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  1. OzarkKnife

    New Around Here

    Hello and Howdy!
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    Best way to learn for beginners

    Yeah, Ed...I am about as beginner as you can get. I have purchased the knives I have based on looks and style. But as I have gotten the catalogs and watching the knife shows, I got more interested in the guts of of a knife. I wanted to start learning more about them outside of a bad a*s or...
  3. OzarkKnife

    Shop Music Thread- what are you listening to today?

    My music span is quite wide. My top rock band is Van Halen. But I listen to just about everything. I can have Van Halen and Cheap Trick blasting one minute, then turn around on a dime and throw in some Stringbean, Grandpa Jones or Johnny Cash. Used to kinda surprise my friends sometimes. I could...
  4. OzarkKnife

    Your opinion on "Cutlery Corner"

    I have been an avid watcher of "Cutlery Corner", but have never ordered from them (at least, not yet). Like with just about everything, some people love it and some says their quality is cheap, bad customer service, dont order from them, etc., etc. I know sometimes I drool over some of their...
  5. OzarkKnife

    Best way to learn for beginners

    I appreciate all of these responses and advice! Sometimes, while watching "Cutlery Corner," Todd Boone will rattle off a bunch of specs about a knife and I am sitting there like "Uh,huh :confused:...(stares at the sceen)....I like how it looks though." :D And, as I have eluded to before, my...
  6. OzarkKnife

    Hello from the Ozarks!

    Thanks everyone! Glad to be here and diving more into this. :)
  7. OzarkKnife

    Best way to learn for beginners

    Thanks a lot, everyone! I read my catalogs and watch Cutlery Corner and the spec talk goes right by me. I know what bolsters are and jigging, some of the knife styles (peanut, trapper, stockman, etc.). More of the basic stuff, but some of the deeper spec talk is pretty detailed.
  8. OzarkKnife

    Hello from the Ozarks!

    Holy smokes! I used to live in Gentry and went to the schools there. I moved there from Kansas City and was there from 82-86. Is that being held at the Tired Iron grounds?
  9. OzarkKnife

    Best way to learn for beginners

    John, As an example, I am looking at a pocket knife that has a 440A stainless steel blade with full tang and a black G-10 handle. That blows right by me. I am ignorant to why there are so many stainless steel blades. 440A, VG-10, 1075 high carbon, CPM-S30V, etc., etc. To the beginner eye, like...
  10. OzarkKnife

    Best way to learn for beginners

    First, I appreciate the help I am getting! ;) John, I am wanting to learn about knives. Not knife making, but what makes them up, the details and the intricacies. I don't understand the various numbers and letters of stainless steel blades and tangs and that kind of stuff. I guess the...
  11. OzarkKnife

    Best way to learn for beginners

    As I said in my introduction, I havent been collecting for long and only have about twenty knives, but I am wanting to learn more about details and what knives are made of. I get the catalogs from SMKW and a few others and see the different stainless steel blades like 7Cr17, 7Cr17MoV, 8Cr13...
  12. OzarkKnife

    Hello from the Ozarks!

    Hello folks, Just joined last night. I am a 52 year old part time knife collector. I have been collecting for about nine years while only acquiring about twenty knives. Wife and I are in the lower Missouri Ozarks with plans to moving to Lake of the Ozarks before long. We take care of my 91 year...
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