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Updated 5/15/09 by JACK DAVENPORT, Maker
Website: DAVENPORTKNIVES.COM
Contact me by phone at:(352)424-2567
Contact me by email at: jacknife@verizon.net
Thank you for your interest in DAVENPORT KNIVES. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm a "Florida Native", and I grew
up in Dade City, a beautiful small and typically southern town in eastern Pasco County. Pasco County is located on the west
coast of Florida and is close to Tampa.
As a young man with a passion for nature and the outdoors, I was thrilled
when I was offered a position with the State of Florida as a wild life officer assigned to the Everglades. Some of my most
fond memories are of those years in a most beautiful and wild part of Florida, but that's another story for another time.
When I'm not making knives, I enjoy boating, flyfishing and just about anything that involves the outdoors.
I've been making knives for approximately 30 years and was very honored to have won Blade's "Best Folder" award at the 2006
Blade Show in Atlanta and the Knifemakers' Guild's "Best Custom Folder" award at its 2005 and 2006 shows in Orlando. Photographs
of two of those pieces are featured below.
I enjoy making all types of knives...autos, linerlocks and straight
knives. However, my true passion still lies in multi-bladed slipjoints patterned after the old cutlers' creations from centuries
past.
I am a voting member and past director of the Knifemakers' Guild and a charter member and past director/vice
president of the Florida Knifemakers' Association.
The DAVENPORT KNIVES webpage continues to be a work in progress,
and the next page titled "Knives", will give you examples of some my projects. My inventory changes constantly, but I will
take an order. If you see something that you are interested in, contact me. I'll keep you updated about Davenport Knives
on the page titled, "Points of Interest News" which, hopefully, you will find informative.
Thank you again for
your interest and if you have any questions, just click on my e-amil address at the top of the page. I look forward to hearing
from you.
Jack
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