Chris Reeve Chris Reeve Christopher Stanley "Chris" Reeve (born December 4, 1953) is a South African-American knife maker, recognized as one of the most influential people in knife making history. Reeve founded Chris Reeve Knives (CRK), and is co-owner of the company with his wife, Anne Reeve. In 2015 he was inducted into the Blade Magazine Hall of Fame. Christopher Stanley Reeve was born on December 4, 1953, in Durban, South Africa. His original vocation was that of tool and die making. Reeve trained at the Pineware Manufacturing Company, serving a four-year tool- and die-making apprenticeship that finished in 1978. Reeve credits
Christopher Reeve "Oh, that's a terrible mistake." Reeve was a licensed pilot and flew solo across the Atlantic twice. During the filming of "Superman III", he raced his sailplane in his free time. He joined The Tiger Club, a group of aviators who had served in the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain. They let him participate in mock dogfights in vintage World War I combat planes. The producers of the film "The Aviator" approached him without knowing that he was a pilot and that he knew how to fly a Stearman, the plane used in the film. Reeve readily