All About Pocket Knives

Good Morning All,
Nice place you have here. I found you all from a member of a different forum that pointed me to a sale thread he thought I might be interested in. I collect Buck contract stockman made by Schrade and Camillus and there was a nice Schrade listed. Anyway I missed the sale but found a great place I didn’t know about.
A little about me. I am a Buck collector that doesn’t own a Buck made knife!
I was gifted a Camillus 303 by my grandpa on my 10th birthday almost 45 years ago now and have carried one most days since. I’ve collected them for the better part of 20 years and at one time owned 165 of them including at least one of every year and version of the black saw cuts and most of the colors and special runs and sfo. I found an interest in the 301 a while back and have since decided to re configure my collecting to contract stockman so I’ve sold off and given away pretty much everything that wasn’t a stockman made by Schrade or Camillus and opened up to the 301, 303, 307 and 319.
I have a wife and college age daughter that both have an interest in knives so it’s fun to be able to share in this with them and it allows me to still pick up the occasional interesting knife that just doesn’t fit my collection because I always have a couple of takers here.


Anyway I’d like to stick around if you all will have me and I look forward to meeting you.

Clay

Welcome Clay, interesting area of collecting. Hope you will post a few pictures. I focus mostly on the Camillus 72 but also the copies made by other companies. Take off your hat and stay awhile.

Great to have you, Clay, and to AAPK! Lots of great info here on all kinds of knives and cutting tools. We love knife talk especially when there's pictures included.

John

Welcome to AAPK.

Clay, welcome, from Texas! Great group of folks here, glad to have you aboard!

Welcome to AAPK Clay. There are a lot of very fine folks around here and we all enjoy each others company almost daily.
Pull up a chair and share some of your Buck knives with us and maybe you will become our resident go to guy on Buck knives.

David R

to AAPK from the Florida Panhandle.
Make yourself at home, there are some folks around here that are also knee deep in Buck knives.
Treefarmer

Welcome to AAPK. Grab a rack, stow your gear and get comfortable. Bucks not made by Buck. Now that's a true collector cause you have focus, which in my dictionary is the definition of "collector".

Welcome to the forum.

Greetings, Clay, from one Nebraska native to another. Welcome aboard...hope you stick around and enjoy a time of leisure and fun.

Hi Clay. Lots of friendly people here, and not a lot of attitude either. It's a good place.

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Mike

Welcome to AAPK!

I had not thought of that as a collecting focus. Now I’ll have to look at the Buck’s in my pile to determine which ones weren’t made by Buck! I have a few that I suspect were made by Camillus and Schrade but I’ve never investigated.

Ken

Hello & Welcome Clay! Glad you came!

And good afternoon from New Jersey!
Glad you're here!!

Thank you all for such a warm and friendly welcome. I see pictures are the order of the day so as soon as I get a handle on posting them I’ll get right on it!

Thanks guys.

Nice to have you here Clay... welcome. My Nebraska experiences are limited, though I do know two things:

1) You have some great small towns to explore as I found out a few years ago while making a leisurely drive out to Wyoming along the northern tier via Rt. 20, and

2) You folks take Cornhusker Football awful seriously!

Dennis