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I am just on Chat right now and we were talking about how great knife bastids are. So, I was finally motivated to post this thread. Please post your awesome forumite/Bladeforums expereinces here so we can all see how great a COMMUNITY this is.
I live in a small city in Southern Alberta. A place that isn't very big on knives, there are no knive shows nearby, the library has one knife annual ('99), and so on. After telling people that I really need to find a place where I can talk to people about knives (the people I talked to about knvies areund here were imaginary, as you don't really talk about knives here), I found Bladeforums! I don't know how I found the forums, but I did, and I'm glad. In no particular order and this lost is by no means complete, I offer to you forumites my great experiences:
On the forums I have won a Bobby Branton pro thrower model #12 and a hat from SOG. I won the B. Branton thrower answering a contest question about how to best get the word out on knife throwing. As it turns out, I had never really thrown a knife and now I do on occasion, thanks to Bobby Branton. SOG had a great contest where we had to write poems/songs and the prize was a SOG SCUBA/DEMO knife, some $250 value. I came in second I think, and all participants got a SOG hat!
Richard has done some pic work for me with pics of 2 knives I made. Others, including Vampire Gerbil (Oh how I miss his leg humpings in Chat.... not that he ever humped my leg! Well, he did but I didn't enjoy it, HONEST!) helped me format pics and such. Phil is responsible for creating my awesome Avatar pic, combining a pic of my latest knife with a box of crayons! Get it? Crayola, crayons, colorful knife?
Other bastids have sent me free stuff. samhell sent me some g-10 and MadDog 2020 sent me a CRKT Neck Peck! Pretty darned cool. L6Steel spoiled me rotten. He gives away more stuff than Santa Claus, really. He has told me lots of knife making tips for one, but then he sent me a care package one day. It included some D2, some 15 or so knife patterns cut from thick plastic, a couple of sheaths, and 4 knives he ground out. 2 of them are fighters I have to finish cleaning up. He got them ready for me because I need to learn how to solder a guard. So, L6 Steel decided to make me some knives and prepare some guards. All I do is the clean-up work, solder, and put on handles. But that isn't all! Mike sent me a crap load of stencil stuff for my etcher, and he sent me a drum sanding kit! And he sent me a filing gizmo for filing square shoulders so that guards seat properly. Mike sent me 2 finished knives that have some cosmetic flaws and he sent me some brown and emerald green dymondwood to play with. There is more in the care package, but I must press on.
I won some Blackhawk gear from Javahead, well, his wife really. Javahead put up a pic of his SF team and said guess which one is me! I ended up guessing corectly (I though with a name liek Javahead he must be a nerd, and sure enough there was one guy in the crowd with Terminator glasses! Then again, he is a tough as nails bastid, so I should watch what I say!) So, Javahead and his wife sent me a keyring, a shavekit bag and a wallet. WOW! Was I ever happy. Still am.
GusK has lent me a couple of books that were awesome. I even had one for WAY longer than I should have, but Gus was patient with me. Thanks a bunch again Gus! Little Lethbridge doesn't have a lot in the way of books, so getting books leant to me, like the Hughes book and a book on Randalls was great. Lifter4Him also sent me a Thorpe book on Bowies and told me to keep it! Thanks Lifter. Phil sent me the old Jim Bowie movie "the Iron Mistress" to watch. I never would have seen that movie if it weren't for Phil. I sent Normark a sheath video I have to watch and he sent it back with a gold leaf pendant he made to gove to my girlfriend. That went over very well!
I have had the great fortune to talk to or get advice from some of the famous knife bastids here. Kit Carson, Darrel Ralph, Tim Herman, Ethan Becker, Paul Bos (ncie dude to talk to the phone on), Wayne Goddard, Trace Rinaldi, Jerry Hossom, Tom Mayo, Matt Lamey, Neil Blackwood, Phil Wilson, Chuck Bybee, Joe Talmadge, Bruce Evans, John at SOE Gear, and the list goes on. All of these guys you can e-mail just to chat about knife stuff and they are happy to respond, as they are knife nuts too.
Chuck Bybee e-mailed me out of the blue once and told me my knives are too good for dymondwood, so he cut me a great deal on some green g-10. I used the g-10 on my latest knife (see avatar) and after seeing a pic of the knife in progress he sent me a block of stabilized spalted maple burl! Louis (The Martial Way) is sending me some Plasti-dip and a knife from his collection to measure and such. We are working together on a knfie idea that looks to be a lot of fun.
I also must mention two other influences. Les and Carol Allen are some great folks that live near me. Les told me at a gun show one year that if I ever wanted to come to his shop, I could. the next year at the gun show I sayd, "remember me and your offer?" He did and we met once in town here and set up a time for me to go visit. We did a lot of knife making that day and I will never forget it. My first knife shop visit. I even got a farmer's breakfast! Wow, that ws a lot of bacon...
Secondly, I must thank Master Robert, known here as R. Dockrell. This guy e-mailed me (or did he call me?) one day and said that he's coming to my city for a few visites over the coming months and asked if I wanted to meet. We did and we've been chatting ever sense. He gives me a hard time a lot and slips in a tip now and again! Robert ordered me some belts even though I can't pay him back for a few weeks. And, I get to go visit him and his wife and play in his shop!
I also must thank the Chat bastids, with whom I've had hours of entertainment, shop tips, sex tips, travel tips, knife chats, and so on. And thanks to the zillion other members for posting questions, and answering mine. And thanks to Mike and Spark for creating Bladeforums, withouth which it is unlikely any of this would have come to be.
Now forumites, post your experiences here!
I live in a small city in Southern Alberta. A place that isn't very big on knives, there are no knive shows nearby, the library has one knife annual ('99), and so on. After telling people that I really need to find a place where I can talk to people about knives (the people I talked to about knvies areund here were imaginary, as you don't really talk about knives here), I found Bladeforums! I don't know how I found the forums, but I did, and I'm glad. In no particular order and this lost is by no means complete, I offer to you forumites my great experiences:
On the forums I have won a Bobby Branton pro thrower model #12 and a hat from SOG. I won the B. Branton thrower answering a contest question about how to best get the word out on knife throwing. As it turns out, I had never really thrown a knife and now I do on occasion, thanks to Bobby Branton. SOG had a great contest where we had to write poems/songs and the prize was a SOG SCUBA/DEMO knife, some $250 value. I came in second I think, and all participants got a SOG hat!
Richard has done some pic work for me with pics of 2 knives I made. Others, including Vampire Gerbil (Oh how I miss his leg humpings in Chat.... not that he ever humped my leg! Well, he did but I didn't enjoy it, HONEST!) helped me format pics and such. Phil is responsible for creating my awesome Avatar pic, combining a pic of my latest knife with a box of crayons! Get it? Crayola, crayons, colorful knife?
Other bastids have sent me free stuff. samhell sent me some g-10 and MadDog 2020 sent me a CRKT Neck Peck! Pretty darned cool. L6Steel spoiled me rotten. He gives away more stuff than Santa Claus, really. He has told me lots of knife making tips for one, but then he sent me a care package one day. It included some D2, some 15 or so knife patterns cut from thick plastic, a couple of sheaths, and 4 knives he ground out. 2 of them are fighters I have to finish cleaning up. He got them ready for me because I need to learn how to solder a guard. So, L6 Steel decided to make me some knives and prepare some guards. All I do is the clean-up work, solder, and put on handles. But that isn't all! Mike sent me a crap load of stencil stuff for my etcher, and he sent me a drum sanding kit! And he sent me a filing gizmo for filing square shoulders so that guards seat properly. Mike sent me 2 finished knives that have some cosmetic flaws and he sent me some brown and emerald green dymondwood to play with. There is more in the care package, but I must press on.
I won some Blackhawk gear from Javahead, well, his wife really. Javahead put up a pic of his SF team and said guess which one is me! I ended up guessing corectly (I though with a name liek Javahead he must be a nerd, and sure enough there was one guy in the crowd with Terminator glasses! Then again, he is a tough as nails bastid, so I should watch what I say!) So, Javahead and his wife sent me a keyring, a shavekit bag and a wallet. WOW! Was I ever happy. Still am.
GusK has lent me a couple of books that were awesome. I even had one for WAY longer than I should have, but Gus was patient with me. Thanks a bunch again Gus! Little Lethbridge doesn't have a lot in the way of books, so getting books leant to me, like the Hughes book and a book on Randalls was great. Lifter4Him also sent me a Thorpe book on Bowies and told me to keep it! Thanks Lifter. Phil sent me the old Jim Bowie movie "the Iron Mistress" to watch. I never would have seen that movie if it weren't for Phil. I sent Normark a sheath video I have to watch and he sent it back with a gold leaf pendant he made to gove to my girlfriend. That went over very well!
I have had the great fortune to talk to or get advice from some of the famous knife bastids here. Kit Carson, Darrel Ralph, Tim Herman, Ethan Becker, Paul Bos (ncie dude to talk to the phone on), Wayne Goddard, Trace Rinaldi, Jerry Hossom, Tom Mayo, Matt Lamey, Neil Blackwood, Phil Wilson, Chuck Bybee, Joe Talmadge, Bruce Evans, John at SOE Gear, and the list goes on. All of these guys you can e-mail just to chat about knife stuff and they are happy to respond, as they are knife nuts too.
Chuck Bybee e-mailed me out of the blue once and told me my knives are too good for dymondwood, so he cut me a great deal on some green g-10. I used the g-10 on my latest knife (see avatar) and after seeing a pic of the knife in progress he sent me a block of stabilized spalted maple burl! Louis (The Martial Way) is sending me some Plasti-dip and a knife from his collection to measure and such. We are working together on a knfie idea that looks to be a lot of fun.
I also must mention two other influences. Les and Carol Allen are some great folks that live near me. Les told me at a gun show one year that if I ever wanted to come to his shop, I could. the next year at the gun show I sayd, "remember me and your offer?" He did and we met once in town here and set up a time for me to go visit. We did a lot of knife making that day and I will never forget it. My first knife shop visit. I even got a farmer's breakfast! Wow, that ws a lot of bacon...
Secondly, I must thank Master Robert, known here as R. Dockrell. This guy e-mailed me (or did he call me?) one day and said that he's coming to my city for a few visites over the coming months and asked if I wanted to meet. We did and we've been chatting ever sense. He gives me a hard time a lot and slips in a tip now and again! Robert ordered me some belts even though I can't pay him back for a few weeks. And, I get to go visit him and his wife and play in his shop!
I also must thank the Chat bastids, with whom I've had hours of entertainment, shop tips, sex tips, travel tips, knife chats, and so on. And thanks to the zillion other members for posting questions, and answering mine. And thanks to Mike and Spark for creating Bladeforums, withouth which it is unlikely any of this would have come to be.
Now forumites, post your experiences here!
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Conspiring with Dexter to drive Bruno (Darrel's huge Doberman) bonkers with a few flashlights. 
