A few months ago, I became interested (again) in Chris Reeve Knives and, lucky for me, stumbled into the CRK Archives here at Blade Forums.
Anyone new to the CRK world should really spend some time in the Archive. You can go back and wade through over six years of threads, acquiring, in the process, an excellent knowledge of major issues (sharpening, blade steel, inlays) and minor ones (why the extra hole, coloring titanium, clip tension).
After my time in the Archive, I came back to the surface world, dusted myself off, and reached the following conclusions:
1) before you begin a new thread, check the archives. The subject has almost certainly been covered before. You may want to cover it again, but if you read the archived threads first, you'll learn a lot.
2) the "real", present thread world moves v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. You can race around the archives and learn a great deal very quickly. New threads - and new threads that cover new information - seem to take forever to appear.
Anyone new to the CRK world should really spend some time in the Archive. You can go back and wade through over six years of threads, acquiring, in the process, an excellent knowledge of major issues (sharpening, blade steel, inlays) and minor ones (why the extra hole, coloring titanium, clip tension).
After my time in the Archive, I came back to the surface world, dusted myself off, and reached the following conclusions:
1) before you begin a new thread, check the archives. The subject has almost certainly been covered before. You may want to cover it again, but if you read the archived threads first, you'll learn a lot.
2) the "real", present thread world moves v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. You can race around the archives and learn a great deal very quickly. New threads - and new threads that cover new information - seem to take forever to appear.
