Thanks for the like on Ashleys Woodie. Our club bought several kits to hand out to youngsters to encourage their interest in the hobby of knives & their safe use.

Ken, Caren is out of surgery and it went well.  Hopefully she will be able to come home this evening.

Thank you for your prayers.  They meant a lot to us.

Thank you sir! This is my first day here and I already LOVE this site!!

My family business book is a compeling story about the entire family and history of the "Original" Colonial Knife Company Inc. I've sold 150 or so copy's in four different country's!

I am in "no way" affiliated or part of the on line Colonial Knife Corp., who basically deal in all imports. Visit my blog : myfamilybusinessbook@wordpress.com  Thanks!!

I hope your wife is doing better....

Thanks for the like on my lock back folder. I am doing 2 of these in buffalo, 2 in exterior sheep horn & 1 in stag cut amber bone for one of my fellow knife club members. I will post the other version's when I get them done.

Thanks for the like on the sheep horn handled folding lockback. I will be posting one in Stag cut Amber bone in a day or two. This will be my favorite.

Thanks. I've seen a lot of knife collector site this is by far one of the best and most informative. I like that there's no fluff just about knives!

Ken, thanks for the like on the folding skinner. It is a little unusual but it feel good in hand. I had the parts stored with some of my other blades & felt the Amber stag cut handles would look good on it an built it up. I have not been able to find this patterns parts anymore. 

Thanks Ken for the ----Liked----- on my Hawbaker Muskrats

OOOOO--- that is a exspensive Knife now--bet you wish you didnt use it---but I know it served you well-----when I was Trapping I used a ole yellow handle 54 trapper--and that is what i carry all the time to this day never with out it.

Ken, thanks for the like on the Case bulldog. I lucked in on this one before anyone else had seen it & was able to work out a good trade.

Howdy, Ken!

Thanks for asking about my MRI. The actual procedure went very well. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the particular location where the imaging was done had a new 2 million dollar machine waiting to take my pictures, instead of the torture chamber they used to have. (The West Los Angeles VA Hospital has more than one MRI machine in different locations on the hospital grounds)

This new machine did not feel quite so claustrophobic. It wasn't an "open MRI," since you still went into a cylindrical tube. But there seemed to be more room, once inside. Also, the time it took to perform the imaging was significantly less. I was only in the machine for about 20 minutes, compared to previous times when it would take nearly an hour for MRI's on my back.

I have already had my lumbar spine fused with instrumentation (rods n' screws), so I know the drill. Next will come the consult with the surgeons in Orthopaedics once they've had a chance to review the images. And then, more than likely, another surgery? I'll definitely keep ya posted!

Here's a pic of what my first fusion looks like. This X-Ray was taken shortly after that surgery...

As you can see by the date on the X-Ray this was only 3 years ago. Now the levels above and below that hardware need some hardware of their own. In other words, I'll probably need to have a whole lot more rods n' screws drill into me. Ouch!

Back surgeries are like opening a can of worms. Once you have the first one, you can almost bet you'll be having another one!

*btw ~ Those screws are 2.5" long!

Yes Ken I was talking about the Schrade Hawbaker Muskrat

Muchas gracias a todos por aceptarme en el grupo

Ken Thank you very much , my knowledge is dwarfed to the very savey knife folk here.

and the friendships here are the real prize!!

Lord Ken , stay warm

Thanks Ken,yes Faith is very important to myself and my Family!

Ken,thank you very much for the welcome.Jean

Thanks Ken

Thank you!

Thanks Ken

Thank-you Ken, Look forward to seeing you on forum

THANKS.

It is April first and you have become a featured member. Thank you for all you do here at iKC

http://www.iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/how-do-i-become-a-featu...

Thank everyone for the warm welcome, I look forward to spending some time in here. I also hope to learn some of  your awesome skill's!

Howdy brother Ken,

Did you get my private message?

Thank you very much, I know I have missed telling some of you fine people that but I really appreciate you all letting me join your group! I am looking forward to getting to know you all better. I love knives and already have one good friend here that I know of in Jim Hamer, he helped me get started into this hobby!

Thanks Ken for the like on CKKC Knife Show. Look forward to seeing you. We will do it again in August.

ok ken, thanks for the welcome,hope to meet you sometime,all the best .....

Hi Ken, Thanks for your welcome!

Hey, Ken!

Thanks, I appreciate you stopping by. It's all good at this end. Sometimes a change of scenery is needed. I'm just pursuing some different interests at the moment. I hope that you and the missus are doing well. I'll bet that your gardens are all a bloom right about now...or, soon to be!

Have a great weekend, my friend!

Thanks for the welcome

"Thanks Ken"

Thanks for the welcome! So you are 1/4 Norwegian you say? Do you know from where in Norway?

It is not unnormal for for Norwegian`s to have the same last name as the place they origin from. Like my great-grandfather had Rubingen as his last name which is the name of the farm/place I live now have.

Another fun fact about Troendlag is, both north and south was one of the more populated areas dating back to the viking age. So your Norwegian relatives may go back many years :) 

Ken,

Thanks for your "likes" of my knives and sheath!

Ken,

I read you posted a "like" for a Wenger Esquire 16640 serrated blade, titanium scales knife.  I wondered if you found other owners on the internet.  I lost mine and would like to replace/purchase another from someone.

Hello, I was born and raised in the Rockaway's (Queens N.Y.) near the beach. I left the when I was 28 years old to live on a farm(Kibbutz). I am Jewish by not religious. I have been here now for longer than I had lived in the U.S.A. My older son is now 32 years old. During these trying times we need as many people to keep their faith and understand that we (Israelis) only want Peace and Happiness for the whole world. Thank you for your support and Love!

Hello again Ken, Do you know what a Kibbutz is? Anyway I work at fixing computers for the hundreds that we have in our community and business. We do have lots of agriculture, growing all field crops, and avocados, citrus,lichee, chilens, cows, meat and for milking.

We also own a large multinational plastics factory called Palram. We have factories in Israel, England and the U.S.A. I worked at ours for 20 years doing different things before leaving to start the computers dept. on the kibbutz.

Thanks for the welcome ken!greetings from uk

Good evening Ken.  It was great to do business with you today at the show.  I wish I'd known it was YOU when we getting your purchase together.  The show was really a lot of fun and from the pictures and comments on here this evening, it looks like there were several iKnife people there.  I know we handed out several of Jan's cards for iKnife.  Hopefully some new people will join.

Ken,

Thanks for the welcome... I'm glad I found this site and am feeling a bit overwhelmed....

So, I'll lurk for a while and get oriented.

Thanks again for the warm welcome.

For Now,

Gib