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Thank you for the question Eric. Not too personal.

My daughter-in-law told me that she was traveling to that far away neck of the woods and what would I like her to bring back for me (love her dearly, Jessica you are all right). I searched about for a month or more and found these Shilin Cutters as ...

The display:

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Kuo (note the identifying brass lanyard attachment with brass thru-the-handle brass pin) on top and Chiu (note the steel lanyard attachment held in place by compression) on bottom:

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Opposite ...

Here is a youtube video by an owner of Kuo-made Shilin Cutter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtQrDajfbKw

Here is master Kuo at work in his shop (his knives have a brass lanyard ring with a brass rivet thru the black horn handle's end, and not the stainless lanyard bent into the black plastic ...

mascot@topmascot.com.tw,

My contact's name is Johnny. I haven't spoken with, or emailed, him in years.

Kuo is the master of the Shilin Cutter. His shop is the bomb and he has orders backed up for years last I knew.

There is an older producer of the Shilin Cutter in town. A one-man operation. I consider his finer and more sought after than that of the shop you visited. If you were to visit that store you would be my hero. The largest knife store in Taiwan helps host an annual show that should be happening soon ...

EroJiji,

You are a champion to visit the maker, buy, photograph and tell the story here.
Congratulations for finding a Shilin Cutter and meeting the maker. Was it much
trouble getting to the maker or do you live nearby? Thank you kindly.

I am interested and others around the world are too.

I ...

George Schrade generously made for all of us a cap lifter disguised as a Wire Jack folding knife: http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/oregun/Other/10-13-2012caplifterGeoSchradeWireJack001.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/oregun/Other/GeoSchradeWireJackvintage005.jpg http://i19 ...

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Bamboo & stainless steel bottle opener.

Minimum order 5,000 units, however. As if this would help, he says, I'm in for five. :)

Ordered on the 9th, delivered gratis on the 12th, from The Spyderco Store. First impression: Anatomical handle comfortable and stable in the forward and reverse grip.

Congratulations brave father and son.

Link to video of a mountain lion filmed in Big Bend last summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edcYRB4j ... re=related

Link to utube video: Eric Glesser's, show & tell, the prototype Laci Szabo folder (note: new self-close mechanism between liner & scale...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOBApMsXKU

Delicious stuff nakahoshi. Sweet. Thank you kindly for the link. You've made the M2MG come alive.

Last pic enhanced, lightened, so you can see my hand under the glowing Spiderco.

The ghosty white irregular line in the first two pics is a barely illuminated handle edge of a white Endura (C10PWH), closed, with its blade next to the closed blade of the M2MG. If you can make it out.

An un-dyed white Endura... Forgot I still had one.

Thank you. Kind words will get you another pic. In my hand:

Pics, my pleasure. First batch M2MG on reflective surface in total darkness.

I don't carry this torch off the old homestead, don't want to scare the kids, but I thought some of you might find it interesting.

Hotwire (CandlePower project), ROP , 3D Maglite shell loaded with 9xAA in a custom carrier, ultra-clear pyrex glass lens and a Pelican bulb:

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