cant figure out non knife people!

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shootist16

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I saw a guy I work with open up a BM 710 in the roll call room and open a video tape carton. I said "Benchmade 710 Axis lock......nice knife." To which he replied "what are you talking about? It is an ATS-34, says so right on the blade." He looked at me like I was a complete idiot when I tried to explain what ATS-34 was. He said " I really don't care, it was a gift". Pretty scary huh?

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-Dennis Bible
Knoxville, Tennessee

 
Seems to me $25.00 or so is a fair price for an "ATS-34". Wait until a few days before payday and I bet its yours
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Radar, you are wicked evil, my kind of guy.

One of the reasons I tell people to never sell or trade a knife I give them is people like us.

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James Segura
San Francisco, CA


 
I haven't thought about that radar man. I bet you're right. I will give it a try and let you all know how it turns out.

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-Dennis Bible
Knoxville, Tennessee

 
Nothing wrong with non-knife people. I know people who collect soap, teaspoons and matchbooks....among other things.
Let's be a bit more tolerant..then we might get a bit of tolerance in return.
And forget the "knife is only a tool" argument. How many damned cutting tools does one person need ? I have a couple of hundred...I KNOW that is weird.
Not saying we shouldn't have as many as we want....but let us recognize we have a "problem" just like the person with the room full of ceramic frogs has a "problem".
No worries....just trying to add another perspective



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BrianWE
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Brian

Are you saying we're really normal, or that everyone else is crazy too?
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"..it is foolishness and endless trouble to cast a
stone at every dog that barks at you.."
 
In my office (advertising, NYC) I get lots of crosseyed looks when I open a box, fix a copier jam, etc. with whatever knife happens to fall into my hand at that moment. I almost always get the "Oh S@#$- it's Rambo" reaction. I tell them that they are too fixated on the weapon aspect & that to me it's just a tool & that I should be afraid of THEM. That tends to evoke a "Hmmmm" most of the time & plants a little germ of an idea in their heads that not every single pocket knife is just waiting for the chance to leap into someone's hand & start to hack, stab & slash all across the landscape. That's easier to do with a Wegner than a Woo, but it works... (& nobody has to know what's on that dogtag chain or in the IWB sheath...)

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Runs With Scissors
AKTI# A000107
 
Obviously, none of you have met any real hard core non knife people.

My ex-wife took our son on a weekend camping trip. After the trip I asked her what sort of knife she took with them. She said she had not taken a knife at all, as she did not plan to cut anything! (really, honest)

I was at a Cub/Boy Scout meeting, and one of the leaders came up to me and asked me if I had a knife. I thought to myself, did my ex-wife put him up to this? Is this a trick question? Anyway, I reached into my pocket, pulled out a Kit Carson #18 folder with 420V steel, flipped it open, and handed it to him. He shortly returned, having used it, holding it like a dead fish, by the tip of the scales, with the blade vertical, pointed toward the floor. He didn't know how to close it. I showed him how.

So it goes, Walt
 
I thought the first really decent knife I bought as a boy was a Solingen. That's what was stamped on the choil....

Then I found out Solingen is a city in Germany with a lot of knife factories -- so my knife must be a Rostfrei ... that was what was stamped on the other side of the choil....

Then I found out rostfrei is German for "stainless" (rust-free, literally). Some people have made the same mistake with the French word, inox.

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
Many years ago, I used a little Buck Esquire to cut loose a paper jam from a microfiche printer. For some years thereafter, some of the secretaries swore that I had attacked it with a knife!

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller
Arlington, Virginia

 
Walt,
Very sorry to read that one of your fellow scout leaders was (I'm assuming he's learned some good traits from you by now) so woefully unprepared. It's just plain silly.

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Runs With Scissors
AKTI# A000107
 
I have to be honest. All of the non-knife people I have run into have been since I have been in the medical field in the military. The only thing I can figure is that these people have never been called to task and depended on their skills with edged tools to provide comfort/food/protection or even just the basic utilitarian uses of the aforementioned knife.
I sometimes miss my days in the infantry for that along with other reasons.

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The bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

*Lewis S. Chafer

2 Tim 3:16
 
Scarman,

Well said. I miss the infantry for the same reasons. It was a place where useful items are respected and useless ones quickly discarded. If your going to hump it, it had better be useful.

Why can't civies see this?
 
I'm really the only Knife Nut I know. I have turned a few friends onto knives, but they just don't have the same connection to them that I do. That's fine, they still want to see my new magazine, catalog or latest purchase. It's just my thing, and not there's.
Everyone has at least one or two knives in their kitchen, or a draw full. It's the way they percieve the knives we choose to carry, and how we present ourselves. If we carry a knife that is designed to be tactical and look like a weapon, you can't be all that surprised if that's how people see it. Yeah, yeah it's a tool, "I've got 4 on me and 150 more at home!" Sorry, that does sound a little nuts, to someone that doesn't share the same interests that you do.

I love knives, I admit it. Does everyone I like, have to like what I like? No. I've only been collecting for a year and a half, I've been giving knives and swords as gifts, to friends and family for thirty years or more. Maybe, I gave to people what I wanted most to be given. Or maybe it was just an attempt to make another Knife nut.
 
Yea, some people really amaze me. Back when I still had my LUDT is an example. I'd let someone use it and I swear, EVERY TIME they'd e go to open it they'de DROP it! Are knives really that scary? Oh, my favorite is still when I'll let someone use my HALO and they open it backwards! That's required a band aid or two.
 
People eye the Leatherman sheath on my hip with disdain more often than not- too bad.

The ones which see my mini AFCK react like I pulled a gun...

Erik


I shudder to think of the coronaries my HI Ang Khola would cause! :-)
 
I agree that knives don`t get a fair shake in "polite" society, but I do have to take exception to handing a non-knife person a Halo (or any OTF) without detailed instructions on how to fire the thing. The way those things fire, plus the sharpness of the blade is no joke. To hand someone a Halo with little more than a smile and a box of band aids is irresponsible. To fire one backwards is dangerous in the extreme. If a knife belongs to me, I feel responsible for it`s safe use, whether by me or by a person I lend it to. I don`t ever want to give anyone a reason to fear me or my knives.

Sorry for the the rant, but I just never want anyone elses blood on my blades other than my own.

[This message has been edited by Steve B. (edited 20 November 1999).]
 
Whenever I pull out one of my knives to show someone they always seem to take a step or two backwards like I'm gonna go postal or something.

They always have to use two hands to open it, have trouble closing it, and like to put finger prints all over the blade.

When I tell them how much I paid for them, they can't believe it! If they only knew what I paid for the expensive ones.
 
And how many times have I said . . . ?

This knife opens, dull side first, in a four inch radius. You are three feet away, and I am not your enemy, so why are you cringing?!

People are getting used to me in some circles. One Friday night at temple, after services, one of our members was trying to slice a loaf of egg bread with the dullest knife in the temple kitchen, which I should have unilaterally thrown away at the same time I donated that Spyderco bread knife. So I pulled that BladeForums Sifu out of my pocket and said "sharp works better" and made short work of the bread. Nobody screamed.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001


[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 20 November 1999).]
 
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