Newbie from Tampa, Florida

[Sswingle]

Hello everybody,

I registered last week and thought I should get around to introducing myself.... I have to say this forum is great and you all have been VERY helpful. I am a long time knife appreciator (actually obsessed with well made knives).

I tend to focus on pocket knives (in particular, scout knives, with exotic handle material when I can find them) as I am a boy scout leader and we are restricted to carrying folding knives. I also like to carry my knives on a lanyard from my belt loop so that all the scouts and adult leaders can appreciate them as well (and so they can drool over them ). Yes I know, it's a sickness.

Other than that, I'm a marine scientist working for a large engineering firm. A have a lovely wife and two sons as well. My oldest son just started at FSU. He received his Eagle rank in scouting this year as well.

Nice to be here!

Steve

[useem]

Welcome to the best place on the internet

[orvet]

aboard!
I hope you enjoy the friendliest knife site on the web!

Dale

[Classic Case]

to the site.

[Hukk]

Welcome to AAPK!

[philco]

Hi Steve,

We have already "talked" but I still want to say to AAPK.

I collect scout knives myself, both the official ones and some of the unofficial as well. Below is a link to a thread you might be interested in. If you have some scout knives you'd care to show us, this would be a great place to post them so the rest of us can over them.

http://allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_f ... out+thread

Welcome aboard.

Phil

[Sswingle]

Thanks Phil! I did see that thread. Some really knice scout knives... I'm just starting my collection. I have a Case mammoth junior scout right now and am having a mammoth tooth scout knife made right now. On my wish list is the Boker camp knife with red stag handles. I might also ask Santa Fe Stoneworks to add fossilized dinosaur (brontosaurus leg bone) handles to a a scout knife as well, although their knives tend to be a little pricey for me.

Right know I have a very specific collecting niche (scout knives with extinct and fossilized materials). I think this has to with my occupation as a scientist and my volunteer job with the scouts. I did purchase a Boker Damascus Blade Lockback Knife a while back as the oak is 3,000 year old bog wood recovered from the bogs of Ireland. See a trend?

[MITCH RAPP]

HELLO STEVE! ABOARD!