Are knives trendy?

KrisOK said:
I sorta wish it WOULD get trendy. There was a time (at least in the US) when a man who didn't have a pocket knife was a rarity. I was a kid in the 60's, and back then most guys had a pocket knife by the age of 7 or so. We had them in our pants pockets pretty much all the time. The schools didn't think a thing about it, and I NEVER heard of someone getting into a knife fight or 'Pulling' a knife on someone.
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You know what there was the same thing in my grand fathers day here in canada he was ww2 vet and though I never met him (died a month before I was born) my dad has told me the little we know about him ( after the war he didn't talk about himself) and one of the things he said was that my my grandfather always had a knife in his pocket and no one thought anything about it.
Nowadays though schools are way too strict for example if you wear work boots the principal has been known to "talk" to you about it and i once got in trouble for having one of those utili-keys ( the ones with a 1inch blade on it) on my keychain
 
I think custom knives are definitely pretty getting popular. USN had an all time high of users logged in, in October. I consider that place to be the best for customs buying/selling and discussion.

I'm probably wrong though.
 
Yes the trend all started when the very first man steeped out of his cave and found a sharp rock.:)
 
skyhorse said:
Yes the trend all started when the very first man steeped out of his cave and found a sharp rock.:)
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But some people go backwards in evolution, ripping open bags with their teeth etc. because they cannot see the value that a knife has as a tool.
 
puukkoman said:
It seems to me that there's been a resurgence in the popularity of the pocket knife. Lots of guys nowadays are getting into "manly stuff," as evidenced by the growing popularity of moustaches and beards. Things like expensive safety razors, pens, watches, and other gear are being marketed to the hip young man, and pocket knives are starting to be as well.
Check out the Art of Manliness website, for a chuckle (and to see what I'm talking about).
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Very much this. It is a backlash against the trend towards being effeminate that had been going on for the last 15 years or so. The anti-metrosexual in a way. I think I probably fall under this trend, I got interested in knives, pipes, flasks, nice watches, DE razors and shave brushes, as well as camping, survival, and learning how to build/fix things myself, as I felt society was becoming too inefficient, and that modern takes on old designs really have something to offer. A time before everything was about convenience, and when it was about quality and actual use. Still, I only see others like me rarely outside of the internet. Most people are too into the latest video games to do anything other than "fast and easy".
 
I was at a dept store, by a knife counter. I was chatting with the salesman, and asked what knives were moving.
Bear Grylls survival knives??!!!
Definitely not being bought for survival, so I guess there is a trendy undercurrent.
That, and people like orange.
 
bobusx said:
Very much this. It is a backlash against the trend towards being effeminate that had been going on for the last 15 years or so. The anti-metrosexual in a way. I think I probably fall under this trend, I got interested in knives, pipes, flasks, nice watches, DE razors and shave brushes, as well as camping, survival, and learning how to build/fix things myself, as I felt society was becoming too inefficient, and that modern takes on old designs really have something to offer. A time before everything was about convenience, and when it was about quality and actual use. Still, I only see others like me rarely outside of the internet. Most people are too into the latest video games to do anything other than "fast and easy".
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There is a lot to what you say here. The worst thing in my mind is to be useless as a man. There's to many fully unable males running around and to few able men. The whole lot of them need to wake up and realize that a bull with udders is a joke. Men need to get out and build, fix, restore, chop, slice and bust stuff and change things for the better while they are at it, not be a pack of Nancy boys looking to accessorize their wardrobes.
 
willseeyalater said:
There is a lot to what you say here. The worst thing in my mind is to be useless as a man. There's to many fully unable males running around and to few able men. The whole lot of them need to wake up and realize that a bull with udders is a joke. Men need to get out and build, fix, restore, chop, slice and bust stuff and change things for the better while they are at it, not be a pack of Nancy boys looking to accessorize their wardrobes.
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I hope to say this without losing my manly credentials... I love you guys...
 
This is the best conversation ive heard in a while and a great reason why im glad i joined this site today. as they say, "a breath of fresh air".
 
I would say, based on so many threads and posts I've read recently that it would be a fair statement to say that some folks do think knives are trendy. A lot of people have a commonly shared understanding built upon experience, production knives aren't all perfect. So sometimes a minor hiccup is taken with a grain of salt and we move on. Some people though, have absolutely no business whatsoever buying knives at all, from any manufacturer; since it will only serve as a vehicle for them to complain and whine.

The folks that feel knives are trendy are usually the ones that get up in arms over the lightest perceived imperfection, without having any real world experience or information to base it off of. It's quite sad to see people upset because they perceive their knives are assembled by workers wearing hazmat type suits, in a pure white room with no contamination (think labs in the movies). Does it matter how perfect the knife is on a knife they have no intention of carrying, using, and eventually selling?
 
Yeah, RevDevil hit on something there... trendy knife buyers may treat knives as accessories rather than tools... I have no empirical basis for this, but it is my hunch...
 
Aias said:
Yeah, RevDevil hit on something there... trendy knife buyers may treat knives as accessories rather than tools... I have no empirical basis for this, but it is my hunch...
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Is it so wrong to want the tool you carry and use in your pocket to match your suit, tie and watch? What is wrong with using a knife as an accessory AND a tool. I think there is something incredibly 'manly' about carrying a knife.

Also, I know what you guys mean about men being turned into effeminate tits. (bulls with udders). So many guys I know ask me "HOW do you know how to do that?" I often reply, "How do you NOT know how to do that?". Things like sharpening a pencil with a knife or replace an alternator, braze a pipe, chop wood, etc.
 
timbit said:
Is it so wrong to want the tool you carry and use in your pocket to match your suit, tie and watch? What is wrong with using a knife as an accessory AND a tool. I think there is something incredibly 'manly' about carrying a knife.

Also, I know what you guys mean about men being turned into effeminate tits. (bulls with udders). So many guys I know ask me "HOW do you know how to do that?" I often reply, "How do you NOT know how to do that?". Things like sharpening a pencil with a knife or replace an alternator, braze a pipe, chop wood, etc.
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For me the matching aspect is a practical thing... which folder will show less based on its color/size in conjunction with the clothes I'm wearing. If it is otherwise for anyone else, so be it--to each his own. I take a utilitarian approach; that said, I love an excellent knife and care about things like steel, HT, f&f, etc...

This carries over into enjoying "being practical" and handy, in general. Manly is good, and it need not be overblown or crude; the quiet strength of my grandfathers--one was a steel worker, the other (among many things) a WWII anti-fascist partisan--they are my ideals in a world that seems to honor such qualities less and less...
 
blades throughout history have been carried as male bling with practical uses as tools and weapons.
 
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