Forgiveness requested

silenthunterstudios

silenthunterstudios

Slipjoint Addict
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Well, I went a little nuts earlier this year. Got myself a whole slew of one handed openers. Hinderer, Chris Reeve, Benchmade, Spyderco. I immediately turned around and released some of them back into the wild, some I kept. I also got a few fixed blades and one custom barlow. I got a few from Scott Gossman, modified short wide Polaris, a bushcrafty knife, a PSK Jr. neck knife, and a modded wharncliff that he made for himself but sold to me. I also got a similar modified neck knife from Joshua Fightmaster. The custom barlow is CPM154 from Manuel Saldana.

Guess what? I don't use the aforementioned one handed openers, they are opened and closed a couple times until I need to cut something, where I prefer the small fixed blades or the slipjoints. I have strayed.

Now, I'm looking at a used Silverado, 2008, and fixing my blown transmission, or just putting a rebuild in. I'm not doing the work, I'm going to buy the parts and get a friend to fix it, hoping a filter change and drain will do the trick to get me back on the road while I wait for my loan to be approved, or if it isn't approved by the bank, to get a loan at a reputable dealer that will need a down payment. You can tell I am flying by the seat of my pants on this one.

So I noticed, after I left my one handed openers at home while driving a loaner truck from family, that while I cannot flick them like a fool driving down the road, I do use my slipjoints and small fixed blades.

Nothing against one handed openers, I wish I still had the Cramer and Oeser Native that I sold to the local knife shop to pay for vet bills.

I love the big choppers, bushcraft blades, autos, one handed openers, but my two knife mentors, Jackknife and Scott Gossman, carry small fixed blades and slipjoints for their daily duties. Carl and Scott both love the big choppers, well, at least Carl likes machetes, but a 3" fixed blade and a slipjoint will round out your needs for anything that comes your way, unless you're in the hinterlands. In Maryland, living in the country, you're not that far away from the grocery store/Walmart etc.

Enough rambling for me, I've been eying up some fixed blades, just lamenting the forthcoming truck payment, that could have gone to knives and guns... :D
 
Good to see you're OK anyway Dan! :D :thumbsup:
 
Glad to see you Dan we were getting a bit worried. Sorry about your truck troubles vehicle problems can be a real :poop:.
 
You're forgiven for being a knife nut, Dan! Now will someone forgive me!
These two are with me today. But lurking outside the picture is a OHO William Henry.

Good luck with the truck!
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If i needed a car i would likely sell down to two or three knives, as hard to swallow as that sounds. A few favorites is all you need.

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Best of luck.

I am right there with you. In the bills dept. though my luck is in the process of turning for the better (got some good news today).

I am also with you on my daily carry load out; GEC 14 in Ebony and a CPK EDC in 4V.
A small Traditional folder and a 3" fixed blade.

Remember, As long as you keep your head up, you shouldn't drown.
Best of luck.
 
I too have strayed from time to time. I spent the money long ago and feel that it is wasted if I don't use the knives I bought. I try not to backslide, but I don't know how to sell things on the Net and I don't think people would want those "old style" tacticals anyway. Just keep a peanut in your pocket and you'll be fine!
 
It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off in my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"

LOL.
 
Amen, we all stray now and then. just the other day I dropped my new front flipper knife into the bottom of my foot! (in an attempt to open it) fad over, back to traditionals :eek:
 
mrknife said:
Amen, we all stray now and then. just the other day I dropped my new front flipper knife into the bottom of my foot! (in an attempt to open it) fad over, back to traditionals :eek:
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I guess thats the nice thing about traditional's, they don't provide temptation to be silly. I remember back in the 80's when the balisong was the TV rage. There was this young guy at work and on break times he'd practice with it doing all the flipping around. One day we hear a blood curdling yell from out on the loading dock, and the kid had darn near amputated his right index finger. Blood all over the place. Got stitched up like grannies old quilt. :D
 
NJBillK said:
I don't mean to rub insult into injury, but how do you drop a knife into the Bottom of your foot?
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new knife, front flipper, was sitting cross legged on my desk chair. sorta spazzed out on the opening. this takes the cake as my oddest knife injury ever, since i was unfamiliar with the knife.
 
jackknife said:
I guess thats the nice thing about traditional's, they don't provide temptation to be silly. I remember back in the 80's when the balisong was the TV rage. There was this young guy at work and on break times he'd practice with it doing all the flipping around. One day we hear a blood curdling yell from out on the loading dock, and the kid had darn near amputated his right index finger. Blood all over the place. Got stitched up like grannies old quilt. :D
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i suppose im more adroit when it comes to balisongs, as Im very accustomed to those knives. but not front flippers :rolleyes: sadly. had to give up leg day at the gym and been walking with a limp. but this too shall pass
 
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