"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

I'm heading down the same path as Brett, just a different branch off of that path. I've whittled down my collection quite a bit, and my buying even more. I've decided that I'm going to end up with 2 knives that I carry regularly and a collection of one specific pattern. Since coming to that realization this summer, I've passed on many knives that I would have spent a good amount of money on. So far, I've been able to tell myself that if it doesn't fit into my collection I don't need it. However, I will say that there are many knives in my collection that don't fit into my collection. Maybe I'll be able to get rid of them one day, but today is not that day. I'm getting there, though.
 
I love my pocketknives but in particular I love my #25s. I love the hunt. I love the acquisition. I love the wait and the anticipation of the package opening. I love adding them to my existing display and rearranging them all into whichever order takes my fancy. Sometimes it's been so many weeks that the packages have been in storage in the US that by the time they reach me I've forgotten which 25s I bought! It's like Christmas all over again, Santa Claus FedEx style!

My point is, this is not an unhealthy addiction. I'm not irresponsible with it. If I couldn't afford my hobby I wouldn't do it (or to be precise, my wife wouldn't let me). We all joke about how "oh it's bad for your wallet to be on the Porch!" but I genuinely think my life has been enriched by becoming a member here. I've made some good friends. This is a grand place to tarry. :thumbup:
 
pmew said:
I genuinely think my life has been enriched by becoming a member here. I've made some good friends. This is a grand place to tarry. :thumbup:
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I agree 100% with this and even if I were to sell my entire collection I would still be on here daily.

This thread has really got me thinking about what I want to do with my collection. I have 7 matching chestnut jigged bone Case CV knifes in a display that I looked at the first time today in a while. They have started developing light surface rust from just sitting there. What good has that done, now if I were to sell them what would they even be worth because I am going to have to polish them so they are no longer mint. Not using these knives because there are so many seems like a shame. Having them just to look at also doesn't seem like a good idea. In fact these knives are proof of that.


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The knife hobby is a journey, for some down a rabbit hole, for others a stop along the way.

Most of us reach a stopping point. Some reach it faster than others, but it will happen. Tastes in knives or hobbies change, life's circumstances change, it's inevitable.
 
When I have too many knives, I sell a few off and buy another gun. When I have too many guns, I sell a couple off and buy some more knives. ;)
 
black mamba said:
When I have too many knives, I sell a few off and buy another gun. When I have too many guns, I sell a couple off and buy some more knives. ;)
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Jeff, that sounds like a great idea! :thumbup: My problem is, I have never been able to figure out what constitutes "Too Many", in either instance! :eek::D
 
Interesting that the topic of "too many knives" has come up. I've been at that point for a while. I have only bought one pocket knife this year, the GEC 77 NF Barlow SFO, and my intention is for that to be my last. I don't know if I will be able to make it my last one ever, but I am going to try.
 
jc57 said:
Interesting that the topic of "too many knives" has come up. I've been at that point for a while. I have only bought one pocket knife this year, the GEC 77 NF Barlow SFO, and my intention is for that to be my last. I don't know if I will be able to make it my last one ever, but I am going to try.
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John, I want to commend you on your efforts last night brother. :thumbup:


Back on Randy's topic and not steer into another:

The inflated prices and the amount of luck needed due to early reservations has certainly helped my decision to slow it down. By not being able to get on the reserve list and how even the common run knives of GEC are marked up has turned my attention to other knives.

At one school that I teach at I serve students who represent 17 countries. I try my hardest to learn about their individual culture. That has certainly tied into my interest traditional and historical knives of those and other countries. It fascinates me beyond the common repetitively seen knives.

John has brought up the concept of cognitive dissonance once or twice and that has always stuck with me when looking at what I value in my own life and the amount of steel on my display.
 
r redden said:
This morning I woke, up got a cup of coffee it was way too chilly for the deck so sat at the kitchen bar with my post about knife addiction fresh on my mind, grabbed my laptop and went straight to the exchange.:eek::confused:
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This is always the solution to any doubts as to whether you need another knife. Go shopping and the answer will magically come to you.... YES! You need another knife!

Problem solved.
 
meako said:
Get down low and go go go.
Without knowing the exact details of the incident Jack I would probably tip the contributing factors to be
Drunkeness on a regular and habitual level-did he actually purposely try to burn the place?
Drug use perhaps
Inadequate heater precautions.
Falling asleep whilst cooking when drunk (very common) and filling the house and surrounds with smoke.One of my S/Os did just that at work one night back in the good old days.
Main cause of death from fires in houses is from smoke inhalation-chances are they don't wake up and asphyxiate whilst asleep and never wake up.
Many of us may have experienced this- you are cooking and making smoke from the frying pan and you simply don't realise how smoky it is getting. I have experienced this many times when entering a premises that is apparently on fire (or so the neighbours think) fully smoke logged and there is an old chappy in the kitchen happily cremating some sausages or something completely unaware because its built up around him gradually.
I will never understand why people insist on cooking chips at home-WHY? you can buy better chips from the chip shop for cheaper than you can make them. I don't care if you're Jamie b#$%^y Oliver -home made chips are never as good.
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Thanks mate, he's a heavy drinker of many years standing. If he gets a couple of days off work he just drinks into oblivion. He'd obviously put a pan on before he drank himself unconscious. Fortunately not a chip-pan or I think he probably WOULD have burned the house down :eek: :mad:
 
Jack Black said:
Thanks mate, he's a heavy drinker of many years standing. If he gets a couple of days off work he just drinks into oblivion. He'd obviously put a pan on before he drank himself unconscious. Fortunately not a chip-pan or I think he probably WOULD have burned the house down :eek: :mad:
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I'm glad that you are OK and also old mate too even though it was his doing.
I was always amazed by peoples "oh lets just get on with it" view of life when they and their children have just nearly been incinerated .
Its not just the chip oil that goes up- most foodstuffs will catch fire if heated up enough. Aluminium pans will melt. I attended one a few years ago where the only thing that saved the house was the LE Creuset saucepan-thick cast iron-the food inside had burned away to ash but the pan was OK-big factor IMO.
mmmmm I can smell it now -:)
 
meako said:
I'm glad that you are OK and also old mate too even though it was his doing.
I was always amazed by peoples "oh lets just get on with it" view of life when they and their children have just nearly been incinerated .
Its not just the chip oil that goes up- most foodstuffs will catch fire if heated up enough. Aluminium pans will melt. I attended one a few years ago where the only thing that saved the house was the LE Creuset saucepan-thick cast iron-the food inside had burned away to ash but the pan was OK-big factor IMO.
mmmmm I can smell it now -:)
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Yes, cheap pans are nasty mate. I don't know what it was, but it absolutely stank, and the smoke was thick and acrid. I couldn't get much sense out of the bloke as he was so drunk he was just slurring in his native Polish, and could barely stand up :rolleyes: When I lived in Sheffield, there was an old man a few streets away, who would set fire to his flat a couple of times a week, putting on the chip-pan after he'd been boozing at lunchtime (and he lived virtually next door to a fish and chip shop!). I'd regularly see his neighbours standing in the street waiting for the Fire Brigade. I guess he probably killed himself in the end. Fortunately, the chip-pans have virtually disappeared here now.
 
Everyone had a chip pan in the 70`s. I could not wait to get home from school and smell it! Paradise!!! But Jack do you remember those terrible adverts on the telly about them going up in flames and how to put them out. Its a wonder between that and Brentford nylons near the fire place we lived to tell the tale!!

Have a great weekend every one

Cheers

Paul
 
Mason Knives said:
Everyone had a chip pan in the 70`s. I could not wait to get home from school and smell it! Paradise!!! But Jack do you remember those terrible adverts on the telly about them going up in flames and how to put them out. Its a wonder between that and Brentford nylons near the fire place we lived to tell the tale!!
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I do remember them Paul, I can also remember having to put out a couple of chip pan fires with a damp tea-towel. They were absolutely deadly! :eek:

My mother was a terrible cook, and her chips were particularly bad! When I'd hear my friends saying, "Just like your mother makes" in relation to a bag of chips, I used to wonder what they were on about, they tasted perfectly fine to me! :D

"Brentford Nylons"! :D :D
 
knarfeng said:
This is always the solution to any doubts as to whether you need another knife. Go shopping and the answer will magically come to you.... YES! You need another knife!

Problem solved.
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Or alternatively one may sometimes realize acquiring yet another knife when one has a large collection is not objectively justified other than for conspicuous consumption or feeding a habit.
 
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Hey guys & gals!

Being here after some long time. My sincerest thoughts are on the people in the caribbean sea that got damaged on hurricane Mathew about one week ago.

I know this feeling as my hometown got flooded on 1st June this year as well https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hochwasser+2016+simbach+am+inn

I got hit hard and heavy. Many damages are not even clear right now...

Me and my family were right and no on got hurt - but we were in luck.
 
Andi it's great to see you here! I am thankful you and you family were safe during the floods. Material things can be replaced or rebuilt. A loss of life cannot!

Regards, Ron
 
Welcome Andi, I'm glad to hear that you, Sandra and Max are ok! It must have been awful!
 
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