Knife purses .. who has a favorite ?

.. or better put ..

??? who simply has one ???…

Since I have contracted EDC-OCD, I have bought a knife weekly. This blog should help me keep track of the incoming items starting 5/21/2013.

5/21/2013  -  Today it is a Uncle Henry / Schrade+ / U.S.A. 144

This is a beauty, lightly used and well cared for. Polished the brass up a little.…

What is it about a good peace of stag that makes a guy just want to growl. The blacks, the browns or the red. The creamy whites and the yellows.

A guy at work brought a stag knife into work the other day. He had just got it in the mail. It had a deep groove down one side and thought it was a defect. I told him I thought it was about the prettiest piece of stag that I had ever seen. With a grin I told him if he really didn't like it I would be glad to give his money back. By the time…

History of Handy Twine Knife James R. Caldwell, a U.S. railway postal clerk, invented the Handy Twine Knife in the late 1800's. In those days, the mail was moved by trains. Railway postal clerks were responsible for collecting and sorting the mail for delivery. While in transit, the clerks would use twine to bundle the mail for the next stop. The clerks carried pocket knives…

Trapper Jon's Knives recently acquired an old Remington or W. R. Case made, model 62-5 "Pig Sticker" knife from World War II, complete with original sheath.  The knife has jigged bone scales and is sterile and unmarked except for a marking we have been unable to research.  Neatly stamped on the ricasso of the knife is the name The Marion Line.  Can anyone tell us anything about this unusual stamping?  How about an approximate value with such a stamping?

Jon has the knife displayed for…

...when you open your mailbox to find two of those familiar shaped boxes that usually contain -

NEW KNIVES!

Yippee Skipee!!!…

I put together some of my switchblades for a local knife show a few months back.  And the red Craftsman is my newest knife. Nice!…

I have a thing for knives that where made in the 70's. I'm not sure why I just know I like them. I like knives made in other era's But it seems like they had a lots of knives that where really unique. That's when I saw my first Buck 110. There where the red bones that case made then that where something special.

Not that there making bad knives now. I find knives all the time that I feel like I cant live with out. They have better steels now than they have ever had. There are a huge…

I bought this knife a year or so ago at a flea market for 20.00. I threw into my case and took it to work. I had a guy come up and asked what I would take for it. I popped off and said a hundred bucks. Well he bought it. Shoot I made a eighty dollar profit so I was happy. He cleaned it all up and brought it back to work to ask me what I thought about it.

Man it shined. That green bone just popped out. I told him if it had looked that good at the time I sold it to him he would have…

Hello,

News on http://www.couteaux-du-soldat-suisse.ch :

A new "'shop" (clic on "Boutique") has just been launched in bilingual English / French for our English, American, Australian and other friends, all major SAKs collectors and especially Swiss soldiers knives.

Many soldiers knives with very attractive prices have been added, so enjoy !

Cheers,

Jean Claude

Knife users find all kinds of ways to carry their knives. Belt sheaths, loose in the pocket, knives with clips to hold the knife in or outside of the pocket, shoulder rigs, well the list goes on and on. Our forefathers, of yesteryear, wore neck knives. The knife sheath was held in place by a lanyard or some sort of necklace. I recently saw a survival expert on TV wareing one for his Bushcraft knife. The knife was a fixed blade, about 8" overall lenth. I have carried a knife in alot of…

 I wonder what kind of person can pay over a $1000.00 dollars for a pocket knife. I also wonder if they carry it or just put it in a safe never to see the light of day again,

 Personally the most I have ever invested in a knife is around 300.00. I have it on display and look at it like it is a piece of art. The wife says it's just a knife but to me it's art.

 I have a stag swayback jack in the shop having it embellished. I'll carry it on very special occasions. Ones where there…

So now we land on the final few tables that I photographed at the DKE. I hope you enjoyed seeing the pictures even a tenth as much as I enjoyed taking them because if so you had a lot of fun.

The first one today is a maker called Martin Annegarn or MAknives who makes some very cool high precision folders. Martin works from a tiny home workshop but he does…

Today we're staring off with Sander van der Veld or Field Knives

Sander is a hobbyist knifemaker who recently started. His specialty is a model he calls the PFB or Pocket Fixed Blade. Which is a…

Now as everyone knows sometimes people come from far for these knifeshows.

The dealer who's next did come from as far away as South Africa.

Here's some of the things they brought with them

André van Heerder knives. I loved this one because of the pattern that snakes between the carbon fibre scales and the lovely damascus…

Folder and fixed blades both today.

First of these is Filip de Leeuw of Deviant Blades who makes some awesome folding knives. His Forté is titanium framelocks. But he's also done a friction folder that got picked up and will be released this summer.

Filip works pretty much with nothing but Premium materials like Mammoth, Carbon Fibre, G-10 etc. And makes for a very nice folding knife. He told me…

I love the Trapper pattern knife and I have more of them in my collection than any other pattern. The reason is not the sleek lines or any other visible attribute. It's because I have used it more than any other pattern being a former fur trapper.

I spent 10 years trapping 'coons, fox, 'rats, 'possum, skunk, and anything else of value for its pelt. Many Christmases were merrier becasue of it. I would cut small branches for guide sticks, sharpen points on ground stakes, and cut bait…

Today we get started with a man who is soo precise with a hand file that he's gotten the nickname "the human CNC machine" among Dutch knifemakers.

His name is Gert van Elsen and he does virtually all his work by hand.

One of the things he loves to do is…