{"id":277,"date":"2012-07-03T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capeknifemakersguild.com\/dir\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2022-08-26T18:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:15:43","slug":"niemann-koos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capeknifemakersguild.com\/dir\/members\/niemann-koos\/","title":{"rendered":"Niemann, Koos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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eMail. \u00a0 \u00a0 koos@cash911sa.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Koos has always had a passion for the outdoors and hunting, growing up on a farm in Stella, Northern Cape having a knife close at hand from a very young age came as second nature.<\/p>\n

His love for hunting started at the age of 5 when he shot his first bird with a self-made ketty. The first knife was made at age 14 using an old file, later during his fitting and turning apprenticeship he used a grinder to craft saw blades into knives.<\/p>\n

During 2009, after visiting Tinus Klaasee, a Cape guild member he became very interested in knife making as a hobby. \u00a0Acquiring more specialised equipment the hobby started in all earnest. With a passion to learn more, Koos attended a forge course making damascus and carbon steel knives with Kevin Harvey in 2010. With this new found knowledge and a great deal of enthusiasm the hobby became a passion and January 2012 he joined the Cape Knife Makers Guild.<\/p>\n

Hunting , solid and folders are made, but any special design can be created.<\/p>\n

Friends became clients, clients become friends and when the biltong comes out, knives become the topic of discussion.<\/p>\n

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