How old are you?

Be 47 in Dec. and it's going by quick! --- Still run 6 miles a day and pump iron to keep the cob webs out.

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[This message has been edited by JAY H (edited 14 July 1999).]
 
I turn 47 (pronounced Thirty-Seventeen) in September.

I realized that I was getting older when I found that an ever increasing number of 50 and 60 year old women were beginning to look very good to me.

I'll celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary next month.... my wife and I will be collaborating on making some knives.
 
I'll be 18 on the 28th of this month. As for the knife carrying thing, I carry knives all the time and no one seems to care. I don't bring like a Stryker or a Spike to the mall, but I carry a modest and semi-tactical looking Ascent 830s with me all the time. I am buying myself a 350sbt next week, and that will most likely replace the Ascent as my carry knife.

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Robert Joseph Ansbro
 
44 and ready for more!

Old means you can't trust a fart,or get to far from a bathroom. BUT...you can hide your own Easter eggs.

I will grow up when they put me in the old folks home!

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"No Respect will get No Mercy"
 
I recently turned 50. Always remember that growing older is inevitable, but growing up is optional!
 
I'll be 20 soon. A question for the minors. How do you get your knives? Parents? Do they let you spend $100+ on a knife?
 
Answer to how minors get knives:
1) The local sporting goods store, which carries Sydies and Benchmades will sell them to me without a parent. One time they asked me if I was going to stab someone and that if I did don't say you bought it here.

2) My dad will order for me. Not a problem as far as money goes. Its mine he says. He complains I will get ripped off a lot though like when I pay for a knive that I won't get for 3 months. I only buy from companies that have good reps and just take my chances. Did this with Busse.

3) My dad gives me the credit card and I order it. They don't ask your age really.
Of course my voice has changed and I sound fairly grown up so why would they. I order some Talonite bar stock from Rob Simonich this way--harmless stuff anyways since I can't work it.
4) Talk it through on interenet and then I send a check, written by my dad but endorsed with my money. Did this with HI. Thing is if he's getting a check grown up involved somewhere pretty much and hard for a kid to hide a 20 inch AK.

thanks and take care
collin

BTW the most action my blades see are carry in my pocket and cutting open boxes to close flat for the recycle. The larger ones may see some chopping if I get bored.

 
Cya the only way I get my knives if I buy them to this date my parents have only bought two knives and both were under a hundred. I get my money mowing the lawn and other house chores and working at a gunsmiths shop across the street from me.
Actually getting the knife is basically the as same Rudy.
Kestrel

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I have no problem getting knives, none at all. I don't use my parents either, if I get a knife from my mom it will be something that is a gift (I am turning 18 on Wednesday...). I buy from Cutlery stores, or, failing that, I use the internet. I have a credit card, it's my own, and no one seems to realize that if your parents have the capital to prove giving a minor the card will result in actual purchases, a 16 year old can get a credit card. I have quite a few Benchmades, some Spydercos, a lot of Victorinox pieces, and I have a few automatics also. I have gone right into a store and bought a Benchmade Auto-Spike, it was simple and easy, almost suprisngingly easy, I'm not a punk, I just like knives. I also like film, and WAS carded for the one movie I have been waiting for more than any other in my life (12 years), "Eyes Wide Shut". It's almost funny, isn't it? A grieving government can see fit to enforce the misguided interpretation of probably one of the most important films of this decade (attempting to deny a film student access to the final work of his hero because "South Park" is a piece of trash, and "American Pie" is an even greater waste of celluloid and box office revenue), and I can go and buy a strictly AFO deadly weaponry in a brightly-lit and well guarded upscale Mall, then walk past "Gap Kids" and "Toys R Us" on the way to my car. How droll.

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Robert Joseph Ansbro
 
47 and feel like I've live 3 seperate lives, the first with USMC Force Recon, the second, with the 1st 504th 82nd Airborne, the third as a Game Warden, Colorado. Now disabled and semi-retired, I still like knives, especially well made ones! I'd love to find an Al Powlkowski "Dingo" neck Knife!
 
I didn't think this topic would stay around that long..

for anyone still reading, I'm 22
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Tom,

Spammy, demographic type posts seem to get the most responses and hang around the longest. I believe the record for the General Forum is 201 posts, I don't know about other forums.

I'm 33 but look 18, so I'm told. I still get carded even though I have a lot of grey hair for a 33 year old. My barber says the Irish tend to grey early, I don't know if she was kidding me because she said it with a strait face while mentioning her husband is Irish, 30 something, and really grey. I have 1/16 Irish and 1/16 German.

Unless knife content is added like "how do you (youngsters) get your knives?" Spark tends to close the thread and move it to the community forum. So, how do you youngsters pay for your knives? That is a lot of yard work. I was lucky and received knives and guns on my birthdays and Christmas. Those knives are the bulk of my collection.

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"A knifeless man is a lifeless man"
-Nordic proverb
 
24

born 09/25/74

A wee whipper snapper.

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Marion David Poff aka Eye, one can msg me at mdpoff@hotmail.com

I wrote a review of the Kasper AFCK variant, an interview of Bob Kasper, and some thoughts and brainstorms of the AFCK in general. It can be found at http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000568.html . Check it out and tell me what you think.

"I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself." David Byrne

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's important. You have to do the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing there will be no result." Gandhi

 
Hi, 40 yrs been collecting since 7yrs. have aged 10yrs in last month trying to contact Jerry Busse to get my battle miss. AArgh ! patience a virtue ? they say good things come to those who wait.? wayne.
 
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