metropolitan6C
04-16-2011, 04:13 AM
Hello, i'am new to this forum, please first apologize my english language : i'am french, and far to practice english everyday ..
I'am not what a definition would call a real collector, i use my knives, only some fixed blades and specials ones are kept in as-new condition, i have not a 'thema', i don't follow a 'method' for acumulating, even if i have a 'love affair' with al mar knives for 20 years, fighting fix blades and mini-pocket knives.
I just love stuff with a 'soul', made with hearth and who scream authenticity, this hard to describe feeling when you hold something made not only with logic or business-plan in mind, but with human hands and eyes. Dalton's knives became a evidence for me these years, handling one the first time in Poland (!) from a collector. The more i learn, the more i discover models, the more i like Dalton's... i loved the way it age, the capacity to enhance patina, what japanese call 'wabu'. I like their 'rusticity' and their look, unconditionnaly. And it may have something to do with what i would call 'a pure american product', in realisation and design.
With knives, i do collect watches and more modestly cars, a very 'macho' trio i think, but it must have to do with metal, technique and traces of art in products... I have 2 kids, i excuse myself thinking not i all lost and one of the 2 may be interested one day in its dadd's choices :) I am here to learn and read more on these incredible knives. Thanks
I'am not what a definition would call a real collector, i use my knives, only some fixed blades and specials ones are kept in as-new condition, i have not a 'thema', i don't follow a 'method' for acumulating, even if i have a 'love affair' with al mar knives for 20 years, fighting fix blades and mini-pocket knives.
I just love stuff with a 'soul', made with hearth and who scream authenticity, this hard to describe feeling when you hold something made not only with logic or business-plan in mind, but with human hands and eyes. Dalton's knives became a evidence for me these years, handling one the first time in Poland (!) from a collector. The more i learn, the more i discover models, the more i like Dalton's... i loved the way it age, the capacity to enhance patina, what japanese call 'wabu'. I like their 'rusticity' and their look, unconditionnaly. And it may have something to do with what i would call 'a pure american product', in realisation and design.
With knives, i do collect watches and more modestly cars, a very 'macho' trio i think, but it must have to do with metal, technique and traces of art in products... I have 2 kids, i excuse myself thinking not i all lost and one of the 2 may be interested one day in its dadd's choices :) I am here to learn and read more on these incredible knives. Thanks