Bladeforums: the best place to start an addiction

CapitalizedLiving

CapitalizedLiving

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I need to go off the grid to take care of some business, but before I go I wanted to tell you all that knives are the best vice I've ever had, and even the worst addict can find enough virtue in them to dispute that claim.

Before I found Bladeforums I was content with only a few knives - little did I know that I was totally wrong and I needed dozens of every type of knife, and I needed them now. After several years of buying and selling, I got to a respectable level of knives I truly enjoy, and learned so much along the way that I've been paid to sharpen knives, write about knives, and even broker collections for people too busy to shop for their own stuff. It's been wild for sure, and I owe NONE of it to any of the other forums on the web. All other knife forums are boring, static and run by old men dressed like little girls. Bladeforums has the best knife porn, the most offensive people, the craziest fail stories, the most informative how-to posts, and the most mind-boggling selection of knives for sale that I have ever seen anywhere. Hell, I'm not even sure we need any other website for any other purpose. Feel free to dispute me, but I won't be here to see it, and you're wrong anyway. So there.

Keep it up, people. I'll be back.
 
Blade Forums is like one giant pool of enablers and addicts. Everyone enables other members, gets enabled, gets even more addicted, and then gets someone else started down the path...

It's a sad cycle for the wallet...
 
Let's see... I joined BF in 2005. I owned a couple Randalls and a few other fixed blades then. Had a couple SAKs and Gerber Gator that I used a lot as well as a Case slippie and Schrade (110 style)..... that was then and I thought I had a lot of knives. Things changed. If you think knives are bad, try being active over at RimfireCentral if you have a love for rimfire firearms.....
 
Oh boy, what a topic! This is an amazing, stunningly complicated addiction. It begins, in seemingly harmless fashion, but draws to a close with madness coupled with the sheer desire of obtaining yet ANOTHER blade of some sort.

A few here, some odd end garage sales there, then pawn shops or (God forbid) mall outlets with inflated prices. Then you delve into pocket knives, lobster cleavers by Sabatier and lamb choppers with tapered tangs by the famous Nichols Bros while you lust after customs to far out of reach for mere mortals.

I have said this before in previous posts: run from the addiction. Run away as fast as you can unless you are reasonably well heeled...or the lotto ticket you bought a few weeks ago turned out to be a winner.

What about that Buck 124 that sits in your drawer or that Mission knife that will never see the darkened realms of an atlantic diving excursion? You wind up at a Blade Sports event and sign the waiver to be able to smack the M4 razor-keen ten inch blade into an unwilling 2x4. You just have to buy one now!

It is not enough that you have eight machetes. Now you need the All Terrain Chopper (even though you still have two NIB of the old version) so that you can get a two-handed grip for your armchair slashing sessions.

Amidst cans of beer and spilled orange residue of the Cheetos you had last night, you look at your Busse collection and wonder if yet another YouTube video has been posted heralding the next great adventure featuring a race between the 1311 and the NMBM. There is no end. Yet, the journey is entertaining and worthy of our attention when contrasted with other addictive evils.
 
My addiction has turned into a craft. Before, I only bought knives. Now, I still buy knives on a regular basis, but In addition, I make them. Woodworking turned into metalworking, metalworking to knife making, knife making to leather craft. At 25 years old, I'm running out of shit to do when I get old! I guess Ill have to start fishing when my hands finally give out on me... Oh, the horror... THE HORROR!

Knives are good for the soul, gentleman. The require love, maintenance, and respect. Addiction is a negative word. We aren't addicts. We're dedicated! :-D
 
And then those that are the most severly addicted deny it--just like anything else. They (we) make excuses, buy more knives, make more excuses. The denial just continues, as does the enabling.
 
I agree. I love the way the website is set up, at the moment it is my favorite forum and I have not found one I like better so far.
 
I much prefer BF of the dedicated general knife forums that are available. "Dedicated" is a good choice of words. I have a relative that is dedicated to drinking alcohol. Oh well.... :D
 
It's different! I'm sure most of us don't wake up in strange places with liver damage from heavy knife use...

Getting knifed could probably cause some liver damage, on the other hand. :-D
 
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