All About Pocket Knives

hello,
I'm Stan from Paris (France). I'm collecting and use pocket knives since many years (~30)
I have discover this forum by searching forum dedicated to folding/pocket knives
my english is very bad so you should apologies me for this

welcome, you are now one of our international members. we hope you learn and teach us as we go.

Welcome to the best place on the NET

Welcome

Don't worry, some of us speak English and we still confuse ourselves...

Bill

Welcome Stan, This is a great place to learn, teach, and talk about knives.

thanks for your reception

Welcome aboard. This is a great place to learn and share, we are all still learning.

Hukk wrote: Welcome aboard. This is a great place to learn and share, we are all still learning.

i think so

Bonjour Stan Accueillir à notre forum de couteau. Your English is much better than my French s-k

hello smiling-knife,
i see we are neighbor,
i think my english is not better your french

I cheated I looked in the English-French dictionary. s-k

me too, for some word i look in google translator or better in systran translator

Hello

I see you know smiling-knife now.

He too talks funny English...

So let me be the first to apologies .

We talk USA English here.

I am NOT good with words but we all have fun...

Many times its hard to get the real feelings across do to the fact you can not see our hand moving... ...

Just keep coming back and join in any time.

My Annt sisters are Dutch but I have a French name I am told.(De Blaey)

Welcome Stan! Nice to have you with us!

Welcome Stan !

I myself speak only Arkansas, but the guys around here put up with me - you will be fine. Mostly we speak cutlery - Opinel, for one.
Glad to have you.

JR

to all thanks

to Ringmaster : opinel is not my favorite but it's a good knife, easy to sharp, easy to use and you are not worry when you lost one

Understood about the Opinel, Stan... but hey ! If Opinel is good enough for Bill Moran, it's sure good enough for me !! (Moran was a giant, among American Bladesmiths, if you're not familiar with him, Stan).

Tell us, what IS your favorite, nowadays ? Let us see some quality French cutlery.

Ringmaster wrote:Understood about the Opinel, Stan... but hey ! If Opinel is good enough for Bill Moran, it's sure good enough for me !! (Moran was a giant, among American Bladesmiths, if you're not familiar with him, Stan).

Tell us, what IS your favorite, nowadays ? Let us see some quality French cutlery.

i know him ( i'm fan)
actually (and it's only my opinion) i like very much François Bignon (french custom maker) ( http://www.atelier-solognot.com/ ) and Eric Parmentier (belgium custom maker) (he has no website but you can see some at http://forum.couteauxzen.net/viewtopic.php?t=1799 it's a french forum where i post often)
for industrial manufacture i like perceval (have a look to http://www.couteau.com/ )

.Im sure you'll enjoy it here, but be careful, lots of beautiful knives get posted here, which you will suddenly discover you cant live without.It can get expensive.

Welcome aboard Stan. You found the right spot. Please take lots of pictures of your knives because we love pictures.

Stan; Aboard! My Mother and three of my brothers

where born in Paris France. I was born here so unfortunately I am not

very fluent in the French language.

hello Mitch,
glad to read you (can we say that ?)

Glad that your here stancaiman, I sure hope you plan on staying awhile...

Sunburst

stancaiman wrote:hello Mitch,
glad to read you (can we say that ?)

OUI

Welcome to the site. It is a happy place with some of the finest knife people anywhere USA! It looks like we are going worldly....which is super cool.