Well I was blessed when we went to the Indian Casino (Thunder Valley) to celebrate my birthday.  Birthday was April 12th, the big big sixty, and the celebbration was April 15th.

Played the slots which usually I don't do much.  I am more of a poker tournament guy, but the slots were kind to me.

The one quarter machine hit a 4X/2X/Red 7....on a 3 quarter pull paid 2400 25 cent pieces! …

Sunday I am going to the Indian Casino and celerate my birthday some more.  They are gonna open their teepees and share the wealth with this Apache brother.  Then we are all gonna meet up at the steakhouse and have dinner.  All ya'll in California come toThunder Valley Casino and have one on me!!!

So please...all my friends in the middle (heart) of the country.....be careful on Saturday! 

"Forecasters say Saturday storms 'life threatening'"

Well with a prior post I learned that our  iKnife Community Founder, Scott King, makes his home in Gadsden Alabama which is also the home of the Friday Night Cruise-In. 

Does anyone make their home in Crossville, Tennessee the home of the I-40 Dragway and the Bounty Race???

The April Bounty Race will be the biggest index race in history at the 1/8th Mile. …

hmmmmm........

This week just no one is bidding on any of my knives.

Yet I bid on just one knife and today I lose by one dollah

Why can't those peeps bid on the knives I am selling instead of the knife I am trying to buy?

Danggit!

Anyone in Gadsden Alabama??



I have a friend who wrote a book about Sleeper Cars, in fact if you build or try to masquerade your fast street car and make it look like a common everyday car----chances are  you read his book.

For the rest of us knife collectors, usually we also like guns, motorcycles and cars.  OK, well whiskey...and chicks too!!

They just all go together.

Anyway....the writer.  He also has a great hot rod and cruise-in blog site called Byrd…

Do you know Eric Gorges?  Famous custom motorcycle builder.  Been on Bikers Build-Off shows on the Discovery Cannel--and won!!  Runs Voodoo Choppers

Dude builds some of the sickest bikes ever!!!

Anyway I tweeted about iKnife Collector, just telling people it's a great place to meet other knife collectors.

Eric and I follow each other on Twitter and he "favorited" the Tweet.  We have a custom bike…

So I bought some new Barlow's to celebrate April Fool's Dasy!!

I'll describe the picsd for you.

The first is all 3 knives displayed with blades open.

Pic 2:  The bolster of the Russell Barlow

Pic 3:  The Tang of the Russell, laid out as:

           RUSSELL in a half-circle over

               <>R<>  over

                U.S.A.

Pic 4:  the exciting pic, is the Russell again.  Etched on the large blade is the…

Do any of you folks run into fake knives or altered knives when you are out uying.  Or knives that you just have suspicions about??

Maybe it's just me because I collect mostly antique blades.

But I see that a lot of the new knives many of ou collect are just as expensive as the 100 year old knives that I buy, and I wonder...

Anyway, I ran into this eBay buying guide that applies to knives that are for sale anywhere.

You can check it out at…