How you considered a knife truly yours?

[Korean Hog]

I consider them mine when I pay my hard earned money for them!

With that said, they need to develop that personal character that all blades develop with use. The stuff that, despite money, makes it YOUR knife.
The oils from your hand and cleaning rag that get mixed in the cord or micarta, the scratches from your pockets, some of your blood and sweat, the particular kind of chips, rolls, and patina, that your kind of work causes, the way you sharpen... all of it.

The same knife from the same factory looks the same, but give the same knife model to two different people, and after no more than a year you can easily tell which knife belongs to each individual.

 

[jideta]

Custom orders are 'mine.'
Built from blanks are 'kinda' mine.
All others are free to walk about the cabin.

 

[22-rimfire]

Knife is mine when I buy it. It doesn't need to do anything to make me feel that it's mine.

 

[craytab]

Gift, buy, find. More of a legal definition I guess.

 

[Kmikaz3]

Usually, when i buy a new knife, its like a blank canvas... until i decided to but my own decent mirror edge in it, add a lanyard, disassembled it and oil it back or a bit if my on blood on it when it bites back. Now, it feels more mine.

 

[Stelth]

I never understood the "cutting yourself makes it yours" thing. Do you have to run yourself over to make your vehicle yours?

 

[Lee D]

Every knife in this house is mine, but for me there’s more pride in owning a knife that I had to hunt for, especially if it lives up to the expectations. I did the homework, I put in the time to find it, and I love it...it’s definitely “mine”