Just a short line to let my friends here know that I haven't forgotten you. I moved to Seattle in April and embarked on a new career. It's had its ups and down of course, but I am finally starting to return to the things I had to put on the back-burner with the near-wholesale life changes of this year.
Anyhows... I've been looking around the forums the past couple of days, reading both old and new threads. It's nice to see the familiar among you, and the new. So if you wondered where I went, I'm here now. And to everyone who wanted to trade me for that stag 'Tested' peanut, I still have it; still not parting with it!
Knife Talk, finally:
Sadly, I just found out that I missed a huge knife show in Tacoma last weekend. On the upside I missed it because I was at an auction where I came away with a ca. 1930 Marbles Ideal with the original sheath. Paid too much of course, but I'll enjoy the knife long after the pain of paying a 25% premium is forgotten. Anybody go to the Tacoma show?
Also bought my first GEC the other day, the #23 'Beaver Tail' with the single massive spey blade. I'm planning on using that to skin a lot of coyotes and bobcats this winter. Of course I plan that every winter...
I won't be around a lot over the next month, as I have a professional exam coming up in early November and every second counts. But I'll be talkin' to ya!
Best wishes,
Dan
show us some pics when you have time.
I planned to go the the December mini-show, but that may not happen as I am in the process of buying another Model 70. That's going to blow my budget somewhere past the outer reaches of the solar system, and I wouldn't want to subject myself to the torture of going to a knife show with no disposable income!