If that guy is going around telling people that it's the best painting for chopping and camp chores, and it doesn't have a scratch on it, I'm calling bull$&!t!!
It's not people that collect knives that make me disappointed. In the original post, I even said, "I get the collector market. I collect knives too." The thing I was talking about is when someone buys a knife, NEVER EVER USES IT, and then posts everywhere about how it's the best slicer and you can use it all day with no hot spots. Meanwhile they have no idea. I COLLECT KNIVES. I'M NOT SAYING NOBODY SHOULD COLLECT KNIVES.
I'm guilty of owning absolutely spotless knives that cost more than a new Ducati and I will never use them, BUT I don't tell everyone that they're the best users out there because I don't know. It's just silly when someone spends tons of money on a knife with a great brand name, never uses it, and then tells everyone is the best user just because it has a good name attached to it.
I love my own brand name more than almost anything (I said almost), but I wouldn't steer someone to buy a B&G and tell them it makes an awesome bushcraft knife, and I wouldn't want anyone else telling people it's the best bushcraft knife. I'm very honest about what knives I make and what jobs they're best for. I don't just say, "hey... If it's got the FK on it, it's the best for whatever you're talking about." Some of my knives are designed for very specific tasks and would totally suck for others.
I love the collector market, of which I take part in happily, and I love everyone who buys my knives, regardless of whether they're buying a knife to appreciate the time and artistry I put into it, or because they want a user knife they can beat to death. Either way, I am ultimately appreciative. Of course I love it when someone beats the snot out of one of my knives and tells me about how it preformed, but I also feel pride when someone recognizes the effort I put into a design and execution and they tell me that they will display it as art.
Hopefully people understand what I'm talking about.
I hate when people buy beautiful works of art and just hang them on their wall. They need to take that artwork out for a ride and show it off to people. I would love to see nothing more than a guy show up to a cocktail party carrying a $43,000,000 van gogh around
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By the way that Hatchulla 3 you made for me is sitting nicely in my safe!
No worries Dylan it's all good!
