Well, you can probably tell from my recent string of photos that I have already blown my May knife buying budget.  Ooooops!

So of course what was I doing yesterday?  Trolling eBay and some of my long time sellers as well as looking for something special.

Bumped right into something from a guy who has bought and sold and even traded a lot of knives, and a few guns,  with me.  And he had something that I had just recently learned about.

You know how it is when you just…

Ok, this is a different kind of knife.

I won't aggevate you making you guess....too long.

This is a pizza knife or blade or cutter.

A metal blade is in between two pieces of light but strong wood.  The entire thing has a sweet curvature on one side.  But you can see the metal in the middle even on the straight side.

I know people collect…

I think this is Portugese just because I have never seen the knife company.  Silverstenl Briggs.  I could be wrong.

I can't find anything in my books by that name so maybe someone can help me.…

I bought this knife for one reason.  OK, for 1.5 reasons.

I don't have a Toothpick and this one was cheap.  Got it for like $8.99.

The guy advertised it as a Fisher, but it has no scaler blade, so I thibnk it's a toothpick.

Plus it has that really cool shield on the handle in the shape of a whale.

So maybe it is a fish knife after all??…

Recently I also bought an old, small 2 blade I-XL knife.

I-XL goes overboard on this knife with advertising themselves.

There is the stamped I-XL on the bolster above.  I like how they squared off the bolster in order to stamp the…

I admit.  I bought these knives because the handles are so beautiful.  They are alike, but different. 

And both are hot hot hot.…

I have a couple of modern pruning knives that I bought in the last year and i figutre maybe I should post them, see how they stack up against the old ones.

Aesthetically I prefer the old ones, but the new ones both seem to be stronger and better built.…

A few more of the knives I received just yesterday:

The knife below I believe is a Pruner.  It has a tip much like the Hawkbill, but the handle of the Hawkbill makes it stand out.

This knife is from Colonial.  An inexpensive knife, but interesting because of the 2nd blade.  Most pruners I have seen only have one blade.  The 2nd blade here is a screwdriver blade.  It has a factory edge, but I don't believe either blade ever got sharpened.

I can't complain.  This knife…

Well, none of these oldies represent Cinco De Mayo, but I did get most of them on the recent holiday.  I hope you all had a nice margarita or two.  A friend dropped off some tamales for me, which was really nice.

First up is a really nice George Wostenholm I-XL Hawkbill or Pruning blade from Sheffield England.

I like knives that have etched blades, but when they get this old they tend to lose the etch.  This one is nice and strong.

It has the traditional pinched…

So I really like older pocketknives such as:

• Sailor's knife
• Pruner and Cotton knife
• Hawkbill knife

They tended to confuse me early, when I was even "dumber" than I am now.  They confused me because when they are closed they look so much alike.  The blades stick so far above the handle on all of them.  Now I can mostly tell them apart.

When they are open, the blades confused me because I didn't understand the differences in blade…

Today I have some pocketknives of different types & styles.  But all are antiques, so those who don't appreciate antique knives can come back later gator.

Above are some Coca-Cola knives.  One has script writing and one has multi-color handles made from pieces of other handles that had defects.  The red knife attop is a Red Cross knife.  I think each of…

Well I was blessed when we went to the Indian Casino (Thunder Valley) to celebrate my birthday.  Birthday was April 12th, the big big sixty, and the celebbration was April 15th.

Played the slots which usually I don't do much.  I am more of a poker tournament guy, but the slots were kind to me.

The one quarter machine hit a 4X/2X/Red 7....on a 3 quarter pull paid 2400 25 cent pieces! …

Sunday I am going to the Indian Casino and celerate my birthday some more.  They are gonna open their teepees and share the wealth with this Apache brother.  Then we are all gonna meet up at the steakhouse and have dinner.  All ya'll in California come toThunder Valley Casino and have one on me!!!

So please...all my friends in the middle (heart) of the country.....be careful on Saturday! 

"Forecasters say Saturday storms 'life threatening'"

Well with a prior post I learned that our  iKnife Community Founder, Scott King, makes his home in Gadsden Alabama which is also the home of the Friday Night Cruise-In. 

Does anyone make their home in Crossville, Tennessee the home of the I-40 Dragway and the Bounty Race???

The April Bounty Race will be the biggest index race in history at the 1/8th Mile. …

hmmmmm........

This week just no one is bidding on any of my knives.

Yet I bid on just one knife and today I lose by one dollah

Why can't those peeps bid on the knives I am selling instead of the knife I am trying to buy?

Danggit!

Anyone in Gadsden Alabama??



I have a friend who wrote a book about Sleeper Cars, in fact if you build or try to masquerade your fast street car and make it look like a common everyday car----chances are  you read his book.

For the rest of us knife collectors, usually we also like guns, motorcycles and cars.  OK, well whiskey...and chicks too!!

They just all go together.

Anyway....the writer.  He also has a great hot rod and cruise-in blog site called Byrd…

Do you know Eric Gorges?  Famous custom motorcycle builder.  Been on Bikers Build-Off shows on the Discovery Cannel--and won!!  Runs Voodoo Choppers

Dude builds some of the sickest bikes ever!!!

Anyway I tweeted about iKnife Collector, just telling people it's a great place to meet other knife collectors.

Eric and I follow each other on Twitter and he "favorited" the Tweet.  We have a custom bike…

So I bought some new Barlow's to celebrate April Fool's Dasy!!

I'll describe the picsd for you.

The first is all 3 knives displayed with blades open.

Pic 2:  The bolster of the Russell Barlow

Pic 3:  The Tang of the Russell, laid out as:

           RUSSELL in a half-circle over

               <>R<>  over

                U.S.A.

Pic 4:  the exciting pic, is the Russell again.  Etched on the large blade is the…

Do any of you folks run into fake knives or altered knives when you are out uying.  Or knives that you just have suspicions about??

Maybe it's just me because I collect mostly antique blades.

But I see that a lot of the new knives many of ou collect are just as expensive as the 100 year old knives that I buy, and I wonder...

Anyway, I ran into this eBay buying guide that applies to knives that are for sale anywhere.

You can check it out at…