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As I reported in a previous blog, every year I send a few friends who are not collectors and know little about knives an inexpensive pocket knife (very inexpensive) which illustrates a traditional pattern. Along with the knife I send a short note about the pattern - at least what I have come to learn by spending too much time on the internet. This was the text I sent along with a Barlow knife. (I have removed the photos I send as I steal them from the…

How many of you are getting a knife for Christmas?

My newest switchblade is actually a letter opener.  I bought it because I don't have one and this letter opener is special.  The guy I bought it from has written an important book on switchblades...maybe the bible, and even he did not know this knife had been made until during the last year.  Why is it special ?

                                                                                                                                                                   It is made…

Well it is nearly upon us once again (Christmas) what special knife have you asked for from Santa this year ??? or do you prefer the surprise in the morning still....

Twas the night before CHRISTmas and all through the house.

The Knives were stirring trying to awaken the Mouse.

The Stockings were hung by the chimney with care and sheaths were 

beside them awaiting their ware.…

I LOVE COLLECTING LEG KNIFES

Every year I send a few friends an inexpensive pocket knife (very inexpensive) which illustrates a traditional pattern and I send along a short note about the pattern - at least what I have come to learn by spending too much time on the internet. What follows is one of my "texts" shall we say. This one is about the "Sodbuster". Enjoy it.......or if not, ignore it. (I posted this a while ago on another knife discussion site. I hope that is OK with the…

Nature is the ultimate judge, she cares not our color, sex, handicaps or abilities. She has no preferences, guilt, remorse or pride. In the end, when all we know is gone nature will find balance and the flowers will bloom again...

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the sharpest knife we all own is the one that brought you to ikc,the friends,the talk,and the knowledge.who would have known.blessed were all blessed.i am for knowing you all!

it funny how no one reaches in there pocket for a knife anymore,pocket clips and neck knives changed all that.sorry, but i still like the feeling of getting a old stockman or a sodbuster and working with it.when i was a kid if some said anyone got a knife,id about break my arm getting it out of my pocket.

We will still be honoring all Blind Horse Knives Lifetime Warranties. Contact either shop for information.

That announcement is not quite what you wanted to see when you went to the Blind Horse site.  A team of great Knifemakers, producing quality and hand built knives.  The gentleman have…

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.…

Well friends, it’s been quite some time since I last visited iKnifeCollector. Suffice it to say that other things in life took priority. As I’m sure many of you have experienced yourselves, life is like that…particularly when you are past the midpoint in your own existence. Nevertheless, my interest in knives hasn’t wavered a bit. In fact, my continuing and growing affinity for traditional slip joint knives is connecting strongly with the stage that I’m at in life.

As any of…

hope miss jan and hog,and all my ikc family has a great thanksgiving! use a bowie to carve your turkey.im sure ill be setting at the table with ikc,happy hollidays.from my family to yours.

Thought I'd party with the rest of you in the US (I'm in the Netherlands even though I was born in the US like most of you)

So for thanksgiving (black friday as well) only!

10% off anything I've made/you order.

This is valid ONLY for iKC members and untill 12PM friday your local time.

Check out my knife thread in the customs group (…

IM thankful for getting into knives at a early age and able to pass this passion on to my kids,and to share this great hobby with them.greatful for all the great friends that share this addiction with me.knife people are a different breed,its not only the knife,its the friends and the adventure along the way! YEA its all good.

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Since I began seriously collecting old knives, I repeatedly heard folks say the buying market for old knives would eventually die out, especially since the younger knife enthusiasts prefer the more modern knives to collect and carry. This speculation always caused concern, not simply because I had a fortune tied up in old knives, but because the older knives are our windows to the past, a glimpse into the life and times of early American cutlery history. And while not everyone is a history…