Long time knife aficionado just entering my 40s.
I like Barlows and Trappers, Douk-Douks and Opinels, Cases, US GI pocket knives, Scandinavian fixed blades like Puukkos, Leukus, (own a couple Helles and Moras) Some of the vintage and some new Schrades, Russel Green Rivers (dont have any of their folders yet though), Svord Peasants, O1 carbon steel, shallow and scandi grinds and things like that. Also I ride bicycles.
I get conflicted about style vs utility vs cost. (gotta save for retirement) There is the ohmygosh that is so neat baroqueness of a 100 year old Solingen stag handled does everything automatic folding hunting knife, the understated almost formal lines of a Sheffield or New England Barlow in with ebony or bull horn - and the insane cutting performance of $8 Opinel whose handle has been worn bare of varnish and black with use (see also sodbusters).
So hi! It is intensely fun to get browsing around here and just geek out on pocket knives.
Howdy-Hi!
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TripleF
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Welcome! 
SCOTT
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Colonial Knife Company History ebook:
https://gumroad.com/l/ZLDb
Blog: https://scottrauberoutdoors.wordpress.c ... e-26-2026/
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tjmurphy
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Re: Howdy-Hi!
Hey Hobo, welcome to AAPK
"There are none so blind as those that refuse to see"
God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
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gino
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djknife13
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Hi Hobo, Welcome!! Dave (djknife)
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royal0014
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Come on in
Chris
i woke last night to the sound of thunder
how far off i sat and wondered
started humming a song from nineteen sixty two
aint it funny how the night moves
i woke last night to the sound of thunder
how far off i sat and wondered
started humming a song from nineteen sixty two
aint it funny how the night moves
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treefarmer
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Greetings there, b1k3hobo!
Sounds like you have a bad case of whatever it is the rest of us have
. Good to meet you 
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Treefarmer
Sounds like you have a bad case of whatever it is the rest of us have
. Good to meet you .Treefarmer
A GUN IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN A COP ON THE PHONE.
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jerryd6818
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Welcome to AAPK. Glad to have you aboard. A lesson I should have learned. Retirement first, knives second.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Miller Bro's
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orvet
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Welcome aboard!
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“Evil is Powerless If The Good are Unafraid.” – Ronald Reagan
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"Buy more ammo!" - Johnnie Fain
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HET, hobo 
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to AAPK.Phil
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Jesus died for you. Are you living for Him?
"Buy More Ammo!"
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Jesus died for you. Are you living for Him?
"Buy More Ammo!"
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Knife Nut
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Hobo, a very hearty welcome to you.
You do have me curious.....Location: in a Brooks Saddle?
Is that like a horse saddle?
Paul
You do have me curious.....Location: in a Brooks Saddle?
Is that like a horse saddle?
Paul
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b1k3hobo
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It is a bicycle saddle/seat whose design goes back to 1882, basically thick leather held in tension between front and rear mounts. Not too comfortable initially but breaks in like a baseball glove after 10,000 miles or so.Knife Nut wrote:Hobo, a very hearty welcome to you.
You do have me curious.....Location: in a Brooks Saddle?
Is that like a horse saddle?
Paul