- Joined
- Sep 15, 2003
- Messages
- 842
Your mother is right. Everyone who collects knives is messed in the head. Send me your collection so you can begin the healing process! Glad I can help!
The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Yeah, collecting knives is pretty damn weird. The lot of us should probably have our heads examined.
I'll save you...just send all your knives to me.
That offer stands for everyone else who wants to be "normal" as well.
(I'm a true hero)
I'll save you...just send all your knives to me.
That offer stands for everyone else who wants to be "normal" as well.
(I'm a true hero)
Nah, I like being weird just fine.![]()
To be more specific I was at my parents house using my dads work bench to cut some metal off my Condor Golok and when I was done, my mom approaches me saying that "i'm worried about you" in a serious tone. Now if she was joking I wouldn't pay it no mind. However she was all serious about it, almost like she thinks i'm leading up to the phyche of a serial killer or a school shooter. Now granted I did pretty much change it from a utility tool too a weapon, but still I consider my hobby in collecting and modifying knives to be healthy. I don't think that collecting knives is any different than any other hobby. So whats your opinion and when is the line crossed to where it becomes an unhealthy hobby? (...)
To set her mind at ease, you may want to branch out and take up another hobby that compliments your knife collecting. Bushcraft (including camping, hiking, etc), carving, cooking, gardening/landscaping... anything that adds purpose to your knives. And who knows? You may find more enjoyment in using some of your collection pieces. :thumbup:
Is it strange that I can name most of those?Show Mom this pic, which is only a fraction of my hoard, and tell her that I turned out somewhat ok. I've practiced law for 21 years, married for 20 years to the same Mrs. Powernoodle, have 2 kids in a Latin school making straight A's, and only rarely do I hack up the corpse of a hitchhiker and stuff the remains in my freezer.
![]()
Is it strange that I can name most of those?
Show Mom this pic, which is only a fraction of my hoard, and tell her that I turned out somewhat ok. I've practiced law for 21 years, married for 20 years to the same Mrs. Powernoodle, have 2 kids in a Latin school making straight A's, and only rarely do I hack up the corpse of a hitchhiker and stuff the remains in my freezer.
![]()
My wife doesn't think collecting knives is weird. But she does think taking pictures of knives with...kittens...flowers, things like that is a little weird, I like it though!
Collecting knives is no weirder than collecting other small durable precision artifacts like watches, flashlights, digital gizmos, etc.
Weird is collecting coprolites, half-eaten sandwiches, or cigar butts.