Knife-a-Holics, is there a cure in sight??

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Jay Maines

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I'm not sure if this topic has been discussed on BladeForms.com before. If it hasn't I would like to get some feed-back from other, "Knife-a-Holics. On how they cope with this incurable affliction.

My self, I was infected at an early age, and it was heart-wrenching for my parents as they watched me suffering. They gave me chores to do, to earn money, to buy a knife, or gave me one as a present. Unfortunately, this only relived the terrible symptoms for a little while. Very soon I'd find the acing desire for a new knife, would be back. Forcing me out onto the mean streets, of life, searching for the next knife. It has just gone on and on, year after year, with no end or cure in sight. I become a pathetic, blubbering fool, when ever I see a new knife design. My eyes glaze over, my hands twitch, and I even drool uncontrollably.

Thank God, that there are support groups out there now, for us. I find some measure of comfort, in visiting with other suffers on BladeForms.com. I'm waiting though, for the US Government, to start a few resurch progams on our behalf. I'm sure we could claim Minority Status, and with a few Tel-A-Thons for our behalf, maybe file claims for disability, and collect (knife) benifits. As society becomes more tolerable and compassionate for pathetic wretches like us. I look forward to getting a tag for my car, so I can park at the front door, of my local cutlery store, in the "Knife-A-Holics Only" parking space.

So, does anyone out there have any like symptoms? If so, what do you do to relive them? Do you think a cure will ever befound, and if there is, would you even want to be cured? How does your family and friends cope with this terrible affliction you have? Have you lost a good friend or loved one, because they couldn't understand your uncontrollable obsessions, for knives? You have kept this problem bottled up inside for to many years, now is the time to come clean, admit you need help, and reach out to other Knife-a-holics. Togeather we can develop a 12 step program towards recovery.

Hope to hear from you all soon,
Jay Maines
Sunrise River Custom Knives www.sunrisecustomknives.com



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Problem??? Recovery from what???
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One thing that really slowed me down from buying every new knife that came out was to buy my first 2-3 really good knives...$100+ I think that once you cross that mark there's not a whole lot that compare. The last one on my list is the Sebenza! I think the future will be focused only on traditional pocket knives.


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~Keith~
"War to the knife and knife to the hilt"



[This message has been edited by Kdarmy (edited 26 November 1999).]
 
Who wants to be cured? I can stop anytime I want. Well, that's a lie, and I don't want to stop. I go through all the symptoms, I get my fix, vicariuosly from the other members here. I also regularly, look at all the magazines, go to shows in the area, and regularly visit web sites like yours, just to torture myself. Actually I just get by, knowing there's always one on the way, and I can't buy it all. Then there are times that I'm just thankful for what I have, but that won't happen again for another 364 days.
 
You can only help those who wish to be helped I dont have time to be helped I got to go buy another knife. Mike
 
This 'disease' or affliction Cuts real deep. And once you have been stabbed, it is usually best to leave the knife where it is, unless you want to bleed to death quickly. I don't find that it hurts at all, except for that little twinge when you look at your checkbook. Call me masochistic, but I like the pain of longing for a new knife. Please don't get me any help. I Like being Crazy. And I can quit Anytime I want.
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Paracelsus
 
If they give methadone to drug addicts why can't they give knives to knife addicts? It wouldn't have to be custom knives. I would settle for production.

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Hoodoo

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
If this is a problem, I refuse treatment, all medications, and want nothing to do with therapy.

Just wrap me in a straight jacket and let me cut my way out.

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If a man can keep alert and imaginative, an error is a possibility, a chance at something new; to him, wandering and wondering are a part of the same process. He is most mistaken, most in error, whenever he quits exploring.

William Least Heat Moon
 
i am not a knife-a-holic. i only play with my knives when other knifefolks are around, never when i'm alone--oh, except for relaxation, you know, to help me deal with stress. it's kinda for my health, then, you see, so not an addiction at all. it's not like i play with them just to hear that click sound over and over...so satisfying...so smooth...watch how the light hits the blade and flashes on the wall...mmmmmmmmm.....

oh. no. really. it's just like a mantra, to help keep my blood pressure down. medicinal, even. oh yeah, and it helps me build up my hand strength and avoid carpal tunnel syndrome. so it can't be an addiction, now can it? it's therapy.

and i only buy knives i need, i don't buy them just to have them around. i really needed that BF Native i just bought, see, because it was blue and i didn't have anything blue to go with my blue outfits. plus i needed to help support BF. so i was just doing my Duty...

well, of COURSE i needed a blue knife more than i needed to make the payment on my student loan--DUH, the student loan will still be there in a few months, the BF natives won't. it was a very logical way to spend my money. really.

and since knives are just tools, not an addiction, i don't have to buy any more knives if i don't need them. i just calmly and logically look at what i need: i don't have any carbon fiber ones yet, and i might need one of those because they might be less scary to the sheeple at work. and i don't have a fully-serrated anything yet, and those are better for cutting some things. and i don't have any fixed blades, and i don't have any good enough kitchen knives, and i really should have a survival knife, and i think a Sebenza would really help me work on my hand strength (i should get a couple large Spydies, too, to work on those different hand muscle groups), and i'm thinking of getting some cowgirl boots so a boot knife would be essential to wear with those, and i really believe in supporting my community, so i should spread a little business around to makers who post on BF, and really, i wouldn't be buying anything i didn't need. Really. plus i'd be doing a community service by supporting good makers. so it's kinda community service, right?

and you know, it's just a hobby, just like reading BF. i can stop buying knives and posting anytime i want. i'm in total control at all times.

it's just that i haven't finished responding to all the threads yet. and i don't have all the knives i might need yet.

so it's not an addiction, and therefore i don't need any cure, right?

and i don't have too many knives, i don't--i still have fewer knives than my boyfriend, so i know i'm still OK. he's the one with the REAL problem....

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silverwing
the first sign of trouble was the day he came home with a new knife, and instead of asking "how much?" i said, "did you buy two?"
 
Jay.
The simple fact is, none of us was Drafted, we all Enlisted, and we RE-Enlist every time we see a new knife that we want.
"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!"
 
Well Folks,
Thank you for your timely replys, they were very informative,and let me know I'm not alone out here. The same firm convection runs through all your posts, that not one of you wants a cure, or feels that there even is a "Problem" You all have studied your deepest desires, maped out a strategy for filling your wish-list, and everyone is right on schedule for their next knife. I must point out that I did notice some hand tremors on the key-boards, some drool on my screen, and a few incoherent sentences were mixed in with all your vehement denials of any problem.
Thanks to one of you, I won't mention any names, I now realize that I need a Blue handled knife to go with my Blue Jeans, and a Boot knife to go with my boots. When will this obsession ever end?
You all realize that with this total denial, on our part, that there will never be a national Tel-A-Thon to find us a cure. There will never be any government grants, disablity payments will not happen, and society may turn on us like they did Smokers. We may find ourselves, out in the cold hard rain, on the "Back Loading Dock" of life, with the smokers. Flicking our folders, while they flick their Bics.
I'm sorry, but I have to stop for now,tthhee hand tremers are returning, I can't see the screen to well, my eyes are getting glazed,and I'm drooling on the key-board Again! I know, I'll just go get out one of my favorite knives, and fondle (I mean) hold it, untill the symptoms go away.
More input needed on this subject!!
Jay Maines
Sunrise River Custom Knives www.sunrisecustomknives.com

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Hey Jay

Very Interesting thread.
As a caring, loving, citizen of society It hurts me so to see all the pain and suffering that all these people are going through. I think that we should spend millions of tax payers dollars and find out the long term affects of knifeaholism. I see the pain and suffering of these folks who can't controll themselves, maybe knifemakers should help support these people by sending more money to the government. How this helps these people who are suffering I have no idea, but it is the pollitically correct thing to do.

And by the way, what knife would you suggest to go with my black Justin Ropers??

John Yeackley
 
Thanks to one of you, I won't mention any names, I now realize that I need a Blue handled knife to go with my Blue Jeans, and a Boot knife to go with my boots.
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And by the way, what knife would you suggest to go with my black Justin Ropers??
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giggle!!

perhaps we need a new forum: "Looking Sharp!"

Vampire Gerbil and i could co-moderate...

--silverwing, corruptor of youth and knifeguys

PS: John, something smooth, in black micarta, with a black (not silver) clip. i recommend tip-down so it won't snag on the pocket seams...and linerlock for the slimmer profile. (you're welcome)

PPS: Jay, if you want a boot knife, some dude at a site called sunrise custom knives has a REAL beaut, and he makes it in several different drop-dead gorgeous handle colours to complement all this season's moods.

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of course, i just HAD to visit Jay's site right before bed, i just HAD to, and now i'll be dreaming about those beauties all night long, thanks for the FIX, Jay.....
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silverwing
 
Ok Sliverwing,
Now you've done it. Sent my poor twisted mind off in another direction,
Do you suppose that the origins of the phrase "Sharp Dresser" came by way of the amount of knives a person could coordinate with their wardrobe? Let's see, you could start with a nice boot knife to go with your boots, then a pocket knife with clip, just so the blue handle shows a little, to match the blue jeans. Ofcourse no more neck-ties, now its neck-knifes, to match the 3 pice suit, and also an over the shoulder carry system for the knife under the suit coat. So thats 4 knives on your person, just to get dressed for a meeting at the office. I'd say that that person was and is a "Sharp Dresser"
Luckily I'm sure, they would not fall under the category of "Knife-a-Holic. If they had matching knives for each outfit, then they would. Thank God, none of us would ever go that far, except maybe, Sliverwing?? I bet the GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly magazine) is just waiting for you to submit a feature article, from you and Vampire Gerbil, on what makes a Sharp Dresser. I'd buy a copy!
Watch for my new line of Karvin Kline knives, comming out soon, as part of my Spring Collection.
Best Regards,
Jay Maines
Sunrise River Custom Knives www.sunrisecustomknives.com

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Jay,

I've recently tried to distract myself by taking up shooting sporting clays. It didn't work. I recently added a knife with a built in choke wrench to my collection. There is no hope.


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Fred
Knife Outlet
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Without counting them, just estimating without leaving my seat, I think I have more boot knives than I have pairs of boots. Should I buy more boots? Should they be color-coordinated with the handles? Well, of course ... it's a concealment knife....

Wait ... I have more neck knives than I have necks, too. Um ...

I think I read somewhere buying more liquor than any normal person would have any use for and hiding bottles in various places around your house is one of the danger signs for alcoholism. Um ... no, let's not think about that ... false analogy, I'm sure....

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
Yes but do you have more pocket knives than you have pockets? I think not. More knives please.



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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
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