I collect Vintage Knives and I'm sure alot of our members do too. It's fun collecting knives from the yester years. Some we have heard how well they were made and their performance in the feild was hard to beat. The old time construction and the amount of labor put into each one is hard to match in the knife world today. My question for ya'll is "Has anyone bought a vintage knife with a great reputation, to become a user knife". I would like to buy one of the old time knives of our…

Dear Friend,

I joined this forum a couple of days ago and I must admit that I feel very good with you !!

People are nice and comments are great... THANKS for this warm welcome.

I learned a lot with you in those very few days and I discovered with pleasure the company GREAT EASTERN CUTLERY and their marvellous knives !

I was so impressed that I have decided to order one and here it is SPECIALLY FOR YOU (it is not even yet on my…

My job is in retail.  I work for a reptile specific pet store.  I carry an Uncle Henry 153 UH by Schrade.  I am often asked by some of the youngsters that see my knife hanging on my belt "Why do you have that?" or "What is that?".  I tell them that it's a knife and I use it for work.  "Just in case an animal attacks you?". No. I don't use it on animals.  I'm an animal lover of all kinds and won't kill anything unless it was a life or death situation.  Even then I'm likely to kill.  (I…

I have received my Case Knife club magazine that has the story about the Lone Ranger Kodiak knife that belonged to the Lone Ranger.  I also have a knife, a Case Hammerhead the I purchased from the Lone Ranger estate.

I have not been collection knifes for a very long time but I had a Case Maco and thought maybe I needed a hammerhead to go alone with it.  I was looking around on the internet and found the add for the estate and made a bid.  Next thing I know I have the knife with all…

When Donnie started collecting you had to go to a knife show or travel to a dealer.  Your local hardware usually only carried a few patterns from one maybe two makers.  Of course as he became an adult, the area around Gatlinburg always had somewhere you could go see numerous brands and being from the South he went there as often as possible.

 When I became interested, we had a few dealers that were online.  They would tell you what they had and if you were interested, they would email…