The single best development that I've seen in the forums over the last couple of years I've been kicking around here, is the increasing interest by makers to provide input into the forum, especially by way of dialogue, but in particular by way of posting pictures of their work.
I generally would have more in common with a knifemaker than I do with any collector I've met, read posts from or talked to, as I am a 'craftsman' myself, (okay, I make sick bicycles healthy, so it's a little different. But my hands are still cracked, callused, cut up and look like shit, so there's something in common).
I know that collectors are necessary, but without knives, they'd be collecting something else. Without collectors, most knifemakers would still be farting around with steel and edges.
Viva Knifemakers! Without you, where be the knives???
Let your freak flags fly and damn the MAN!
