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Archive Home > 2010 > September > 09 > Master knife-maker dies at 81

Master knife-maker dies at 81

By Valerie J. Nelson / The Bulletin
September 9, 2010

R.W. “Bob” Loveless, who made some of the world’s most coveted sporting cutlery by refining knife design to high art, has died. He was 81.

Loveless died Sept. 2 of lung cancer at his longtime home in Riverside, Calif., said his friend Jack Lucarelli.

“He is pretty much the Picasso of the knife....

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