Campbellclanman
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Hi everyone
Well we are home -the middle of Winter, its cold,Grey,Bleak, and work looms just around the corner, its always hard coming back to reality - especially after such an amazing Holiday, seeing some of the most outstanding sights, amazing Wildlife and meeting some beautiful people - it really doesn't get better.
Starting off in Vancouver, there for 3 days, but it was just a fantastic 3 days, finally we got to meet Charlie and Joanne, Charlie and I have communicated for a few years now, I always look forward to my chat with my Waynorth friend, well I got to see my friend finally and we spent a great day out.
It was a great day, the "Waynorths" treated us to such a great day, a great dinner and a good long chat - that simply IMO could never have been long enough.Its was lovely to have seen Charlie and Joanne's Home-to be invited in-just wonderful.
At times there was even the odd talk of knives
, I'm such a novice in the knife world, when you actually sit down and handle a knife of Charlies OR of any other knife person -I feel privileged and also on the same hand I feel a wee bit of pressure as the knife isnt mine,well you can imagine the feeling when a Ruple was bought out and Charlie told me a bit about it, now by this stage it was getting a wee bit late and I was pretty self conscious of the time... when I got back to the Hotel I realised when looking through the photo's that I didnt even take a photo of the knife with the blade out - Now REALLY!!!
Charlie, I hope that you will come in and help fill the gaps on what I leave out about the knife.
The precision of putting such skill to an piece was a test for Bill apparently, the face of the Spine - which was such the focus of the photos, is round - like a rope,now imagine this folks - having an circular shaped Spine as a Major feature on an already OUTSTANDING knife - and then completely file-working this Spine in the most beautiful way MATCHES ABSOLUTELY when the knife is opened to meet the work seen on the spine of the Blade.
Here are a few shots to let you see just how amazing Custom knife making can be......( also check out Charlies First Nation piece of old history that he has shown before-it's quite beautiful ) - is that correct Charlie?
After spending a great time with both Charlie and Joanne - it had to end, I was quite saddened saying goodbye, very happy to have finally met in person - but very sad to say goodbye....Both Charlie and Joanne are lovely people, I wish the World had a lot more folk like them, I feel my time with Charlie and Joanne was far too short, and left Vancouver with a slightly heavy heart.
Sue and I jumped in a car and took off to the Rockies - we saw the most stunning scenery imaginable, the road to Banff and Jasper and Whistler was a road of adventure - a planned drive of 5 hours a day took us nearly twice that as we stopped so often for scenery, wildlife - Oh it was just stunning...
After spending a week in the Rockies we jumped on an Alaskan Cruise for 7 days and that was simply outstanding - again the Wildlife, the scenery, at times the solitude, the land sharing with us it's breath-taking sights of the land, the Sea, Glaciers, Bears, Moose, Eagles, Whales....I could just keep going...
And we did....
To again a very good friend of whom we have shared conversations over the years many times - but yet to met - we did this by flying to North Dakota to meet Mr Paul Hilborn and his lovely wife Nanc.
We got to stay with Paul and Nanc for a few days, now this is what I mean about beautiful people....Charlie - his lovely Lady Joanne, and now Paul and his lovely lady Nanc..These very kind people made Sue and I so so welcome...
Paul and Nanc could not have done more , just amazing, we got to spend some great time together, Paul and I sat up quite late one night as I was treated to such a privilege of Paul showing me some of his knives, not only this, we got to meet Paul and Nanc's boys, friends and see their beautiful amazing Countryside - What a lovely lovely Town Valley City is, full of quaint houses, fantastic friendly people - I could shift there tomorrow.
We also visited the Hilborns awesome shop- Paul and Nanc own a Furniture shop - and it was o great to visit the shop -and what a shop!!! well done to the both of you guys- your shop really is something else.
Paul is my overseas postal box, most times i get people to send any knife that I buy to Pauls so they can mount up - and then Paul sends them to me - Thank you Paul my friend for looking after me so well with this!
So I picked up a stash of knives I had accumulated at Pauls home as well, so Paul and I had a wee look so when we had to say our goodbyes - once again we dragged our feet away from our friends and moved on.....
Well, with quite a few knives a few fixed blades etc stashed away in the suitcase- it was going to be interesting how I was to get on with these items in my luggage - we have all experienced and heard of horror stories of precious knives being taken from us - well when Sue and I got to the Hotel in San Francisco - I noticed my suitcase ( which was still padlocked ) had been opened by Customs and they went through all the knives to check them out, They left me a declaration of what they had done - and that they had confiscated nothing - and replaced all items - WHEW!!!
:thumbup:
I used that same declaration and it was displayed on top of the suitcase( inside - so if Custom elsewhere would go in - they would see that things had already been checked - and passed!)
Heres what they looked through........
A Matching numbers set of Schrade Scrimshaws, both the Sharpfinger and Folding hunter are numbered 08249 - and boxed separately
Schrade LB7 with the different Shield - a Vietnam Memorial set - the Box is actually very solid, hinged and well made.
Well we are home -the middle of Winter, its cold,Grey,Bleak, and work looms just around the corner, its always hard coming back to reality - especially after such an amazing Holiday, seeing some of the most outstanding sights, amazing Wildlife and meeting some beautiful people - it really doesn't get better.
Starting off in Vancouver, there for 3 days, but it was just a fantastic 3 days, finally we got to meet Charlie and Joanne, Charlie and I have communicated for a few years now, I always look forward to my chat with my Waynorth friend, well I got to see my friend finally and we spent a great day out.
It was a great day, the "Waynorths" treated us to such a great day, a great dinner and a good long chat - that simply IMO could never have been long enough.Its was lovely to have seen Charlie and Joanne's Home-to be invited in-just wonderful.
At times there was even the odd talk of knives
, I'm such a novice in the knife world, when you actually sit down and handle a knife of Charlies OR of any other knife person -I feel privileged and also on the same hand I feel a wee bit of pressure as the knife isnt mine,well you can imagine the feeling when a Ruple was bought out and Charlie told me a bit about it, now by this stage it was getting a wee bit late and I was pretty self conscious of the time... when I got back to the Hotel I realised when looking through the photo's that I didnt even take a photo of the knife with the blade out - Now REALLY!!!Charlie, I hope that you will come in and help fill the gaps on what I leave out about the knife.
The precision of putting such skill to an piece was a test for Bill apparently, the face of the Spine - which was such the focus of the photos, is round - like a rope,now imagine this folks - having an circular shaped Spine as a Major feature on an already OUTSTANDING knife - and then completely file-working this Spine in the most beautiful way MATCHES ABSOLUTELY when the knife is opened to meet the work seen on the spine of the Blade.
Here are a few shots to let you see just how amazing Custom knife making can be......( also check out Charlies First Nation piece of old history that he has shown before-it's quite beautiful ) - is that correct Charlie?
After spending a great time with both Charlie and Joanne - it had to end, I was quite saddened saying goodbye, very happy to have finally met in person - but very sad to say goodbye....Both Charlie and Joanne are lovely people, I wish the World had a lot more folk like them, I feel my time with Charlie and Joanne was far too short, and left Vancouver with a slightly heavy heart.
Sue and I jumped in a car and took off to the Rockies - we saw the most stunning scenery imaginable, the road to Banff and Jasper and Whistler was a road of adventure - a planned drive of 5 hours a day took us nearly twice that as we stopped so often for scenery, wildlife - Oh it was just stunning...
After spending a week in the Rockies we jumped on an Alaskan Cruise for 7 days and that was simply outstanding - again the Wildlife, the scenery, at times the solitude, the land sharing with us it's breath-taking sights of the land, the Sea, Glaciers, Bears, Moose, Eagles, Whales....I could just keep going...
And we did....
To again a very good friend of whom we have shared conversations over the years many times - but yet to met - we did this by flying to North Dakota to meet Mr Paul Hilborn and his lovely wife Nanc.
We got to stay with Paul and Nanc for a few days, now this is what I mean about beautiful people....Charlie - his lovely Lady Joanne, and now Paul and his lovely lady Nanc..These very kind people made Sue and I so so welcome...
Paul and Nanc could not have done more , just amazing, we got to spend some great time together, Paul and I sat up quite late one night as I was treated to such a privilege of Paul showing me some of his knives, not only this, we got to meet Paul and Nanc's boys, friends and see their beautiful amazing Countryside - What a lovely lovely Town Valley City is, full of quaint houses, fantastic friendly people - I could shift there tomorrow.
We also visited the Hilborns awesome shop- Paul and Nanc own a Furniture shop - and it was o great to visit the shop -and what a shop!!! well done to the both of you guys- your shop really is something else.
Paul is my overseas postal box, most times i get people to send any knife that I buy to Pauls so they can mount up - and then Paul sends them to me - Thank you Paul my friend for looking after me so well with this!
So I picked up a stash of knives I had accumulated at Pauls home as well, so Paul and I had a wee look so when we had to say our goodbyes - once again we dragged our feet away from our friends and moved on.....
Well, with quite a few knives a few fixed blades etc stashed away in the suitcase- it was going to be interesting how I was to get on with these items in my luggage - we have all experienced and heard of horror stories of precious knives being taken from us - well when Sue and I got to the Hotel in San Francisco - I noticed my suitcase ( which was still padlocked ) had been opened by Customs and they went through all the knives to check them out, They left me a declaration of what they had done - and that they had confiscated nothing - and replaced all items - WHEW!!!
:thumbup:I used that same declaration and it was displayed on top of the suitcase( inside - so if Custom elsewhere would go in - they would see that things had already been checked - and passed!)
Heres what they looked through........
A Matching numbers set of Schrade Scrimshaws, both the Sharpfinger and Folding hunter are numbered 08249 - and boxed separately
Schrade LB7 with the different Shield - a Vietnam Memorial set - the Box is actually very solid, hinged and well made.
