TOM MAYO HAWAII TNT* Stellite 6K (SH)

Description

Second Hand

• TOM MAYO HAWAII Knives
• *Model: suspected TNT
• no certificate, no box

“I have been making hand-made knives since late 1981…but my love of knives began when I was a boy. My grandfather always gave me a pocket knife for Christmas or my birthday and I can still remember the day he gave me a knife he made from a file when I was about eight. He was the town doctor in Dresden, Tennessee and an avid hunter and fisherman. I have been a shooter since I was a child and make it a habit to go to the range at least once a week. It was only natural that as I got older I began to collect more and more knives until one day I picked up a Sports Illustrated with Bob Loveless on the cover. Up until that day I had been building furniture as a hobby but that article took me in a different direction and soon I had spent over $2500 on knife making equipment without even starting with a knife. I struggled on my own, reading books and gathering information where I could and buying knife supplies from various people, especially Glen Hornby. We became friends over the phone and it wasn’t long before he invited me to visit him at his home in Glendale, California and spend some time making knives with him. Long story short, we became best friends and I started driving to California every year for a knife show or two until he tragically passed away on September 1, 1995. I will always miss him, he was a great knife maker and an even better friend. Through Glen’s influence I began to develop a style that I would best describe as a direct copy of Mr. Loveless, but over the years I slowly fell in love with the older traditional style of knives that the Randall family makes, particularly the clip point and trailing point knives. Today I feel that my knives have a style all their own, but I have taken a lot from these two pioneers of the knife making movement. My goal is to make an exceptionally powerful tool that can compete with the best knife makers in the country.”