How many times a week you give your collection a look?
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Re: How many times a week you give your collection a look?
The rest.....and thanks for looking at them, no one at my house is interested.
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Re: How many times a week you give your collection a look?
Wow! Outstanding collection! The top 2 pictures especially do it for me.
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Thanks. Wish I had someone here who would show some interest.whippersnapper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:03 pm Wow! Outstanding collection! The top 2 pictures especially do it for me.
Re: How many times a week you give your collection a look?
Love those “purplish/redish” JPL’s!
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Re: How many times a week you give your collection a look?
Quite the collection, Johns. A lot of nice blades there.
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This week's edition, Latama customs, Tank's vision!
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Beautiful collections and knives shown by all here .Would be proud of them .
Really wish I could have snagged a Presto or any American examples back in the day .
Thanks for sharing them.
Really wish I could have snagged a Presto or any American examples back in the day .
Thanks for sharing them.
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Re: How many times a week you give your collection a look?
nice autos, all of them.
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Wow John!
Amazing variety in your vast collection.
Love the Bucks.
Amazing variety in your vast collection.
Love the Bucks.
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Re: How many times a week you give your collection a look?
Wow ! Love those JPL’s !!
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Great collections !!!
Re: How many times a week you give your collection a look?
Actually most of my knives are packed away. I went through a period when collecting was new to me, and I bought a lot of knives. I have a couple of Godfathers and a Godson, a bunch of Leverlettos, commemorative Talkblade knives (Teddy/Pushbutton, Tiny, etc.), and about a dozen of the custom knives I used to make. Maybe 30 or so. I consider these keepers. I also have about a hundred which are nothing special, that I'd get rid of if I wasn't so lazy. I haven't seen most of them in a long time.
I keep a 9" AB dagger blade in my desk to open letters and boxes.
I was primarily a builder and not a collector. Most of the energy I've put into the hobby was in making knife parts, jigs, fixtures, etc. I have a small metalworking shop in my basement that took shape over the years mainly to make knives. I converted a CNC blade grinder I built to a 3 axis router for the purpose of making RC model plane parts, so, no more custom blades.
I'd like to keep the good ones and sell off the rest, but I never get around to it. I don't regret any of this, the knives I built are among the most precise and well executed items I've ever created (not counting my industrial career). However, I reached a point where I'd done what I had intended to do and making more knives was unnecessary.
I'm getting old (72), and now have a spare bedroom full of knives, guns, guitars, model planes, and a few other leftovers from various interests, and records from the 2 businesses I started. Stuff I'm not currently engaged in.
This thread has renewed my interest in thinning out my posessions.
Tom
I keep a 9" AB dagger blade in my desk to open letters and boxes.
I was primarily a builder and not a collector. Most of the energy I've put into the hobby was in making knife parts, jigs, fixtures, etc. I have a small metalworking shop in my basement that took shape over the years mainly to make knives. I converted a CNC blade grinder I built to a 3 axis router for the purpose of making RC model plane parts, so, no more custom blades.
I'd like to keep the good ones and sell off the rest, but I never get around to it. I don't regret any of this, the knives I built are among the most precise and well executed items I've ever created (not counting my industrial career). However, I reached a point where I'd done what I had intended to do and making more knives was unnecessary.
I'm getting old (72), and now have a spare bedroom full of knives, guns, guitars, model planes, and a few other leftovers from various interests, and records from the 2 businesses I started. Stuff I'm not currently engaged in.
This thread has renewed my interest in thinning out my posessions.
Tom
Is it...Tomorrow....Or just the end of time?
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Re: How many times a week you give your collection a look?
Hey Tom! Be interesting to see some of the stuff you have buried away.