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Time to do a calendar I've got 12 BF forum knives

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eisman said:
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In my top five favorite forum knives and in my top ten as far as traditional folders I have.

Modoc ED said:
Imperial Easy Open Jack with bail and green bone 1932 - 1956 era

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Imperial made some beautiful knives with premium materials with some of the finest hand F&F of the time. So many folks pass up on a knife because the name Imperial is associated with it they never look at it.

I love them old Imperials and Colonials, pretty soon they’ll be the only affordable game in town to some of the younger folks new to the hobby or even folks who just don’t have the $$$$ to buy vintage or custom. That’s probably the majority of the members here.

We’re runnin’ outta USA made production pocket knife companies. I wonder if the same people who look down on Colonial would feel the same animosity if they knew that Colonial was one of the oldest continuously operating knife manufactures in the US?

How many of you folks on the porch old enough to remember watching the Rifleman remember carryin’ a Camp King or Forrest King Scout knife. We all remember what they looked like, cheap tinshell handles, blades rusted if you looked at ‘me funny but you know what? My fondest memories of carryin’ a knife were attached to a Camp King. I sharpened that main blade to a nub. I learned what a sharp knife was with that knife.

My grandfather was a cabinetmaker/carpenter and when he came out to visit us in the US back when I was about 8. He showed me how to sharpen, how to strop and it was him who gave me my first knife a German SAK clone from the 60s. It was him who put the first real sharp edge on a knife I owned, he showed me with a magnifin’ glass what a sharp edge looked like.

Here’s to grandfathers, dads, uncles and big brothers for showin’ us what a knife was for and how to care for it.
 
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