House of Blades shopcat(Rosebud)

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Anybody here ever go to the House of Blades on Jacksboro hwy in Lake Worth Texas back in the early 80's.They had a cougar for a pet that hung out in the shop.It's name was Rosebud,it was declawed,and you could actually play with it,get down and peep around a knife case and watch this thing leap at you and wrassle just like a big old house cat.I was stationed at Carswell air plane patch and remember both the House of Blades and the Apple Shop(i think that was its name)in Gatlinburg(near my home town of maryville)both claimed to be the biggest ,bestest ,knife stores in the U.S.The HOB was definitely the best.
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I was at the House Of Blades back in the earlt eighties? and was gaping in awe at all the great knives. As I remember they had a very nice custom section. Any way, I was close to the Cougar and I thopught it was stuffed. The Cougar Moved and I had the scare of my life. The guys in the shop had a good laugh on me. BTW, bought my first Al Mar knife, a ivory micarta Falcon from them.
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willis said:
Anybody here ever go to the House of Blades on Jacksboro hwy in Lake Worth Texas back in the early 80's.They had a cougar for a pet that hung out in the shop.It's name was Rosebud,it was declawed,and you could actually play with it,get down and peep around a knife case and watch this thing leap at you and wrassle just like a big old house cat.I was stationed at Carswell air plane patch and remember both the House of Blades and the Apple Shop(i think that was its name)in Gatlinburg(near my home town of maryville)both claimed to be the biggest ,bestest ,knife stores in the U.S.The HOB was definitely the best.
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The House Of Blades is still going strong and still one of the largest knife stores in the USA. I've been buying knives from them since the mid-70's when they had a little bitty place on the Jacksboro Hwy and sold about 8 or 10 different brands and had an inventory of less than 100 knives. HOB is now in a 5000 square ft. log bldg. and stocks over 50,000 knives, including many customs and every knife brand you can think of. (and some you can't. :D) They're still high as hell, (mostly list price) and I don't purchase from them as often since the internet came around but I still buy a couple of knives a year there.

I remember the cougar quite well - she was sweet as could be and I played with her many times until the city forced the owner to keep her at home due to safety concerns. The owner, BC Adams, passed away about a year ago but the store is still thriving and being run by his son Kenny.
 
Albeit way off topic. willis, you wouldn't have taken the name of a Heinlein character would you have?
 
Knarfeng,no actually Willis is my cats name.She was given to me by an old girlfriend who had found a box of 5 kittens that some asshat had abandoned.It is really hard to tell if a tiny kitten is a boy or girl,we had a 50/50 chance and guessed wrong,so she got stuck with a dudes name.
 
strangely enough, the character was a martian creature named by an old man after a cat, he had once known. The cat's name was Willis.
 
That is wild.When I was a senior in High school I worked after school in a Long John Silvers and all the girls would watch a soap called days of our lives.They had nicknames for all of us based on characters in the show.I was called willis after the drunken,womanizing architect willis frame.
 
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