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Is it our duty to produce knife people?

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I understand that not everyone will come to being a knife-nut. But should we educate others and try to push the knife hobby on them? I mean, I certainly don't wanna have this world lose knives. I don't want the world to be overtaken by people who would rather carry scissors than a knife or even a multi-tool. People who carry knives and other things(multi tools, lighters, strikers, pocket stones etc.....) are already lowering in numbers. Is it our duty to keep it going?
 
I don't know about duty. I do believe that it is a good thing to always have a knife, multi-tool and flashlight on me, and when people borrow a knife I remind them that they could have one of their own.

People just don't do as much for themselves these days, doing less means they're less likely to need a tool, and a for most people a knife is a tool.
 
I tend to educate everyone that asks or uses my knife. Half of the time they listen.
 
I can't say it's our duty, because quite honestly zealotry in anything is a real turnoff. But I have to say that as long as there are Southern folks, Boy Scouts, hunters and other outdoorspeople, I don't think the idea of carrying a knife every day will ever die out.

But that's just my opinion.
 
Regardless of what we do, there's absolutely no danger of a world without knives.
 
No. Those who get it, get it. Those who don't, never ever will. Imho better to let the lobbying groups like knife rights do the heavy lifting.....All we have to do is help them by donations and volunteering if needed and using out tools properly and safely.
 
I try to be a good example for carrying a knife. Intelligent people will draw their own conclusions from that.
 
No, it is not our duty. If someone wants to talk knives then I will be more than happy to participate to the extent that my knowledge allows. I'm not going to be "that guy" that always gets up in every one else's business, I would not want others to do that to me.
 
I believe we have a responsibility to pass along our knowledge and experience.
Educating people who are interested and willing to listen will certainly help to prevent stupid laws.
Bans on autos, blade length, and similar restrictions is based on emotion and not common sense. Like all the gun laws someone starts screaming for every time there is an incident.

Pushing our hobby on anyone is a bad thing, reminds me of the people knocking on my door, ignoring the "No Soliciting " sign to invite me to their church.
 
To a degree. It is our responsability to present good examples of knife carrying / tool using homo sapiens. Other people who would be a credit to the hobby and are curious to should be encouraged to carry. The egocentric, sociopaths, and hotheads who's actions would likely result in more restrictive laws should be actively discouraged.
 
"Duty" is too strong of an idea for me as far as this issue is concerned. I agree that it's a good idea to support the lobbying groups; however beyond that, I just try to educate people who gasp when I take out a knife. From there, I try to practice what I preach by using my knives in a safe and law-abiding manner.

I will say that I think it's good that groups like the Boy Scouts educate people on knives at a young age. I think it would be great if high school shop teachers did likewise when introducing students to other tools. "That's how you use various types of saws to cut wood. Now let's talk about the proper use of pocket knives."
 
I find most people have no idea and really don't want to know. They just want the box open.
 
Not to produce knife people...but the more general idea of promoting our liberties and freedoms allowed by the Bill of Rights, and to seek to prevent any government from trying to circumvent or remove those from the people.
 
These are great answers. I was just curious what everyone thought. The thing I hate the most is not being able to talk about or show knives without being looked at as some pyscho terrorist. Just wondering if there was any hope for those poor saps.....
 
Not my duty. I don't recall any contract I signed when I bought a knife that required me to proselytize knife ownership.
 
As was stated above, zealotry in anything is a turn off.

It is not our "duty" to make anyone feel any differently about knives.

I'm a slipjoint kinda guy. When I first started carrying them it was partially because I could carry and use them anywhere without a negative reaction. Now I've got few nice little gentleman's knives which fit in my watch pocket and one is always with me on the weekend.

When I take one out, if I get any comments they are compliments. I now carry slipjoints kind of feeling like I am "raising consciousness", getting a positive reaction instead of avoiding negative one.

Even that is not my "duty", but it is nice to remind people of a time not long ago when most men had a pocket knife.
 
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Do you want other people to push their stamp collecting, or Hummel, or cross stitch, or Justin Bieber, etc etc etc hobby/passion on you? Sa e thing as you pushing knives on them.
 
As a knife an gun enthusiast I try to be a good ambassador off my hobbies. I won't push it on anybody, but I will offer my point of view and try to get people to learn skills and develop habits that I think are helpful and positive.
 
Meither my Dad nor my Grandpa were "knife guys". They just used whatever one was handy. No collecting, no boxes full of knives in the cupboard. I don't think that you need to push anyone to be a knife collector, it is in your blood.
 
It's only a HOBBY....you just happen to like something that's sharp. People who don't share your HOBBY are not "poor saps" and you have no duty to produce more like-minded HOBBYISTS.
Substitute HOBBY with the "R" word then I'm scared. Believe it or not, boxes and packages are getting opened every day with or without HOBBYISTS and these "poor-saps" are getting on fine.
 
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