Explain knives to non-knife people

[SW-EDC]

I don't. Period. What's the point?

 

[Phixt]

Never get in the habit of explaining yourself to anyone.

^FTW.

At a recent bonfire, a guy randomly mentioned his dad started making knives, so my $150-200 neck knife quickly became the center of the conversation. Enter the eye doctor in his 50's...proceeds to tell me I'm not a metallurgist and therefore I couldn't possibly know what steel the maker, "Actually put in there," and that my knife (either a S!K GSO 2.7 or my trusty True Saber N2, can't remember back to November) was in all likelyhood a several dollar piece of, "Stainless steel from China." I stared at him as I stare into the blackness of my woods to the east...for some bizarre reason a look of triumph and sense of accomplishment swept the doc.

Explain that.

 

[colin.p]

I do and I choose Timex.

I like Timex. I have a Darth Vader watch from Avon that my wife bought for me when she sold the stuff. Best $10 watch I ever had.

 

[Pomsbz]

I'd choose Timex and I carry double digit cost slipjoints. Never had anyone even ask about carrying a SAK, it's what it says on the box. Such is life.

 

[GatorFlash1]

I have given some of my friends good knives as gifts and that usually sparks some interest and questions.

I gave my retired fishing buddy a H1 steel Spyderco Pacific Salt folder and an Aqua Salt fixed blade, both with yellow scales (we fish off his boat and he won't let me pay for fuel or anything). That sparked his interest. While sipping some scotch one evening I showed him some of my different knives with different types of steel blades. He was a physics major in college and he had lots of good questions about styles, grinds, etc.