How did you get into knives?

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chitwang

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I have always been interested in knives, but more of a multi-tool, swiss army thing.
I found these forums by accident doing a search for reviews on multi-tools. I found the reviews and the one thing that got me was someone saying that the blade didn't really matter on multi-tools because they always carried a folder and it would be easier to get to.
So that started me looking at folders.
The only folder I had at the time was a Spyderco Delica clip-it. Now seven months later I have a Sebbie, a couple of BM's and several MT's. I can sharpen a knife pretty good. I can give my friends mostly correct advice on knife related things.
These forums are great but the best thing about the forums are the people. Lots of smart people trading info.
I can honestly say you people are the reason my wife rolls her eyes when I talk about my next knife purchase, and why my friends think I am a little crazy to buy so many expensive knives.
Thanks.
Jeff
 
How did I get into knives?

I was born.
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Dann Fassnacht
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Chitwang,

I started when I was about 6 years old. I got my first knife for christmas, a swiss army knife. It was all over after that. Lets just say that at the age of 7 I had more knives than most adults had in their kitchen
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Louis Buccellato
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"only the paranoid will survive"
 
My Grandfather gave me an old Camillus stockman with bone handles and blue/black blades. This knife was awesome as far as taking and holding an edge. I learned a valuable lesson one day in high school about loaning knives to people. Dont; without knowing what they are going to with the knife first! A so called friend of mine asked to borrow my pocketknife, and without thinking, I gave it to him. About a minute later, he handed it back to me in two pieces. The moron had used the main blade to pry open somebodies locker! Talk about being heartbroken.
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The dumbass didnt even say he was sorry. Oh well, things have a way of evening out. This guy has since blown himself and his house up by storing illegal fireworks in his basement. Went down to do a little welding on his pipes and kablooey. Dont get me wrong, I'm not happy this happened to him. I'm just showing what a dumbass individual he was.

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Danbo, soul brother of Rambo
 
Every knife collectors dream...I was given a shoebox full of dirty,well used folders that an elderly gent had collected over the years.My hobby at the time was cleaning and reconditioning tobacco pipes.After I got the first one cleaned and oiled,that was it!At the present time I'm more into collecting multi-tools although I bought a new old timer just to have a new knife that didn't need an initial cleaning.

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"Just me and my multi-tools."
 
The addiction begain at 5 when my father gave me a little 2 bladed pocket knife.
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I was genetically engineered to have a weekness for knives. It's kinda like my kryptonite. That way the gov't can keep control of me.

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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
 
What glockman said. I have iron in my blood, or something (actually, I had a bit of anemia when I was like 5, but I seem to be getting enough iron right now by osmosis, or something).

--JB

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Im a newbie, just started a year ago. Cuz i started to work at a knife store, that kina helped i guess
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. About 80% of my paycheck goes to knife purchase, and now im borrowing moneys from families and friends for Blade Show West next week. They all think Im a little mentally screwed up. Sigh, so many knives, so little money. Anyone wana donor any money to me
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Funny you should ask, as I always thought knives got into you not the other way around. In my case, a nameless 'scout knife' that demonstrated in vivid fashion that skin is pretty soft material compared to hardened steel. After the stitches came out, I can honestly say i was bitten.

More seriously though, I bought a stack of old magazines which included Blade just for the fun of reading something different. Now several years later, I've got a SOG, Klotzi, Kershaw, CRKT and soon to arrive, a CR Sebenza. And the spending has just begun...


 
I got into knives from a customer i used to deliver to. I got to be o a first name basis with as i was there at least three times a weeka and he is into knives. At Christmas he haned me a package with a inexpensive folder inside, Thus the start of the illness.
 
The U.S. Air Force issued a mediocre orange-handled switchblade to me. I got into knives when I started looking around for something better to carry. Now, I don't own a lot of knives, but I do have some nice ones!

Phil Reedy
 
I've carried pocketknives since I was about eight. But I did not catch the 'disease' for many many more years. The disease started when I found out about custom knives.

First it was one, then two knives. They stuck into me good. Soon I was attacked by five, then eight. I was afraid to remove them for fear it will cause a hemmorage and I would bleed to death. Over time, whenever I see a pretty knife, I find it pulling on my wallet with powerful suction. Next thing I know, I have another knife stuck in me and all my cash is Gone. It's like a mugging but you end up smiling even if you are bleeding a little. Sometimes I manage to pull them out without causing to much trouble. But I justify this by giving them to friends who deserve to be Cut Good.
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A more serious reply that I posted in an almost identical thread within the last month is:

It was Daniel Winkler's fault. I saw a copy of blademagazine many years ago that had a couple of his knives on the cover. I opened it up and discovered the world of custom knifemaking. I did not previously realize that such wonderful things were being made today.

I love handcrafted Art. I have a knife knut brother who had sent me a few production pieces over the years, but the Art being created by masters of the forge like Winkler, Fogg, Crowell, Fisk, and Fowler really blew me away. I read the magazines for several years. I finally bought my first 'custom' piece after several years of looking and reading. I guess I just skipped right over the usual production knife phase of cutlery addiction and dropped into the blissful abyss of the custom knife knut.

I knew I was Really hooked and hopelessly addicted when I went to my first custom show back in '96. That was it for me. To find out that amazing pieces of hand-crafted functional art were being created by so many talented and interesting makers just captured my soul. And I am very happy about it.

I love my knives. And I love using them, admiring them, sharpening them, and talking about them. I don't want a cure for my addiction. Don't know anyone who does. Searching for the perfect knife seems to be a never ending journey. I plan on enjoying the ride, but realize that my quest is hopeless. It's the journey that matters, not the destination.

Paracelsus

My Custom Knives
 
My dad bought me a $2 piece of junk when we were shopping at some store and it didn't cut very well, so I went and got a Schrade/Imperial Apex fixed blade. I wanted something even better after that, and so I got some Buck knives, and then a Gerber EZ-Out (I carried it for 2 years). Then one day I saw a Benchmade. And now I get Benchmade. The next is customs.

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Chang the Asian Janitorial Apparatus
 
My dad gave me an old tymer too.I got it for my eighth birthday.It was a good knife,I wish i still had it.I lost it in a pasture.O.K.Now im getting sentimental.memories..........
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I can relate to what Paracelsus said. I, too, always liked knives. I always carried one for daily use and had a few lying around the house. As I became involved with martial arts, I became more exposed to knives. Many of the people in my dojo owned knives, particularly knives by Phill Hartsfield. I ordered one from him and bought a defense oriented knife from Bud Nealy, and I was on my way. I attended a couple of custom knife shows and really loved the things I saw. I was never interested in art, but these things were beautiful! I could feel something special, some connection with the maker, in just holding them. So, I bought a few more. My real downfall came when I decided that good knives were an investment. Several Scagels, Morans, etc. later, and I'm still going strong. It's been downhill ever since.
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About two years ago, out of the blue, I decided that I wanted a knife. I went to the mall knife store and purchased a BM AFCK--I've been immersed in knives(sounds dangerous, huh?) ever since.

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"I'm out there Jerry, and I'm lovin' every minute of it!"--Kramer
 
I honestly recall what got me started. The earliest knife memory I have is of a Barlow pattern knife that I owned when I was 5. I've carried a pocket knife of some sort constantly since then. I'm not a collector though. I typically buy a knive, use, abuse, lose it, then buy another. Currently, I own three: my single blade folder that I carry, a fixed blade hunting knife, and an old SAK that lives with my mtnbike toolkit.

Chris
 
Ummmm.. let see... I bought my first el cheapo mundo knife at the age of 11. It was an Okapi (one helluva blade from West Germany at that time) 5" blade with a leather sheath. Rusts like mad and hard to keep an edge. I later graduated to a Victorinox Swiss Army Knive after being deprived of daily meals at the age of 16... Much, much, much later... I became a spydernut... *hee-hee!*
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Sam

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