How long to you wait to put your new custom knife into service?

Rev. Pete

Rev. Pete

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This could be a poll but I'm also interested in your reasons. I recently got a long-awaited custom knife and I tested it on some paper and arm hair right out of the box but I couldn't bring myself to actually use it on anything challenging for about two weeks. Finally yesterday I wore the knife on my belt all day and it got sweaty and sticky and now it's broken in.

Do you wait a while before you put a new custom knife into service? Perhaps you get custom knives and never put them into service? Or do you dive in and cut up the shipping box with the custom knife that was inside?
 
It depends on the intent of the knife...I bought my first custom as a user at the Vegas Classic, but now that is going into a magazine, I don't think I'll use it...
 
I am still awaiting the arrival of my first truly custom knife, and I plan on putting it into service right away. I bought it with the intention of using it, so I will be doing just that. I kind of see spending all of that money on a knife that I will only look at as a waste of my hard earned $5.15 an hour.;)

Honestly though, what little money I can scrape up for knives, I want to use on knives that I will use. But all of this might change when I recieve my first custom in the mail, and open up the box!:D
 
As long as it takes me to get it out of the box it came in. IMO what is the point of getting a knife if you do not use it, knives are tools, they are ment to be used.
 
It all depends on the knife. Usually they all start out the same though. Like you, I take it out of the box and shave some hair off the arm. Then the next couple of days it gets looked at and put in-and-out of it's sheath. Then it's worn around the house. At that point, I decide if it gets put away, or used. If used, it goes to the garage with me and we have fun on a 2x4.
 
I always try to take pictures of my new custom while it's still in perfect condition. Depending on available sunlight, this can take a few days. After that, the knife gets used ASAP.
 
I buy em to use em, so they go into service almost immediately.

I might look at it fo a day but the first time I need an appropriate knife it gets used.

Granted I only have a few customs, nothing over $400, but than again there are an awful lot of top quality production/benchmade in that price range, and I'd use them just the same.
 
Some of my knives are never meant to be used. Sorry, but in my case, it's true. But, the ones I plan on using don't sit around long at all. As soon as I decide that I will keep and use a knife, I have to sharpen it a little. I don't care how sharp the maker sent it; it's not sharp enough. I just gotta mess with the edge a little; if for no other reason than to personalize it.
 
I buy some customs with the intent they will be users , others I buy just for display. I know this when I buy them.

A user custom might sit on my desk for weeks before it gets into the edc rotation. I'll treat the sheath if it needs it. Try different lanyard styles. Ever so gently stroke it on the sharpmaker, then spend a hour or two wearing it around the house trying out different carry positions. Then it gets into the edc rotation.
 
It depends on the custom knife. If it was purchased as a user, I will usually try it out as soon as I get it. If I got it as a collector piece, I won't use it at all.
 
I got my second custom knife, but my first BIG custom knife only last week. It's a Robert Hankins Velvet fighter and although it was meant to be a user (looked like it had been test used a little) I have yet to do anything but look at it.

My first custom is a concealment piece which is made short with a really big belly for New York City use and the only thing it's done is nip cigars.
 
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