Merchant does not cut corners with his knife collection
Seeley Lake Market Spotlight
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August 26, 2021
Henry Netherland, Pathfinder
Owen Tyler sells homemade knives and bird feeder benches at Seeley Lake Market. The market is open every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Labor Day.
SEELEY LAKE - Seeley Lake Farmers Market merchant Owen Tyler of Potomac has had a passion for knifemaking for around three decades. He began making them as a hobby after a man had given him a Centennial knife for fixing his car in the mid-1970s.
"I got to looking at it and it's not even straight," he said. "It was a $100 knife. I thought, 'Well, I can make a knife better than that.'"
He uses 440C stainless steel for the blades and antlers or desert ironwood for the handles. Some of them are epoxied while others are riveted. He said his more popular products tend to be the shorter blades....
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