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Great looking stream. Is that behind your house? I live on Long Island, NY. I try and go fresh water fishing 30 or more times a year. There are a fair amount of lakes and ponds here and they stock three near by with about 2,000 trout each lake. Lot of panfish, bass and pickeral also....what lure do ...

I know Taylor and SMKW have a interwinned relationship, but not sure of all the facts. There both in Tenn, and Frost is involved also. When Cammillus went out of business last year, these were the guys running to grab the left overs and name rights. I got a few dozen of the Cammillus Heats ( the big...

Smokey Mountain Knife Works bought the Schrade name out and is using it now on many new low end import knives. These look to be the same quailty as the Twain Bokers ( which is reasonably good as a user), but they are not top dollar collectables for sure, or USA type high quailty, high tech knives....

Whippersnapper, I had joined Bladeforums a few years back, and posted mostly in the Knife Law and Automatic Knife section. This site I held off on a bit as being a former NY LEO I will tell you are "list" kept on membership to certain things. After reading quotes on this site on a daily basis, it se...

Jim the law passed in the 70s, but they were produced after that as there was a demand for them. The quailty of Italian knives was at a all time low from the mid 80 to late 90s as the market place over seas was drying up due to new laws, and the customers here were subject to Customs issues. The Fra...

Jerrbear, The Twain models you are referring to came in the late 80s that I saw. A company out of NJ called Double 8 ( Now MAster Cutlery), imported both the twain and Korea models. The Twain had thin lettering saying 440 stiletto and Twain on them and the hole went all the way through the blade ( o...

Thanks all for the continued welcome......Whippersnapper, I have been involved in several emails with you and I finally decided to join in here.....

Wanting to buy these is what got me to join !!!! I bought 7 horn and one wood from HDC.....I will let you know what I think of them when they get here......I enjoy these as I had two of these in the 1980s and gave them away ( to two girls no less), and have missed the Non auto version since......HDC...

I was not a member when this posted, but I will add some info now on the NATO/Super Automatics/swing guards clones. Bell Metal in Korea produced the NATO and Super Auto ( written in script) from the mid 1960s till the mid to late 1990s. These were the higher quality of the cheap front openers. I kno...

Thanks all for the welcomes. I have to figure out how to post pictures and then I will. Vagrant I have loved watching Rommel grow up and I am a BIG freshwater fisherman, so I totally enjoy all your fishing stories !!!!

The whole Kershaw line of assited openers are really top shelf as far as quailty and customer service goes. They have great style and use many new metals in their blades that offer you alot of choices....I have the one pictured and it is a great user....

Thanks for the welcome !! I know a few of you are fellow NYers...anyone near LI or the city?

I have been a daily reader for years now and finally joined so I could contact HDC and buy a few of the non auto folding guards from him. I will join in here and there. I have been a member at Bladeforums for three yeras now and post almost daily there. I look forward to "speaking" a bit here....I a...