What Turned Out to be My Life's Story...
Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 9:00 pm
After sitting down to write this (after the first, long paragraph), I decided I better preface this, so you better grab a cup of coffee or other favorite beverage... this could take awhile!
Not a Newbie, but a long time collector here. I think I picked up my first serious knife in high school, in the 70's! Things were a lot different then! This whole internet thing changed this and all hobbies forever! We have to redefine what Rare is. What was Rare a few decades ago... and I define something being "Rare" as, something I have searched high and low for, for years and unable to turn up or been able to only find a couple examples of. Now, all one has to do, is log in, do a few searches and find a couple of examples... anywhere in the world! I remember sending away for catalogs, waiting for them to arrive. Scouring thru them. Finding some treasure and actually sitting down and writing a letter to the person/dealer, waiting days or even possibly weeks, for a response. Possibly, haggling over price back and forth. Then settling on an amount and each trusting the other enough to send a check in the mail (remember hand written checks?!), while the seller packaged up your items and the 2 crossed in the mail. Sometimes you established life-long friendships with some of the buyer's and seller's, even if some were long distance.
Whew, sorry..., I didn't mean for this to turn into some dissertation on me and my whole outlook on life, etc. Must be all of this being locked up stuff!
Let me try this again... while doing a search on a particular knife, I came across your forum and decided to join.. I'm an older, middle-aged (that's how I prefer to call it) gent, from the North West, born and lived here my entire life. Now retired from a Metrologist/Engineering background (think, machinists and machine shops, where I programmed CMM's [Coordinate Measuring Machines], performed measurements and calibrations, etc... I now have a grown son, who sorta followed in my footsteps and has become a very accomplished machinist). Several interests including fishing, shooting and, of course - sharp-pointy objects, etc. I collect many of the previous along with Fly-fishing equipment (flies, rods, reels, creels, antique wooden lures etc. Fly fishing books dating from the 1600's to the present!). I dabbled in Sports Cards dating from the 50's to the 90's (till that got ruined), I have a large, odd collection of playing card decks, autographs, antiques, etc. Seems like anything weird and unusual, I have an interest in. I have a very large wristwatch collection that no one has any business owning so many of, or "investing" (as we like to call it, right?!), so much in! I guess knives, watches and guns are my primary passions (investments!).
Now that you know me and my philosophies on life, I am honored to be a member of your community and hope that I can, in some small way, contribute. If you haven't noticed... I do get a little windy, on occasion and am very passionate about these interests!
Thank you all for your time and sticking it out!
Robert
PS: Oh yes... (You didn't think you would get off that easy- did you?), I am a huge movie fanatic (hence the handle: Crom, from "Conan the Barbarian") and can't go to the movies any longer, so I write long dissertations to a bunch of strangers on forums in the aforementioned: Guns, Knives and Watch Forums. Take care all, and be safe!
Not a Newbie, but a long time collector here. I think I picked up my first serious knife in high school, in the 70's! Things were a lot different then! This whole internet thing changed this and all hobbies forever! We have to redefine what Rare is. What was Rare a few decades ago... and I define something being "Rare" as, something I have searched high and low for, for years and unable to turn up or been able to only find a couple examples of. Now, all one has to do, is log in, do a few searches and find a couple of examples... anywhere in the world! I remember sending away for catalogs, waiting for them to arrive. Scouring thru them. Finding some treasure and actually sitting down and writing a letter to the person/dealer, waiting days or even possibly weeks, for a response. Possibly, haggling over price back and forth. Then settling on an amount and each trusting the other enough to send a check in the mail (remember hand written checks?!), while the seller packaged up your items and the 2 crossed in the mail. Sometimes you established life-long friendships with some of the buyer's and seller's, even if some were long distance.
Whew, sorry..., I didn't mean for this to turn into some dissertation on me and my whole outlook on life, etc. Must be all of this being locked up stuff!
Let me try this again... while doing a search on a particular knife, I came across your forum and decided to join.. I'm an older, middle-aged (that's how I prefer to call it) gent, from the North West, born and lived here my entire life. Now retired from a Metrologist/Engineering background (think, machinists and machine shops, where I programmed CMM's [Coordinate Measuring Machines], performed measurements and calibrations, etc... I now have a grown son, who sorta followed in my footsteps and has become a very accomplished machinist). Several interests including fishing, shooting and, of course - sharp-pointy objects, etc. I collect many of the previous along with Fly-fishing equipment (flies, rods, reels, creels, antique wooden lures etc. Fly fishing books dating from the 1600's to the present!). I dabbled in Sports Cards dating from the 50's to the 90's (till that got ruined), I have a large, odd collection of playing card decks, autographs, antiques, etc. Seems like anything weird and unusual, I have an interest in. I have a very large wristwatch collection that no one has any business owning so many of, or "investing" (as we like to call it, right?!), so much in! I guess knives, watches and guns are my primary passions (investments!).
Now that you know me and my philosophies on life, I am honored to be a member of your community and hope that I can, in some small way, contribute. If you haven't noticed... I do get a little windy, on occasion and am very passionate about these interests!
Thank you all for your time and sticking it out!
Robert
PS: Oh yes... (You didn't think you would get off that easy- did you?), I am a huge movie fanatic (hence the handle: Crom, from "Conan the Barbarian") and can't go to the movies any longer, so I write long dissertations to a bunch of strangers on forums in the aforementioned: Guns, Knives and Watch Forums. Take care all, and be safe!
