Thread: Show me your knives

Originally Posted by Rushy

Very nice B. Did you ever play stretch on the lawn with my old mans pig sticker? That was a knife that had a lot of sentimental value as it was made for dad by my uncle Terry and it played a large part in our youth (holes all over the wood shed wall at Collington and Melrose). None of us know where it is these days.

Nope, didn't play that game..didn't realise you guys were in Colinton Pl.? Sal and I drove up the street on our way home from the Sika Show, what a shithole!!, and the block of shops at the bottom was vacant and burnt out. Used to be a dairy, grocer, butcher and a thrift shop there.(after school job......used to deliver Friday meat order to Jack and Dolly in a Morris van).

Back to knives, as kids we were playing in wrecked houses somewhere and I found a small Bowie style knife, the brand was Koh-i-Noor ( named after a 793 carat uncut diamond found in India).
In NZ, Koh-i-Noor was a brand of knife made here in the 60's and 70's by a chap who emigrated from the Czech Republic. Muldoon's duties and tariffs on imported steel ruined the company. Brian Baker who owns Svord learned his skills as a cutler from the old chap. I always hankered after a double edged Koh-i-Noor sticker that was in Torchy Moores Sport Store in Tok. Brain tidied the knife up for me a while ago and offered me good money for it.......son James has claimed it tho......

B