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I really didn't mean it that way and I regret the analogy.
However I'd love to see some big glossy pics of knives. It may be that posting photos is a pain. But they'd be much appreciated. They would help someone who doesn't know the language of knives.
I have learned a great deal from this site.
Mostly I am totally surprised to know that so many people actually use knives as much as they do. For you guys it's natural thing, just like it is for gun nuts to use firearms.
I personally believe that my avoidance for carryiny a knife, prior to needing one for self defense on my job, is the whole process of needing to sharpen it.
My childhood memory of knives, (as I'll bet is the case for 95% of all people) is this:
Knives get dull! They get dull faster than ice cream melts: or so most people have experienced. And 95% of all people don't know the first thing about how to keep a knife sharp.
Most people think (and I still do) that once you cut something with a knife, you have just started a very quick downhill process to having a butter knife in your hand.
Which brings us back to that little "sharpening thing".
And that is why most people leave knives back when they were kids. (Except to eat with).
I am about to buy a fixed blade knife and will be spending around $400.00 for this thing. I will NOT be cutting anything with this knife.
Because I haven't yet learned how to sharpen it. And I am not buying a $400.00 knife to use to open Christmas presents.
I have it in my head (as I believe that 95% of all people do) that if you use a knife even once.....you have dulled that knife. And now you need to bring it back to where it was when it was new! And that is an art that is beyond me.
Whatever! I love BF and I want to keep learning new stuff.
If you are ever able to post a pic of your knives.......go for it!
Dan
