Any cool stories about getting others hooked on Becker?

zaleski

zaleski

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I'll start off, this past January me, my g/f, and her family went to a cabin at Lake Hope for a few days. Her father had seen my bk-2 before but wasn't interested. I was splitting some firewood for kindling with it when he came walking over. He was amazed, so I let him try it and he couldn't believe how tough this knife was, previously he would use a camp axe to split kindling, but the bk2 did it faster and in smaller pieces.
The day after we got back he bought one for himself. Even better than that, he took it to work the next day to show it off and one of his coworkers was so impressed with it that he bought himself one the next week!
 
A while ago I was laid back wearing my favorite holy boxers, stopping my BK2 and sucked in to an especially complicated CSI, when I reached for an onion ring and saw that it was the last one. Being the considerate person that I am, I took a flick at it with the Becker so I could half it with the little woman. Well, I overshot the ring and clipped Tiger’s tail off right smooth with her nether regions. A few seconds of stunned silence (and an exchange of horrified looks between the wife, the cat and myself) was followed by a rather loud inquiry from my better half which I will shorten and abbreviate as “WTF did you do that for??!!?!!".
Rather than launch into a lengthy explanation, I decided to act like the man of the house and do something heroic. I stuffed the tail in my diet pepsi cup, scooped up the cat and headed for the vet’s house for an emergency re-attachment. This sounds a lot easier than it actually was. The cat isn't happy and I’ve got my hands full trying to keep pressure on the stump, keep the tail iced down, and shift the pickup. This resulted in numerous high speed tooth and claw wounds which (while I suppose I had coming ) did nothing to enhance the whole driving half naked experience.
Granted, I was going over the speed limit, probably weaving a little, but with the flashers on it should have been obvious that I’m in a bind here and can’t pull over.
I tried to signal the State Trooper what was going on, but apparently the scratched up bloody arm waving a cat’s tail in a cup wasn’t sending the right message. I’m starting to think that this isn’t going to have a happy ending. And I was right.
I hit the spike strips at the crossroads just as I heard a second siren behind me and Tiger decided this was enough for one night. She managed to make it out the driver’s side window and Frisbee’d out through the weeds. About then I found out that a panic stop in an F-150 with four flats is as bad as you would imagine it to be.
I woke up in room 362 a couple of days later with a pretty nurse explaining to me why I was handcuffed to the bed.
During my recovery and subsequent incarceration, the cat made it home and immediately started peeing on the BK2 and every picture of me in range. The wife finally decided to forgive me but can't look at an onion ring. She keeps the tail in the bedside table and shows it to me as a visual aid in just about every disagreement we have now. My mother in law (who lives behind the house), bought a BK2 to threaten the cat (which she hates) every time it comes in her yard. Very effective and she loves that knife.

randy
 
wow......

Well, ok. Sorry I lost my train of thought.

Mine's not as extreme. I was at Smoky Mountain knife works, and was shopping for a new Kabar 1217, spotted some badass looking knives while waiting on the lady behind the counter to start breaking out all the 1217's she has. When I B&M shop, I look at all the knive and make sure I get the grind I want. Anyhoo, I spots me some BKT manufactured by Camillus. I had been a Camillus fan (Pilot Knives) for while, and so when the lady came to my aid, I wanted to "see those". I checked the BK2, 7, 9, 3, 5, and 6. I bought 3 of the BK7's. I tend to buy multiples when I am buying new knives I don't know much about. 1 to tear up. Literally. 1 to keep and use, and 1 to put back as a "spare" in case I break one. I never needed but one. I couldn't tear this thing up, during normal "break in" of a new knife. Barely tore the paint off. I still have the "put up" one left, the others, went to good hearted folks with little money.

Been screaming Beckers ever since. I also did pick up 2 Kabar 1217's too. Total walking out the door, $278 for 5 knives.

BKT, yeah, their good to go.

Moose
 
Brought my BK2 into work for a friend(newbe knifer) to look at. Handed it to him and his words were "what the f***."(with a cheesy grin). After playing around with it for what seemed like forever he said "I will have one." That's it. He's still planning on getting a BK2. Just waiting to clear some finances up.
 
Everyone who I have handed my BK2 to, picks it up & gets this stupid grin on thier face---just as i did when i first picked it up. Next question is always, where did you get this, cause i gotta have one.
 
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