Am I becoming a bit weird about knives ?

Parky said:
For many years I had one pocket knife, an SAK Spartan...
After recently becoming more interested in knives and acquiring a dozen or so more I find ...worrying ...
I think I am becoming a little obsessed !....
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There is no point in worry! Also you're now in the excellent company to talk about the most defining phase of your entire life. If it brings you joy, it can't be all bad a focus for the twilight years.
 
Parky said:
For many years I had one pocket knife, an SAK Spartan. I always carried it and it did everything I wanted it to despite it never being very sharp. It was my most useful tool because it was always there.
After recently becoming more interested in knives and acquiring a dozen or so more I find I spend more time worrying if they are sharp enough , testing their sharpness, fiddling and fidgeting with them, rather than actually using them for any practical reason . Since I retired I don't even need to use a knife very often.
I think I am becoming a little obsessed ! Will have to stop watching so many knife videos on Youtube.
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Sounds like you used to be a bit weird about knives, but now your coming right. Pleased to hear it :thumbsup:
 
That description probly includes 90% of the people on this forum, myself included (and I’m only 27 years old). I’m a ZT fanatic, I have 61 of them and I especially like the 0452 series, of which I have 8. You’re not alone lol
 
As far as women, guns, motorcycles, knives, go. I've done all those, still like guns, the motorcycles due to surgery on knee can't do anymore, women at my age, 74, are troublesome. All I got left is the knives. Knives and hatchets etc daily, guns only about once a week now. Life is still good.
 
Like the op and many of us here my first knife was a a sak given to me by my grandfather when I was a kid. Since then I've always had a blade on me in one form or another. At first they were mostly cheap-o WalMart Smith and Wesson/Gerber knives.

When I was playing rugby in college one of the guys had an automatic Benchmade, so naturally I was intrigued and bought my first +$100 knife, a mini grip. That's really when I fell down the rabbit hole, over the years I bought and sold dozens of knives looking for that white whale. After getting bored of mini grip I tried a few other Benchmades, before I went on to ZT and Spyderco in search of "the one" I ended up getting into bigger "overbuilt" knives and thought I found the one in the ZT0562CF until it opened up in my pocket requiring stitches.

That incident caused me to seriously consider fixed blades and I bought my first one this year in a Kershaw Diskin Hunter. Well, down another rabbit hole I went looking the perfect fixed blade and I think I may have found it in a Benchmade Altitude. Ironically I have come full circle and returned to not only smaller blades but Benchmade as well. I guess I've always had a soft spot for them since they were my gateway drug. So op, you are among friends here.
 
Thanks for your honesty, Parky. I have a Winkler Woodsman fixed blade that I carry in the woods with me, and recently purchased a Kilimanjaro Gear DW Folder that Daniel Winkler designed. It's relatively inexpensive; I love the design of it and carry it for work. The other day I was fixing a roof and needed to cut a tar shingle, and I questioned whether I wanted to go down and get a razor knife, or use the DW Folder I had on me. I used the knife I had at hand, scarred it up pretty good, and it felt great. Now that I carry better knives than I used to I sometimes hesitate to employ them for their intended purposes, as opposed to when I carried less expensive knives and didn't know the difference. I have other knives that I fiddle with as well, but I'm enjoying using my hard-use knives liberally now, knowing I can maintain them properly, and that ultimately that is what I purchased them for. Be well.
 
What an honest post!

Yes, I think this is the little corner of the internet for people like us. What I plan to do is to take up another hobby that will let me use and enjoy my knives a bit more. For example, I've always wanted to do camping, but never liked being uncomfortable. So, I'll get a good sleeping bag, a good air mattress, a good mini-stove, dutch oven, etc. I'll bring my hatchet, a folding saw, a couple of folding chairs, plan some good meals. (bacon, eggs, stew) Maybe bring a pellet gun and do some plinking, if I can find an out-of-the-way place.

Yard work too, is good. Why not trim those errant branches with a nice locking folder?

How about taking up whittling? I had a lot of fun when I bought a book on whittling. It was all stuff that could be done with a regular pocket knife. Didn't need any fancy gouges or anything. A big locking folder would not be good, but a Victorinox Recruit with the small blade re-ground into a wharncliffe was great! (Recruits are smooth on the back, no tools or gaps in the back springs to dig into the hand. At two layers thick, they're just the right width, too)

I started with a couple of cheap Imperial knives that my granddad gave me. He and my grandma came back from their last trip to Switzerland with an economy Recruit for each of the grandsons, and a Tissot watch for my sister. (the only granddaughter) I remember being FLOORED with the quality of it, and I promptly put it away. Never really used it. It was my grail at the time. I used the hell out of those little Imperials. The one had mother of pearl scales and the large blade was broken off. (I never did figure out why a man as smart as my granddad pried with knife blades. He had more than one with broken blades.)

Anyway, to bring it back on topic, not using that SAK when I was young is one of my big regrets in my knife hobby. You should find ways to use them productively. I think I'm going to post a separate thread on this, as.
 
The aroma of coffee and bacon (can't smell the eggs so much) on a wood fire in the morning is one of lifes' great pleasures. :cool: Steaks in the evening ain't too shabby. ;) Do it!
 
Resistance is futile!! I want to try and use what knives I have and the many different designs and steels, different ways to use them and see how they function as opposed to buying more. That way I scratch the itch, and rediscover a lot of knives I got early in my hobby but may have put down for awhile and why I liked them at that time.
 
I’ve always liked knives.
3 years ago my interest rapidly escalated from a 2/10 to a 9/10. It was an almost scairy obsession for a while.

It’s settled down to a comfortable 6-7, depending on the day. Luckily I’m quite content with the vast majority of my acquisitions and it’s tempered my lust for more.

My focus is increasingly shifting to sharpening with an occasional light diversion into modding.

It’s cool pulling an awesome knife from my pocket. It’s even cooler when it’s wearing my personal edge and mod.
 
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Just keep your eyes on the road when driving... I always find a knife in my hand in the car, fidgeting away for my whole commute.
 
i use to be bad , so after grandbaby born , i sold off bout 80 knives, she is 2 and now mostly lol all money extra goes into your saving account and bank account , because she will need it wway down the road , now i dont own safe queens and ive gotten more into guns since picking up suppressors, they are addicting , i wanted one i own 12 rofl , plus i conceal carry so my knife is now a last resort. but i find myself looking for that one knife i might like and get, but just users and unique ,
 
What no pictures in this thread?

Here we go..

I'm not a wealthy guy that can replace a lost knife but I have gotten into customs after 25 years of having many knives. I use every single one of them (thats all the knives I own. 3 custom and 1 production).
The best advice I can give you is to use them. The are cutting tools meant to be used and enjoyed, and if you learn how to sharpen them you won't be scared to use them

Cheers
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jaseman said:
You’re fine. Be glad it’s not guns, or worse, motorcycles - ask how I know!
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Oh yeah I have a thing about motorcycles too ! Currently riding a 1992 Triumph Trident 900 , If only bikes were as easy to collect as knives !
 
Bob6794 said:
Guess
I better tell my wife that people online think I have big feet...
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Wow...
Don't you hate when you have to explain a joke...It pretty much wrecks it.
-In other words, nobodys talking about your shoe size, B Bob6794
The joke was for the O.P.'s benefit, as in yeah sure, depending on how many knives you own,
or collect, for some a shoebox would be adequate, however try storing a collection of, oh say......
about '61 knives', or like 'more than 80 knives' in a shoebox...
that doesn't come in 'giant' proportions.
:D
B.T.B
 
Parky said:
Oh yeah I have a thing about motorcycles too ! Currently riding a 1992 Triumph Trident 900 , If only bikes were as easy to collect as knives !
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Current bikes are a 2003 Kawasaki Mean Streak 1500 and a 1990 Kawasaki ZX-10. But I've probably owned 15-20 bikes over the last 30 years...

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Billy The Blade said:
Wow...
Don't you hate when you have to explain a joke...It pretty much wrecks it.
-In other words, nobodys talking about your shoe size, B Bob6794
The joke was for the O.P.'s benefit, as in yeah sure, depending on how many knives you own,
or collect, for some a shoebox would be adequate, however try storing a collection of, oh say......
about '61 knives', or like 'more than 80 knives' in a shoebox...
that doesn't come in 'giant' proportions.
:D
B.T.B
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Easy enough, I have probably 20 or so in a small lunch box size container right now with room to spare. My shoe box will give me a whole lot more room. Wouldn't surprise me if I could get 100+. It just helps I have to wear boots at work lol.
 
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