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This is a weird one, but it's something I felt was worth sharing. I was digging through boxes earlier today, sorting through books and CDs and other assorted junk, when I stumbled across something that brought back a few memories. Down at the bottom of one of them, stuck between two small pewter statues and the edge of the box, was my very first "real" knife, a Kershaw Oso Sweet I was given at a product knowledge meeting for work a couple years ago.
I still remember the representative from Kershaw (I can't remember his name, though, unfortunately) and his nearly 10-minute rant about how we wouldn't be able to properly sell our knives unless we got a chance to use them ourselves. While some of the specifics of his ideas were outlandish (set aside 15 minutes a day to just open and close knives? At work? In front of the public? Not happening, ever.), I agreed with the general idea, both then and now. And it was his passion on the subject, combined with my vague interest in pocket knives beforehand and the perfect example of a solid, affordable knife that I was given that sucked me into the world of sharp things.
I had honestly thought I'd lost the knife for good about a year ago. By that time, I didn't think it was that important to find it. I'd moved on to bigger and better things in the knife world and hardly ever carried or used it anyway. But today, seeing it, picturing the look on the head of our store's sporting goods department's face as an innocent question ("How should I 'sell' your knives to a customer over someone else's?" or something along those lines) turned out to be a spark lighting a powder keg...I think I love it as much, if not more, than any other knife in my collection. So now I've cleaned, lubed, and polished it up, touched up the edge a little (it surprisingly didn't need much), and put it back in my EDC rotation.
Does anyone else have a knife like this? Y'know, the one that started the craze, or the one that has a memory attached. Maybe even one that shouldn't be anything special except for something, anything, about it or how you got it that makes it a favorite.
I still remember the representative from Kershaw (I can't remember his name, though, unfortunately) and his nearly 10-minute rant about how we wouldn't be able to properly sell our knives unless we got a chance to use them ourselves. While some of the specifics of his ideas were outlandish (set aside 15 minutes a day to just open and close knives? At work? In front of the public? Not happening, ever.), I agreed with the general idea, both then and now. And it was his passion on the subject, combined with my vague interest in pocket knives beforehand and the perfect example of a solid, affordable knife that I was given that sucked me into the world of sharp things.
I had honestly thought I'd lost the knife for good about a year ago. By that time, I didn't think it was that important to find it. I'd moved on to bigger and better things in the knife world and hardly ever carried or used it anyway. But today, seeing it, picturing the look on the head of our store's sporting goods department's face as an innocent question ("How should I 'sell' your knives to a customer over someone else's?" or something along those lines) turned out to be a spark lighting a powder keg...I think I love it as much, if not more, than any other knife in my collection. So now I've cleaned, lubed, and polished it up, touched up the edge a little (it surprisingly didn't need much), and put it back in my EDC rotation.
Does anyone else have a knife like this? Y'know, the one that started the craze, or the one that has a memory attached. Maybe even one that shouldn't be anything special except for something, anything, about it or how you got it that makes it a favorite.
