October 98 registered members! Please stand up!

I wonder what my total hours are for all the time I have spent on the computer talking about knives/guns/lights/gear. :) I bet it would add up to 8 years. :)


Jason
 
<waving arms around> HI EVERYBODY!

Wow, I stop by, out of the blue, to look something up, and find out it's old home week. I signed up here on Oct 18th, 1998, followed James Mattis (RIP :( -- he was sorta everybody's wise old uncle) and Joe Talmadge here from, oh, the Benchmade forum, recdotknives.com, or the old-skool rec.knives Usenet group. At the time it seemed like I was late to the party -- the forum had been opened for days and days before I got here (OT: still miffed my slasdot uid is in the 20k range, coulda been 3digit if I'd known it would matter). My last post (before this) was Feb 23rd, 2001 (wow, seven and a half years ago, really?); after that life got too busy to keep drinking from the firehose. I was always a voracious reader and rare poster (hence my low post count and continual references to "firehose"). My knife collecting tapered off a few years back, but I still have them all :)

Last knife I bought myself was a humble Spyderco Endura4, a month before my wedding (April 1st, 2006, yes, really), but, hey, my wonderful wife got me a Strider SnG this past Christmas (with no hinting -- I innocently sent her a url months before, saying "I'm not buying this, but isn't it pretty?") -- she's not a knife person, but she carries a red Leatherman Squirt S4 that I got her and she loves to cook, so we have a very well-equipped knife block in the kitchen: Wusthof Trident, Kyocera ceramic, and the Shun Ken Onion Chef's Knife (it was funny, she fell for this last one in the store, then said, "I love it, it feels so good to work with, but we already have nice knives, and it's almost $200 for one knife", and I said "Welcome to my world! :D").

The only knife I'm lusting over at this point is a Hinderer XM-18 (3.5", framelock, flipper, tumbled finish, green/black, green, blue/black, or blue G10, if anyone's making their Christmas list). I still really like Benchmade and Spyderco, but I could use an iPhone more than a 53rd pocketknife, at this point. Hmm, every once in a while it occurs to me I could sell off some of my knives, keep the ones that get carried/used often, buy an XM-18, and have money left over for an iPhone, etc... anyone want an original Krait?

Looking at Nemo's posts on this thread (oh, geez, now I'm going to have to read the whole thread, all umpteen pages), I still have my original Benchmades (CQC7, Tsunami, AFCK), and my Spyderco Military and Starmate, and Sebenza (a later purchase, a large Classic). Pre-9/11, I used to carry a small Sebenza (has since been gifted to a good friend) through airport security all the time, just dropped it in the bucket with my keys and pager, never got a second look.

I still don't own any assisted-opening knives, and I'm not really looking to. My axis locks open fast enough, thank you, and I feel like I have much more control over the opening process, and no chance of anyone claiming them to be automatics. Maybe this point of view is a bit too old school...

My all-time favorite knife posting is still this old rec.knives one about the RecDotKnives Commemorative Knife, though I still fondly remember the pics here on bladeforums of Spark in a pink Tutu (at a Shot Show, I think?)...

I think I'm the one (can't seem to check my own past posts) who, in the midst of the weeks-long uproar over whether Mad Dog's knives were really full-tang or not (this in the middle of a much longer running battle between Mad Dog fans and Busse fans), suggested that we had, A) a bunch of Mad Dog owners on the forum, and, B) a bunch of medical techs on the forum, and someone from group B ought to x-ray the knives of someone from group A.

Lately I've been hanging out a bit on edcforums; the scope is a little broader, the firehose a lot smaller. Wanna see what's in my pockets? :) But I see I'm going to have to start poking around back here on bladeforums more...
 
Spark said:
A quick search shows that of the people who registered in October of 1998, there's only 96 who are still "active" (have been online in the last 30 days):

Of course, there were only 248 people who registered that first month, so I guess that's not too bad for odds after 10 years.
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Sparky,

Thanks for pulling this data up. Couple of surprises there. I'd thought Will had completely gone over to the shotgun world but since he's still peaking in here I'm completely wrong :)

Nemo,

While I do admit to selling off my BFC Spydie Native (replaced it with a "root beer" inlaid model), I still have the Military Sal presented me with as the first poster to his then new Spydie Forum here. Couple of absolute classics from Golden, CO :)

--Bob
 
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Figured this thread peaked way too early given the "real" anniversary date of BFC. So in the hopes of perhaps snagging posts from a few more of those Spark has statistically identified as active, I'm "bumping" this to the top :)

-=[Bob]=- Not to be forgotten: James Mattis, Walt "Doc" Welch, Rob Simonich
 
Man, ten years just flew by! One of the ten-two guys!
 
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IIRC I was trying to find the current US distributor for Aitor knives on Yahoo and one of links brought me here.......(Thank you YAHOO)

I am still a sucker for recurved knives.


Lets liven things up. Does anyone have that x-ray of the Maddog knife?

n2s
 
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Wow - I came over from the original knifeforums (recdotknives.com before that, and usenet rec.knives before that) - It's been a long time. I mostly read, rarely post (as my post count would indicate) - there's just too much to absorb :)
 
Dear friends,

this thread makes me smile and touch my heart.
I salute your courage and I toast to your health
And I wish you all the luck in the whole wide world

Now lost in time, cut off from history
This is not knowledge, this is information !

Next stop: Oct 2018 !:rolleyes:

cheers
Nemo
 
Oct 04 1998

I was in college. I had a Buck Special Hunter, Spyderco Delica and had just gotten a benchmade Mini-Stryker.

It's amazing how many new steels have been cycled through popular knives in that time.
My original delica in AUS 8 is still my hard use knife though :)

Today, I don't have time right now to go through the list although it is a tiny collection compared to many here.

Yep I know I have a really low post count. It comes from years of listening rather than speaking and multiple transitions as I came and went. I don't think that I have ever gone more than a couple of weeks with out loging on however :cool:

Hopefully in ten more I'll have more and maybe be making a few myself.:thumbup:

I do miss JKM and Docs posts as well as Uncle Bill in the cantina. We lost a huge wealth of knife knowledge in them. I still have one of the first run of JKM specials from HI.
 
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I'm still alive as well, but I haven't really posted on this forum in the last few years. Joined this forum at 14 years old and grew up here. Then I ran away and joined the Army... been to some really strange places. I mostly collect tailored clothes now, but checked in here for old times sake.
 
Ahhh yes, I remember you Chang. Not into knives much anymore? What is tailored clothing?
 
Mostly tailored clothes like suits, made to measure shirts, traditionally welted construction dress shoes. It ended up being more costly than even knife collecting as a hobby so I gradually gave up the knives. Now all I have is an Opinel in my pocket and a Cold Steel SRK on my equipment.
 
Still a regular here...

1998: Microtech, Rinaldi, Reeves

2009: Stan Wilson, Boguszewski, Dobruski

-Michael
 
Chang!

I have missed you, still are using the knife you made.

I hope all is going well for you and yours.

Gus
 
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