how it all started for me

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Bushman5

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many many years ago, I was on a trail in North vancouver BC, and i crossed paths with an well seasoned CDN FORCES soldier. we chatted a bit and i asked about the knife strapped to his pack. It was around the time when Camillus/Becker released the BK7.

I was not a knife nut then, but I had a few blades and was well versed in using them in the woods.

I never had a computer till about 2002. So i never knew what was out there.

anyways, lets fast forward a few years........

I happened to get online i think 2001? cant remember.....and one day i say a photo of a hiker with a BK7. I remembered my encounter with the CDN Soldier and suddenly i really really wanted a BK7.

fast forward another year or two.....i discovered BladeForums. Not only did that END my relationship with my GF at the time, it turned me into a knife nut.

the hell with chasing skirts, KNIVES RULE

one day on BF, a fellow Canadian named CsabaCanada happened to have a custom BK7 up for sale. WELL! i snapped that blade up and have never looked back.

Its been downhill (thats good) ever since.

hope ya'll enjoyed this recount of how i found Becker knives.

a few..... http://i491.photobucket.com/albums/rr274/Bushman5BFalbum/b39f85d1.jpg some have been traded or gifted to new wilderness hikers. I still have the micarta slabbed BK7, and the KBK2 and KBK9
 
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many many years ago, I was on a trail in North vancouver BC, and i crossed paths with an well seasoned CDN FORCES soldier. we chatted a bit and i asked about the knife strapped to his pack. It was around the time when Camillus/Becker released the BK7.

I was not a knife nut then, but I had a few blades and was well versed in using them in the woods.

I never had a computer till about 2002. So i never knew what was out there.

anyways, lets fast forward a few years........

I happened to get online i think 2001? cant remember.....and one day i say a photo of a hiker with a BK7. I remembered my encounter with the CDN Soldier and suddenly i really really wanted a BK7.

fast forward another year or two.....i discovered BladeForums. Not only did that END my relationship with my GF at the time, it turned me into a knife nut.

the hell with chasing skirts, KNIVES RULE

one day on BF, a fellow Canadian named CsabaCanada happened to have a custom BK7 up for sale. WELL! i snapped that blade up and have never looked back.

Its been downhill (thats good) ever since.

hope ya'll enjoyed this recount of how i found Becker knives.

a few..... http://i491.photobucket.com/albums/rr274/Bushman5BFalbum/b39f85d1.jpg some have been traded or gifted to new wilderness hikers. I still have the micarta slabbed BK7, and the KBK2 and KBK9
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Let's not be hasty here. Knives are nice and all that, but I wouldn't give up chasing skirts for one. Let's face it: even Beckers aren't warm and cuddly on cold winter nights.:D

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Man, if knives ended your relationship, she wasn't worth it, or you're obsessed! Seriously though, I wouldn't say knives are more important than women, but women should accept mens' hobbies and interests if they want to keep a relationship going. Same goes for men.

My girlfriend (whom I've been off and on with over several years) kinda freaked out at one point thinking that my knife buying habit was some psychotic obsession. After some time working on her, she's come a long way. I don't know exactly what triggered it, but over the nine years that I've known her, that was the only time she seemed to be bothered very much by it. I think part of the problem was she viewed my knives as tools of death, but I viewed and still view them as utilitarian tools. I think I have four or five knives out of twenty that are fighting designs, and I don't like those designs much. Maybe my interest to take up knife making has helped her to see them more as tools. I don't know, but for Valentine's Day she bought me a SOG Vulcan! She's come a long way!

I only have a BK2 that I rehandled, but I love it (especially when $ is factored in). Like you, Bushman, things have been down hill for the past ten years for me! And the pace seems to only accelerate! After a few years of buying fixed blades, I'm on a bit of a folder kick now. Oh, and it's not looking good since I started to buy guns last year!
 
Part of the reason I married my wife was she just smiles at the two old samsonite makeup cases full of knives beside my tv nest. Swords above the dog kennel. Coming out of the laundry room with me practicing with a katana........
I say nothing when she brings home shoes, coats etc and it is a push basically.
I will say she has only been aware of half of my purchases and with no interest cannot tell if a new toy appears.
She is edc'ing a small kabar dozier and I have her carrying a small fixed kabar when we are camping and at our property, baby steps........
Can't be bothered to be with someone I can't be myself around, just setting yourself up for grief and eventual failure.

btw they need to hurry up with the magnum camp and the thin version of the bk-2
 
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