Thread: Knife collecting

Now we're talking! love the traditional looking knives.

My father gave me a bunch of knives he collected over the years. I have them in a case at the bottom of one of my closets. He also gave my a few devices to sharpen them from spiderco (sp). I really have no interest in them but since they were Dads I kept them rust free and safe.
I guess get some sort of show case for them. Some are very old so I look at them periodically and use the oil he gave me to keep them.

I was always interested in folks who make their own knives. I think some of the ones I have are hand made but I'm not sure.

I would put them in a display (I have one to for my knives) just to keep your fathers legacy alive Hand made knives are the best since they tell a story and often show real craftsmanship. I have made some knives / Machetes myself and I can tell you it's a painstaking process to get them right.

I used to have a knife collection. I gave most of them away to various friends.

I keep a Benchmade around for EDC and a Cold Steel prolite as a beater knife. My favorite and most used knife though is my Hiromoto AS kitchen knife. I'm suppose to be getting a 150mm petty at some point. This knife is the best knife purchase choice I ever made and sharpens up beautifully to a scary edge on my Grandfather's vintage Escher stone.

I have a few. That Tamahagane knife is nice by the way.

The link to my collection doesn't work. I have some loose pics though:

My Böker Cronidur:


My Böker Black Forrest:



My Queen Gunstock:



My Japanese style hunter:



Oh yeah, the stuff I made can be found here:
http://knifereviews.org/index.php/cu...inished-pieces

I have to admit to being a bit of a knife nut. Here is one I bought recently by a very talented maker who goes by chevin on the British Blades froum



The handle is micarta and the blade is 01 steel with a hand rubbed satin finish (nice).

Oooooh I am so jealous of all of you! I have some run of the mill knives I got from places around here. Nothing worth showing pics of anyways. But knives and sharp things in general are good stuff. I would like to learn the proper way to sharpen a knife though. My grandpa and I used to whittle a bit and do a little sharpening, but that was a long time ago.

I have that D2 ^^^ as well. Freaking awesome tool. Takes a beating as well!

I just got my first fixed blade as an early Christmas present from my brother. It's a Cold Steel "GI Tanto" and I immediately took it to the bench grinder to modify it significantly (rounded the tanto point, ground off upper hand guard and added jimping where it used to be, flattened false edge, rounded area behind edge for a choked up grip). The result is something I hope will run well as a lightweight beater/survival knife. I stripped the factory black paint off the blade and created a forced patina with mustard. I also decreased the angle of the bevel and added some texture to the scales. I'm planning to build some nice hardwood scales for it in the near future. All in all it was a pretty fun project and I'm very happy with the result.