My OperaThe Hall of Blades
By Jing the Jinxnighthawk49. Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:21:45 AM
I love knives. I collect knives and other bladed weapons, like swords or long blades, bayonets, axes or a bow and arrow. Just as long as it is a primitive and basic cutting and/or piercing tool or weapon. I not only liked how they looked, I tinker with it and got cut with it, in the process. I use, practice and play with it. Throw it. Even liked the sound of them being rubbed against another object or metal. I am a knife addict, so to speak. That I am. With pride and with gusto. Touche`!
Being a collector of knives or of bladed weapons you require a space so others could view your prized possessions. True, I not only have a stash or an armory of bladed weapons but I have a hall filled with it! Not only mine, that of my brethren, as well. Mind you, we belong to a school of old thought and we stuck to it, adhering to the most basic equipment of warfare, like a medieval warlord cast out of time. So here it is and discover the Hall of Blades! No admission fee and everything in it are free for you to browse, ogle and click. Not even the fear of being cut and of the feeling of getting skewered.
I am inspired to create and put a website for this "extreme" hobby for the simple reason that there is no Philippine site I have found yet. Not only that, I have no idea if there are any knife/bladed weapon hobbyists who have organized a club or a group dedicated to the collection of knives and bladed weapons here in the Philippines, especially here in Cebu, but, so far I have not discovered it yet. As of this writing, none! After I visited a multi-faceted forum - istorya.net - did it occur to me that there are people out there who have the same fascination like me regarding knives/bladed weapons. And reading that thread about "Knives", I kind of understood the helplessness that individuals like me who experienced the frustration and anxiety of having without a network or a group to hobnob with and relying solely on the assumption that, somewhere along the way, our questions and needs might be answered and appreciated by a few, of who knows when? As if on cue, I dropped by istorya.net and initiated this move and, hopefully, others would find refuge on this umbrella I opened up for them. Welcome to the Hall of Blades! May our tribe increase!
This is my first Knifetales blog article for the Cebu Knife & Bladed Weapon Hobbyists website here in Multiply and in MyOpera. Presently, I have GILLS and LAERTES with me at Multiply and RORY here in MyOpera as company and, in time, we would improve this site with photos of our prized collections, stories and articles, to begin with. We kind of liked to make this site as a jump start for a formal and legit group complete with by-laws and member content. Our name could change in the event there will be sufficient members to initiate a forum, a caucus of ideas. In the meantime, we are still in an infancy stage, feeling the uncertainties, the birth pains, the rigodon of jousting priorities and "meanwhiles", the fiery heat of the forging flames. We are still in the process of being tempered to that of the cold steel of our passion - the steel blade.[/B]
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Being a collector of knives or of bladed weapons you require a space so others could view your prized possessions. True, I not only have a stash or an armory of bladed weapons but I have a hall filled with it! Not only mine, that of my brethren, as well. Mind you, we belong to a school of old thought and we stuck to it, adhering to the most basic equipment of warfare, like a medieval warlord cast out of time. So here it is and discover the Hall of Blades! No admission fee and everything in it are free for you to browse, ogle and click. Not even the fear of being cut and of the feeling of getting skewered.
I am inspired to create and put a website for this "extreme" hobby for the simple reason that there is no Philippine site I have found yet. Not only that, I have no idea if there are any knife/bladed weapon hobbyists who have organized a club or a group dedicated to the collection of knives and bladed weapons here in the Philippines, especially here in Cebu, but, so far I have not discovered it yet. As of this writing, none! After I visited a multi-faceted forum - istorya.net - did it occur to me that there are people out there who have the same fascination like me regarding knives/bladed weapons. And reading that thread about "Knives", I kind of understood the helplessness that individuals like me who experienced the frustration and anxiety of having without a network or a group to hobnob with and relying solely on the assumption that, somewhere along the way, our questions and needs might be answered and appreciated by a few, of who knows when? As if on cue, I dropped by istorya.net and initiated this move and, hopefully, others would find refuge on this umbrella I opened up for them. Welcome to the Hall of Blades! May our tribe increase!
This is my first Knifetales blog article for the Cebu Knife & Bladed Weapon Hobbyists website here in Multiply and in MyOpera. Presently, I have GILLS and LAERTES with me at Multiply and RORY here in MyOpera as company and, in time, we would improve this site with photos of our prized collections, stories and articles, to begin with. We kind of liked to make this site as a jump start for a formal and legit group complete with by-laws and member content. Our name could change in the event there will be sufficient members to initiate a forum, a caucus of ideas. In the meantime, we are still in an infancy stage, feeling the uncertainties, the birth pains, the rigodon of jousting priorities and "meanwhiles", the fiery heat of the forging flames. We are still in the process of being tempered to that of the cold steel of our passion - the steel blade.[/B]
Document done in AbiWord 2.4.6, Trebuchet MS, font size 12.
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