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I've been here an awful long time, seems I can't remember a BF without my little dancin' bear Avatar or the melting face in my sigline. I'm countin' the missing years too, the ones and posts where the server and BF went crazy and a lot of data was lost, corrupted or otherwise not worth retrievin' so it disappeared into the Ethernet 
Well I know they were there, and there'a a few of you old timers who remember too.
Anyway that's not the point of this post, the point was to thank a member for a generous thing and bring to the attention of the skeptics that there are genuinely knice people who come here to share their love for knives with others who share the same love. There's a lot more on this forum but the core of this forum has and always should be about knives. All aspects of knives from a user to a collector's tastes are satisfied here and as a result members become friends and not just the original folks here back in the late 90s but new members and old become friends and in the last 20 years here I've made a few and continue to make new ones as we talk.
The nice thing about this place is the atmosphere and folks who are here to get the most that they can out of it and make use of and take advantage of the information available though members dealers, bladesmiths and custom maker/grinders and that's the start of this little story.
As we do on this forum we talk about knives and as a consequence of having a conversation about of all things knives, I had one with a member here and I had mentioned that I had a particular knife and had sold it a long time ago to help pay a bill and had seller's remorse ever since. I've seen it available on eBay and IIRC I believe this member had offered to sell me a similar knife many years ago as a result of another conversation about the same knife. Only he could confirm this because of my memory I'd need a second recollection to give it some validity.
So as a result of talkin' about knives some one reached out to me and made a generous offer that I decided saving like I do every year for the Forum Knife was gonna be the only way but he said there was no rush and I could take my time.
I was happy knowin' that I would be able to replace the knife I had sold. I really liked and used the knife too, I carried it frequently at work in the office and it was a great knife till I needed the money more than the knice knife.
Well 2 days ago amidst the snowstorm and crazy windstorm that came through the mail held true to their email motto, ...through wind and rain and sleet and snow, blah, blah ,blah...
As my daughter ran out to get the mail I recognized the red, white and blue priority mail box and smiled. I wasn't really expecting anything but packages do come for others so I figured I'd find out when she walked through the door.
I was right, wanna see what I found?
A beautiful (Pacific Coast Cutlery)PCC/BarryWood Rotating lock folder. The very knife, rather the same model knife was in the box. I was speechless but only for a moment and then I took it out and as soon as I picked it up I had a flood of memories...
Opening the bottle OD cognac at my BIL's reception, openin' Xmas presents with my daughter when she was 4, even carvin' up some pepperoni and cheese for cheese and crackers with wine at the lake with the Mrs.
I used it a lot in the little time I had it, so when this was what I unraveled from the paper towel I was really touched and appreciative of the gift, thanks William this will hold a special place and know it will be lovingly carried and used. My daughter already has dibs on it should I not have a need for it anymore. (At least I know it won't get sold at a yard sale or given to someone who wouldn't appreciate such a cool and we'll made knife.
Here's it's temporary slipcase till I can stitch a quick one up for it.
I didn't show here but the blade is mirror polished.
Well I know they were there, and there'a a few of you old timers who remember too.Anyway that's not the point of this post, the point was to thank a member for a generous thing and bring to the attention of the skeptics that there are genuinely knice people who come here to share their love for knives with others who share the same love. There's a lot more on this forum but the core of this forum has and always should be about knives. All aspects of knives from a user to a collector's tastes are satisfied here and as a result members become friends and not just the original folks here back in the late 90s but new members and old become friends and in the last 20 years here I've made a few and continue to make new ones as we talk.
The nice thing about this place is the atmosphere and folks who are here to get the most that they can out of it and make use of and take advantage of the information available though members dealers, bladesmiths and custom maker/grinders and that's the start of this little story.
As we do on this forum we talk about knives and as a consequence of having a conversation about of all things knives, I had one with a member here and I had mentioned that I had a particular knife and had sold it a long time ago to help pay a bill and had seller's remorse ever since. I've seen it available on eBay and IIRC I believe this member had offered to sell me a similar knife many years ago as a result of another conversation about the same knife. Only he could confirm this because of my memory I'd need a second recollection to give it some validity.
So as a result of talkin' about knives some one reached out to me and made a generous offer that I decided saving like I do every year for the Forum Knife was gonna be the only way but he said there was no rush and I could take my time.
I was happy knowin' that I would be able to replace the knife I had sold. I really liked and used the knife too, I carried it frequently at work in the office and it was a great knife till I needed the money more than the knice knife.
Well 2 days ago amidst the snowstorm and crazy windstorm that came through the mail held true to their email motto, ...through wind and rain and sleet and snow, blah, blah ,blah...
As my daughter ran out to get the mail I recognized the red, white and blue priority mail box and smiled. I wasn't really expecting anything but packages do come for others so I figured I'd find out when she walked through the door.
I was right, wanna see what I found?
A beautiful (Pacific Coast Cutlery)PCC/BarryWood Rotating lock folder. The very knife, rather the same model knife was in the box. I was speechless but only for a moment and then I took it out and as soon as I picked it up I had a flood of memories...
Opening the bottle OD cognac at my BIL's reception, openin' Xmas presents with my daughter when she was 4, even carvin' up some pepperoni and cheese for cheese and crackers with wine at the lake with the Mrs.
I used it a lot in the little time I had it, so when this was what I unraveled from the paper towel I was really touched and appreciative of the gift, thanks William this will hold a special place and know it will be lovingly carried and used. My daughter already has dibs on it should I not have a need for it anymore. (At least I know it won't get sold at a yard sale or given to someone who wouldn't appreciate such a cool and we'll made knife.
Here's it's temporary slipcase till I can stitch a quick one up for it.
I didn't show here but the blade is mirror polished.
