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Please put me on the list for a Forum knife. Thanks very much.

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What a beauty! Anybody make out the tang stamp on that baby?

Great site, Omega. A little sick and twisted and slightly bent. Just my style. Keep up the good work.

Great photo of some beautiful knives. The brothers look very happy to be all together. I'm looking forward to seeing a photo of them all open.

Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe? Rob, Chip, and Ernie? Sonny, Fredo, and Michael?

It's real briarwood, all right. It was pretty obvious through a magnifying glass. Duh. It still has a really plasticky smell to it, though. Must be the finish.

I recently acquired a knife that's supposed to have genuine briarwood scales. It's my first knife with briarwood, and I have a sneaking suspicion that it might be faux briarwood. Is there a reliable and nondestructive test I can do to find out? I don't have enough experience with the stuff to know j...

Thanks for the reply, Vagrant. I figured I'm pretty much stuck with the knife as it is. Sorry about the inappropriate question. I'll stick to p.m. for stuff like that from now on.

I have a couple of questions regarding Italian stilettos. Do Jndiana, SKM, and AKC actually manufacture knives a la Fr. Beltrame and AB, or are they distributors? Also, I've bought several stilettos directly from AB through their web site, and mostly they've been great. However, I just received a st...