• Preface

Navigating your way through the world of knives:

• Starting out
• Quality vs. quantity?
• They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
• Anatomy of a knife (basic parts of a knife)
• Categories of knives
• Custom vs. customized
• Steel and other materials

Where to go to purchase a good knife

• Shop @ home (television)
• Online & mail order shopping
• Brick & mortar stores, flea markets, etc:

Now that you have a collection:

• Caring for your knives
• Where to next?

Appendices

• Who Owns Who
• A Lexicon of Blade Steel
• A Lexicon of Knife Terms
• Rough Rider Reviews
• The Sailing Knife