Do your knives help you RELAX?

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jeegeet

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Hey, so it is almost 3am in Tucson and I am still fighting with this Windows NT f....
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Well, when I get really pissed I grab one of my manuals sitting on my desk and start
thumb flicking it. I take another one, check the blade, pop some hair ... and I am ready to work again
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So that would be an example of a not-for-cutting-knife-use.
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How about you?
K.
 
They do help me relax. I`m 52 and I`ve loved knives since I was a kid. First heavy folder was the buck 110 of course and my first flickable knife was a crawford folder. Been flicking ever since and it`s very relaxing. Auto flicking is more relaxing.

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janefromnc

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I find the maintance relaxing. I sit with my gatco and sharpen I rub with my tuff cloth. Just the repetitive motions and sound help me come down. Sharpen sharpen test test strop sharpen test test Ah I think Im hitting that zen state now. I just bought the razors edge book. I some how think this method of sharpening will be even more satisfying and relaxing.

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ALex

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Yes, w/ out a doubt! Zen and the Art of Flicking and Sharpening. When are we going to write this one? Maybe a collaboration amoung us members printed by BFC press? I'm sure we'd sell 2, maybe 3 copies.
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My Secretary mentioned that when I am upset, I sit at my desk and open and close my large Sebenza. I guess that is better than playing with my Glock... or taking a hatchet to my computer.
 
I constantly open and close knives as a tension release.
Lately I've been using a Spyderco Toad at work as it hardly makes any noise.
I seem to prefer Walker-type locks like the Spyderco Wegner Jr., MOD/Trident, Sebenza (Umfaan),Benchmade Leopard Cub and Klotzli folders.
Glad once again to hear I'm not alone
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Bill
 
I am a naturally tense sort of person. I fidget with all sorts of things, pens, whatever happens to be in my hand. And balisongs, well, they're the ultimate fidget toy.



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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
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In a word: ABSOLUTELY!
Sitting in the La-z-Boy flicking open one handed folders is like Valium to me.
When I'm really stressed-to-kill, I take out and examine and do maintenance on my fixed blade customs or go out in the shop and grind on some steel and the repetative motions of grinding and thinking about the job at hand all serve to relax me in a very good way.
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Aaaahhhhh...

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If it's stupid but works, then it isn't stupid!
 
Relaxing, yeah, thats the way to put it. Whenever im watching TV, or when im reading BladeForums, usually there will be a knife in my hands. Its like a sense of satisfaction.
 
Yes, I flick my manuals and I fight the air with my fixed blades.I do a lot of front to reverse and back transitions while lashing out at nothing.Great relaxant.
 
Me too. When at work I'm often seen tracing the contours of the La Griffe under my shirt, kind of like Frodo and the Ring of Doom. I also sit and open and close the large Wegner, Carnivore, or C7. If things get REALLY bad at work, I shut the door and break out the Razors Edge set-up, and go to work for a while. It really does hit the spot!
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My incessant use of the butterfly knife does relax me, when I used to travel I'd call home at night and my wife could hear the knife clicking in the background and say `put that thing down and pay attention to me!'

When watching a movie I'll sit and open and close my knives, might have several out on a side table to look at, especially during the movie `The Edge', just a normal healthy habit, right?
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G2

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G2 LeatherWorks
 
I find sharpening a great relaxer. I not only have a dozen sharpening implements in my home, I have 4 at my office. When I'm really pissed I like to throw knives. My kids were awfully impressed the first time they saw me come home from the office and start throwing my Brittish combat axe. I had just invented a source-synchronized burst transfer BTL bus and my idiot manager was trying to force me to use a centralized clock system! (We engineers have artistic temperments).
 
never really thought about it but yes it is very relaxing! i fing myself flicking my manuals and pushing that sweet spot on my autos and it really does help me relax!
 
Yep!
Sharpening does it for me too.
It really is very relaxing to sit and work an edge until it pops hair at the slightest touch. I know these edges don't last very long but, what the hey! There's always tomorrow.

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If it's stupid but works, then it isn't stupid!
 
And for me sharpening works too, but it is a longer and deeper relax. It takes a few thumb flicks to get a quick one.
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Kris
 
Ahhhhhhhhhh, most relaxing. Flicking, sharpening even the sounds are soothing, that happy little "Snick" & the rythmic scrape,scrape of steel on stone....ahhhhhh.
I'm surprised no one mentioned polishing! Carbon steel and brass on the coffee table, all lined up polished and pretty...
Ahhhhhhhh.
Now where'd I leave that tube of flitz...
 
I'm another polisher. The stag and pearl collection is almost all carbon steel, mostly Fight'n Roosters. They appreciate the attention and it takes away all the irritation of the day. When there isn't any irritation in the day I still like to work with them and play with them. Rennaisance wax every 6 months or so really pretty's them up to. Just to sit and fidget I'll usually be playing with my cheap auto's. Flicking them or taking them apart just because they're cheap enough to do that too. I'm a mechanical moron so any practice I can get is good.
The reason I got into the knives a couple years ago and the reason I stay with them is that for some reason, and it doesn't matter what that reason is, they have an effect on me. Maybe something to do with another life, maybe I'm just easily distracted by shiny objects. Who cares? It works.

DaveJ
 
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