SR Johnson Loveless-Style Backpacker

Steve Johnson has always been heavily influenced by Bob Loveless, which is evident in many of his knives. This particular knife is actually of a Loveless design, the Backpacker. This knife features beautiful stag handle scales around the tapered full tang of the knife. The 3 1/4″ blade (from the collar to tip) features a mirror finish and the “SR Johnson Manti, Utah” stamp. To finish the overall look of the knife the collar and the pins used are made from nickel silver which is also used as the tubing for the lanyard/thong hole. Along the bottom of the tang reads the blade steel ATS-34. The knife also comes with the original genuine leather sheath, signed by Mr. Johnson. This is a great feeling knife that stays with the ideology of Bob Loveless, which passed on into Steve Johnson, that the practicality of the knife is art in itself.