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Scott King's Blog – November 2009 Archive (4)

iKC History! Our Community's First Group Club Knife

Hats off to the Indiana Residents Group here at iKC. These guys are making history early in our community's short life already.

I've written before how this "virtual" knife club is every bit as real as any knife club in the world. Granted, their clubhouse is housed within iKC and they don't have weekly meetings down at the Western Sizzl'n, but, boy, have they made a name for themselves here among the… Continue

Added by Scott King on November 30, 2009 at 20:30 — 4 Comments

iKC Member Avatar

I don't like it. No, I don't. You know that little red man picture- the default image representing a member who can't or won't load up a picture for us.

Folks don't tend to like change so just to up and change their default picture will rock their boat (I know this already because I changed it twice now- once for Halloween and then yesterday for Thanksgiving- both of those times was just for lite hearted fun :) )

So, to change it will upset some folks, BUT I… Continue

Added by Scott King on November 27, 2009 at 8:00 — 37 Comments

CBS News Features Custom Knife Maker Bob Kramer

The caption reads "The Cutting Edge- CBS's Jerry Bowen visits Bob Kramer, whose premium knives have become the gold standard and are selling for $300.....an inch."

Watch CBS News Videos… Continue

Added by Scott King on November 24, 2009 at 7:36 — 4 Comments

Grading a knife's condition

Knife Condition Grades - weighting all the factors for old knives

When you are looking at an older knife, just how much weight do you put on the different factors to determine it's overall condition grade? You know what I'm talking about here: the Condition Grades, like- Mint, Near Mint, Very Good, Good, Poor and Junk- at least those are the grades of one of the systems floating around out there, but there are others.

I know not all of us are into… Continue

Added by Scott King on November 4, 2009 at 8:00 — 2 Comments