LILE will never be hunted with as even though it feels solid, I don’t want to find out the hard way that it’s not.
I was quoting First Blood, the scene in the basement of the Hope PD when the knife is introduced.
