Do your significant others appreciate "traditonals"

When I met my wife I knew she was a keeper when she let me know that she carried a Leatherman Kick in her purse. A couple of years later she expressed some interest in a knife that she could clip in her pocket to use around the ranch. I offered her one of the few knives with clips I own or one of my slippies. She said her jeans were too tight to have to fish a slippy out of her pocket and she wanted her own, not one of mine. She looks great in those jeans so I figured that was a valid excuse. Out of that conversation she ended up with a Spyderco Wayne Goddard something or other. She is a school teacher now and doesn't want to carry her Spyderco in her purse to school, so we have started the search for a small unoffensive traditional knife that she can stick in her purse.

So the answer to the question is: My wife is extremely practical. Traditional or modern, she wants a knife that will do the job for her. In a good way, a knife is a tool for her. If it suits her purposes, she can appreciate most any knife.
 
comoha said:
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.
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Send me your address. I got a real nice old one looking for a gardener. therealmader@yahoo.com
 
In the 2 years we've been together I've gotten 2 knives for my girlfriend. The first was a carbon Opinel #5, with her name engraved on the blade. She keeps that in her pencil case (as an artist she insists on sharpening her pencils by hand.) Recently I got her a RR whittler in black lip pearl and she carries that in her purse. She likes to carve figurines and ball-in-boxes, and keeps it sharp herself with a DMT Diafold. I'm glad we can both appreciate these kinds of things.

Come to think of it, I've bought knives as presents for most of the women I've dated. This current one is the only one that's taken any kind of liking to them. Maybe that helps explain why we're still together.
 
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An ex lady friend of mine, still carries the peanut in her purse that I gave her.

My girls have and use knives and all have their own collection, all carry a Classic on their key chain and a Tinker for a picnic
One of the girls has told me she wants the collection when I go ...
Told her, she will have to wait
 
black mamba said:
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.
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ssshhh. don't say the LL word.Or Scrapb##king. She'll hear you.
I'm sympathising with you guys big time. -heres my little scam for what its worth. Sharpen up all the kitchen knives right-initially this activity will cause annoyance to her.
Remain Calm. Go round to an elderly neighbour (i'm lucky i have several) who has blunt kitchen knives . Ok. No matter what the condition or quality. No matter if it would be cheaper to buy a new wilkinson sword santoku for 10$ down at the mall. Sharpen the neighbours knives. IMPORTANT-whilst doing this talk endlessly about quality and how good sharp knives are. This might earn you a brownie point or two.
imo
cheers.
 
While my wife doesn't hate my knives, she is long suffering from all my hobbies. When a package arrives she always says, "now what did you get?" It could be a knife, a Zippo or a watch, all of which she would prefer I didn't have so many.

I've tried to get her interested in all of the above to no avail. The beautiful silver plate LE Zippo (with Ziplight insert) went unused, as does her Ziplight with initials. I've bought her nice watches, she prefers the cheap jewelry counter ones. I got her a BSA Vic Soldier, a purple Spyderco Ladybug and a finally a Wenger S18 for Christmas directly from the World Scouting Federation (it's purple too, her favorite color!). While she appreciates them all, they're just tools and nothing more.

Thankfully my wife doesn't have her own expensive shoe or purse habit, she's very practical and frugal. Good thing or we'd be completely broke!

Those of you who have been able to interest your wives in your hobbies are lucky men...
 
My wife carries daily a Spyderco Caly Jr,Vic Tinker,and a Vic Classic.In addition she has a CS Bushranger,RC4,RC3,Marbles Woodcraft,Nimravus Cub,Camillus Picuni,and an Izula.So yeah,she likes knives,just not quite as much as me.:cool:
 
The original interest I'm sure was no more than a tool. Now if I leave one laying around before I ship
she will say wheres this going? If I say I posted it she will sooner or later take a peek at the pic
on the computer plus a full QC inspection of the one in hand. She carries a 5" Toothpick.
Ken.
 
My wife carries a Vic Soldier in her purse,and constantly steals my fixed knives for work in kitchen ,(she never mind for Henckels and KAI kitchen designated knives :confused: ,i even rehandled Fallkniven WM1 for her but she always chose something mine.)

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My wife looks at knives as tools.

She uses a Buck/Wenger SAK that I gave her when we were dating. For years that was her go-to woods knife. A few years ago she latched onto a Marttiini M571 Puukko as her food prep knife on Scout trips. Other than the Henckel kitchen knife set she got 14 years ago, that's it for knives for her. She at least feigns interest when I show her whatever new knife I got. :)
 
This is a great topic because I am trying to find ways to get my fiance interested. I am starting slowly. For instance, we were looking at a wedding ring for me and I have always said that I wanted something unique. We decided on a custom made Damascus steel and red gold ring. When telling her about Damascus, I showed her some pics of some really nice Damascus chef knives. She was impressed. Yesterday, we were leaving dinner and she said, "I wish I had a nail clipper for this hang nail." I pulled out my trusty 20+ year old SAK and handed her the scissors. It fixed her hang nail problem. I think I may get her a small SAK for her self to get her interested.
 
I cansay that I have tried....Oh man have I tried to spark off an interest, but the 3 beauties in my life just arent interested, my lady carries a red boned slippie...but I suspect she does just to please me, I havent seen it for a while.
But...my friends have taken to carrying knives!
 
Well, my wife has no interests in knives. "Theese things are just knives", she always says. I bought here a Vic Classic a couple of years ago. She always carries it with her. But just in her bag on a chain with a Fenix E01. That´s here EDC. But just used the knife a couple of times. Sometimes she calls me crazy of getting more and more knives. But she knows, that this my hobby and nothing less. She accepts it when a new knives arrives. "Everyone has his own strange world" she says. So that´s ok. She asked me what I want for Christmas. So I got an Otter fixed blade with nice stag handles. I think, that´s not the problem in relationship. Not that there would be others.

Kind regards
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Or did you convert a tacticool carrier into a slipjoint carrier?
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Not quite that drastic, but since I've been married, the size of my EDC has been dropping. It's always been slipjoints, but I'm down from a Maglight Solitaire + SAK Deluxe Tinker to a PT Pulsar + LM Micra. Half the size and less then half the weight (5.3 oz to 2.0 oz). My wife carries a SAK Minichamp.
 
my lady friend has nothing against my interest. think this is because its a few small folder instead of a tactical folder which she would consider a weapon. she even got me an alox cadet this Christmas. wont expect to ever get another one cause she figures I already have one. It is also a good reminder for me to not spend any more money on more knives. course I say this but can only go along for so long before i see another one and go nuts. so far so good but its only a matter of time before I see something from you guys and I break!
 
My wife is a social worker in a grade school and wants nothing to do with anything that even resembles a weapon. That being said, she fully understands that none of my knives is ever considered a weapon by me, they're tools. She's still trying to figure out what kind of knife interests me and is usually pretty baffled by that. She's always showing me something she found in an online auction to see if it's worth having. I don't think she'll ever carry a knife of her own.
 
Unfortunately, my wife doesn't like sharp objects. She'll compliment the aesthetics of new knives that I show her, but will usually follow that up by saying, "don't you already have one that looks like that?" :)
 
I gave my girlfriend a small fixed blade from my collection to carry in her purse. She works for a small engineering firm and is quite the city girl, so I know she probably gets a ton of looks when she whips it out for sandwich halving detail at lunch :)

I'm not sure she knows the extent or expense of my knife hobby, but she loves that I'm always carrying at least one on me. That and the fact that I tell her I want to hand down my collection to kids and grandkids someday definitely helps ;)

Oh, obligatory picture of hers (bottom one)

 
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