How influenced are you by .....

Well, I'd say my past experience with production traditionals combined with my frugal and practical nature keeps me from buying a production slipjoint. But some of the pics of the custom traditionals and the Case/Bose collabs has had me on the fence, a mouse click away, from spending too much.
adam
 
I am extremely loyal to BUCK and Case and prefer certain patterns, but I will confess I have added knives to my collection of users featured in the traditional forum most caused by jackknife and in no way hold him accountable. Bring on a story about a BUCK 110 and I may need a new one.

Bob
 
This stuff is not called viral just for the hell of it. The Internet sells and it sells BIG. One may pretend to be critical and collected but the Internet is a marketing tool of mass destruction. Not two ways about it.
 
Falling in lust with a knife you see in pictures is one thing, but you know you have it bad when you want a knife that you read about in a story. jackknife has describe a couple of stag handled beauties in "The Old Swayback," "The Mad Hermit of Lacompte Marsh," and in "The Life of a Sailor's Knife." One of the knives was a sailor's knife with a sheepsfoot blade, the other was a wharncliffe. Either way Carl described a straight edged using blade. Those stories planted an image in my mind of a trusted and well-used slipjoint. That image has stayed with me and I've kept an eye out for a knife that Carl's grandfather or the Mad Hermit would be proud to call his own. It's one of the reasons I bought this Ohta slipjoint, I think that with its gnarly stag that this knife would fit right in.

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It's hard NOT to be influenced by the pictures of the knives, and knowlgeable members on this forum....so many patterns, makers, steels are discussed by the members, it makes for a very unique, learning experience....Tony
 
When I first re-fell in love with traditional knives I can honestly say that I was influnced quite a bit and needed...no wanted to have good specimens of the different patterns. After I got to play with them I started to have my own:eek: opinions on what I liked. So now I can say that I can restrain myself and am not influenced at all (lie;)) I know my own weaknesses and deliberately stay away from custom slippie threads! I have many custom knives, but have'nt pulled the trigger on a custom slipjoint out of pure fear :D
 
Well there is that eldery person who posted on the last page......:p

Writes nice stories as well.

Those stories that cost you money. Or has cost me on one or more occasions:rolleyes:

I believe his name is Carl or something, I'm not sure:confused::D
 
i think that the influence on this forum is good and bad. there are always those people who think if you didn't spend a fortune on it or it wasn't custom made that it is garbage. knife bashing should be a crime. on the other hand i personally enjoy alot of the slipjoint threads and picks. seeing everyone else's old worn out dad & grandpa knives helps me appreciate some of the other knives i have as well as the fancy ones. i really love knives and have many of them. one thing i have come to realize is that i don't appreciate benchmades and microtechs and spydercos nearly as much as traditional slippies. all the tactical folders and fixed blade will definately do work but, i think about passing my knives on to my son enough to realize that the stamped out unoriginal knives are not what i would want to leave him with. i would never imagine drooling about if my dad were to give me a tac knife. i want something with character like the old timers, uncle henrys, buck, camillus, case knives, kabar, and even the cheaper rough rider knives(good quality for the money if you ask me). to some people 100$ is cheap for a knife and on the other hand there are people with their hand on a phone dialing the nut house to come pick you up for spending that much on a knife. to a lot of people a knife is a knife. if 8$ is what you can afford there is no shame in buying a rough rider peanut and you should be damn proud of that 8$ knife not talked down upon by knife snobs. i always encourage people to collect knives and most of my friends collect knives whether they want to or not cause that's what i get for them. there is a wonderful feeling when you give someone a knife that is cheap to you but, when they open it and blow their top about what an awesome knife it is, it is well worth it. convert the masses!
 
I enjoy seeing other peoples knife selections. I think that if I wasn't doing my 'quest' I would be handling some of them myself....like that Queen Barlow....

But right now only a TL29 might pull off the path into the the Buck light.

Actually I am shadowing Jackknife and beginning to slowly downsize. Shedding my 112s and Buck fixed blades. Doubt I ever go so far as to buy something else though. I can't stray, I think Buck is coming out with a Jackknife special in the next catalog, I have to be the one to show to everyone.
300Bucks
 
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Well sorta, I must admit I got a little side tracked buying some HI khuk's.. but have since realized although really nice knives, they just don't suit my purpose.. All due to perusing this site...

talking about side tracked, I was selling some puma's I've had for about 5 yrs, and ended up keeping one slippy,simply because I liked it and its an oldie.. here I am now with 2 more slippy's an 1940 case and schrade..

Influenced by this site, partially, as I was selling my knives in the exchange and ended up buying more.. slippy's who would have thought, I'm revolving from modern back to traditional and caught somewhere in between..

but to answer directly, I'd say I know what I want and what works for me, and what I'm looking for, but along the way may try something else that strikes my fancy and find out first hand if it works for me..
 
I kind of get an urge to buy a certain knife. Maybe Ill want to buy a large single blade lockback because of the simplicity and strength, then the next knife I might buy a peanut or med stockman because I want something more portable or maybe get a new sak because it makes sense to carry other tools along with a knife etc. So once i decide what kind of knife I want, I pretty much search this forum to find a decent one in my price range. pics and reviews help alot especially if I'm buying over the net.
 
one biggie for myself is the great pics posted by members. many times i hesitate to buy till i can see a good photo of the knife. one time i took a chance on a big folder & it was not lacking in performance but was so hideous in appearance i sold it to my brother for a 50$ loss.also comments about bad performance of a product can definitely affect my purchase.
dennis
 
I try to show restraint, but it is extremely hard in this place. Such beautiful pieces on display, and the stories are wonderful. Since I found out that the Case CV Rancher series was a limited run, I now have all five on order. The peanut, Trapper, Mini Trapper, Stockman and medium Jack. Looking forward to having the whole family.

Restraint to me is not ordering two of each!


Brad
 
300Bucks said:
... I think Buck is coming out with a Jackknife special in the next catalog, I have to be the one to show to everyone.
300Bucks
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Wait, what?
A Buck Peanut?!?!?!?
PLEASE say Buck is coming out with a Peanut!!
THAT would be the last knife I would EVER need!!!
 
I collected "modern", one hand folders and fixed blades for many years before I started coming around here. So I would say I have been tremendously influenced by this forum. :)

Folks on here have inspired me to study, and to learn as much as I can about traditional knives as I can. I used to fancy myself a bit of a knife "expert". :rolleyes: The more I read, and research, and seek out information, the more I realize- I don't know anything. I keep coming back here to learn from those who know much more than myself.

I am trying to be more discriminating. My knife collection is all over the place. I have decided to try to be more informed, and more directed in what I acquire. If I ever want my collection to be interesting, instead of a random assortment of metal objects, I need to exercise a bit of curatorial control. I am trying to keep myself focused on Case, and only Case knives. It is difficult, this forum presents constant temptation. I have a decent collection of GECs, and it is difficult to refrain from adding to those. The Dan Burke barlows have really been calling to me as well, but so far I have remained strong.

My sincere thanks to all of the fine folks who contribute to this forum, and make it such an interesting and educational place to be. :thumbup::)
 
The folks in the trad subforum have definately influenced me towards traditional knives and away from modern super folders. Me and my wallet thank them.
 
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