Frustrated handing friends/family your knives

Rupestris said:
Instagram is the modern day version of photo slides and home movies.



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Just heard a comedy bit about that where if you went back to the 80s and had someone developing as many photos every day as they post on IG you'd have one of those cases where you'd be headed for a shallow grave.

Here are my photo albums, want to see? My cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my face my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, breakfast, breakfast breakfast my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my face my face, breakfast my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my face breakfast, my face my face, my face, my face, my face, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat, my cat.

No seriously you should stock up on fava beans and Chianti
 
My wife collect glass crap, there are all kinds of it with different histories and makers, just like knives. I don't talk about my knives and she doesn't tell me about her latest glassybaby. Everyone's happy.
 
sgt1372 said:
I don't have any family or friends. So, it's not a problem for me. LOL! ;)

Besides, like everything else that I collect, they are for ME and I do not share them w/anyone else and don't care what anyone else thinks about them.
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Aren’t you the one with 500 knives, that’s a whole lot of non sharing. LOL.
 
sgt1372 said:
I don't have any family or friends. So, it's not a problem for me. LOL! ;)

Besides, like everything else that I collect, they are for ME and I do not share them w/anyone else and don't care what anyone else thinks about them.
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I hope you're being sarcastic, in case you're not...

I'm here for you bud.
 
John Phillips said:
Alright, does anyone else get frustrated when you hand a friend/family member an amazing knife to look at or use and they kindly say “that’s nice” and quickly hand it back to you?

I handed my brother one of my grail knives, Rockstead Hizen DLC, he glanced at it, didn’t even try to open and close it and handed it right back with a haphazard “nice”. Total viewing time, about 6 seconds. Same response when I handed him my CKF Evo 2.0. Dude, can you please stop and appreciate the craftsmanship, the extreme tolerances achieved, the design, the crazy 100% flawless mirrored DLC blade, anything?????

I don’t expect others to be knife nerds/addicts like I am but I’ll stop and stare to appreciate a really nice sports car in a parking lot even though I don’t know all the details that make it so special. Does it go A to B like a Camry, yep, is it in another universe comparison wise, YES!!! How about just a little more appreciation!!!!! Just a smidge please, LOL.

Who’s got a similar story and do wish almost wish you didn’t show it at all given the response you received? What was the knife?
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Not really, but I understand where you’re coming from. I’m fully aware that we have a super duper niche hobby, and that the average Joe or Jane would even associate the blade with weaponry first rather than tool usage. You can’t expect ‘em to admire a perfectly machined CRK or your limited edition Hinderer. Those are really small, nuanced details that the non-enthusiast will simply gloss over for lack of interest. Heck, before I got into watches (another fairly niche hobby), I wouldn’t have been able to identify nor appreciate the craftsmanship of Audemars Piguet or Omega simply because I knew nothing about those brands. This isn’t a matter of snobbery, but a question of specialized attention to detail and interest.

The sport cars you mentioned are more pronounced displays of coolness and are fairly more familiar to the mainstream consciousness. Ferrari is pretty much a household name, but I sincerely doubt if Benchmade will ring any bells outside of the knife community. At best, we’ll probably get a, “Oh yeah, I think my Uncle has a Benchmake or Spideroo or something like that.” Just my two cents, embrace the understated aura of the hobby. Knives are not designed to draw eyes to you (other hobbies can do that better if you’re into that); they are reliable companions that do their job efficiently and then return to your pocket or sheath without a fuss. Borrowing the words of the Urban Gentry, the man makes the man, the [knife] does not. Have a great rest of your day, man. :)
 
here's the plot I met in a word:"oh, what a beautiful one! Talking about the knife, how's the weather tomorrow?"
 
Lack of interest isn't just something that happens with "non-knife people".

I'm into knives. Have been for over 40 years. So much so that I've been a member here almost 20 years. And yet there are certain aspects of knives that I have ZERO interest in.

When people get into the metallurgical content and microscopic structure of various steels, and scientific testing of how one steel performs compared to another, I glaze over, and move on. The last "super steel" I bought was S30V, and I only bought it because it came with the titanium frame lock I wanted. And I'm still quite happy with the 420 steel of my 40 year old Buck 110.

Another example is sharpening. Some people get REALLY into it. For me, sharpening a knife is simply a matter of making a knife sharp. I learned freehand on a hone when I was around 8 years old, and that's all I have ever done. A few strokes on a hone, shave some hair off my arm, and I'm happy. That's the extent of my interest in sharpening.

But don't get me wrong, I don't think there's anything wrong with being heavy into either subject, they just aren't subjects that interest me. Like I always say- there's more than one way to enjoy and appreciate knives. To those people who are into metallurgy, or deep into sharpening, I say more power to you :).
 
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Daddyo16 said:
. My hobbies are for my enjoyment, and no one else's.
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DocJD said:
!'m just happy to have a virtual places like BF to share my interests . :):thumbsup:

Before the internet , living in the backwoods made it very hard to physically participate in clubs / conventions etc .

Information was much more difficult to access , also .
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These two posts sum it up pretty well.
 
There are a lot of hobbies and interests available to you if you have the cash. A lot of people are either too busy grinding out their days to have more of a hobby than enjoying social media addiction or streaming during what little downtime they have. My dad is a tool junky of everything but knives. He'll have a high quality carpentry knife and Swiss Army knife handy, but he doesn't appreciate knives the way he does chainsaws and engines.

I'm into knives because I'm into knives. It's nice to know other people who appreciate the riddle of steel. It's nice to have knife stores to go to. It's nice to find on online forum where other people share the same interest. At the end of the day though, when you strip those external influences, I'm still just a guy who's into knives because I'm into knives.

I'm also into photography and amateur astronomy, but I don't expect other people to be into glass to the same degree I am, just like I'm not as interested in online/console games the way some of my friends are. I share common interests with my friends and family, but I don't have to share all my interests with people to be friends with them. I much prefer being in a relationship where I'm able to pursue my own hobbies in peace and so is she. Our interests often intersect but it's genuine and not forced. Friendship is based on acceptance more than understanding.
 
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It is beneficial that at least with knives all people will have a passing interest in them since they would have used a knife at some point of their life. They know what it is and appreciate it, even as just a tool for spreading butter on your bread.

Other hobies can be alot more foreign to people and even harder to have a discussion about, if they do not know or use the actual hobby related item(s). For example cigar smoking, wine or whisky/ey, motorcycles, shotguns, diving and so on are a lot harder to have a discussion about with people that do not enjoy them or use them in some way.
 
Well, there are people who collect rock, stone and ore.

The rare ores, difficult to find. They are for show, when you give it to most people, they will just say "cool", then what? Even for most of us, raw ores mean little if they are not refined and forged into super steel, and then knives.
 
I have several hobbies and find that other than social media it’s unrewarding trying to share the love. If someone happens to show genuine interest I’ll gladly oblige.
 
Got me thinking about this and I think there’s an extra layer to consider. Yes, everyone has different hobbies and are into different things, I get that and I am great with that… of course. However, you’ll never hear someone ask someone else for a coin, old pottery, Barbie doll(lol), art, cross-stitch quilts???, comic books, to cut something. I get asked weekly for my knife by someone without a knife to do a job they need which puts knives into a different category. Sure, nothing will change, people are dumb and don’t care, cool. I’m just saying that knives are needed every day as a tool and this puts them different category than other hobbies or collections that are never taken out or hardly ever used. Even if someone has zero interest in knives, they have used them their entire lives at least to eat or cut open present/packages. But someone could go their entire lives not picking up a comic book at all. Just a thought.
 
As other stated, people see knife as a tool, not an object of admiration. Damascus? Super steel? Made by god? They don't care, they as you for a knife and they care if it cut. Things end there. You can give them a box cutter, a grail knife or anything, they see it as simple knife.

"knives are needed every day as a tool and this puts them different category than other hobbies or collections"
Much like how I see cars, as something to move from point A to point B, used everyday, etc. It is a tool for me, to cut the travel time. My with the only concern is the fuel consumption. Speed? hp? super charger? Turbo? V8? I honestly don't care, a Honda civic fit my bills and I'm happy. The same does not apply to a car guy.
You can also collect hammers, and have a grail hammer made of titanium or even wolfram that cost over 200$. Yet, when someone ask you for a hammer, they need it as a tool, they don't care who made it, when it was made, what it is made out of, all they only care ifthat they can hammer something with it. You can tell them these info, cool, then what?

Edit: Btw, knife as tool is my collection theme. It is why I collect them in the 1st place, peasant tools and not jewelries. Something that get used everyday for hundred years, no flashy shiny, just a mundane tool.
 
Brothers friend was "let me see your knife" I was hesitant but handed to him and watched him use it to cut a hose and then drop it on the flagstone path. I just stood motionless as he picked it up and handed it back. I was looking at the bent tip and he noticed and said "here I can fix that" and I let him take it from me and he dragged the tip over the flagstone trying to bend the tip back.

Was all my fault see, I let an imbecile handle my knife. I learned a valuable lesson that afternoon.
 
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