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I started to write this as an answer on another thread but then thought it mabye could stand on its own feet as a piece of modern history and how I got into knifes.
Peter Hjortberger had a company that imported high quality knifes from different brands before he Developed Fallkniven. Actually the company was called Fallkniven even then, but the company name become the brand name after he developed his own line of knifes. I found an advertice in the hunting press about its existence in the early 1980-ties. My interest in those days was all about fixed blades and the only folder I owned was a EKA 38. I belive most knifes that was sold was fixedblades and he had forign knifes of different brands, knifes like the Schrade PH 1 and puma 4 star and the finest scandinavian knifes.. But he had a realy good selection of folders, bouth slipjoints and lockbacks, later he even had linerlocks and knifes with holes in the blades, go figure!
No one I know about here in sweden has before or after had a selection of different knifes as Peter and fallkniven did.
And in the press we had Anders L Dahlman, a realy talented writer about knifes making nummerous artikles about different knifes, sometimes a brand and sometimes just a special knife. This made wonders for the market as it made hunters and others curious on high quality knifes. Remembet this was before Internet so theese magasines was all we read and many things from them got enormous interest. He also wrote a Book about knifes and even though everything about american knifes and patterns didnt come out in the detail I now know about it was extraordinary at the time for me.
I still have all the catalogs from fallkniven and a book and a lot of artikles Dahlman wrote.
Theese twoo men is the ones I thank for my interest and somewhat knowledge in knifes.
For a teenager they provided the food that kept my interest alive. Sadly money at that time was not a pile to pick from. My parents was small farmers, so the money I made planting forest in the summer was the only income I could spend on myself. But once in a while I bought a new knife when the urge was too big, (and this is actually the way I still get my few new knifes).
Peter at fallkniven was a real kind man and I understand now later the tremendous patience he showed me as a teenager phoning him to talk about knifes for more than short times and sometimes bye something from him. The hour of pay was not high during those calls.
I got my all time favorits Puma prospector, gerber Folding sportsman 1 and Gerber LST, together with fixed blades as persson kniven, Roselli grandmothers touth and martiini 230. I bought a buck 307, a schrade LB 8 papa bear, A schrade 8OT schrimscraw, a puma backpacker I later swtched for a ficking rod and so on.
Most of them is gone as I in my middle 20-ties thought the interest for knifes was over and I only needed to keep about 10 fixed and 10 folders. The interest woke again but many of the knifes was given to friends and relatives. I sometimes see them used even today and that brings another kind of joy.
I can say no one in sweden has wrote about knifes the way Dahlman did and its a long time since he did, but I still miss them in the hunting press. But this forum proves that not all the good times was before, mabye the best times is now.
Bosse
Peter Hjortberger had a company that imported high quality knifes from different brands before he Developed Fallkniven. Actually the company was called Fallkniven even then, but the company name become the brand name after he developed his own line of knifes. I found an advertice in the hunting press about its existence in the early 1980-ties. My interest in those days was all about fixed blades and the only folder I owned was a EKA 38. I belive most knifes that was sold was fixedblades and he had forign knifes of different brands, knifes like the Schrade PH 1 and puma 4 star and the finest scandinavian knifes.. But he had a realy good selection of folders, bouth slipjoints and lockbacks, later he even had linerlocks and knifes with holes in the blades, go figure!
No one I know about here in sweden has before or after had a selection of different knifes as Peter and fallkniven did.
And in the press we had Anders L Dahlman, a realy talented writer about knifes making nummerous artikles about different knifes, sometimes a brand and sometimes just a special knife. This made wonders for the market as it made hunters and others curious on high quality knifes. Remembet this was before Internet so theese magasines was all we read and many things from them got enormous interest. He also wrote a Book about knifes and even though everything about american knifes and patterns didnt come out in the detail I now know about it was extraordinary at the time for me.
I still have all the catalogs from fallkniven and a book and a lot of artikles Dahlman wrote.
Theese twoo men is the ones I thank for my interest and somewhat knowledge in knifes.
For a teenager they provided the food that kept my interest alive. Sadly money at that time was not a pile to pick from. My parents was small farmers, so the money I made planting forest in the summer was the only income I could spend on myself. But once in a while I bought a new knife when the urge was too big, (and this is actually the way I still get my few new knifes).
Peter at fallkniven was a real kind man and I understand now later the tremendous patience he showed me as a teenager phoning him to talk about knifes for more than short times and sometimes bye something from him. The hour of pay was not high during those calls.
I got my all time favorits Puma prospector, gerber Folding sportsman 1 and Gerber LST, together with fixed blades as persson kniven, Roselli grandmothers touth and martiini 230. I bought a buck 307, a schrade LB 8 papa bear, A schrade 8OT schrimscraw, a puma backpacker I later swtched for a ficking rod and so on.
Most of them is gone as I in my middle 20-ties thought the interest for knifes was over and I only needed to keep about 10 fixed and 10 folders. The interest woke again but many of the knifes was given to friends and relatives. I sometimes see them used even today and that brings another kind of joy.
I can say no one in sweden has wrote about knifes the way Dahlman did and its a long time since he did, but I still miss them in the hunting press. But this forum proves that not all the good times was before, mabye the best times is now.
Bosse
