Ever get a knife for your wife / significant other?

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Andre

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I was just curious as to who has done this as I just got my wife a Cold Steel Spike as one of her gifts for our first wedding anniversary. Every birthday she gets me a knife :D but this is the first time I got one for her. Yeah, I know, a Spyderco Delica would have been more practical, but she simply prefers the CS Spike and CRKT Stiff Kiss to everything else in my collection.

So, anybody else ever get a knife for their significant other?
 
I've offered many times, but she is not interested. She has bought me many over the years on birthdays and Christmas but she doesn't care to carry one for herself. I even put together a keychain with a small Tighe Tac and LED light and she left it sitting on the coffee table for a couple of weeks. I finally gave it to someone else. I guess this knife bug is only transmittable to those with unique genetics.
 
I worked my wife in slowly. She would ask to use one and over time she has developed a sense of what she likes. She seems to like the smaller Gerbers and of course has a Vic Classic or LM Squirt on her key chains.
 
My wife has a small multitool on her keychain, and that's plenty good enough for her. She tells if she needs one bigger she'll just grab one of mine. :eek:
Little does she know how much that Busse she just used is. Oh well, she's smart enough to grab the one that look a little used already.
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Added:
YES!! I did give my wife a Busse NICK.
and she deserves it.
 
She has a few SAK's, she took my William Henry Pearl P-10 Lancet, Blackie Collins Buddy System hanging from the mirror.

So in answer to the question, in a way, yes.
 
The very first present I ever bought for my wife (back in college, when she was my girlfriend--at her request) was a Buck "Personal." Since then, it's been a Puma drop point folder, a puuko, 4 Leathermen, a Wenger Nomad, an SAK cybertool, a kershaw assisted opener in S30V, a CRKT S2, a Spyderco Moran drop point, etc.

She's finally told me, "No more knives, I've got enough, now."

She also knows my collection has way more than I'll ever use, but she doesn't complain.
 
I bought my wife a Leatherman Micra, but she's a school teacher and really can't take knives to work with her. :)
 
I got my wife one of the mini pals by Cold Steel. I thought it was a good idea to always have a key ring knife handy. She uses it rarely. I see her using keys to open letters and packages still but she does have it on her key ring with her all the time.
 
Years ago I bought my girlfriend (now wife) a BuckSwiss. She had previously owned a SAK when travelling in Costa Rica, but had lost it and wanted a replacement.

-Bob
 
I recently got in two small Buck 170's One was the black/red marble and one was black. She opened the package, Haven't seen the black one since. Figured she would have liked the marble one better... go figure.
She has a Buck 110 in her hunting backpack along with a small multitool.
Now she has her eye on this all black Buck nib 560xlti that came the other day. But she isn't getting that one.
She likes playing with all of them about as much as I do.
 
My g/f's got a BRK Native, BM Griptillian, Kershaw Leek (Black and Gold), and a CUDA Maxx! :D

She's also got this one of a kind Benchmade/Brend:
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i gave her a rainbow chive and a spyderco cricket but ive got the cricket right now because its failing the spine wack test. speaking of, i think im gona go fix that right now.
 
I met my current just before Christmas of 96, my first gift to her was a Victoronix Camper, when she opened it she looked at me like I was nuts (real romantic, huh ?). I told her to throw it in her purse and try to find a use for it everyday, in a short time she couldn't live without it.

It and the Leaterman Micra I gave her showed up in the mail last month, she'd flown back to see family and they didn't make it through security (oops). She went upstairs and mailed them home, almost missed her flight.

Other than "I love you" the thing I like to hear is "hey, let me use your knife" (sick puppy) :eek::eek:
 
I purchased a CRKT KISS and a PECK for my wife a few years back, after her mentioning that I seem to use my edc knives on a regular basis. She was very appreciative of the gift. The knives now reside in her jewellery box, and I STILL catch her trying to open packages with her teeth :D . Whenever a situation arises where she needs a knife and I'm present, she doesn't hesitate to use one of my folders, but she never carries her own. I've often thought about why:

It can't be that she's squeamish around blades, because she's a neurosurgeon by trade. She does things with a scalpel that make ME feel squeamish sometimes.

I'm also not sure it's a design issue. I went for the KISS becuase it's very sheeple friendly, and it is useful for small everyday cutting tasks (although I find it way too puny for my needs). It also doubles as a money clip, which I thought would be a good selling point. I offered her a larger blade (an M16Z), but she said she wouldn't carry it around. I've come to the conclusion that it has nothing to do with the type of knife.

So, ruling out squeamishness and aesthetics, I think there are two remaining explanations. It's probably a combination of the two. First, I think there's the issue of sheeple-friendliness. It took a while for me to prove to her that a good knife, when used responsibly, is a valuable tool and NOT a weapon. Although I eventually convinced her, I'm not sure if she's willing to fight that same battle on behalf of her own knife use. Second, and perhaps more importantly, I think my wife, like many people in our society, has lost sight of the versatility of simple tools such as knives. We live in a world where everything is hyper-specialized to a specific task; I think the idea of carrying around a few basic tools to take care of everyday needs has become lost on most people.

So those are my thoughts on my experience of purchasing knives for my wife. I'm confident that she'll eventually come around. In the meantime, she has no problems with me buying lots of knives for myself (or sharpening them at the dinner table), so I can't complain!

Cheers,

Mike
 
I've gotten my wife several. See has Kershaw assited open she carries daily, a Case Copperlock for the purse, and finally after I got a new Sebenza she took the plunge big time and we've got a William Henry T-10 Gold Nugget on layaway. I can't wait till she gets this one. My hope is she will then understand.
 
I got my ex-gf an Al Mar Falcon Ultralight, Talon blade. Petite little knife, decent steel, and weighs like 2oz. She loved it.

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I went one better. I bought her one of Mike Sakmars mokume bracelets for her at the Las vegas Show. Knife content with girlies in mind. I could have got permission to buy a Warenski knife after that . ;)
 
I recently bought my girlfriend a pink frn pe jester. she keeps it in her purse, and although she didn't think she'd ever use it, I cought her opening cd cases in the car the other afternoon. She's also used it for other mundane cutting chores, trimming threads, opening letters, and candy bags, and apparently she's also used it to pry the child safety devices off of cigarette lighters :eek:.

Pete
 
This one was ordered from Dellana for my wife.
We were divorced by the time it was ready. What the heck I decided to keep it. :cool:
 
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