Brian, welcome to IKC - its a great place to be. Great people and great knives. Its like a good friend - hang in there Brian.

Welcome to iKC!

Welcome Brain. We have a Survival Group, check it out.

Welcome to iKnife

Thanks for adding me, Brian! 

Welcome and thanks for being here with us.  Please let me know if there is anything I can do as you become more familiar with our community

Hi Brian, good to hear from you. Well, Imperial was my first knife, my

brother gave it to me when I was about 8, it was a 4 blade camp and I still

have it and no money could buy it. It means a lot to me. I don't really

collect imperial but I have a few. My focus on collecting is what I like,

Knives from the "good ole days", and then maybe value - I do have some that

have good value, but I am not really concerned with that - I would rather

just have knives that I can enjoy right now. I am not a buyer/seller.

Anyway, glad to hear from you and you are right, knives can be good friends.
God Bless  and keep you Brian, Your friend Ken

Hey Brian, How are you doing my friend? Haven't heard from you in awhile. Any new knives? How are those terriers doing? God Bless, Ken

Hello Brian,  hope you're well.  I see in your profile you have some challenges, I just want to let you know Ill be praying for you.  God Bless.

Hey Brian, been wondering how you are doing????

Hi Brian, glad to see you back on the forum. Hope all is going well. I wish you a very Merry Christmas. God Bless. Ken

That is a nice fixed blade knife on your pic, what is that?

Brian,

check out the Case handles on their site http://www.wrcase.com/case_college/handles/handlematerials.php