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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Attention Lurkers Yes , You there!!
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somebody say sompin' about beer?? 
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Speaking of nuts
Wouldn't miss this for the world
http://www.visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=8897&SiteID=1
Wouldn't miss this for the world
http://www.visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=8897&SiteID=1
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If it wasn't for all you nutjobs and lurkers, I would be here all by myself, with IG lying in ambush with a dog ****, waiting for me to log on.
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But you are so easy. Just like shooting a TREERAT out of a tree with a .17 Hornet.HEHEHE!!!John Andrews said:
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Dan: I always do that to you on your leg (P'g) and tell you it is rain and you always look up.Dan Gray said:knowing him
he'd be in a tree waiting to pee on you too he's like that you know
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NODan Gray said:I seem to remember a tent you got wet under mr ole fart
hey........ you going to make it to the show?
someone finally started a post where us lurkers can feel at home!!! =D
i'm relatively new and i've been reading lots.
keep an eye out for my next posts though cause i'm starting some kydex projects. (cant' let all that learning go to waste..so figured i'd aplly some of the stuff and do a project or two)
confession time is over...now i'll get back to my cubbyhole. >.<
i'm relatively new and i've been reading lots.
keep an eye out for my next posts though cause i'm starting some kydex projects. (cant' let all that learning go to waste..so figured i'd aplly some of the stuff and do a project or two)
confession time is over...now i'll get back to my cubbyhole. >.<
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At this household we eat, breathe, live knifemaking 365 days a year. I can look if I want to or I'm telling my mom. Hey Mr. Collucci!!! Got to love him 
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CaveladyOkay, I'm the only one here now... Where'd everybody go? LOL!!!
Hello folks,
Some of you know me from the Northwest Area (Hey Matt!!) and the local shows out this way. I'm a collector, but Nick W. "made" me pound out a small stick tang blade when I visited him one Saturday to pick a piece he was finishing for me... He says I should finish it and make my first knife! I laffed - I use it now to show people who aren't knifeknutts what all my forged collectibles look like before they become works of art!
It actually helps to get some of the more skeptical ones to appreciate what it is I am interested in.
And yes, I lurk here - not being a maker, but a collector/user, I find some of y'alls' verbal interchange to be illuminating - I've learned things simply by reading what y'all do, and reading the answers given so freely to people who may be total strangers, linked only by an affection for the Blade...
In advance, I just want to thank you folks for making my pursuit of knife collecting so enjoyable!
Hello folks,
Some of you know me from the Northwest Area (Hey Matt!!) and the local shows out this way. I'm a collector, but Nick W. "made" me pound out a small stick tang blade when I visited him one Saturday to pick a piece he was finishing for me... He says I should finish it and make my first knife! I laffed - I use it now to show people who aren't knifeknutts what all my forged collectibles look like before they become works of art!
It actually helps to get some of the more skeptical ones to appreciate what it is I am interested in.
And yes, I lurk here - not being a maker, but a collector/user, I find some of y'alls' verbal interchange to be illuminating - I've learned things simply by reading what y'all do, and reading the answers given so freely to people who may be total strangers, linked only by an affection for the Blade...
In advance, I just want to thank you folks for making my pursuit of knife collecting so enjoyable!
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linked only by an affection for the Blade...
I think it's a little more than that Joe. Knife makers and Gun Builders and nearly all people who create with their hands, are linked by a certain mindset and at least the desire for a certain lifestyle.
We may well be among the last truly free people in this country.
Look at this way. Many people see something and ask how much it is.
We look at the same thing and ask ourselves, how can I make that and How can I improve it.
Our toys are often the tools we need to make our toys. There's a lot of brotherhood within the unwashed masses!
I think it's a little more than that Joe. Knife makers and Gun Builders and nearly all people who create with their hands, are linked by a certain mindset and at least the desire for a certain lifestyle.
We may well be among the last truly free people in this country.
Look at this way. Many people see something and ask how much it is.
We look at the same thing and ask ourselves, how can I make that and How can I improve it.
Our toys are often the tools we need to make our toys. There's a lot of brotherhood within the unwashed masses!
Peter,
We've not met, but you are right - it is actually more than just an affinity for a specific tool - there is the "inherent" need to create something that I think lies at the heart of it... This is why I consider knifemakers to be more than "machinists" - I think of y'all as artists who simply work in a medium comprised of steel instead of oil or ceramic...
But since I'm not very good with my hands, or my words, what has attracted me the most to knife collecting is the artistry behind each handmade piece (heck, for that matter, the same can be said about a lot of the new production knives - there's just more of them! LOL!!)
And it's understanding the process that goes into this particular form of artistry that keeps me lurkin here, trying to understand what y'all put into the pieces of art the I find I love to collect...
Happy Hammerin'!
We've not met, but you are right - it is actually more than just an affinity for a specific tool - there is the "inherent" need to create something that I think lies at the heart of it... This is why I consider knifemakers to be more than "machinists" - I think of y'all as artists who simply work in a medium comprised of steel instead of oil or ceramic...
But since I'm not very good with my hands, or my words, what has attracted me the most to knife collecting is the artistry behind each handmade piece (heck, for that matter, the same can be said about a lot of the new production knives - there's just more of them! LOL!!)
And it's understanding the process that goes into this particular form of artistry that keeps me lurkin here, trying to understand what y'all put into the pieces of art the I find I love to collect...
Happy Hammerin'!