About Us

The mission of All About Pocket Knives (AAPK) is to become the leading provider of knife related services.  We combine our technological expertise with knife related wisdom and ideas from our fellow collectors and members to create and offer the best, most affordable services available.  At AAPK it’s customer first, and we want our visitors to sense that every visit.

The AAPK project began in March of 2004. The goal was to construct a website aimed at promoting the hobby of knife collecting. We wanted to create an online location where collectors could learn about knives and find specific answers to their questions. Since this time, AAPK has evolved into much more. We now provide more knife related information and services than any other website online, and we continue to regularly add new features.

At AAPK, you can buy knives, sell knives, talk about knives, research knives, and find the value of some of your knives, just to name a few things. If there is something about knives that you can not do here, just email us, and we will make it happen.

Please direct your comments, complaints, suggestions to Bryan Sanders.
bryan@allaboutpocketknives.com or visit our forum here and leave a comment or suggestion.

Letter from the founder about the development of AAPK...

There were several factors that lead to the development of this website, much of which was directly related to the events that were going on in my personal life. In June 2000, I was struck with a spinal cord injury that left me quadriplegic. It was an unlucky event where I fell head first into a river. Preceding this, I was enrolled in an Illinois college with only three classes left to complete a bachelor’s degree in Finance. My original career goal was to work on Wall Street as an investment analyst, or financial advisor.

Since the incident, I have completed my bachelor’s degree, and have taken several additional Accounting classes. I am currently involved in a rehabilitation project that has enabled me to gain much strength in my arms, and a small amount of use in my hands. Unfortunately, I have several issues that keep me from being able to balance a demanding investment analysis job with the rehab that I currently undergo. I refused to give up the rehab, so I turned my attention toward finding something to do from home.

This is where the AAPK project got started. I decided that I would learn web design and development and do that for a living. To accomplish this, I needed a project to test and learn with. I decided to do something with a subject that I enjoyed thoroughly. Knives of course! What else??? I bought countless books about various programming languages, and I taught myself the most powerful, up to date languages available. AAPK was my test subject. Everything I learned was tried and tested on this website. From creating a discussion board, to building an entire functional classified ads program.

My plan was to create a small site that was helpful and informational to beginning and intermediate knife collectors. I was going to make it relatively simple, but things have changed. Now I have bigger plans for AAPK. I have included retail, and advertisements in an effort to make the site self supporting, and I hope to generate enough income to enable me to forego other projects so that I can work more on this. Only time will tell where this will end up, but I have great expectations, and I hope that you do as well.

Bryan Sanders

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