A Forum would be good, but in order to do it right, there would need to be an archivist. That person could also be the moderator, but their responsibilities would have to include archive maintenance.
That person would find resources, and scan them in to storage to be retrieved by all.
I have an archive of sorts, in my quest to learn as much about knives as possible, I have about two milk crates worth of photocopies of various shapes and etcetera.
Indigenous patterns, ethnic patterns, classic patterns(development and evolution of patterns like the dropped hunter and Kamp Bowie, originally by Moran I think then it saw production by BlackJack, amd now Mineral Mountain Hatrchet Works makes one). We could also include axes and other bladed implements. American Patterns, Work patterns, we could even include the classic lines, like Scagel imagery, Chappel imagery, Loveless imagery. Randall imagery.
To work right we would have to get a fund together to buy old knife magazines and such to do more research.....
Sounds like fun, hope that person like research....
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