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Butch Vallotton
Founder ValKnives
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ABOUT VALKNIVES COMPANY
- Butch Vallotton has been a full time knife maker since 1984, and, along
with the "Michigan Three", Judy Gottage, Jim Serven, and Chuck
Stewart, is largely responsible for the resurgence of automatic knives in
modern collecting. He is known for his unique designs and a wide variety
of mechanisms. He makes mostly folders, and his designs include tactical,
hunters, fighters, daggers,and art knives. Butch uses a wide variety of
steels, carbon, stainless, damascus, and spectrum metal. He co/designed
the Appelgate Fairbairn folder along with Bill Harsey, and has several factory
collaborations with his assisted openers and automatics. Those manufacturers
include Gerber, Spyderco, Timberline, LoneWolf, and Microtech. Butch's Vipers,
Chameleons, and SOF knives are known by many collectors, and his art knives
are always in demand. Butch and his sons are still manufacturing several
one-of-a-kind customs as well as production models. Many of his knives are
collector's pieces and can only be found at his shop. The knives offered
by 888 Knives R Us are production pieces and are sometimes in limited supply,
so please contact
us if you are interested in one of his pieces and we will check inventory
for you. Thanks for shopping with us! |
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