Do you ever get compliments on your knives?

Even though I employ 50 people that work in my warehouse and about 75% carry a knife all of which are moderns and they see me use my traditional daily no one ever asks to see it or use it. Most of the younger crowd prefer a modern and see a traditional as to time consuming to use
 
I was at a meeting at Patrick AFB and my client was Navy and checked out some surfcastiing gear from the base. He was fishing in front of the hotel, but had no knife. I lent him my 5" Puma lockback until the next day and boy was he happy. Loved the knife and the edge. No better way to make a client happy than to facilitate his passion and trust him with your gear :) Pumas are pretty indestructable though.
 
Most of my friends are in their 20s and 30s. That generation doesn't have much connection with traditional pocket knives. They usually look at me funny when I pull one out to open a package. They figure there's always a pair of scissors around.
 
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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I'm not a cat person....... But that cat is Gorgeous.
Awesome color
 
The first time I put thought in, and made a knife actually for someone....
Rather than just making a knife, then giving it away to anyone.

Well, I made it for a coworker/friend who I knew liked knives.
(It's the pictures I posted in the Hotrod knife post)

A couple weeks later I asked her about it, if she still liked it or not? Cause She doesn't really talk much.
She just rolled her eyes, and gave me a look of "Duhh". Like Obviously.

She said everyday before work she sits in her car, before going in, and just pulls it out, and puts it back in, pulls it out again. Playing with it psyches her up each day. She said She just likes to cut stuff, and she likes how it snaps into the kydex sheath I made for it.

Haha..... I said "Good, that's the Best compliment I could get".
 
Never; I awkwardly inject myself onto any conversation that gravitates towards knives or knife use in an attempt to either A) discuss steel B) discuss edge C) whip out my knife and display the merits of a good knife...you can imagine how fun at parties I am.
There are some boys at my church in my daughters youth group that are into knives, (horrible taste), and I very much want to bring my display case and spark up a discussion, but I feel like they will think I am a freakin' weirdo or pedo.
Anyway, thank heavens for BF.com!
 
I have, on this Boker. I think she's quite a looker myself!

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-Mike
 
Rarely. Other knife guys, sure.

Once in a while, I get “Are we allowed to have knives here?” (I work in a school). One time, with a Spyderco Sage we were using to cut a cake, a lady said “Oh, that’s cute!” I was like, it’s not really what I think of as a “cute” knife, but whatever. I just outright gave her an SAK the next time she asked me for a knife - she’d never owned a pocket knife in her life before that.
 
I worked in a warehouse for 23 years, and I have always been very discreet about using knives around others, but the people on the floor knew me as that knife guy. Several folks counted on me to sharpen their knives for them because they knew mine was always sharp. I kept a DMT stone on my desk and a small bottle of water, so I became the go to guy for sharpening work knives. Others just used those snap off blade plastic handled cutters or the old-fashioned single edge razor box cutters. I have several rather interesting pieces that folks gave to me because they knew I was a knife nut.

One time I was making a truck delivery to a store and the manager, who was kind of a friend, saw me using a Buck titanium 560 / 110 variant to cut the shrink wrap. He said why are you using such a nice knife to open pallets? He gave me a Buck Odessey one hander with ATS-34 steel blade and that one became my daily carry for well over a decade. I actually wore out two blades on that knife and Buck only charged ten dollars each blade swap. It's been twenty years since I left that company, and I don't generally use knives in a stranger's presence, my wife likes the "pretty" ones, usually wood covers, and often times they wind up in her collection. She was not a knife person at all until she met me, but she gained an appreciation of the beauty inherent in a quality made folder. Especially ones that I tuned up and got rid of any sharp edges that were not the cutting edge. It's a tactile thing.
 
I have got a few for my SAK One Handed Trekker NS. People seem to really like the functionality of it
 

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Like clothes, knives or any other personal items, the only person who usually notices or cares what you have is ................................... you.

Now, if you pulled out this to butterfly a filet, maybe someone would comment.

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