while looking thru my collection..i found to my horror rust spots on one of the 1075 high carbon blade and fungus growth, even on smooth mirror polish blades or on the G10 handles or even on the packaging boxes.... these fungus are similar to the lens fungus found in lens and camera, whitish color, with its tentacles spreading out clawling and anchoring itself into any microscopic crevices of the blades or handles.



i have wiped all with Sentry Solution Tuf-Cloth and now putting into…

Does any one know where I can get a Camillus trapper knife repaired? The springs have both broken which I have not seen happen before.Am I going to have to make new springs,or does someone offer them?  Ken

we have just finished a website about Swiss soldiers knives and I just wanted to invite you to visit it and register:

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

One day, a small opening appeared in a cocoon: a man sat and watched for the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then, it seems to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it coud not go any further. So the man decided to help the butterfly: he took a pair of scissors and opened the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a withered body, it was tiny and shriveled wings.

The man…

I give you this one thought to keep -

I am with you still - I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on the snow,

I am the sunlight on the ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush,

I am the swift, uplifting rush of

quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not think of me as gone -

I am with you still - in each…

Greetings to all the fellow ...poker freaks of this site...

First off I would like to thank everyone that has shared in viewing my photos...and those that have left comments...truly appreciated!

So just to let you know that I am an Indian...it is not a slang name that I thought up but it is what I have been called from an early stage..

I was born and raised in Brandon Manitoba...my father is a Seaulteaux Indian from the interlake region of Manitoba...my…

Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with my friend Michael from www.droppointhunter.com The sentiment expressed in his email was just so true to the heart of all of us who are true users,collectors or creators of knives. I will send your responses to him or you can leave comments on his website.

Enough from me here is his email: 

We're away this weekend at the Dixie Deer Classic in Raleigh North…

I have loved pocket…

At both the end of January and the end of Feb this man was at the top of the leaderboard.  You have all seen his posts and his love of knives

Thank you to everyone for a successful first quarter this year.  New members, new content and lots of fun!

Congratulations to Mr. Craig Henry.  Choose your bumper sticker and let me know which one you would like to have…

Our Community is absolutely free to our members and I intend that it will always be that way.  I refuse to implement pages you have to pay to enter or any of the other gimmicks..  I know you have all noticed that we now have some ads to pay the basic needs of the community, Go Daddy and Ning.  Getting our name out there brings its own set of costs.  Recently I have been asked on several occasions recently if there is a way for the members that wish provide help.

Then an Angel…

In Irish lore is a knife is facing up toward the moon then it is a sign of good luck.

The i seen a sight that said a knife pointing upward means danger. (i would go with this one. )

If you give a knife to a friend it will sever the friendship. to reverse the ill luck, you should repay them with a…

I had never heard of this man and find it amazing that with as many knives as he sold there are only a few around.  That must mean they were used, not collected.  If he could only see them now!

JACK KNIFE BEN    

It isn't a knife; instead it is a piece  of knife lore. A March 1927 issue of The American Magazine had a great article

about Jack Knife Ben himself, written by a journalist named  Neil M. Clark. 



    Jack Knife Ben was really named Benjamin W.…

Thank you Tony for sharing this information.  I for one love the look of swedges but did not realize their importance to the function of a knife

As some of you may know, recently I have caught the 110 bug. I've been buying older used 110's on eBay out of curiosity. 

Well, I love these knives. They're easy to re-furbish, re-task and the variations of handles are countless. 

This project will consist of a complete tear down, cleaning, New Damascus blade and scales. Plus, re-tasking the old blade into a usable fixed blade. This blog will be updated as the project progresses. 

2/12/13 The Spanish Lace Damascus blade…

Some factory-sponsored knife collector clubs have been formed out of necessity. The KA-BAR Collector Club (now defunct) initiated the first such club in the cutlery industry to advertise its name and spur interest in its products during a slumping sales period. Camillus also tried this approach but it was unfortunately too little too late.

We know that by 2002 Camillus was having a hard time surviving in the cutlery business. In the first quarter of 2003 (I believe it was February)…

Several iKnifeCollector members have asked me about my collection database. It is a Microsoft Access file, and if you can use it, I'd be happy to share a copy with you.

All comments are gratefully received.

When I was training to be a librarian, I took many graduate courses, and one of my favorites was Cataloging. My fellow librarians-in-training thought I was out of my mind, but the instructor assured them that every so often an oddball like me would…

I received a conversation copy.  I thought about making changes but decided that the conversation is the best way to introduce the pictures and the differences

(1)Tony Bose custom

Texas Lockhorn Case XX check

Sidewinder Case XX check

(2)Deep canyon chestnut Bone swayback jack Case XX

(3)Candy Stripe Case XX

(4) Any knife that catches my eye.

I just found a reference website.  All of you seasoned collectors may already know about it or at least know the information on it, but it is going to be a tremendous help to me in learning more about knives.  Particularly any other newer collectors may find it helpful also.  When you log on, at the top is a row of six "books".  The first two are labeled Reference and Dictionary.  Anyone may access these.  You have to be a member of their club to access the last four.

But there is…