Steve Kelly in the process of making his artistic knives.
Knife making has also given Taylor the opportunity to travel. Several years ago when he and his wife were at the knife show in Paris, Taylor was wearing a cowboy hat but didn't want to take it to Scotland where they were going to vacation before returning to Montana. He put out the word that he wanted to sell his hat. Two Swedish knife makers were kidding around about the hat, and one put it on the other one. "With that, I sold my Montana cow- boy hat to a Swedish knife maker," he said. All of the above knife makers have a backlog of
orders. "I have people who are waiting to be on the 'waiting list'," said Steven Kelly. Customers, who live
all around the world, know what it takes to make these high-quality custom knives and are willing to wait for that very special knife to be made in a shop somewhere in the mountains or on the prairie of Montana.
After a career as a college instruc- tor and administrator, Suzanne Waring's interest in communi- cations led to a second career as a freelance writer.
She lives in Great
Falls and writes about Montana people and their communities.
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