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The Knife Collecting Hobby - Why did you ever start?

So you got the bug? Can't stop reading about knives? Can't stop buying those knives?

What in the world got you started?

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Permalink Reply by Sue OldsWidow on January 31, 2015 at 23:29

For me it is the pearls....of course i do collect the Case family related knives of collectible condition....I still look out for my favorite pattern...the mini coke bottle, any brand works with it now...since Case has my baby locked in the VAULT ....

Knife jewelry .......to admire and know the history of them all, takes a lot of INPUT to make sure you buy the "Real" thing and not a "Set"(counterfeit} one.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on February 1, 2015 at 9:01

Ah yes, that mini coke bottle! Sue you ard your husband are just great collectors and have been for so long!
Sue OldsWidow said:

For me it is the pearls....of course i do collect the Case family related knives of collectible condition....I still look out for my favorite pattern...the mini coke bottle, any brand works with it now...since Case has my baby locked in the VAULT ....

Knife jewelry .......to admire and know the history of them all, takes a lot of INPUT to make sure you buy the "Real" thing and not a "Set"(counterfeit} one.

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Permalink Reply by Lars Ray on February 25, 2015 at 10:37

What got me started collecting knives?

It's a process. I started out sharpening Popsicle sticks as a child by rubbing one end across the sidewalk until I formed a point. Next came Cub Scouts and my dad gave me my first knife - a 1958 Imperial Kamp King (the knife I was researching by the way when I found iKC). My real passion is swords, and as stated in my profile, I collected bayonets when I couldn't afford a sword. Then bayonets became popular, so I started obtaining knives when I couldn't afford a bayonet.

Now - they're all popular...and expensive...so I have evolved my blade passions accordingly:

- Swords of significance (which is nothing more than a very large knife)

- Bayonets of historical importance (which is a knife fitted onto a rifle)

- Finding my "ideal" knife - bench made or production (limitless possibilities!)(FB's preferred, Folders always acceptable)

- along the way, I'll take any Ethnographic / Aboriginal piece as well (knapped blades, war clubs, spears, etc.)

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on February 25, 2015 at 10:43

I started out sharpening Popsicle sticks as a child by rubbing one end across the sidewalk until I formed a point.

Wow! How many of us remember doing this!

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Permalink Reply by Tobias Gibson on February 25, 2015 at 11:35

Lars said: “I started out sharpening Popsicle sticks as a child by rubbing one end across the sidewalk until I formed a point.”

Jan commented: “Wow! How many of us remember doing this!”

And I’ll add? “Remember? I’m still doing it, and not just with Popsicle sticks!”

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Permalink Reply by Lars Ray on February 25, 2015 at 13:16

So does anyone here have a sharpened Popsicle stick collection? I have 1 - referred to as a Polish switchblade. Made of four parts; 2 Popsicle sticks, 1 wooden spring operated clothes pin, and a rubber band.

Glue one P-stick to one of the clothes pin jaws. When dry, attach the second P-stick to the end of the first one, held together with the rubber band. Fold the free-moving P-stick to align with the glued one and close the clothes pin.

To deploy - open the clothes pin and watch that blade spring open! Pow! There's your Polish switchblade!

It's OK to laugh...I do every time I show it!

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Permalink Reply by jeff on February 25, 2015 at 17:00

lol... i remember sharpening the end of my dresser and getting my hide tanned too ! :} i also sharpened many a piece of coral on the sidewalks in miami.

Jan Carter said:

I started out sharpening Popsicle sticks as a child by rubbing one end across the sidewalk until I formed a point.

Wow! How many of us remember doing this!

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Permalink Reply by Michael A. Smith on February 25, 2015 at 17:18

I don't remember sharpening things, I remember making lots of pointy sticks with my old Buck though. Whittling them down to toothpicks and so forth. Made a few carved walking sticks, did lots of pyrography and such.

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FeaturedPermalink Reply by Charles Sample on February 25, 2015 at 18:13

I couldn't rub popsicle sticks on the sidewalk to sharpen them. There were no sidewalks around where i lived as a kid. We lived so far back in the woods they even had to pipe sunshine in to us. We lived 20 miles from nowhere, we had to go 20 miles, then we could go somewhere.

Very similar to and close to where Hog lives now. Isn't that right, Hog?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on February 25, 2015 at 19:18

Absolutely Charles, although town did have sidewalks and railroad tracks. So I did sharpen popsickle sticks and used railroad spikes as knives. Hey I was boy with a great imagination!
Charles Sample said:

I couldn't rub popsicle sticks on the sidewalk to sharpen them. There were no sidewalks around where i lived as a kid. We lived so far back in the woods they even had to pipe sunshine in to us. We lived 20 miles from nowhere, we had to go 20 miles, then we could go somewhere.

Very similar to and close to where Hog lives now. Isn't that right, Hog?

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Permalink Reply by Bob Robinson on February 25, 2015 at 21:27

Same here Steve, no sidewalks. I was lucky though as my dad had a hunt club and one of the men gave me an old broken Colonial pocket knife. I envied all of their hunting knives though. Finally one year I guess I was around 8 or 9 my dad got me a knife and hatchet set for Christmas. I think that was around the time that timbering got into full swing! ha ha none the less that set got away from me somewhere in times past. I have seen some sets similar but never purchased them. I figured it was best to let old dogs lie. I traded with some friends at school for pocket knives along the way. Don't remember why I quit but glad I got started back. I had forgotten how fun the hobby is.

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Permalink Reply by Drew Webster on March 3, 2015 at 10:56

I think it started out hankering after a knife that my older brother had in his fishing tackle box, soon moved to whittling as soon as I got my own penknife.