How did you get here?

RyanMalpiede

RyanMalpiede

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Sitting on the commode this morning about 5 am reading knife mags, started to think of the timeline of how I arrived here at Bladeforums.
Here it goes:
  • 1982: At age 7, I got my first Slip Joint folder with wood inlay while traveling in Spain with my parents.
  • 1983-91: Pretty much bought knives where ever someone trusted this minor enough with a sharp object. Mostly just knives you could purchase at hardware stores.
  • 1992: I think I started buying knives at the local Merlo's Cutlery at the Mall.
  • 1993-1994: Went to Cal State San Luis Obispo in California, visited the local "Edgeware" Cutlery Store there in SLO.
  • 1995: Saw an ad in the back of popular science for Performance Knives Selling Auto's. I was hooked.
  • 1996: Saw the cover of Tactical Knives with Tony's Microtech Splash Halo I on the front ... promised myself that one day I would own that knife. Went to the Internet to find this baby.
  • 1997: Got a second job at ... where else Merlo's Cutlery ... worked there for a year. Got all my knives at 50% off Retail, I was in heaven. Spent most of my days there pawing all the knives and bringing my laptop to work to scan the web for cool knives. Found PvKnife.com Owned By Josh Burbank, Ordered my first high end Auto, Dalton Ca Special, this baby Was super fast, Super Sharp.
  • 1997-98: I found Knifeforums.com .... I found the knife stairway!!!! Sometime during this period I bought a Halo II, wore it in the small of my back only at the knifestore. I had achieved my Knife goal!!!
  • 1998-Present: Copfish (John Fisher) turned me onto bladeforums.com, Knife Heaven. My Internet Explorer start up page is the Bladeforums Forums page. Spend all my extra time looking here, tripleaughtdesign.com/what's_new.htm, 1sks.com, and ebay.com looking for the perfect tactical setup. I can't live without it!

How about you?

Thanks,

Ryan
 
I found BF when I was doing a search for info on the Cold Steeel Triple Action folder. Been checking the site several times a day since then.
 
I was directed to this site from a hunting website when I asked a question about a knife (I don't remember which one). I came here, asked the question, got an answer and have been visiting a couple times a day since.
 
I originally ended up here while looking for info on the Leatherman Wave, and have just been around since.

While looking over my knife purhases since I got into knives a year ago, I have noticed a formula developing. Starting with a 20 dollar Cliphanger, every 3 months I somehow end up buying a knife which costs approximately 50% more than the one before it. So it went 20 (Cliphanger), 30(spydercard), 45(EDC), 65(Griptilian). I was bored one day and worked out that if this trend continues I will be paying upwards of a million dollars per knife within 7 years. See what you people have done.
 
I posted a thread over on the new blade discussion section of the 1911 forum asking about pocketknives. I was surprised to learn that many folks simply used their tactical folders for every kind of cutting task. So I embarked on a research project to get one of these "be all, end all" tac folders. I ran across this site in the process and studied a lot of these threads. Deputy Tom said I should just go ahead and join up, so I did.

Now I'm waiting for my Emerson Commander to arrive. :)
 
Battle Blades book > Tactical Knives mag > search engine > Cold Steel forum > Mike Turber's web links > Knife Forums > Blade Forums
 
I found the forums while searching for an inexpensive camping knife in the fall of 2000. Didn't trust the bs the local army/navy store clerk told me about good knives so I decided to search the web for info. Imagine my delight when I found a site where people actually knew what they were talking about;) After that, lurked for a while then registered in the fall of 2001 when I bought my all black BM730. Now I'm here at least a couple times a day! :D
 
Had/bought knives all my life and never really admited my knife obsession.

Been doing martial arts for most of my adult life and was searching for knife instruction. Found this place. Now I am no longer in denial.

S.
 
I think I took a wrong turn, and now I cant leave!

that is just about it, came in while searching for info on a knife, and been here ever since.
 
I came across it while searching for info on the Busse Battle Mistress, and for some reason, never left:)
--Josh
 
I've had some kind of knife at least since I was ten years old, and more of them all the time. Always liked knives, especially working knives with good fit-and-finish. Got subscriptions to Blade Magazine and Knives Illustrated, saw a small ad in Blade for a small knife dealer, turned out to be James Mattis. I read through his site and saw a reference to Bladeforums ... now I'm stuck here, I can't get out, I keep buying more and more knives to cut my way free, help! Help! Help me!!!
 
My uncle showed me one when I was younger and always thought they were so cool, and wanted one for myself. I always thought that they weren't made, or unavailable, because I could never find one in stores or catalogs I got. Then one day while at the local Barnes & Noble I stumbled across Tactical Knives, which happened to have an article about the Al Mar SERE Auto. This renewed my interest, proving that they were made, and I could buy one if I tried hard enough. While searching I found the forums, and joined as I have always had an interest in knives.

As a side note, you have been a bad influence. Before I found the forums and Tactical Knives I thought that the cheap folders at Sports Authority or Walmart were as good a knife as I could get. Now the more I read, and learn, the more I spend on a knife. I started with a SERE 2000, and MT LCC, recently bought a Sebenza, and have also ordered a TNT and Strider AR. I am also scheming to get more customs, and prodcution knive, and I am only a poor college student that works for a landscaping compnay on the side. Venturing to GAdgets and Gear has me lusting after more expensive watches too. Now I am always broke, thanks alot! I do appreciate quality workmanship, and don't mind paying, so I really am very happy I found Bladeforums.


Erik
 
I first found this place after going to Benchmade's site.

I bought my first Benchmade in 1995, the AFO, followed by a few 970's a couple months later.

Being a firefighter, I needed a high quality folder to carry, and a dealer friend loaned me one of the first knives Benchmade put out (after moving to Oregon), and I was hooked. I then promptly threw away the cheap Pakistani folder I was carrying in my rescue gear, and ordered the AFO. I was also carrying a Gerber Multi Plier at the time, but I needed a better blade than what Gerber had on the tool.

I love this place so much I volunteered to moderate. :D
 
I was BORN here!.:D.:D.

Actually it was so long ago (and so many posts ago) that I really CAN'T remember how I wound up here.:eek:.
 
I was looking for info on some cheap knife from Muela that I bought and I saw this, so I thought reading a couple of threads won't hurt and got hooked.
Yes, I'm a poor university student with two money sucking hobbies (knives and fountain pens), please spare me! :)
 
Cool thread. I bought my first pocketknife a little later in life than some of you (some of us just take while to "see the light"). I bought a Gerber Silver Knight while in college. Loved that knife, but somewhere in all the moves during the college years it disappeared.

Fast forward to current time. Here I am married, kids, mortgage payment, etc. I have this strange urge to get a replacement for that long lost Gerber. So out I go to the local knife shop and...WOW, look at all those knives! Of course I have no idea which ones are good quality and which are POS. I trusted the knife sales people (one time when this truly paid off) and ended up getting a CRKT Point Guard. So there I am with my new knife, all fat and happy, but then I start wondering whether this is really a good knife or whether I just got "taken" by the knife store folks. Online I go, do a search for "Point Guard" and ta da, here I am. No regrets since then (with the exception of my ever-decreasing wallet size). :)

- Mark
 
I was looking to upgrade my EDC from the Cold Steel small Voyager I'd been carrying for a couple years. I wanted to spend a hundred bucks at the outside. Thanks to you guys I ended up with a small Sebenza, and a Microtech Socom Elite and am presently waiting for Lady CASE Bubba Gum Texas Tiny Toothpick to arrive that I bought for my wife!

You guys are a bad influence. That is strong commentary coming from someone who has regurlarly been called Mr. Bad Influence (by friends, customers and the wives of both).

jmx
 
Have had a love for years ( my Dad and his Dad always used/carried small Case folders ). . .

Several years ago I was on the hunt for a Microtech SOCOM DA and a custom fixed blade. Did a search. . .and. . .TAADAA. . .I'm hear.

Happier than a pig in shhh. . .I think you get the jest. . .

:D :D :D
 
Was looking for information on a khukuris and found the Himalayan Imports webpage. Followed the link to the forums which turned out to be the best URL I ever clicked on...
 
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