Who are You?

I signed up as Nabok long before I had ideas of making knives. I don't know if it's that big a deal for those of us just starting as opposed to you old timers who were already well known and established before the internet took off. Neil Blackwood/Dr.Lathe is an interesting case as is Blinker who are making their bones on the net. I don't remember if they posted here but on Usenet and mailing lists the late Bob Engnath was simply "grind" and Mel Sorg was as far as I recall always Mad Poet. That said its probably a good idea to at least sign with your real name, and maybe my new avatar/logo will "build my brand identy".
;)

Todd Brandel
Wolverine Forge

PS Anybody need a logo, sign or banner I have a fast and reasonably priced artist I"ll gladly recommend.
 
I've "been online" for a relatively long time - since 1996. Believe it or not even by then my actual name, "Dave Larsen," was already 'taken,' virtually everywhere I tried to register a user ID.

And you may remember that at that time hardly anyone online used their real name; they always used a nickname. When I first called Earthlink and they asked what my email address would be, they honestly didn't get it when I used my real name. The guy actually asked me to repeat it a couple of times to make sure I wanted to use my real name as my email address! True story. So that's where, I think, a lot of the nics come from. It was an early cultural affectation.

So when using my real name for user IDs wasn't working I opted for the one from my military service: "D Dave." I've used ddavelarsen (spaces weren't allowed and underscores are ugly) as my username virtually everywhere for most of a decade, so I figure it's as good as using my real name. Even so, I usually use both in any initial correspondence. ;)

Bruce this is a good thread and I'm enjoying the response it's getting. I do try to learn people's real names, at least those whose posts I'm interested in following, and I suspect others do too. But it'll sure be easier when the web becomes more like our normal happy everyday commercial environment...even if it's not as unique as it was.

D Dave "The Trendsetter" Larsen
 
I've been using Belstain online for 8 years now because when I first tried to get an email address my real name was already taken. When I first discovered this forum I had no intention of ever making knives or even wanting anyone to know my real name. I have been thinking of changing to my real name for about a year now I just haven't gotten around to it:D

Oh yeah and my real name is Jason Magruder.
 
Hi Bruce I'm Steve from Lexington Ky. The screen name is due to a wooden leg.I'm going to the Blade show in Atlanta the June and hope to meet as many as you guys as i can. Happy new year Everyone:D
 
Im really pleased with the responce to this thread. I feel like Im meeting my friends for the first time. Thanks guys, Keep em coming.

Peter Nap is really Don Lytton? Who the heck is Don Lytton? Now Im really screwed up!:eek:

Steve, Welcome to the family
 
Originally posted by Bruce Bump

Peter Nap is really Don Lytton? Who the heck is Don Lytton? Now Im really screwed up!:eek:
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Peter Pan??:confused: hahahaha
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Don?? really:confused:
 
I lurked here for some time before i actually posted, and after seeing how helpfull and just plain nice everybody seemed i thought why not just use my real name, plus i thought it would be better to be a "real person" when asking for advice and tips. although, i mark my blades with "Iron Bear" and a pawprint.
 
Aha...! I found it...

This is the famed "Bruce Bump" thread that has username changes backlogging the service area...:rolleyes:



Why did I choose my nic? It sure wasn't so that folks would remember how to spell it right..!?! Penative, penentive, pendative, pentive...in fact, nearly everybody on the Himalayan Imports calls me "Pen" (for short) even though half the time I sign my name "Dan" at the bottom.

Now, I'm pretty sure Bruce knows who I am...:D but for the rest of y'all, I guess I can go ahead and add yet another line to my famously annoying sig. line with my name in it...


Oh yeah, and this is a Pendentive:

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(it's also that silly spinning thing in my sig. line)


...which has nothing to do with knives...! :(


I own a design business - I do graphic design/animation, web design, architecture, and now knifemaking (does 2-3 per month count?):) The name is "The Pendentive" - something I came up with in architecture school that has stuck with me (for reasons beyond this thread). Frankly, I don't know if I can give it up. If you do a search on bfc for "pen*tive" it brings up 517 threads...I've branded myself into a corner...

Believe me, I have wanted to change it to just my name...



I agree 100% with "name-branding" (official marketing term for what Bruce is talking about) and that is very important in the knifemaking world.

But I also think there's room for guys like "Little Hen" and "Rhino knives" and so on. That's name-branding too, just not the person's real name.


This "Peter Nap" thing, though...

:eek:

:p :p
 
Screen name? Ripper really is my given name (one little mistake and they never let you forget!).
The guy on my left has trouble remembering his name sometimes (inebriating beverages and dead brain cells) so I have to do the posting here for him. His name is Greg Brannon and we are most pleased to meet you all. A great New Year to everyone!
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Regards,
Ripper
 
Great thread, Bruce! On a forum such as this, its always been one of my own desires to see more names out there as well. On other forums - for other topics, non-knife-related, you'd be in a world of hurt if you let anyone know who you really were. Since we are all so cordial to each other here, its rather like having our own community of frinds and kin.

If I may make a suggestion to everyone here? Don't hassle Spark all at once for a handle change. Why not just make your sig tell your name? Would be a lot easier that way for everyone, I suppose.
 
I think at this point it would be easier to legally change my name to Lifter. On the phone with people from the forums they never respond to who I am till I say Lifter, then I get the nice hello.
 
Dave that is the truth! When someone was showing me a sheath the other day they didn't say it was made by Dave Abramson, they said it was a "Lifter" sheath. :D

Dave
 
Originally posted by Ripper
Screen name? Ripper really is my given name (one little mistake and they never let you forget!).
The guy on my left has trouble remembering his name sometimes (inebriating beverages and dead brain cells) so I have to do the posting here for him. His name is Greg Brannon and we are most pleased to meet you all. A great New Year to everyone!
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Regards,
Ripper
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it's a dog eat dog world Ripper Hi Greg :D

OK I'll come clean
it's mostly Dan at Gray Knives Now for me.
a few of you know I have a small engine
biz which I've run for about 16 years and mostly backed out of now
and that would be D G Gray & sons
it stands for Daniel George Gray and Boys
( which they don't have any interest in)
now making Knives 90%+ 0f the time stemming
from making knives now for 30 years which of which was
mostly auto related, small engine, and tool and die making,
because of the place I choose to live,
knife making took mostly a back seat to razing a family,
now for the last 7-8 years I've been pushing my
Knife making, I call it my retirement work fun thing,

Most friends call me Dan and that's the name I like
family and very close friends mostly call me Danny (at 49 I still like Dan)
The wife of 26 years, when she's mad,,, it's Daniel real loud
and AKA DaD by the boys. so it's still a mystery who I really am..:D
ask IG about other names he calls me :( hahaha

not grey **** Kit:D hahaha,, I have to say when I met Kit at the blade show it was like
he was my next door buddy for years right after one hand shake, nothing in the world compares to that,
call it personal magnetism or charisma but he has it...
I'm not sure what some of you guys thought of me once we met but you guys are great
and the Bruces and Donna yes I even got my picture taken with Donna at the last Blade..
eat your heart out guys
this is a great place and more because unlike other forums a lot of
us have met and are good friends because of it..a very special place I think.
I'd say just sign you're name at the end
after at this is a real fantasy world in many ways we live in
have a great new year Guys and Gals.
 
Great looking family there Ripper, can you hear well with that ear flopped up? :D

That's actually a good idea, why not include some photos in here too?
 
Bruce,
BFC was the second internet board I ever signed onto. The first was URC (umpire.org now in it's second incarnation) I was BadBamaUmp on there. A lot of umpires use screen names to protect their identity since some of the debates get rather heated and could hurt our reputations in our home associations. Yep, intrepretations of "last time by", "advantageous 4th out", "type A vs type B obstruction" and "letter of the law vs common sense and fair play" can get you in trouble if the wrong people read it.

I guess I'm too lazy to change my s/n. Perhaps I should? :confused:

On ALDeer.com we have a "vous" (gathering) every year and everyone was trying to introduce themselves "I'm Will Leavitt, blah blah" and noone would know who you were until you used your s/n. It was pretty funny matching some of the s/n's to the people one "senior" member is named "Pull my finger" pretty funny cause he's such a courteous and genteel guy.
 
Well, the actual name is Dan Unger, but most folks just call me Danbo. The nickname came from an old friend of mine, who looked at all the big knives I had one day, and called me "Danbo, soul Brother of Rambo". I think he was drunk at the time, but the name stuck. What he didnt know was, I love all knives, not just big and honkin knives. :)
 
Good point Bruce. I've talked to a few newer makers and suggested they change their forum names to their real names. It just makes more sense to me. Especially if your trying to make a living at it.

Just my $.02

Peter, you mean their's no Dunkle Hollow, VA?
:( ;) :D
 
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