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G'day Chaps (and ladies),
My name is Dave and I hail from country NSW near Bathurst.
I'm not a knife collector per se but I do have a fair few laying about the place. I do have some folding sheffield knives that go back into the mid eighteen hundreds that have been handed down through six generations of my family along with the family property which I suppose you could say are collectibles (since I no longer use them) but the rest of what I've got are simply knives that I've bought to do work. I guess you could say my interest is not so much acquiring a collection of knives but acquiring knives that suit my purpose. I have a love for mechanical engineering and precision manufacture and a good folding knife can get my juices flowing, so to speak.
Just like all the cars, clocks, watches, furniture, tools, gun, fountain pens etc that I have acquired large numbers of, I'm still in the search for one knife that suits all my needs. I haven't found it yet. It seems to be by and test, buy and test, buy and test ad infinitum.
I haven't been in the country all my life, having spent over thirty of my younger years in Sydney before returning here to the quite life and I'm not sure it's safe to admit this given some of the threads I've read on here but I am a former senior Customs Officer having served for seventeen years..................
My name is Dave and I hail from country NSW near Bathurst.
I'm not a knife collector per se but I do have a fair few laying about the place. I do have some folding sheffield knives that go back into the mid eighteen hundreds that have been handed down through six generations of my family along with the family property which I suppose you could say are collectibles (since I no longer use them) but the rest of what I've got are simply knives that I've bought to do work. I guess you could say my interest is not so much acquiring a collection of knives but acquiring knives that suit my purpose. I have a love for mechanical engineering and precision manufacture and a good folding knife can get my juices flowing, so to speak.
Just like all the cars, clocks, watches, furniture, tools, gun, fountain pens etc that I have acquired large numbers of, I'm still in the search for one knife that suits all my needs. I haven't found it yet. It seems to be by and test, buy and test, buy and test ad infinitum.
I haven't been in the country all my life, having spent over thirty of my younger years in Sydney before returning here to the quite life and I'm not sure it's safe to admit this given some of the threads I've read on here but I am a former senior Customs Officer having served for seventeen years..................
Just gotta buy one more...
Enjoy!
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