The News from ElephantToenails.com

We are up and running with The News in our new blog format here at ET.com. You now can scope out what you are interested in a matter of seconds. I can update it in real time on any topic related to knives, collecting, toenails and more! Wordpress is a blogging program and it has tremendous expansion capabilities for you & me.

• It allows permanent pages on different subjects (see Pages) and to organize my blogpost topics by subject (see Categories), plus tags (odd looking key words). You simply click to see all post with that key word in it. And on top of all that is a search function for the entire News of ET.com.  
• Now important topics can be added without building a new “webpage” in the main area of ET.com.  For example, I have already started an area on Counterfeits here in the News. I have wanted to add them to ET.com (I have been saving them for a couple of years now and have quite a few to add), but it was going to be a major to do in the main area, much like The List and Recent Sales were…big deals, code/database set up, time and $$. 
  
• Now I can quickly post on a counterfeit toenail I run across. Classify it as such in the Counterfeits category.  Then when you click the Counterfeit category, you instantly see all post on the counterfeits are organized there for you in one area. And over time that area will grow extensively for us to learn to identify all the tricks used to try to fool us into buying fakes. 
• It is very easy for you and on me too!  
• Subscribe to the RSS feed to this area to be notified when I add News.  
• You can post comments to my topics.
• I can easily show pics, audio and video. 
• We are going to have some fun here. It will be the most dynamic & useful area of ET.com! (more…)

I heard through the Rumor Mill there may be a Jumbo Swellcenter in production. This could be a hot number among collectors if done right (like stag handles). I know there has been encouragement for the holder of the Platts trademark to produce one, with no luck yet. I’ll keep my ear to the ground to see what I can learn. All I can say at this point is I hope it isn’t going to be a Rough Rider brand.