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I agree Bruce; that's why I feel at home here. I've run into a lot of gargantuan egos in this trade. When I leave my shop, I've striven to do my best, but I haven't cured cancer, I haven't brought peace to the Middle East, and I haven't solved the problem of world hunger. I've made a knife or a...

My thoughts on smithing vs stock removal. A good knife is a good knife period, no matter how it got made. A question I was asked recently to prove I wasn't a robot was, "What is your favorite knife?" My answer was, "The one I'm holding at the time." For any of you old Western movie buffs, in...

Well, thanks, all. I think above all NTM is a state of mind, more so than any particular school of thought on which is the superior technique. That there is still interest today, gives me hope that what we fell into back in the day really did have merit. I contacted a maker who makes some really...

Hey Bruce, Thanks. My first gun as a young teen was an Italian replica of a .36 caliber Griswold and Grier (Southern version of the Navy Colt, but with a round barrel.) Even with the V notch in the hammer and a brass bead front sight, it could drive nails. Come to think of it, back when I was a...

Neo-Tribal Revisited.... NTM was a phenomenal experiment. Many moons ago, I was already headed in that direction on my own, when I had an enlightening conversation with Virgil England at the Blade Show in Atlanta. He told me that there were kindred spirits in Arizona who were forging by the...

Beware the unwashed and well read....

Hey guys, and thanks for the welcome. One of the things we NTM'S did back in the day (to the horror and chagrin of a lot of the knife world) was we often forged the blade completely to the cutting edge, so that once all the heat treatments were accomplished, handles affixed, etc, all we had to...

It's been a while. Went to the old forum and nothing much takes place there any more; kind of visiting a haunted house where you used to live. A search landed me here, where, Stormcrow, an old compadre from back in the day, I see, has done a great job holding down the NT fort. Hats off to ya...