Hello from the UK

George21 · Post by **George21** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:24 pm

Hi all,

I'm George from Bristol in the UK.

I am an amateur pocket/folding/pen knife collector. A collection started by my Dad and passed on to me!

I am new to this business and it's only recently I've decided to start doing the research and finding out the in's and out's of knife collecting and checking out what knives I have.

So I can expect I'll be a frequent visitor to this site from now on trying to catch onto the lingo and so on and so forth!

Hope you're all doing good.

George

carvin don · Post by **carvin don** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:34 pm

Howdy George

philco · Post by **philco** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:37 pm

Hi George.

Glad to have you join us here at AAPK. And welcome to the great hobby of knife collecting.

Hope you like it here.

Phil

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:07 am

Welcome for this side of the pond.

Do you still get a lot of rain there ?

gmusic · Post by **gmusic** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:25 pm

Welcome George........................glad to have ya!

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:05 pm

Welcome aboard George!

Dale

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:52 pm

Welcome to AAPK!

RobesonsRme.com · Post by **RobesonsRme.com** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:18 pm

Hello yourself, George. Welcome to AAPK.
Could you post some photos of what your dad left you, and tell us what you think you might be most interested in collecting?
Charlie Noyes
(A Fine English Name)

George21 · Post by **George21** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:49 pm

Hi all!

I have made a post in the Knife Q&A section ("Help with identifying my variety of pocket knives) with a picture of what my dad left me but for reference sake here's the link again: http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7387/dscn1158r.jpg

If you click on it you can zoom it. Can provide better pictures upon request!

I'm mostly an amateur collector, with various knives that have been picked up at carboot sales and antiques fairs. So would be looking for little treasures like that! Recently tried to get my hands on a lot of 16 knives on eBay including a RCMP (royal canadian mounted police) pocket knife which would have been a cracker for me as my Dad's family hails from Canada. It also had a CocaCola pocket knife, a few Case blades and so on. Unfortunately eBay won't let me buy knives over here in the UK as it's trying to cut down on the circulation of blades here! They're not illegal at all just they'd rather not sell them!

But lots of blades are illegal here like push blades, disguised blades, flick knives, automatic opening knives, gravity knives. Basically any knife which has assisted opening!

Also dabble in a few more up to date blades. Nothing special at all, no Spyderco or anything like that just yet. Closest I got to that is an M-Tech USA blade which I acquired recently for like a tenner or something!

Just beginning to get my head round all the lingo!

Thanks for all the warm welcomes!

Oh also, for any of you who are also signed up or for those of you who are interested in English knives, I am also a member of www.britishblades.com under the same name.

George

Classic Case · Post by **Classic Case** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:10 pm

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