Make a friend thread :)

Good idea Mike. My name is David I'm 35 and I'm originally from Hyde Park N.Y., hey Tombstone I'm from your neck of the woods! Thanks to the U.S.A.F I have traveled to Albuquerque N.M. and met my wife here. I am going to school right now. Outside of my wife I love my Harley Davidson, enjoy shooting pool and of course knives.
 
My name is Kevin Robinson age 33, and I live in Grand Prairie TX,Married with 3 kids all boys 13-10-2.I work for the largest aftermarket powersports distributor in the world as a Facility Development Manager.
I have been a knife enthusiast for 23 yrs but collecting seriously for 2 1/2.
I enjoy-faimly time-fishing-hunting-bicycleing-hiking-camping-knife collecting-and trying to keep up with all of the info on BF.

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Well if I could get to a knife show I might be able to link up with the rest of the NC Knife Knuts and introduce myself. I think I'm a member, but I've only met Dexter.(And he might not remember me.) I live in Fayetteville, NC and you would think with Ft. Bragg here we would have 10,000 knife nuts in Fayetteville, but I guess not too many Army people are "into" knives. Any ways...I read, work(Mastercare Firestone), go to church, raise my son, try to be a good husband(11 years now), and mow the grass now and then. Other then that I'm pretty boring.
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One of these days I will get to a knife show and hang with the rest of the NC Knife knuts. Untill that time I'll be hanging out here at Bladeforums.


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Great idea, Mike. Hello all, my name is Richard. Live in Proctor, MN., which is right next to Duluth, MN., which is right at the tip of Lake Superior. With this much water around, it's hard not to be an avid fisherman. Spend an awful lot of my free time listening to live blues music at the clubs in our area. I have 2 kids- 27 and 7, 2 stepkids- 16 and 14, and 3 grandkids. Love it here at BF because most people I know won't spend more than $20-30 on a knife. I'm glad to see some forumites from MN. and if they are ever in the area, let me know and we could get together for some brews, blues, and blades.
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OK -

I'm 39, married with three lovely boys 6,2 1/2 and 1 1/2 - and consequently not much free time. I live in Los Angeles, and work as a marketing consultant and TV producer. I teach businesses how to increase their sales way past their expectations.

We love to camp (spending a week in yosemite next week), and when the boys get older I'll be taking 'em away from the campgrounds and back into the woods. I practice Aikido, read voraciously anything I can get my hands on, and run my business from the house so I can spend more time with the family.
 
I'm another member of the 33 year old club.
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I'm married, have a daughter (7) and a son (0). One of my hobbies related to my occupation is the art of software engineering. For uninitiated, this means that I am a computer geek.

Since life at a computer lacks spice which I also need, I enyoy extreme sports, earlier - climbing, rigth now white water rafting. I've been close to meeting my Maker, as I tend to run stretches that hurt people.
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BEER IS A MUST.
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Anything containing "light" in the name I don't consider beer. Pretty much it has to be imported european beer or the beer that I make.

Love jazz and blues!

Is it worthy to mention here that I like stuff that cuts?
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Kris
 
Mornin' All! Name is just like it says over there on the side, Andy. I've been married for 8 years, no kids unless you count the two cats that are floating around. I enjoy racing of all kinds (bicycle,car,motorcycle,etc.),read all kinds of stuff but have a preference for hard s-f. I collect cookbooks,along with knives (I have more kitchen pieces than anything else!) By the way I am 35 and the first time I ever got on the computer and went net surfing is the day I signed up here!
 
Always looking for a friend. The ones I have met in the knife making business have just about been all good. I'm a welding teacher at the present moment (last 15 years), did about 20 years of construction and shop work as a welder and fabricator. I'm 55, divorced, single parent (have two sons left at home), and been making knives as a hobby since 89'. Four years till retirement from teaching and full time knife making. Will know if I am a Journeyman Smith Friday morning.
My hobbies are knife making, hunting, fishing, and cooking what I cleaned.

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Ray Kirk
http://www.tah-usa.net/raker
 
My turn!
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I'm 27 and single. Working as a graphic designer/ Art director for the pass 4 years. Love mechanical stuffs(wonders of human kind...)like knives, guns, cars, MTB, watches.....

Knives have been a part of my life ever
since when i was 13 and bought myself a Taiwan made folder(with every single penny in my piggy bank) with a black coated blade! It caught my facination and the rest is history!

Other than knives, I like Astrology and ancient myths from all over the world too!

I think i would qualify as the first Malaysian to answer this thread to welcome anyone who wishes to visit Malaysia!
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Power to Knifenuts, Bf and Mike!
ERIC WONG.



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Well alright. Here it goes. This is a good thread..... Lots of fine people out there for us to meet. A fine gentleman that I've met through the forums lives outwater in Maui. I bought a really nice blade from Thomas and we've been chatting ever since, sometimes about knives ! I also really enjoy talking to Audra, Bart, Dan, Phil, Scott,and Sniper. I like talking to anyone (As long as it's not instant messaging, cuz I type slower than a slug)
45 minutes spent. Gotta go.
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AL
 
I am 36 and have a small monkey called Bob living inside my head who tells me what to do
 
Hey there! I'm Kris. 24 and currently living in Nashville, TN. I spent most of my childhood overseas with my parents until they decided to retire to TN. Let me see, Hobbies... Knives, guns, reading anything I can get my hands on, and looking at bladeforums.
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Kris

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Almost 33, still single (4yrs with girlfriend who slowly turned into knife person as well
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Work as a APS/SCM software consultant.

Live in north-east part of Czech Republic in Beskydy Mountains.

Like to travel a lot, take pictures, knives of course and everything connected to telecommunications.

Been enjoying this forum for one year now... I wish Mike and Spark GOOD LUCK!!!

Please visit my Photopoint page and our region *
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David

*) You can carry your autos here
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Mikov Knives

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Good idea.

Bart Weijs, student psychology,
4 years knife nut-collector, now a hobby maker. Member of the Belgian knife-nuts society (BKS).
Hey, I know someone from the Czech republic.
Ottokar Pok. Nice guy. Also a member of the BKS. Is their anyone on this forum from Belgium I haven't met yet?

See ya folks.

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James, 20 years old.

I work as a Computer games tester in London, England and my main interests are movies and of course, knives.

Been collecting for a year now but since I was 11 I used to pickup any blades that caught my eye. It was when I found this place that I found out what I've been missing.

See you at Blade

JD
 
Howdy!
Mike, since you're the BOSS (also known as HMFIC), I'll refrain from scolding you for posting non-knife stuff at this here forum.
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As for me.... boy howdy, where do I start?

I was born in Philadelphia on July 21, 1960. Yes, you mathametical nuts, I am enjoying the last full month of not being in my 40's
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Anyways, after living in Philly for 5 and a half months, I decided that it was time for me to pack my blankie and move on.
I wound up being adopted and taken to Yonkers, NY where I unsucessfully tried to start up a "Toys For Tots" program, with yours truly being the "tot"....
::::fast forward for the benefit of sane people:::::
.....and that led to 1984, which I sincerely hoped would bring the Orwellian prophecy of a guy in a mustache staring at me from TV Monitors all over the place.
Alas, this was not to be. Big Brother turned out to be a total sissy-la-la and never showed his face.
So I started up a print shop, got fairly successfull at it (no doubt due to my superior spellink) and sold the place in April of 1998. I was also a volunteer firefighter, president of the depatment for 4 years and a volunteer on the town's first aid squad for 4 years, 3 of which I was 2nd Lt.
I hear you ask, "Any interesting calls, Mr. Gerbil?"
First of all, please call me VG. We're all friends here... and yes, there's one call that sticks in my mind.
We had a call for an unconscious 19 year old female, and I responded from my home. I sauntered my way into the house and was directed to said patient's room.
Here I discovered a very attractive lady that was very naked. I asked the parents what they thought the problem was and they responded by telling me that she had experimented with drugs in the past, and this may be the cause of her condition .... the unresponsiveness, not the nakeditity....and to please stop drooling on the new carpet. She was basically sleeping, so I gently nudged her shoulders while saying her name.
Her beautiful blue eyes opened, locked onto mine... and then she punched me square in the mouth. Not to be deterred by just another punch in the mouth, I said to her, "There there, whateveryournameis. There's no need to hit me"...okay, maybe I started crying like a schoolgirl, but whatever it was, next thing I knew she'd wrapped her arms around me and started hugging me like I was some kinda huge teddy bear from hell.
The police arrive, seeing me (not your average looking kindas fella in the first place... see links below) being hugged by a beautiful naked woman.
One smartbutt said, "It figures"
I don't know what he meant by that.
Anyways, turned out she'd eaten some mushrooms that are never featured on The Food Network.
(Golly, how I do go off on a tangeant, don't I)

Back to me.
I wound up marrying the love of my life, whom I'd met on the computer. We were married 2 years to the day of first meeting online and in February, 99, I adopted her 2 daughters. Having no real good reason to stay in NJ (Yes, I wound up in NJ in 1968. I said that during the fast forward) so since my parents decided to move to Las Vegas, and my wife's family lives in California, I started searching for a town in Nevada which to move to.... into... at.
:ahem:
So I used the computer thingie to find a place in Nevada, since I wanted to live in a state that has easy gun laws, but didn't want to live in Las Vegas, where people live on top of one another.
I found the sleepy little town of Pahrump, Nevada, most known for the Chicken Ranch Brothel.
Unfortunately, while I'm able to possess the firearms that I'd legally purchased in NJ (but were outlawed by the Evil Overrlord, jim florio) I am not allowed to own automatic knives.
Note to anyone looking at the pictures of "My Room!!" at the Photoshop links... those auto knives in the display case are figments of my imagination and leftover dreams.

Now I plan on going back to school once my wife gets finished with her recovery from an upcoming surgery. The sale of my business is providing us with money for food, mortgage payments, clothing, and ammunition, as well as the occasional gun/knife/machinegun.
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I've never met anyone from this forum, but would be happy to do so, if they aren't too weirded out by me.
Again, I refer to the Photopoint Albums.

"Golly, Mister Gerbil, please tell us your turnons!!"
Didn't I tell you to drop the "Mister Gerbil" thing?
Okay...
Turnons:
Basically anything that Chuckie Schumer, Stinkypants Feinstein and INeverHadSexWithThatWomanSeeHowMyLipsMoveWhenILie Billy wants to outlaw, is something that really floats my cork.
"But Mister.... I mean, VG, what are your REAL turnons?"
Ya know what, go back to calling me Mister Gerbil, ok?
"But you said...."
NEVER MIND WHAT I SAID!!
And my turnons are not appropriate for even THIS off-subject post.
(Not to mention the readers would think I was a bit odd)
So, in a nutcase... errr... nutshell, there's a little bit about me.
Anyone wanna come over and play?
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Subitting this thread to that Biography show,
I remain,
VG


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Vampire Gerbil: Nosferatus Rodentus Moderatus; similar to a domestic gerbil, except for the odd accent and little black cape.
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Odd Pictures at Photopoint
An assortment of pictures I decided to share with anyone that was so bored they wanted to check out my antics. I did this to prove that I am indeed sane. Be advised that there's hardly any nudity. Feel free to sign the Guestbook!!
Manifesto of Madness
I wrote most of that at work after drinking massive amounts of coffee. I needed to look busy and that dribbled out of my head. There's also a whole bunch of Optical Illusions.
The Deadly and Scary Leatherman Micra Website.
Be warned that the tactics used at that last site are not for the faint of heart!
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Any comments, suggestions, Presidential campaign contributions (cash only) or threats may be sent to:
vampiregerbil@aol.com

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Hello everyone! My name is John Rollins, I'm 19(not for long... birthday coming up), and I'm a nerd. Yep, I saw he nerd stereotype, and I fit all of them. Computers, ham radio, and Star Trek.
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My ham radio callsign is KD7BCY, and besides just chatting with everyone, I'm really into the public service side of the hobby. Here in Portland, the Portland Amateur Radio Club has an agreement with the city to provide backup communications in an emergency(earthquake, flood, end of the world, 800MHz trunk failure...). Lots of fun! I spend three hours at a fire station for y2k just so I could lug a radio and a huge car battery back home with me! Ugh. But I'm hooked. I'm taking EMT classes at Portland Community College, and considering a possible career as either a firefighter or police officer. Or the third choice of continuing to be a nerd and being an electronic engineer.
Kinda funny, two of the things I like I don't have any of. OK, not quite not have ANY, but close enough. Guns and knives. My dad won a .22 Remington that sits in a closet all the time, and on the knife side all I have is a Gerber multi-tool and my Victorinox Tinker, which was to replace a very similair model that had a nice saw in it. Well now all the Swiss Army Knives have CORKSCREWS!?!?!?!? instead of a phillips screwdriver! What were they thinking??? That was probably the single most used item on that old knife. Well, I got fed up with one side of the handle missing and the blads all chipped and the tips broken off so I got a new one. But I had to pay for it! I got the first one for free, I found it laying on the ground at the end of a cub scout camp with the tips already broken off. Oh well, it lasted a long time and it already looked pretty old when I found it!
Enough of the small knives! Time to upgrade! I have a Spyderco Delica on the way, and there'll be more soon after that... Hey! I can carry an auto here in Oregon! Wahoo!
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Back to the nerd stuff. I usually end up with broken radios, but most of the computers still work. At least the ones I haven't taken apart yet... I love old computers! Two C64's, a TI-99, an IBM Series/1(old mini- commonly used to control ATM machines!) and a PDP-11/84 to name a few. And of course plenty of boring old PC's and a big pile of old UNIX workstations from Apollo. But all that stuff is up on my web page at http://jrollins.tripod.com.

I'm getting tired of the strange noises coming out of my computer when I use Internet Explorer, so I'm going to go finish downloading Netscape. Talk to you all later!
 
Chris Carlson, 33 I live in a small town just outside Austin, TX. I enjoy alot of different aspects of knives and knife collecting. One thing that I really enjoyed last year and am enjoying again this year is putting on the Central Texas Knife Show. If any of you guys can make it to the show on August 4,5,6 I dont think you will be dissapointed. We have some great makers and dealers from around the world coming. If you want more info check out my site or drop me an email.

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