Meet South Africa's Legendary 1903 Harry Wolhuter Lion Knife!

In 1903, a man named Harry Wolhuter was traveling on a familiar path between watering holes in South Africa. Harry was on horseback with a dog following when he was attached by 2 hungry lions! The story is a pulse pounding tale of the will to survive, while keeping your wits about you in the most dire situation imaginable…to avoid being eaten alive! As the name of the knife may give away, Harry survived the encounter by using his knife to fight back on the lion posing the immediate risk to his life… but the story of what happened from the moment of attack to the end is astonishing. We covered it in this video. It's an amazing story of surviving an attack from a wild predator.
After Dirk Loots, himself a South African, told the story to the other members of Pop’s Knife Supply… they wanted to make their own versions of the famous knife from the story. The result is an amazing display of how 4 makers can take the same design, but when their individual style is applied, it becomes uniquely their own. Since it was a group project, we thought we would offer it up as a collection first… in hopes that a collector would want to keep the knives together as a set. It’s a sure bet they’ll have a really cool story to tell about the knives when showing them to friends… in addition to having knives made by 4 renowned knife makers in their collection!
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Here are the knives posting on September 30, 2022 for Fiddleback Friday!
Models include the Low Country, Woodsman, Evangeline and Old School Ladyfinger & More. We also have Fiddleback Family knives: Exclusive 4 Makers version of the "Lion Killer", J.B Knifeworks Sharp Finger, Warlander Enterprises Fletcher & Scorpion, Duckhead Forge Paring, Edge Knife Works Mini Huntsman, Ronin & 7" Japanese Chef and MW Steel Works 6" Petty, Santoku and Boning Filet.
Video Timeline:
00:00 Teaser
00:31 Intro
00:48 Meet Dirk Loots
01:27 The Story Behind The Lion Killer Knife!
06:33 The Lion Killer Collection by The Pop's Knife Supply Crew
08:17 Dirk Loots - Lion Killer
08:49 W.A. Surls - Lion Killer
09:22 J.B. Knifeworks - Lion Killer
09:52 Fiddleback Forge - Lion Killer
10:43 Fiddleback Forge - Low Country
11:17 Fiddleback Forge - Woodsman
11:51 Fiddleback Forge - Evangeline
12:23 Fiddleback Forge - 'Old School' Lady Finger
13:06 J.B. Knifeworks - Sharp Finger
14:08 Warlander Enterprises - Fletcher
14:55 Warlander Enterprises - Scorpion
15:55 Edge Knife Works - Ronin
16:31 Edge Knife Works - Mini Huntsman (OD Canvas)
17:00 Edge Knife Works - Mini Huntsman (Python Micarta)
17:33 Edge Knife Works - Mini Huntsman (Emerald Maple Burl)
18:04 Edge Knife Works - 7" Japanese Chef
19:01 MW Steel Works - Santoku
19:36 MW Steel Works - 6" Petty
20:10 MW Steel Works - Boning Filet
21:03 Duckhead Forge - 'One Off' Pairing
21:43 How To Get one!
22:28 Need more info?
23:14 This Is The End My Friends
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[@KnifeOutpost]

To see what makers we have in stock for this model, check here: KnifeOutpost.com/lion

[@jarrodskeete52]

Sweet knives... Great story behind the Lion Killer!

[@KnifeOutpost]

We definitely thought it was worth telling!

[@SamuelCrothers-qp8vw]

I went t Kruger national park and saw the tree he climbed

[@KnifeOutpost]

I'm sure the tree is much larger now... but I'm curious, if that happened to you right then, would you have been able to get up that same tree and fend them off?

[@christiaan2182]

Always love this story and the Boer pronunciation isn't great, but much love from SA 😅

[@KnifeOutpost]

As a country boy from the American South, that only speaks one language, I'll take that as an absolute compliment! But unlike my butchered pronunciation of "Boer"... I hope we at least did the story justice. It was partially told to me by one of your fellow countrymen, a knife maker named Dirk Loots.

[@wizardofahhhs759]

I like the flat ground one as opposed to the hollow grind.

[@KnifeOutpost]

Alot of it is personal preference... and use case. But they all turned out pretty nice we think!

[@knifesharpeningnorway]

Always wanted to try a fiddleback forge knife on my channel 😁 and people where badass back then

[@KnifeOutpost]

They really were! Just made differently back then. His grandson apparently chased a Lion away with just a camera. Check that story out too!

[@knifesharpeningnorway]

@@KnifeOutpost hehe pretty wild men

[@clintwestwood3539]

Where can I find the template of the knife? I didn’t understand the site

[@KnifeOutpost]

On Pop's Knife Supply's website. You'd have to reach out to them if you're having trouble finding it. Very cool knife!