Merry Christmas aftermath

Well I hope all of you had as wonderful a Christmas as we did. Being together and sharing time and memories of christmasses past, visiting with friends, and a midnight church service. These are the traditions we cherish. The gifts each year become less of a surprise as we exchange lists. Might seem crass but it keeps us out of the gift exchange-return lines the next day! Our presents ran the full gamut from many exciting books, movie and music cds, M-4 carbon scrapers, new clothes, to commando kinves. Typical American family right? All we lacked was a little snow to top off the celebration. So we made it through Christmas and here we are wishing you a prosperous and Happy New Year! Here is a photo of the newest additions. They will be discussed in detail on our new website as time allows me to add them.

Merry Christmas to you

It is hard to read, but the Christmas card in the background says "Christmas 1943." The knife is a 1941 Wilkinson Sword Fairbairn Sykes commando knife.


War is always toughest during the holidays. We are grateful that our troops will be home from Iraq for Christmas (regardless of the political motives involved in the timing). It would be great to have all of our brave soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen home, from all foreign nations, and home for good. While a strong defense is necessary to the security of a nation, Peace cannot be established by constantly waging war. Let us all pray for peace and pray for a cessation in the hostilities around the world. We wish all of you the peace of the prince of peace, the blessings of your God by whatever name you worship him, and a safe and prosperous New year.

New web site

http://www.fairbairnsykesfightingknives.com/

Here is the link to my new website dedicated to the Fairbairn Sykes commando knife. Please check it out and see what you think. It still has a lot of empty folders but I will be filling them in as time allows and adding more material for your viewing. We will explore many of the obscure F~S knives from WW-II and modern interpretations of the genre. It is an exciting topic which I have been studying for many years and decided to share with you. There will be some of the rarest of the breed illustrated here along with many of the standard production knives. Shown above is an example of one of the more obscure knives that we will be sharing with you. If you know who manufactured these please let me know. ghdave2@hotmail.com