Ever get a knife for your wife / significant other?

When I was married, I bought my wife a Leatherman Micra.
"what am I going to to do with this?"
"you'll see."

We are divorced now and she has remarried. Just a few days ago, it was confiscated at the airport. And while on a shopping trip at Target.....

Her:"I need this little tool"
Him:"what are you going to do with that?"
Her:"you'll see."

Walter :)
 
My girlfriend borrowed my knives (specially my SAKs) all the time, usually to tighten a screw or something like that (using the tip of the blade of course! :mad: ). So I decided to get her one, she wasn't really into it so I got her a Swiss Card Lite first. This was just a couple of months ago.
Around a week ago, she came home with a Victorinox and a Wenger catalog, and asked me to help her select a SAK that would make a good EDC! I almost asked her to marry me then and there!
I got her the one she chose (a Victorinox Huntsman) as a gift and purchased a very nice hand made little lock-back and had it engraved with her name, but I didn't give her the lock-back right away.
She used the Huntsman for the same things her Swiss Card (which is still in her purse) was used before, like opening letters, adjusting the odd screw and other light cutting chores. Yesterday she said that she would feel safer using a blade that wouldn't close, so out came the lock-back. She loved it.
She still doesn't like big knives or fixed blades that much (although she never makes a fuss about me using them), but she has a real knife-nut potential. She even had a story when he called some of her coworkers "sheeple" a couple of days ago!

:)
 
Beyond some really nice "kitchen" knives, my wife carried an Uncle Henry "Large Trapper" that I bought her years ago.
 
I just bought her this week a mini grip purple handles. she carries it cliped to her bra.
 
I gave my Brother-In-Law a Kershaw Vapor that he loves and carries all the time.
 
Franciscomv said:
My girlfriend borrowed my knives (specially my SAKs) all the time, usually to tighten a screw or something like that (using the tip of the blade of course! :mad: ). So I decided to get her one, she wasn't really into it so I got her a Swiss Card Lite first. This was just a couple of months ago.
Around a week ago, she came home with a Victorinox and a Wenger catalog, and asked me to help her select a SAK that would make a good EDC! I almost asked her to marry me then and there!
I got her the one she chose (a Victorinox Huntsman) as a gift and purchased a very nice hand made little lock-back and had it engraved with her name, but I didn't give her the lock-back right away.
She used the Huntsman for the same things her Swiss Card (which is still in her purse) was used before, like opening letters, adjusting the odd screw and other light cutting chores. Yesterday she said that she would feel safer using a blade that wouldn't close, so out came the lock-back. She loved it.
She still doesn't like big knives or fixed blades that much (although she never makes a fuss about me using them), but she has a real knife-nut potential. She even had a story when he called some of her coworkers "sheeple" a couple of days ago!

:)
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KEEP HER!
:D
 
I've bought my Wife a Spyderco Cricket and Kershaw Chive. She REALLY likes the Chive. :D
 
I've given my wife various small folders. The latest gift was a little bigger. She expressed concern that she was the only one in the family without a khukuri.

So I got her this one.

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It was a special order from HI. Bill Martino took care of it shortly before he died. 14" OAL, dark red sandalwood handles, extra long accessory knife and steel, silver fittings, and her name forged into the blade.

She's out of the country now but has seen the photo. Hoping she'll be back soon to try it out.
 
My wife is very familiar with SAK's. I got her one in the early days before we got married. I've often suggested she needs to have a decent knife for utility use in her handbag. It turns out that she doesn't like folders and I've ended up making her several small fixed blade knives over the last 3 years. She eventually tires of it and I have to make her another one. If I weren't a knifemaker, this would become very expensive. Jason.
 
i have gotten my wife several knives, she has a BM mini AFCK PE, BM mini stryker, a CRKT small kasper pro, a victorinox SAK ranger, a MOD razorback, and her current favorite a MT mini SOCOM elite w/the frame lock, she carries it daily along with the SAK, guess i'm lucky, she loves guns also, carries a kahr PM9 edc, and also has a surefire!! (E1e)

she REALLY likes the mini elite though, and now she wants a BM mini skirmish, am looking for 1 of them now at a good price.

she has bought me several knives also, a EKI/ surefire CQC8/C2 combo, a crawford perfigo for my B-day a few yrs back, she did all the work on the EKI/SF combo, called TAD, reserved it, etc, was suprised with that one. for my 30th B-day she got me a detonics combatmaster .45 NIB, did all the looking/etc on that 1 also, i was really suprised that day.
 
Oh wow, I am a little surprised to find so many wives and significant others into the knife scene. I thought I was really lucky cause she never moans when i buy another knife, in fact it's me who has to make peace with myself about laying down the money for another knife.

Glad to see I'm not the only one with an understanding wife ;)
 
I'm fortunate that my wife also likes knives.

Over the last 13 years I've bought her:

Spyderco Delica
Spyderco Blue Delica
Kershaw/Onion Rainbow Leek
Case Peanut with curly maple scales
Spyderco micarta Calypso Jr (the one she wears almost every day)
Victorinox Camper
Leatherman Micra

Right now she wants a Spyderco Toad (discontinued and a little hard to find).

Cheers,
Allen.
 
OK! Sorry 'bout that,

I bought her a pearl handled Benchmade model 850 with rainbow anodized ti bolsters, and got Mel Pardue to hand sign it. There were only about 70 made and I suspect that this is the only one with his signature on it. She shows it off all the time!

Still, if the right knife offer comes along.....

Rick
 
My wife is not terribly interested, and she finds my interest in such things peculiar. However, I did get her a SAK (I forget which one) to keep in her pocket book just because I thought she ought to have one handy.
 
No wife, and no girlfriend that's been given one yet, but two of my closest friends (who are female) have received knives as birthday gifts recently.

One last year received a BM Benchmite with the rainbow anodizing. She thought it was really cute, and some time later told me proudly that she had been using it. I expect it's badly in need of sharpening, now.

The other was given just last month, and was a Simonich Bitteroot in S30V that I acquired several months ago. I really liked it, but never carried or used it. And now she likes it (as does her 4 year-old daughter who kept trying to pull it out of the sheath while it was around her mommy's neck).

I did have a female coworker some time ago who I finally tried to teach a basic balisong opening. She had it down in less than 10 minutes (a record in my experience), and was having a little too much fun with the trainer after that. Always did like her attitude.
 
My girlfriend carries the SS Dragonfly that I gave her every day. Never leaves home without it.
 
Sometime ago, I gave mine a Case Pearl handled small Toothpick. The Case reminded her (fondly) of old relatives who used similar looking knives when she was younger. Her sister got a Leatherman Squirt (the one with the pliers) one year for Xmas. After hinting in that subtle fashion of how great her sister's Leatherman was, I got her a Squirt (the one with the scissors). She's always taking it out and cutting open mail, opening packages and tightening screws. I've tried to get her bigger blades but she just says, "My Leahterman's fine." Every once in a while she remarks how 'pretty' a knife is or how useful a certain knife could be. She'll want that bigger knife, one day. there's hope for her yet. :)
 
Mentor said:
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.
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I gave my girlfriend a CRKT PECK a couple of years ago. However, she doesn't feel it's safe to carry in her pocket or purse because she feels it could open by accident when she's rummaging around, and it does have a very pointy tip.

On the other hand she loves the Victorinox Classic that I gave her more recently, mainly because it's purple and shiny, but she also has put it to use. However. she can't take it to work because she's a teacher. She also has a Leatherman Squirt I got her and a Leatherman Juice XE6 she bought herself. Yes, because it's purple, but it does go camping and hiking with her. Next up- practice in how to use these and other tools.

Many points for her for not just tolerating my knife hobby but even being supportive of it. Last year she got me a Fallkniven Thor for my birthday :cool: . I got her a gift of similar value for her birthday, just not a knife. Purple jewelry, of course. ;)

Bill D.
 
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