Hah. Funny, true, and sad. I live in Portland, have since 1970. I own a ton of flannel -- wool and cotton. All my Gerbers are pre- fiskars. Some of the hardest steel I own -- to include various CPM sourced knives. Gerber/Fiskars now makes tactical letter openers and flash in the pan gimmicks. So sad. Oddly enough, when Gerber was great is was owned by a marketing mavin -- then gets bought out by a cutlery giant and starts pissing in its shoes. Quite a few of the old Gerber employees now run other cutlery outfits in Portland, none that I can unstintingly admire. Once in a while they collectively release a good knife -- by my standards and entirely biased by sixty years of folders and fixed blades. Almost all of which I still own.
Along with Gerber, Portland is not the same either -- more about which I can not say because I will get flamed / cancelled. Although most of that ilk will never look at Bladeforums -- heh, heh, heh. It is true that you can walk around Portland with a Katana or whatever other blade you like or ride mass transit if it is clear that you are carrying openly. That has more to do with Oregon than it does Portland.
As an aside, let me say that I read here quite often as a lurker. The *consensus* of opinion is reliable in all ways that matter. I can not figure out how anyone has miserable things to say about Bladeforums. For what its worth I have free hand sharpened since 1968 and would not have it any other way.
