Pretty sure that you'll like iKC once you've checked out all it has to offer.  Different from SF and the other furums.  When you get to the photos, be sure to pack a lunch.  With almost 17,000 pics to look at, you'll be there a while.  Be sure to also check out the groups area, something for everyone.

Yeah,

SMKW had the Teak Woods in one of the last couple of catalogs.  Got to shop around for them now.

Billy

Welcome to the Great Eastern Cutlery Group, we're glad you joined us.

Hey Billy,

Thanks for stopping by.

LOL.

Lots of folks have started with RR and even the SW.  From what I've seen though is the RR's far outshine the FSW knives.  What you said about the availability of patterns in RR is true.  SMKW finds an old pattern and has them made up for RR.  My latest, the "Boxcar" whittler is one.  They said that the pattern had only been made for some club knife, in the past.  It's not really a user sized whittler, unless you want to whittle a 2x4, but its a nice knife and razor sharp.

I had the chance to buy the stag set, all at once, at a good price.  I had one of the first generation stag whittlers and the stag on the second series is much better.

For some reason I thought we had been friends for awhile. Howdy friend.

Billy, it sounds like your pop ups are blocked.  When you hit reply does it give you a thin banner at the top asking if you want to allow pop ups?

Billy .. try trimming a pic to this size before uploading it for the L/R borders ..

158 pixels should just fill up the width of the left border .. the "tile image" after that

I've had a few knives made by Tak Fakuta .. all damascus .. really liked em all !!!

I'm using the past tense because I gave all 3 of them away .. one to a very close friend .. the other two to my daughter. That should provide an indication of what I thought of their quality !!!!

James Parker was buying everything in sight there for a while. "n yes .. he was licensed the stamp "Marbles". I think he/CASE bought the Kinfolks & other CASE family names , he even owned CASE for a bit.

Tak Fakuta went on to do some good schtuff. I really like the units I had. ???? hard to give away .. not to me daughter !!!!

Thanks Billy.

The new Bulldog was my gift, to me.

Couldnt get rid any of mine either...

Any knife, that I've bought, was one that I liked.  (Cheap or expensive)

Billy, thanks for the comment on the skinner. The stag jigging and color combination of the bone makes it one of my favorites as well. I am going to do a couple more of thes, one will be in buffalo horn and if I can convince myself to make the investment, I think one in quality sanbar stag would look real well. I have taken the liberty to look at your pix and you have a beautiful diverse collection and I see your wife is involved as well. Thanks again....

Thanks,

I have been very lucky in collecting these last few years.

Again thanks for looking.

Hey Bill -

Thanks for checking it out. Biggest problem I had with the "body image" was making it light enough that you could see still read the text on top. I kept changing the layer opacity in PShop and saving and testing until it worked -- I think the image that's on iKC is only 12% opacity. 

You can add a "Body Image" by going to "My Page" and then clicking on Customize in the left sidebar. Half way down under "Now, make it unique" you click on "All Options". I can see you already found the "header image" -- well, to the right you can upload a "Body Image" and set if/how you want it to repeat. I had created my jpg about as wide as needed for the center "body panel" so I just selected a vertical repeat.

I cheated on the navigation text at the top of the header by going into "Advanced" CSS and actually making the nav font Bold and changing it's color to match the purple I'd picked in the Basic Theme tab.