Do your significant others appreciate "traditonals"

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silenthunterstudios

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I've had more luck getting girlfriends interested in knives, through slipjoints like SAKs for example (I've known a few I wouldn't give a knife too also :eek:). While I don't throw the fact that I like knives and guns in anyone's face, it's not like I hide it. A few have commented that their father (or father and brother) carry a knife (I should've married the one that used her multitool, a gift from her father). I might give knives as gifts to a lot of friends and family, but knives fall far below jewelry or even cards and candy on the gift scale. How many of you have gotten your significant others into knives, through the power of slipjoints? How many either feigned interest in our hobby, only to really like "cute" slipjoints? How many have had their knives "taken" by their significant others, and heard, "you won't miss it, you have more than enough knives already" :D? This goes for the ladies who hang out here, I know, I know, there are some guys out there who don't have a knife in their pocket. Or did you convert a tacticool carrier into a slipjoint carrier?
 
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YES!!

She carries it everyday in a felt pouch I gave her. She has also been working on a carving with it.

Just the other day we were getting new bed sets and she asked me to stop cutting the plastic off the box spring and mattress so she could have a chance to use her 57 :)
 
My wife likes knives, yet she is far away from being a knife nut like her husband, and except the buck 110 which became hers, she has no interest in traditionals, plus after she got bitten by a small peanut, she said those damnd things, though beautiful, are too small for her. Guess even though she does like some knives, she will never show a peanut the respect which that small knife seems to ask for. That is a thing for true knife nuts, like me, and others here.
She does appreciate though the minichamp that i slipped on her keys, and the alox saks for a quick kitchen duty. :D
 
Mine has no interest and never will. They're tools, like staplers. To her credit she can appreciate all that's good about a SAK.
 
My wife appreciates knives, but she's not really interested in them. They're a tool to her, nothing more. She doesn't care about carbon or stainless steels, premium handle materials, or convex or flat grinds. As long as I keep her knives (that includes the ones in the kitchen) sharp she's satisfied.

The important thing is that she is supportive of my interest in knives. I can't imagine what it would be like if she was opposed to them.

- Christian
 
I feel lucky that I have a better half that likes to have a knife on hand.

Karen loves her little sak classic so much, that when she flew to see some family back in Texas, and had to leave her classic home because she does not like to check luggage, she came home with another sak. She usually carried a black classic, but after a trip, I saw a purple classic on her keyring. I asked her where that came from, and she said when she was on her trip, she missed her classic so much, she went and bought another one and just checked her bag on the return trip. Now she has a black, purple, and translucent blue ones.

Karen also has a number 8 Opinel that she carries in her purse. It's one of the factory carved ones, with hearts all over it. She loves that knife.

Carl.
 
My wife has little interest and when she does it is based on aesthetics alone. She carries one of my Grandpa's old knives. One of those where you have to hold it the right side up and press the blade to open/close it. Silver. Pretty knife. It's in her wallet, but she rarely uses it. She usually just asks to use mine. Or for me to use mine. I'm glad she's not a knife nut. We'd be flat broke. ;)
 
To my wife her med. Unlce Henry Lockback is like the car it's just a tool she needs; no emtional atachment what so ever!
 
She used to think my hobby was weird but she has come around. Being a hard-core gardener, my wife uses knives more that I do, so I have given her several.
She actually asked me for a pruning knife lately.
 
I gave my Fiance a Leatherman PS4 for Christmas on a hunch (I know not Traditional but hold on..) and she LOVED it and EDCs it in her handbag. I see her use it a lot.
So when we moved in together this past month she asked why I had all of my slipjoints displayed in my office and told me to put some in the LIVING ROOM on her bookshelves!!! Holy Cow what and endorsement. She also dug out a tiny sterling handled ladies penknife that belonged to a great grand mother or something (she is not sure). So now our living room has old vintage slipjoints all over.
She came within seconds of buying me a Camillus "Demo" knife at an Antique store the other day. I went back (springs were broken) to check it out. She keyed in on the very knife I would have looked at first in the whole case. (I noticed a lot of knives in antique shops are often broken but they try to sell them and the price of a functional knife.)
Now I need to choose what slippie to get her for her birthday! I am feeling pretty lucky.
 
My wife appreciates knives and never gives me any grief about them. Ironically, she is the one that rekindled my interest in knives. I had started a collection in the early 80's only to lose them all to a house fire. For decades after that I just had the knife that was in my pocket and that was it. In the fall of 2006 my wife told me she wanted a SAK for Christmas that year. While shopping around for her SAK I became interested in knives again and have never looked back.

My wife only carries the SAK that I got her for Christmas that year but she likes to look at my new knives when I get them. She has only a casual interest in knives but she knows a good one when she sees it.
 
My wife spends way more money than I do, so she's pretty good about not hassling me over my knives. But . . . the only ones of mine she REALLY appreciates are the flashy ones, like this GEC Looking Glass Furtaker. "Oh, now that's puuurrty!"

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Whenever I show her a beautiful stag knife, or one with amber or brown jigged bone, she always says, "It looks like every other knife you have!" This coming from a woman who has about 3-4 dozen gold and gemstone rings and about the same number of Coach purses. Oh, and 2 cabinets full of Lladro figurines! My knives are a drop in the bucket.
 
My wife carries a Vic Classic in her purse and uses it frequently. However, the most used items are the scissors and nail file. The blade still has the original factory edge on it. I gave her a pink Peanut for Christmas last year, and she carries that in her purse as well, but this is due to the simple fact I gave it to her. She can't open the Peanut because her nails are too long and the pull is too hard. Sometimes when I'm bored I'll put a drop of oil in the pivot and sit there opening and closing it in an attempt to make it easier for her to open. I don't think she cares, though. The Classic seems to get her through.
 
My wife has learned to live with it. She even shows some interest when a new knife shows up. This is over and above the obligatory, "How much did that one cost?".:D

I thank my lucky stars she doesn't collect them herself. She's happy with clothes and jewelry. When she comes home with bags full of new clothes or some new jewelry, that she doesn't need :D, my reaction is always "Those are nice dear.";)
 
if by "appreciate" you mean referring to my beloved yeller sodbuster as looking the color of lemon chiffon then yeah she appreciates them:D
She doesnt get it but i'm not too much a pain in any other area of life, and i buy maybe 1 a year so she lets it slide...
cheers
gene
 
oh yea my wife carries a small yellow sodbuster in her purse. So no problem
 
My wife has a Vic Classic in her purse and it sees a good bit of use. I do know she's pleased that I've gone (nearly) all slipjoint, as she hates closing a locking knife. That scares her much more than cutting something with a slipjoint. We tend to eat on the run a lot (picnics, sausage roasts, snacks for the kids, etc.), so one or both of us generally has a knife going in that setting. And she's come to genuinely appreciate the usefulness of a sharp blade.

-- Mark
 
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I bought my wife an Al Mar Osprey and put a little key chain on it. She lost it because it was too small. So, now she carries a Benchmade Mel Pardue. It is slim and clips inside her purse. One day she forgot about it and checked in at security at the airport. She had to run out and ditch in the planter (escorted out by NTSA) and photographed and emailed me where it was. I was able to double back and grab that knife before anyone else did. I love her, she is my soul mate.
 
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