Never sharpened, carried, or cleaned. No chips or cracks in handles. Mayhall from Counce, Tennessee was originally a timberman and sawyer who began making knives prior to 1970, specializing in handmade versions of vintage knives, along with some adaptations of his own.
His knives began at a time for a knife to be considered handmade by the non-Knifemaker's Guild crowd. The knife had to look a little crude, and Mayhall knives are not of flawless fit and polish. But they are handmade folders from a time when few made handmade folders, and historical marks of a time when a handmade knife did not have to be flawless to build a following of collectors.