Welcome, Bobcat!
Nobody can argue with your taste or logic when it comes to knives. (At least nobody here.)

I think you're right. There's just something a little bit extra special in a Tony or Reese Bose made knife that puts it ahead of similar knives made by very gifted makers.

For me it's the way they are able to capture the spirit and beauty of the old time knives with their incredible attention to detail in terms of pattern, scale material and blade grinds. No detail is overlooked.

I am lucky enough to own two of their knives...One by Tony, a 4 1/8" Stag BackPocket, and one by Reese, a Sowbelly in brown jigged bone.

Even luckier to have been able to spend time with them both and call them friends.