Here are more pictures of exhibits and displays on the showroom floor.…

The museum has a large Case collection.  Here are just a few examples.  Notice the missing knife in the lower left hand corner of the first picture.  It was celluloid and had started to break down and had to be removed to prevent damage to the other knives in the exhibit.…

In the National Knife Museum, there are many exhibits starting with the stone age...

Continuing through the bronze age...

Up to and including modern cutlery...…

My family and I rented a cabin in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee for the week of July 14, 2013.  Now Pigeon Forge is next to Sevierville which is the home of Smoky Mountain Knife Works.  If I were a Jewish knife collector, SMKW would be my Jerusalem of the knife world.  If I were a Muslim knife collector it would be the Mecca of the knife world.  However since I am only a Baptist, maybe I can consider it a missionary trip?

Anyway here is a view as we are approaching Sevierville of…

CVA (Connecticut Valley Arms) was a pioneer company that brought back the black powder shooting sport in the early 1970s. CVA was originally located in Haddam, CT, along the Conn. R., hence their name. They started with reproductions of traditional American muzzle loaders like the Kentucky Long Rifle and offered them in finished and kit forms. All the firearms were made in Spain and packaged in CT. I don’t know if the finished guns were assembled in Spain or CT.…

Let's put on our thinking "Hats". What is the difference between a "Sheath"...." Scabbard"... or "Frog"

I put my Becker BK-2 to work this weekend. Here is a pile of little ones I made from one big one.

I have this 3 3/8" blade edge, fixed blade called the Rimfire coming from Black Wolf Armory, Lewistown, Montana. I'm excited to add another Montana made knife to my collection.

 The wife and I where discussing my knife collection. She thinks I'm going a little overboard so we came up with a new rules.

If I buy a knife and I already have one of the same pattern I need to sell one.

The way to get around this is. I got her to agree that I could have more than one if I'm using one for a edc.

Another way to get around this is she does not tell me what to price them for. So I can just price them high enough that if a person does buy them I can get a…

  I have been in a rut. A real bad one. I look at my knives and I just don't get a kick out of them like i used to.

 We took off last weekend to look for knives. I figured they would be a few that would just beg me to take them home. I found a few that where good buy's but not the sack full like I usually find.

  Well I think I finally found out what is bugging me. I have been buying 4 to 8 knives a month for a year or 2. So I had the wife help me and I went thru every knife I…

Today’s review will focus on the Boker Sal Manaro titanium handled 01BO145 folding frame lock knife.  This knife was suggested to me by Steve Hanner for who I am indebted to for this suggestion.  I will start out stating I really like this titanium knife that is one of the most economical titanium tacticals I have run across. …

Allright. All my projects are temporarily on hold because of things like heat treat/waiting for materials.

But I still want to play around with steel. So I've decided to design a knife by comittee.

Here's how this works. I need input from all of you, as much as possible. Everyone who responds please give me the following information as to what you'd like to see me make.

Steel, I have 3 options,

• 2mm thick OW3 steel,
• 5,6mm…

Anybody know a good sheathmaker that doesn't charge an arm and a leg?

As a newby I would appreciate if anybody has contact with Owen Wood. He is originally from South Africa and my dad, Pieter van Niekerk, has invested in a couple of his knives. I did send pics to him asking for info. He never replied, and I would like to know if he is part of this forum? Maybe he has a new address?

I recently had trouble with my PayPal account, on Ebay. It seems, some bad guy, got my password changed and started making purchases and cash with-drawls on my Ebay account.

        I knew something was wrong when I tried to pay for an item that I had won the auction on and the system said "my password was incorrect. I tried several but I got the same answer. I decided I'd Email, Ebay and that's when I discovered that some bad person was buying stuff on my account. I also discovered…

I found this Case Tested XX at a garage sale yesterday. It dates 1932-1940. The price marked on it was $2.00 but when I went to pay for it the guy said that a dollar was enough. Would you have saved it?

I have no idea what to do with it but I just couldn't let it go in the trash.…

This is a knife and handle project, for my late wife. A friend sent me the wonderful carved handle and Mr. Larry Pridgen, a great knife maker [ one of our members] put them together. What a wonderful job by all the people involved. My wife was a big supporter of our American natives, she had made several out fits [dresses] that she wore from time to time. She would have loved this knife.…

#9 - Chris Martin – PF-1 Tanto Flipper, I currently have this on order, so the pics are from the site, IKBS Bearing System, Aggressive Tanto Blade. …