Anybody Else Like Me???

Megalobyte

Megalobyte

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I love knives. I love a good production knife, and even more, a really well made custom, but I have to be honest, i dont use knives all that often in my daily life. I dont even carry a knife daily. Is it wrong for me to collect them, and appreciate them for reasons other than strictly their utility? Now i DO, in a sense, "carry" a knife daily, i sell rare, fossil shark teeth for a living, and i wear, as a large pendant, a 5 million year old, razor sharp, fully serrated fossil Great White tooth on a chain on my neck, and i do often, throughout the day, use it to cut various things, so, i guess i do sort of carry a knife, but my question is, i love all sorts of knives, production, custom, fixed, folders, Japanese, tactical etc, so many styles and types, but not to use them, i just enjoy holding them, opening them, feeling their precision and workmanship, it just satisfies my craving for, i dont know, craftsmanship, perfection, superior engineering, and something else i cant quite put my finger on, all i know is, i LIKE owning and admiring knives of all sorts, and yet, i do so not so much because i want to carry and use them daily, theres just something inherent in them that i respond to, that appeals to me.

Now, having said this, I do have a few knives around the house, relatively cheap ones, that get used, if not daily, then close to it, a Cuda, a Chive, a Swiss Army, a Case XX, but, again, 99% of the knives i own i own not because i want to use them, just because theres something about them that really appeals to me. And i often find myself taking them out of their pouches and playing with them, i find it very satisfying, and i really do, so much, admire a very well made knife.

Anyone else like me?
 
I am with you in the sense that I buy every knife I can afford yet I only use about 3% of them. Once I get a new knife I play with it, Clean it, Touch it up on the Sharpmaker and if it's not going to take a position as an EDC, it goes straight into a display case. I keep out about 4 or so knives for daily use and the others only come out of the cases to play with, clean and they go straight back into the case. As a matter of fact if I get a knife I really like and want to use an a EDC, I will keep my eye out for the same knife and keep one in my case and the other as an EDC.

It's not really that I don't want to use the knives in the case, but I grow a special relationship with the knives I carry everyday and can't imagine swaping them out all of the time like it's just another knife, That would belittle my true feelings about those special enough for me to title them EDCs :D
 
I have a bunch of "Safe Queens" but I also carry a knife or two every day.
I'm a lot like you.
 
Nope, I buy knives I plan to use, If I’m not going to use it I won’t buy it... :D
 
I buy knives for their engineering and beauty, but if it won't take abuse, its not worth my money.
 
I Like you Meg...don't feel bad! ;)


Difference is I do carry all that I own, those that I don't carry I end up moving along! I've owned some that are just too dang pretty or not something you would use every day...had to move them...:(

Speaking of Sharks, but animals in general, I was watching some of our more recent pets, a small cat that was dropped off at our house here in the country, turns out the small cat is a girl and she ended up having 7 kittens!!! So when I was at my shed trimming some edges on some sheaths, one of the kittens was resting on top of my lawnmower bag, I went over and was petting her and she yawned and I thought My what SHARP POINTY TEETH you have! Mere humans can't compete with the jaws of even a little cat! The teeth that ran up along the jaw were a line of sharp saw teeth looking beauties that I'd not want to come down on my fingers!! We certainly are frail things in our smooth soft skin!

G2
 
Every knife I have gotten in the last 2 to 3 months, to include all my Smith's, Carson's, and Obenauf's, has been carried. Some will naturally get carried more than others, but I carry a knife EVERY day, more like two and sometimes three. Currently my edc is a J.W. Smith LS-1 "Eighties", J.W. Smith Scimitar, Carson model 4, and an Obenauf model 2 with full micarta scales. The Aftermath that just came will also get carried as will the large model 2 Obenauf coming this week. In the past most of my knives were not carried but I derive too much enjoyment from carrying now that I didn't have a few years back. I also figure if I rotate fairly often between 5 or 6 folders I will prevent a lot of wear and tear on any one. Bottom line now is If I buy it I plan on carrying/using it.
 
I was gonna make a lame joke about how I don't know you well enough to say if I like you, so I'll just tell you that I just like everything about them, from the engineering and design that goes into them, to the craftsmanship shown in the final presentation.

I also have to use them I have very few mint in box, never carried knives, I have to carry it whether it's a $300+ custom,(I realize this is the lower end of the custom line, but there are a lot of knives to choose from in this range), to a antique production slipjoint from the early 20's.

Half the fun of owning a knife is using it.

There's an old saying that boat owners have, sometimes I wonder if it applies to knives? It goes like this,"The two best day of a boat owners life, are the day he buys the boat, and the day he sells it."
 
Put them in your pocket, in a safe, in a display case, use them, don't use them, admire them, beat the heck out of them...it doesn't matter, it's all good...;):)

I only buy knives that I have a specific purpose for. That doesn't mean I use them everyday, or even at all. For example, I have a Becker TacTool that hangs beside my fire extinguisher for emergencies. All of my folders do get into the rotation at some point. That's just my personality though.
 
See the other recent thread about a deep instinctive yearning to carry something sharp. If you're carrying the tooth of a large predator then that makes you a poster boy for that theory.

Shark teeth are an amazing example of natural engineering. Imagine having a whole mouthfull of hair poppin' spydies. That replace themselves when one is lost or broken. No surprise I don't go in the water during great white season........

and Meg - don't feel bad. Use them, don't use them, sleep with them, get naked and fondle them, sit quietly in the dark carefully sharpening them with a maniacal grin and a vacant stare - it's all good.
 
Originally posted by Gary W. Graley
Mere humans can't compete with the jaws of even a little cat!
G2
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I quite agree. If it weren't for our large brains (most of us :)) and our opposable thumbs, we would all be hopeless and extinct long ago. We can't run fast or jump high to flee, and we have nothing pointy or hard to hunt with!

Being poor (student), I only carry a Swiss army knife and a Sydercard (at the moment...) and I treasure them as much as some of you big-wigs would a £($)1,000 knife. I do use them daily and I tend to cover them in electrical tape to improve their handle grips in Autumn/Winter.

But to me, I see as much beauty in their design and form as many do a Sebenza...
 
I agree with everything that has been posted here. There was a time that I would never buy a knife that I wasn't going to use. As time has passed I find myself purchasing more and more knives that I am unlikely to use very much if ever. I still have knives that I beat the heck out of, but I also have some that I spent more time fondling than I do using.

I was going to say that there are no bad reasons to own knives, but then I thought better of it. Let's instead say that there are no none psychotic bad reasons to own knives.
 
Nope, I buy knives I plan to use, If I’m not going to use it I won’t buy it...
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AMEN.

So some of you guys are saying you have some knives (or all) that you never use:eek:, not even to open a cardboard box?
:)
Warthog
 
Every knife I obtain for myself is used at least once: to open the box of the next knife I get. Sometimes that's the only use that knife'll get -- but as soon as I realize I'm not using it, off it goes, sold off or traded into another knife. I've got enough stuff sitting around collecting dust.
 
I buy every knife with full intention of using it, however, I have so many that the vast majority don't make it into EDC rotation.

It's a shame and a waste but I'm still young so hopefully they'll all get their turn!:)
 
I always carry a knife. I have been mugged or in fights with my knife in pocket, But I didn't pull it out and use it. I carry a knife because it make me feel as though I can deal with whatever comes my way.

I will slice open my mail or a box, but a knife has letal potenial I hope to never use.
 
Originally posted by Warthog
AMEN.

So some of you guys are saying you have some knives (or all) that you never use:eek:, not even to open a cardboard box?
:)
Warthog
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I own a few extremely fancy customs that i believe were never meant to be used for anything other than to be admired as works of art. When you see their ornate fittings, the smooth blued damascus steel, the carved pearl and ivory, the gem inlays, you know these knives are not for using. I know that seems silly to some, but i think these, so called, art knives have their place, as pure works of art, that happen to resemble a knife. I suppose it couldnt hurt them to open the occasional letter, but why, when i have several, less expensive users ready and better able to do the job. I can understand though, that some find the idea of a knife never meant to cut anything, absurd. And their prices possibly even MORE absurd. :)
 
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