Acquired Taste

[knapperbill]

First post in this forum, so hopefully this hasn't been covered. I have had an Entrek Badger for six years. After I got it, I liked it, but didn't use it much. But over the past year, I have grown to love this knife so much, I use it all the time now. I pick it up and hold it like it was a new gem that I saved for years for. Did any of you buy any knives that you weren't sure about first, but now you can't get enough of them?

Bill

 

[Unsub]

That is an interesting post. I was not that impressed with my Scrapyard SS4 when I first got it but now it is one of my absolute fave's. I thought the RES-C howling Rats were much better looking but now that I have used my SS4 a lot and polished and reprofiled it to my taste it is like a part of me. I did not like the YKLE much either as it was way to thick to be useful but I put as sharp and edge as the geometry would alloew and now I am warming to it if not in love with it.


I noticed my taste has changed a lot since I got into knives. I used to love tanto blades tac knives that now I think are just awful. I remember loving this Tac 11 and staring at in the magazine and now I am so relieved I did not buy it.


I have also started to like old style knives much more than fancy tacticals and wood more than micarta. Some knives though have stuck with me. I wanted a second pattern FS Dagger since I was a little kid and saw a photo in the school library in a WW2 book.
Now that I have one I am just as enamoured by it if not more.

 

[MikeH]

I was totally unimpressed with their appearance when the Busse Ergo handle series came out, and did not acquire one until they were about to be discontinued, when I finally ordered a Natral Outlaw Ergo.

I now have somewhere north of 14 of the many different configurations and variants of the NO-E. (I need to take a current inventory.)When I finally got my hands on one I fell in love.