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Home Products Scale Release Auto - Prototype #000

Scale Release Auto - Prototype #000

by Johnson, C.E. "Gene"

SKU 155016

Date Added 10/02/2020

# Available This product is out of stock

Price $795.00

Overview

This is a big heavy scale release knife! Blade and backspacer are 3/16" thick. Mirror finish blade with fileword on spine and thumbrest. Nickel silver fluted and dovetailed bolsters, kuda horn scales, stainless liners and backspacer with filework. This has a taillock release with fileworked hook on end. Outstanding workmanship. Has some scuffs and scratches. "Proto 000" on blade. Excellent condition. Dated 7/12/1996 inside frame.

Product Details

Blade Length 4.25

Overall Length 11.5

Closed Length 7.25

Weight (oz) 14.5

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Blade Details Clip Point, Upswept/Trailing

Handle Material Horn & Antler, Metallic

Other Details Prototype

About the Maker

Johnson, C.E. "Gene"

C.E. “Gene” Johnson was born in 1933 and began his “second career/hobby” of knife making in 1975. He passed away a few years prior to 2013 Johnson’s knives are known for their quality and craftsmanship. He made knives as big as a Bowie knife down to a pocketknife with an eighth-inch blade. It takes about two weeks for him to make a knife, and he only works on them for three hours a day. It takes 40 to 50 hours to finish one. Here is an excerpt from a New York Times article by Gloria Reed, published on April 26, 1996: Gene Johnson has a really sharp hobby. He makes knives from scratch. “The first thing I tried to make 20 years ago was a knife out of a saw blade,” Johnson said. “Then I found out they made metal for making knives.” Johnson’s first knife is a mere piece of metal now compared to the rest he has made over the years. “About 11 years ago, I retired from U.S. Steel on disability after 33 years,” he said. “I laid around on the couch so long, I had to come out of the house and do something besides cut the grass.” That’s when Johnson began taking knife making seriously.