{"id":747,"date":"2017-09-15T19:06:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capeknifemakersguild.com\/dir\/?page_id=747"},"modified":"2022-08-26T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:02:14","slug":"de-jager-francois","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capeknifemakersguild.com\/dir\/members\/de-jager-francois\/","title":{"rendered":"De Jager, Francois"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I grew up in the Kalahari, went to school at Askham a small town in the Northern Cape, high school in Upington. Worked for a mining engineering Company in Johannesburg\u00a0 and as a product manager for Bearing Man Group, in 2012 moved to Redelinghuys Western Cape. Started work in the private security industry, did anti-piracy and security work in the Middle East and Africa, beginning 2016 while in Somalia on an oil and gas project one of the people I was protecting, a big Russian guy, started making a knife, I was immediately interested in what he was doing and followed his build closely very eager to help and learn.<\/p>\n

When I arrived back in Cape Town South Africa in Feb 2016 the first thing I told my wife was that I am going to make knives, since then I have spent every single day learning and making knives.<\/p>\n

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