My first knife was a case pen knife. My dad broke the tip off one of the blades and gave it to me. I turned that blade into a sheepsfoot. My dad had two other knives that got me hooked...a Case 3.5 congress, still my favorite pattern, and an Eloi coin knife, blade, nail tool, and scissors inside a french 5 franc coin. Had the knife bug ever since.
Here's how I got started collecting Bose knives. Was on a cub scout campout with my son, and some of the dads were showing their kids how to whittle. So I pulled out my liner lock, dagger bladed, carbon fiber handled, stellite wonder, flicked the blade open. Everyone was looking at the knife. Picked up a stick and the damn knife couldnt whittle the bark off a stick. When I got home, I pulled out my old production slipjoints and they cut great. Started looking into custom slipjoints and started reading about the reclusive Tony Bose and his son Reese. Saw a Reese 4 blade remington bone congress on ebay and fell in love. Won it, and became friends with the seller, who urged me to call tony and order a knife. He told the ole dawg I'd be calling. When Tony answered, I felt like I was talking to Mickey Mantle or Johnny Unitas. Nervous as helll, but Tony was great. I ended up ordering a WT, etched A2 steel, rem bone, fluted bolster, cap. The catch was that I had to show up at Blade in Atlanta to pick it up. I had never been to a big knife show at that point. So, I showed up, met Tony, Reese, and some other collectors, got the WT, a fixed blade pruner for my wife, and a few other Bose knives from other collectors. I've been back every year since except for last year. I've remained friends with most of the Bose collectors I've met and picked up anoter knife or two since. I still have the WT and the knife that couldn't whittle a stick.
Edited by fasteddie (02/11/07 01:04 AM)
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