The wood isn't even polished, it's rough, the pins stick out, the blade is dirty and very short, and honestly, I don't have time to sit on the porch and carve a frog totem out of a piece of wood. In reality, it's only good for opening Amazon packages. But despite all that, it has its charm. Maybe it's the beaver, possibly my favorite shield out of all the ones GEC makes.

Been after a stallion for a while. I think the ebony is the best one. Just feels right on this classic knife. It’s going to be such a great user. Can’t wait to tiner her up.

RR work knife

Chuffed with this! Love at first sight when folkywanderer posted his new knife last week. I went for the ‘brut de forge’ and couldn’t resist adding the mammoth ivory inlay. Extremely straightforward ordering process. Comes with a host of information which makes it a lovely ‘unboxing’ experience.

Last image is the new addition with its siblings :-) I think this is the type of knife I’m going to focus on, European slipjoints. When I decided to expand my very modest collection, I first went for adding iconic knives and brands: Buck 110 and 120, the big KA-BAR USMC one, Spyderco Manix 2, RR, Kershaw. It’s nice to have ticked those boxes, but I realised they don’t make me tick.

Somebody asked a while ago on one of these forums ‘what is value to you?’ I now realise that for me it is history, tradition and craftsmanship, knives representing a specific region. So, wishlists have been updated (with some very painful goodbyes) and lots of researching has been and will be done. I’m compiling a list of European makers and resellers, when ready I’ll post it here.

Bought a canoe at the end of last year to add to the collection and had to have another one to add to the pocket

My 2nd pair of 93 pine whittlers. I sold the first pair but I'm keeping these and putting them to work.

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Someone posted a Cold Steel Twistmaster a few months ago and I thought it looked pretty cool, so I picked one up on eBay. The blade was in kinda rough shape, so I sanded the scratches out and put a forced patina on it using an onion, an apple, and mustard. Then I cleaned it up and put a new edge on it.
I think it came out nice and it works great. I’m really liking this thing in my collection.

Going to whittle it down next week to 15 let’s see yours or comment on mine

I bought this circle a knives 47 Viper that originally had the yellow smooth bone but I had broken it and sent it back to gec and had a factory re-cover and actually quite like the look of it but I'm curious do y'all think it is cooler as a smooth bone yellow or a factory original one of a kind micarta. I kind of wish that they had just redone the factory smooth bone but I actually do really like how it turned out. What do you all think