How many "ordinary" people did you turn into "knife" people??

David1967

David1967

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First it was my girlfriend who started to appreciate knives that really cut (I started with kitchen knives) then she found out that knives can be even nice. Now she carries BM Mini Stryker every day and cannot understand how she could live without it.
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Next - my father. He knows my habit of collecting knives and handled all my knives. He said nice or interesting but never seemed to be really "excited" about my knives. But this changed a few days ago when I showed him my new Spyderco Wayne Goddard light I got from Copfish
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. He played with it for minutes and then asked me whether he could keep it. Well, not this one but I am getting another one for his birthday...

And how about you?? How many "ordinary" people did you turn into "knife" people or even into knife "nuts"????


David

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Three, but not as bad as I am!
First, my buddy Glen, just the other day when I practiacally gave to him a bunch of knives he has been admiring for a while now.

My long departed best friend James Steele who was a member here at BladeForums which is now in a better place and also another friend of mine that has left this world suddenly as well.

I'll have to try and get Glen more hooked, now that he has a taste already with knives, he's all I have at the moment. Course I guess you can count my twin boys too, but I don't know if it was me that got them hooked on knives now or if it was already in the blood!
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Mark
 
Well...I got my girlfriend to start carrying and she can follow along with the terminology now when I rant about knives...Does that make her a nut yet?
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One, my best friend, and she turned out to be a knive freak too *happy faces*
Although she started when i lended her a Spyderco Walker Lightweight, now she carries a Smith & Wesson SWAt thingy, wich I think its very lame as a knive (waiting for your opinion), but she likes it, so what can i say... *shrung*
 
I've only been able to make one convert so far. Most of my friends (all avid hunters &fishermen) are willing to spend $hundreds on shotguns and rifles and rods, but won't spend more than $few on a blade. What's up with this?
 
I have hopes for a few of my friends. Hopefully some of these new knives will be a little more likely to win converts than the good ol' SAK. It still amazes me how hard that thing is to open, every time I take it out of the drawer! At least one of my friends actually thought the BM140 looked good, when I emailed a picture to him.

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None yet, though the other day I heard my wife refer to my knife as "my tool." (She's coming around...)
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None! I'm always hoping someone will notice that pocket clip and say, "what've you got there?" I show "candidates" my knives and I can tell they're thinking, "oh, that's just a funny looking pocket knife." If I ever do meet anyone who actually collects, or just enjoys knives, I have this mental image of shaking their hand while saying, "hello brother." But, then again, I've only been rabid about knives for the last year.
 
I'm working on my first, and already have my second sighted in. Not as easy as you'd think, I've found that most knife nuts already know it; and the others just think you're weird...

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Brandon

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My daughters boyfriend is now a full blown knife knut thanks to me. Within less then a year he now has BM's,Spydies,Microtechs and sundry others. He can't wait for the next show.He wants to start on customs now.
Bob
 
At least two (friend and father), though I suppose it was more a case of "fanning the embers" of knife love than converting them from complete ignorance. I've got some others I'm working on, though . . .
 
Although my friend Will is not a full fledged knife knut he now has an appreciation for fine knives thanks to me.
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-Johnny
 
I'm the only one I turned into a knife knut. the problem was all the other personalities I have. One used to be deathly afraid of knives, but now they're all happ.

I still hate them!

Oh, i have to work on frank some more i guess.

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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
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-ediconu
 
My g/f.

She wasn't afraid of knives, but she wasn't really into them. Then our forum member BTeel sent me an auto as part of his hugely generous knife giveaway (thanks again!). The first time she opened it, she got a little scared. The second time she opened it, she got this little childlike wonder in her eyes, and when the blade clicked open, she got the cutest little smirk.
Now she says hi to the knife just about every time she comes over. it's just the cutest smile. I might have to post a picture. It's that cute.

So I call that a victory!

chizpuf
 
Two guys at work, Dave and John, each bought BM710s with M2. Dave also got a Warthog. Mike's looking at some serious Spydies. Even Dan, our resident clean cut upright citizen, is thinking about getting a Navigator. They used to make fun of me for dropping a little change on customs, now they're looking too.

My wife says she's glad I know how to sharpen kitchen knives. She's not too happy when our 4 year old says, "Can I open your Spydie hole?" He doesn't count as a convert because he's not old enough to have been corrupted into a sheeple yet.



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David

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The only person I've been able to instill an interest in knives has been my dad...but he's really cool and always gets into whatever I'm into.
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I can really relate to JayBird. I always walk around looking for that pocket clip. Of the people I've found with pocket clips, none of them are knife knuts...just people who carry knives.
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Oh well, one day I will meet that knife knut...the man I can call "brother"

~Mitch
 
I move that we set a number of clips one must spot when in Mass., and then that person gets a 'knife-spotting' merit badge. I have seen one, that's right, one person with a pocket clip, and only two other people who happened to take knives out of pockets for some reason or another. Seems like quite a few have multi-tools of one sort or another (I go to a tech school), but almost no 'pure' knives.

--JB

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Frankly - I don't know, maybe some
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One I can say certainly - my understanding and patient wife so far is not killed me with one of my knives listening my everyday knife ranting and seeing phone bills for Internet connection. I think she is on the good way
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