Do you ever get compliments on your knives?

My last ex really liked traditional knives. She loved the Case seahorse whittler I gave her. In smooth persimmon bone, it is pretty spectacular. She liked the RR upswept trapper so much, I gave it to her instead of my son.

I don’t get many comments from strangers. A colleague at the bus garage really liked my Leek: “That is a really expensive knife, isn’t it?” That was $40 well spent.

For the most part, nobody sees my knives. That’s ok. I buy them for my own pleasure, not to impress or amuse others.
 
ephsea said:
Most of you either hang out with wrong people, or aren't letting your knives get enough light and air! I live in an urban area, and get plenty of compliments and requests to see/use a blade. In fairness, it is most often a fixed blade which can be seen either on my belt or sticking up from a pocket sheath.
I'm also pretty interested in any knife I see getting carried and used, and most always ask to see/fondle the blades of others. By the fire pit the other night, my friend showed me her 30 year old mini case stockman that she's carried in her purse for her entire adult life. It's quite worn, I offered to sharpen it for her. I complimented it, as any good and practical tool deserves.
If all else fails, or I am in solitude, I will compliment my own knives. Told Mrs. Goldenrod 92 that she looked exceptionally fine this morn, and offered to take her out for the day :)
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That's a fine one to compliment!
 
I can think of a couple times when I’ve gotten the opposite of a compliment. Several years ago we were putting out some hay for some cattle we had in the corrals. The owner asked me if he could borrow my knife to cut the twine. After I was done cutting open the bales I was doing I gave it to him. When he gave it back he said “dullest damn knife I’ve ever used.” I remember thinking a.) It got the job done and b.) it was a lot sharper than the knife he didn’t have. Nothing like borrowing something and complaining about it 😁
 
On a normal day the only person I see that will see any of my knives is my wife . The few other persons I see really know nothing about knives . They don't know a nice one from a bad one anyhow . Only people who ask to see what I carry are my Grandsons and Nephews and it does not take much to impress the ---- out of them . I have gifted Northfields to all of them so they know what a nice knife looks like . There are a few times a year when I will meet someone on the forums face to face and then I enjoy the heck out of that because everyone is carrying nice stuff . The last time I really impressed someone and they commented on it was in June 2022 . I was in the really big knife store in Tennessee buying a couple Case knives and I showed a Charlie's Lambfoot to the salesman and he had never seen one before . He was very impressed .

Harry
 
I generally carry a small knife these days. I use it freely whenever I want and take satisfaction on it being (for most people) invisible.
When I use it, it is generally automatically covered by my hand.

The only positive comment I've gotten from strangers is, "Wow, that is sharp." if they do need to use it.
 
Sadly - here in UK - I tend to keep my pocket knives out of sight. The attitude to "knives" is generally very negative.

Added to this I live in an urban area, so carrying a knife is a surprise to any folk outside of a kitchen.

I've had the odd compliment when I have purposely shown a NKP (non-knifey-person) - but that's from my more broad-minded friends - though definite compliments from my South African buddies, male and female - but you'd expect that, or I would anyways..!

This coming weekend will be the first knife show in UK for well over 3yrs............there'll be lots of compliments flying around there for sure :D

It's Friday - have a great weekend, y'all 🍻
 
Yes, often here at BF and less in the outside world. Well, what do they (non knife people) know? 😜
 
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Will Power said:
In supermarkets I hate buying Broccoli with huge trunk like stumps, waste of money so I trim them down before buying, few years ago I took out a small lockback Moki and decapitated a couple of nice green ones. Woman watching me from the other side of the box, wide-eyed, then she says " Would you mind fixing mine too? Such a great idea" :cool:
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HA! I sometimes do the same and with pineapples too.

I have a friend who owns a few knives himself but he is no where near being a knife nut. Often he will ask if he can see what I carry and will typically compliment the knife. I remember once when I showed him my #93 Ram-foot in cocobolo he called his teenage son over and said "see, this is the type of knife real men use".

Recently I had to cut a bunch of old used up ropes in a climbing gym. Some people would stop and ask what I was doing and a few would proceed to comment on the sharpness of my knife but no one showed any particular interest in the knife itself though.
 
My wife will sometimes notice and compliment a knife I'm using. She seems to like stag scales the most. My grandson just says "he wants it", so that's his way of complimenting my knife.

I was at a knife table in a flea market a few years ago. I showed a guy my Buck 112 auto , he didn't know they existed and went nuts when he saw it.

One time a co worker asked to borrow my knife and as soon as I handed it to her, she ran her thumb over the blade. We had to break out the band aids and all she said was " That's really sharp" :)
 
Rich S said:
Very rarely, my cat isn't very interested in knives. ;)
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JPD1998 said:
That's funny you mentioned that.... whenever I open a knife roll my cat comes running from where ever she is and sits on the open roll looking at all the knives.
I can't figure out why, maybe she thinks it's a mouse collection.
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Rich S said:
Very cute, funny behavior for a cat. :)
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- this was my boy, a most stunning cat, now sadly passed but lived to 17yrs.

The last three years of his life he was fed on nothing but raw tuna and venison........he knew very well what a knife was for and would compliment me often 😁





 
Chui said:
- this was my boy, a most stunning cat, now sadly passed but lived to 17yrs.

The last three years of his life he was fed on nothing but raw tuna and venison........he knew very well what a knife was for and would compliment me often 😁
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Beautiful cat and you can see in the pictures he was happy. I'm sorry for your loss.
I was never a cat person until I got one 6 years ago.
 
Im a 1-2 cat person. Cats in numbers are about the nastiest critters that ever lived.
 
A friend of mine really liked a Kershaw Scallion I had, so I gave it to him and replaced it with another. My brother liked my Spyderco Paramilitary 2, so I got him one for Christmas, he loves that knife.
 
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I've carried a pocketknife pretty regularly since the early 1970s. Nothing "high end" though. I can only remember one compliment and that was several years ago when we were setting up for my daughter's wedding reception. Someone asked to borrow a knife to cut some rope. I was walking by and handed him mine. A few minutes later he came up to me, handed me back the knife and said, "Nice knife! I've never seen any of these before...they must be pretty rare and expensive right?" I replied, "Uh, it's a Buck 110, it might not be as rare or expensive as you might think." ;)
 
I recall once I was in Walmart jawing with some younger employees that congregated at the gun counter. One of them needed a knife for something but they had misplaced the box cutter. I said here, and handed them my benchmade 3310. They all played with it a minute and their eyes were as big as saucers. They didn’t use it, saying they’d get in trouble if caught.

I swapped that in on a gun trade.


Of course my wife comments on my knives. Just the other day she said she really liked the black 75 case I dyed.

And she comments on my sharpening. Especially after a knife I sharpened cut through a thin plastic cutting board. She is spoiled to sharp kitchen knives now.
 
Knife-people will usually compliment my knives but I rarely run into other knife-people in the wild. I do often get positive comments from non-knife-people if I'm carrying something fancy like my abalone Mini Copperhead.... people seem to love this little thing.


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