Hello all. New member here from the Great State of Texas!! Over the last few years, most of my knife questions via web search, has brought me to this forum.
I’ve learned a lot from members here and hope to maybe do the same for someone else less knowledgeable than me.
I wouldn’t consider myself a “collector” until about 2015, when I began my Case Knife adventure, focusing on all the sizes of Stockmans and Trappers.
Before that, I had a few others acquired in my youth and into adulthood from Schrade, Cold Steel, Ka Bar, and of course, Case. (My parents owned a Western Auto Store from 1968-1998 and we stocked the knife brands mentioned above. As a teenager with a job, and knives to be had at store cost, I bought a few, although looking back, I wish I would have bought more!).
Since starting my “real collector” phase in 2015, I have also recently added knives from Esee, Gerber, Benchmade and Ontario Knife Company RAT 1 and RAT 2.
It helps justify my purchases when my wife, my 16 and 18 year old boys and my 11 year old daughter enjoy collecting knives as well! We all have an obsession!
I have read the rules as asked. Thank you for having me on this forum.
Cody
