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Knives, Bones and Healing

Good Morning,
Living in a world of steel leaves many bodies broken and battered, in so many ways.Modern medicine is still a marvel and after two long months, Bob is back.
He is humbled by all of your good wishes, thoughts and prayers for his recovery.He says to tell you all he will be back to sharing the stories and pics soon.
Thanks for your support and stay well!

We apologize for the delays….

Hi from Michele,( Bob’s Editor)
Thank you for visiting. We apologize for the delay answering everyone’s questions. Bob has been in the hospital in intensive care since the start of February.As you know from Bob’s book,Bob is our own version of the Bionic Man lugging around all those metal replacement parts. I just got off the phone from speaking with his lovely bride Joanne. He is recovering from his setbacks and hopes to be home soon. Bob being Bob, he was concerned about the backorders of his books and not being in touch with his knife buddies.
Please send good thoughts in his and Joanne’s direction.
Wishing you peace and wellness,
Michele

GREETINGS COLONIAL COLLECTORS!!

It was very nice of word press to finally give me access to my own account;  this explains my obvious absence. I enjoy sharing facts and other info here but I have recently found a very user-friendly site called AAPK…”All About Pocket Knives”.com.

I have developed my own forum pertaining directly to Colonial Knife Company and have made many friends here and have also sold many books!! It appears the knife collecting industry has been long waiting for a Colonial Knife expert and I am honored to answer all the questions that many Colonial collector’s have been longing for.

My blog still serves a great purpose with tons of information and photo’s and most AAPK members read my blog before I meet them.

Let’s keep the ball rolling and spread the word..”The History Of Colonial Knife Company will be told and my assistance in My Family Business will Carry on”!!

Bobby Paolantonio, CkCo., R.A.P. Cutler, and Heritage Cutler’s….

The Value Of Communicating With Workers

The Value Of Communicating With Workers.

The Value Of Communicating With Workers

” People would be so happy to see an owner interested in what they were doing, and it made them feel important.        You know why?  Because they were important. Every person, every machine, every operation was important. Everything absolutely fascinated me, and people knew it. When they saw me , they would say they were seeing my granddad, Fred.  I was proud of them and what they were doing. Do you think my uncles at the country club cared about these people?  Not a chance. They used to laugh at me for talking to them. Once my father saw me in the factory talking to people and he pulled me aside and said ” What are you doing?  Those are workers, we don’t talk to them!”

Some friends recently wrote a book about the power of communication in business. It’s entitled “The Power Within Internal Communications, An Executive’s Edge In Business Strategy. ( http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0109912049/The-Power-Within.aspx) “In modern business or any organization, there is no such thing as a second class citizen. Everyone has a critical role and shares in the failures or success.”

It’s too bad that my father and uncle didn’t have a chance to read it. If they had then perhaps they could have appreciated how very critical  communication with  workers was to the success of Colonial Knife Company.

 

COLONIAL KNIFE CORP.

 I am happy to inform my followers that my cousin Steven has continued the valued heritage of Colonial Knife Corporation and has a wonderful line of military, tactical and survival type knifes and other items for sale on-line. As I spoke very highly of my cousin in my book in his attempts to save the old Colonial, he has revised the old line into a new generation of popular models that are proving to be quite successful today!! The line also involves many law enforcement type automatic’s and I must say the quality of these knives is exceptional!  Please visit the site at: Colonial Knife Corp.com and you will be pleased at my cousins hard work with this site and I applaud his efforts. Taking the Colonial name to the next level of success!!  Good job Steve…

Bobby Paolantonio..

FINALLY SHIPPED!!!!

FINALLY SHIPPED!!!!.

FINALLY SHIPPED!!!!

I am very happy to announce that the first orders of the second edition of    ” My Family Business Book ”  have been shipped and are on their way to my good friends and patient followers!!  Lots of free copys went out to some very close friends.  If you really enjoy the book and your free knife, I will always welcome donations!

So many knife people and regular folks are always asking about Colonial;  how it started, when did it close, how was knife production accomplished… There are so many answers to your questions in the book!  The book has been perfected to the point where as all kinds of people young and older are enjoying the trip that I take through the factory.

My story begins with absolute raw materials and I work my way through the factory and carefully explain how we end up with a finished product. It is the perfect bible to manufacturing pocket knives that this country grew to be so famous for!

Enjoy the books my friends and for those procrastinating about buying a copy, please don’t wait too long; copys are running out fast!!!  Bobby P.