It's an Excellent Feeling!

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...When you can gift a knife to your father for his birthday and he is super impressed with how sharp it is, and you let him know you sharpened it yourself. :D

Although I have learned that assisted opening/pocket clip knives are probably not for him, despite his having a few pocket clip linerlock manual folders... oh well. ;)
 
What is of ultimate importance here? You gave a nice gift to your father for his birthday.
You're a good person. Be proud of what you did. I'm sure that he is proud of you also.
Sonnydaze
 
Sonnydaze said:
What is of ultimate importance here? You gave a nice gift to your father for his birthday.
You're a good person. Be proud of what you did. I'm sure that he is proud of you also.
Sonnydaze
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Sonny, were it not for him I wouldn't know about knives at all. I owe my interest in them to him and my grandfather and great-grandfather (who I was privileged to know for many years before he passed at age 100). I am sure he enjoys the knife even if it may not become an EDC for him. He found the blade steel/handle materials, etc very intriguing. He mostly uses tried and true traditionals so most "modern" folders these days have new or unfamiliar materials to him. Even something like aluminum handles can be surprising for him, he's a bone or stag or wood sort of fellow.
 
Yes, that truly is an excellent feeling. Nothing really compares to seeing your old man smile! Just out of curiosity, what was the knife you gave your father?
 
It seems that no matter how many times I have given my Dad a knife, I always fall back on a knife for a gift. I guess that's the knife nut in me that always thinks everyone wants more knives like me :rolleyes: . He really liked the Case toothpick I got for him for Christmas last year. He never cared for the tacticool knives, but liked the leatherman.
 
Sure beats socks! :D

I would have found him a traditional that is consistant with his general preferences and experience. But it is always good to try to expand people's horizons a bit.
 
I gave my girlfriend (ex) a swiss army classic for her key chain. She jumped of the couch she was so excited lol.

I'm gonna have to buy a few more of those.
 
Awesome man. I remember when I got my dad a BM mini grip for Father's Day. I had just started getting into knives and only had my tenacious. I had heard about BM being good, so I picked one up at the local knife shop for him. He had never carried a knife before that point, but has ever since :)

Of course, he still has no concept of how sharp a knife should really be ;),so I always end up sharpening it for him if he leaves it somewhere and I see that it's "dull". He even tries to use it as evidence that the knife never gets dull whenever I bug him about sharpening it, since I don't usually tell him I sharpened it when he wasnt looking :D
 
RedLynx said:
...When you can gift a knife to your father for his birthday and he is super impressed with how sharp it is, and you let him know you sharpened it yourself. :D

Although I have learned that assisted opening/pocket clip knives are probably not for him, despite his having a few pocket clip linerlock manual folders... oh well. ;)
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I could never do that. He doesn't have anywhere near the appreciation for knives. Only way I'd be able to do that is get a Buck 110 signed by John Wayne, wrapped personally by Clint Eastwood
 
AntDog said:
Yes, that truly is an excellent feeling. Nothing really compares to seeing your old man smile! Just out of curiosity, what was the knife you gave your father?
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Thanks guys. AntDog and Grownstar,I gave him a Kershaw Shallot. Figured it was modern but also simple, nothing fancy, so a bit easier for him to get used to. He does like it and the assisted opening is nice for him, but he favors dropping a knife in a pocket rather than clipping it, and being able to close it against his leg which I think is still possible but difficult.
 
RedLynx said:
...When you can gift a knife to your father for his birthday and he is super impressed with how sharp it is, and you let him know you sharpened it yourself. :D

Although I have learned that assisted opening/pocket clip knives are probably not for him, despite his having a few pocket clip linerlock manual folders... oh well. ;)
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johnwaynesandw said:
It seems that no matter how many times I have given my Dad a knife, I always fall back on a knife for a gift. I guess that's the knife nut in me that always thinks everyone wants more knives like me :rolleyes: . He really liked the Case toothpick I got for him for Christmas last year. He never cared for the tacticool knives, but liked the leatherman.
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My default gift is usually a book. I get him books about WWI, WWII, or The Holocaust in particular. I could get him 100 an he'd read them all. He's concerned that today's society is forgetting just what happened and what was sacrificed with those wars and genocides, so it's important to him that people tell their stories.
 
RedLynx said:
Thanks guys. AntDog and Grownstar,I gave him a Kershaw Shallot. Figured it was modern but also simple, nothing fancy, so a bit easier for him to get used to. He does like it and the assisted opening is nice for him, but he favors dropping a knife in a pocket rather than clipping it, and being able to close it against his leg which I think is still possible but difficult.
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Very cool! I think he will learn to love it the more he uses it. Good job bro!
 
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