Jay Fisher - World Class Knifemaker
"Mercury Magnum" is a beautiful gemstone handled tanto knife with an elephant skin sheath. More about this Mercury Magnum.
Imagine my surprise when I saw that my web site stats have noted that exactly 100% of new visitors to the site bookmark this site as one of their favorites, determined to return and visit it often
| Welcome! Quick Facts: | The best individual knife maker's site you will find on the Internet! |
| First year of this site on the Internet: | 1996: 14 years on the web |
| Number of active pages on this website: | 372 pages, packed with pictures and great information |
| Number of pictures and images on this website: | 10,835: over 10.5 gigabytes in photos alone (includes thumbnails and restricted pages) |
| Average number of hits a day (August 2010): | 91,939 Trends Here |
| Largest Number of hits per month (January 2010): | 3,189,569 |
| August 2010's most visited pages on this site: | Blades, Knife Anatomy, Knives for Sale |
| My first knife made in: | 1979 (31 years experience) |
| Full time professional knifemaker since: | 1988 (full time for 22 years) This is my real job! |
| Number of pictures available on my multi CD ROM Archives: | Total: 2455 Huge, High Resolution Pictures |
| Top August 2010 Search Terms that led you here: | Jay Fisher, Knife Blades, Parts of a Knife |
| Most ridiculous August search terms that led one person here: | "what animal bone is used in making tusks for carved elephants?" (I think they use whale bones to make elephant tusks...) |
| Most interesting thing you probably do not know about me: | I have a piece in the Tower of London |
| Another interesting thing you probably do not know about me: | I make more real gemstone handled knives than any other single knifemaker in the world |
| This month's bullet: | I make the finest locking combat knife sheath in the world |
"Jay Fisher is the best modern knife maker around, pursuing an ancient tradition but beautifully perfecting the craft by selecting the finest man-made and natural materials. Jay Fisher makes every type of edged steel weapon, fitting the blade to it’s purpose. The world’s elite clandestine rescue and tactical squads seek his weapons. Their lives depend on Jay Fisher Custom Knives- the best quality knives in the world."
--Bernardo M. Perez
Deputy Assistant Director - Ret.
FBI Laboratory
Washington, D.C.
Named "The Best Living Knife Maker" in the 2007 Best of the West Sourcebook by True West Publications
"Many fine knifemakers exist in the world. Some Excel at making weapons, others at creating art. At his Enchanted Spirits Studio in Clovis, New Mexico, Jay Fisher does both. In the blade business since 1988, Fisher makes knives, many featuring gemstone handles, for collectors, museums and people who really know how to use 'em (101st Airborne, Special Forces, USAF Pararescue)."
--from the 2007 Best of the West magazine
The worldwide best-selling author Tom Clancy says:
"You know, I never believed in decorous weapons until I met Jay Fisher. Where does one draw the line between a fighting knife and a work of art?
Jay Fisher is a throwback to the age when craftsmen were *all* artists, not mere producers of products, when every item that went out the door had a story and a purpose all its own, and when you went to a craftsman not because of what you wanted but because of who he was.
Jay is a guy who knows how to use the modern to serve the past. We really do make better steel today than we did a hundred years ago - the idea of cutting an ancient Samurai sword in two with a modern American knife does have its attractions - and the blend of old and new in his work is totally seamless. A knight Templar would not have hesitated a moment to take Fisher's steel on his Holy Quest. In fact, he would have thought the technological edge a gift from an especially attentive God.
I suppose that says it all. Jay Fisher is one of a kind, a man who knows the riddle of steel, and that the difference between a good weapon and a bad one is the combination of how you make it and to whom you give it."
--Tom Clancy