OK, heres my dilemma: I will be given just a tad over $100 for a Christmas gift. (OK, so it doesnt sound like a dilemma yet; read on.) There are a few production folders Ive had my eye on for quite some time now: Spydie Calypso Jr. Ltwt., Spydie Dragonfly, CRKT KFF & Point Guard, Buck 501. But I have also had a specific hunger for a lower end custom: Newt Livesays Air Assault.
Now if I can go without eating for a few days (two weeks max), I could add enough cash to get either the Air Assault OR two or three of the others. My dilemma is: which purchase in your opinion would give the most total knifeknut satisfaction? This purchase may very well be the last one for a loooonnnnggg time (maybe up to 8 months). So I want the most satisfaction from it, so in the future (during the 8 months) when I read from yall how great this, that and a hundred other knives are, I can gaze at my purchase and know I made the right one.
Present Collection: All production pieces; 6 in all, not counting 2 POGs.
Usage: Now, before I discovered this forum (and made the exciting discovery that there were other knifeknuts like myself in this world), I was a fixed-blade fanatic. I owned a couple of old jackknives, but never used them except maybe once or twice a year to dig the gunk out of whatever was gunked up. Using a folder for a cutting task to me was akin to the satisfaction of gun enthusiasts shooting a pea shooter. Like, why waste the time, ya know?
But then I found this forum and yall, and discovered folders that werent just barely holding together. I still prefer fixed over folder, but I use folders more. I use my Military every day many times a day, while my 7 bladed bowie rarely sees the use it was intended for.
So I basically like fixed over folder, but use folders much more due mainly to sheeple (some of whom live in my immediate family).
Finally, I apologize for the length of this post.
Im not normally so wordy, but I felt it necessary to describe to you the specifics of my dilemma.
So (again), 3 production folders, or one custom fixed blade? What say ye all? And thanks for the input and the brotherhood of like-minded individuals who have helped me to prove that Im not as strange as my family would like to believe!
[Oops! And just one more thing: if any of you really feels for my dilemma and would like to put me out of my misery and give me another $100 so I can get the whole shebang,
I would be glad to forego food longer in order to add even more, (though two weeks is already pushing it).]
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Champions make improvements as fast as losers make excuses.
Now if I can go without eating for a few days (two weeks max), I could add enough cash to get either the Air Assault OR two or three of the others. My dilemma is: which purchase in your opinion would give the most total knifeknut satisfaction? This purchase may very well be the last one for a loooonnnnggg time (maybe up to 8 months). So I want the most satisfaction from it, so in the future (during the 8 months) when I read from yall how great this, that and a hundred other knives are, I can gaze at my purchase and know I made the right one.
Present Collection: All production pieces; 6 in all, not counting 2 POGs.
Usage: Now, before I discovered this forum (and made the exciting discovery that there were other knifeknuts like myself in this world), I was a fixed-blade fanatic. I owned a couple of old jackknives, but never used them except maybe once or twice a year to dig the gunk out of whatever was gunked up. Using a folder for a cutting task to me was akin to the satisfaction of gun enthusiasts shooting a pea shooter. Like, why waste the time, ya know?
But then I found this forum and yall, and discovered folders that werent just barely holding together. I still prefer fixed over folder, but I use folders more. I use my Military every day many times a day, while my 7 bladed bowie rarely sees the use it was intended for.
So I basically like fixed over folder, but use folders much more due mainly to sheeple (some of whom live in my immediate family).
Finally, I apologize for the length of this post.
So (again), 3 production folders, or one custom fixed blade? What say ye all? And thanks for the input and the brotherhood of like-minded individuals who have helped me to prove that Im not as strange as my family would like to believe!
[Oops! And just one more thing: if any of you really feels for my dilemma and would like to put me out of my misery and give me another $100 so I can get the whole shebang,
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Champions make improvements as fast as losers make excuses.
