Don't fear the hipster

There are so many plain ol Opinel and Buck 110 users in this thread. Lol You guys don't like variety, design, functionality, quality and looks all in one blade? I'm totally confused. I'm far from a hipster but I like those things. I think some of you are overthinking this too much. I'm not trying to get rocks thrown at me either.

The knives that bother me are the $1k and up knives, but only because I can't afford them. I'm a function and quality over other features, but the more features I mentioned that I can get packed into one knife the better.

If their wasn't a market for all of these blade designs either they wouldn't make them to begin with or they will quit making them soon enough. Now when bedazzling knives with Swarovski Crystals becomes common place and other designs are gone I'll start to worry. However there has never been a wider variety of knives than there is right now, it's literally a buyers market, and blade manufacturers are listening to their customers better than most other mechanical industries.

The effect of hipsters on the knife industry timeline won't even be a blip, it won't amount to anything.
 
crom said:
Showed some hipsters at my hipster barbershop two knives I had on me; my BM 760 LFTi and I had my Mercator K55K that was my in my jacket pocket. The consensus was that the cat knife was much cooler in their opinion. My barber who carries an SOG liked the Lum tanto.
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First off let me say I hope this is all tongue in cheek good fun. ANYbody that has enough common sense to have a serviceable knife on their person has at least one thing in common with me. And maybe most of you?

Crom's post had me thinking. Funny they seemed to like that K55, because I was thinking of a Douk-Douk as something that would fit the bill. Flat, easily pocketable, traditional but different, yet with enough of the funky factor that it might appeal to that slice of the population.
 
Everybody is somebody else's hipster. We all follow trends, whether we admit it or not. And we all define ourselves to some degree or another by the things we buy, wear, and carry.

There is a line that must be crossed before we can be called hipsters, and it is always just a little bit past where we're standing.
 
The same argument is made about cars, but here's the reality: there are enough knife junkies out there that new manufacturers will use the new trends and processes to make even better products that improve upon even the Grail knives we all hold dear. Remember 40 years ago it was Buck's, Schrade's, and military surplus combat knives, and everyone assumed that's all there was going to be? Nobody had discussions about knives like we do today. These new trends DS will be good for the industry, no worries.
 
meadeam said:
Everybody is somebody else's hipster. We all follow trends, whether we admit it or not. And we all define ourselves to some degree or another by the things we buy, wear, and carry.

There is a line that must be crossed before we can be called hipsters, and it is always just a little bit past where we're standing.
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Nailed it, my thoughts exactly.

I believe the bolded section applies to a large majority - if not all - of the people on this forum when it comes to the knives they've chosen to purchase.
 
No hipster I know carries a knife...geez, you could hurt somebody with one of those things!
 
Hipsters aren't all that bad, I've worn a beard on and off for 12 years or so, back then it was wash it with head and shoulders and rub it so the oils from your hands and cheeks would recondition the beard and it would soften up a bit. Now because of the hipsters rocking beards there are balms & oils of endless scents and varieties, boar bristle brushes, designer beard barbers. I'll admit I love the balms and oils for my beard now, and it's all thanks to hipsters.

As for knives, I can't say I've seen it as an accessory among the hipster community where I'm from.
 
Me: Say Mr. Hipster, may I borrow your iKnife to open this package?
Mr. Hipster: Sure, oh wait, the battery's dead. Sorry.
Me: Oh. OK.
 
Out of the ones I have met in the Portland area, like the neo-tribal/traditional route, as well as some of the old traditional fixed blades as well. I met a guy over at the Lovecraft that carried a small fixedblade forged from a wrench. kind of a handy one to have.

On the flip side, I'm getting my other hipster friends to ditch the gas station shit for better stuff.
 
rcb2000 said:
You're right about the hipster knife thing, however you're looking in the wrong direction. I won't put her name, but Google "Brooklyn knife maker". I'm all for someone creating a product and selling it, but the prices she is charging for this completely nonfunctional knife is pretty laughable.
Who's doesn't love to cheese grate your food while you're slicing it ? [emoji23]

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More power to her if she can actually sell them at that price.

It's not so much that a fool and his money are soon parted as much as it was sheer luck they ever met in the first place.
 
Larry Turko said:
The only thing Jackass has right is the pathetic desire among too many knife buyers for social status.
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Yup. Like I posted earlier, if we are totally honest we'll see that for many here in BF, knives are little more than fashion accessories vs the tools they should be.
 
leghog said:
Yup. Like I posted earlier, if we are totally honest we'll see that for many here in BF, knives are little more than fashion accessories vs the tools they should be.
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That's not necessarily a bad thing. They drive the knife companies to build more knives (and more knife companies) and these new enthusiasts demand perfection! Because of that there are more of the occasional brilliant functional knives that come out for those of us that prefer function over form.
 
leghog said:
More power to her if she can actually sell them at that price.

It's not so much that a fool and his money are soon parted as much as it was sheer luck they ever met in the first place.
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That does look cool but I'd hate to have to cut food with it and the washing up would be a nightmare! :p
 
I LOL'd at this topic as I read the headline, being that I'm around hipsters a lot... not by choice. From my own experience most hipsters don't carry knives, and are even a bit freaked out by people that do. My guess is that they see it more as a weapon than a tool. Of course, as always, there are excpetions to the rule.

First thing that came to mind was a particular knife maker in Brooklyn...hispter ground zero. She makes kitchen knives that go for as much as top custom knife makers in the industry...but doesn't even approach the fit and finish, or quality and functionality, that the veteran knife makers do. They're being snatched up by fellow hipsters of course. I mean good for her that she found her niche, and making bank as a result, something we all dream of as knife makers. But you just have to roll your eyes at the people buying them.

I think hipsters are more into kitchen knives than anything... to prepare their organic, gluten free, non GMO, non-animal triggered, low carb, raw meals.
 
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