my reply is directed at "Boats." Its not fair to say that because someone buys a knife partly for its esthetic appeal that he is likely a "metrosexual." Not all of us live in the backwaters, most of my life I couldn't look out a window in my various homes and see anything resembling real "forestry." Do you not own a single blade that you avoid cutting with? I was born and will die in an inner city somewhere, and of the two folders I have on me at any given time, one is guaranteed to have scratches and some grit in the lock, whereas the other (my SD blade) is nearly printless, and catches the light from the street-lamps like a piece of fine jewelry. Clear signs of hard use do not always add "character," so excuse me if I am secure enough in my masculinity to acknowledge the morbid beauty inherent to some factory-fresh blades. According to your primitive view, over half of the long standing members of bladeforums with digital cameras must be "metrosexuals," and that is simply an absurd and offensive notion. Did you ever notice while visiting museums that fine art and precious artifacts are walled off or behind glass.. Spitting on the Mona Lisa or touching the crown jewels is generally discouraged..
