Knife gluttony mutates - now SAKs!

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Stainz

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Does this insidious affliction know no bounds? It must be viral... and it mutates. One day, I have to have more Bucks - then Bark Rivers - then more Kershaws - now, Vic SAKs!

Oh, it starts innocently enough. Let's 'try' one of those... oops. I thought the SAK insanity would fade... then I got a silver Alox Farmer last year - then a red one - recently, I found a blue one. Enough, right? Nope. The Alox Soldier model was dropped by the Swiss Army... new model coming. Gotta get that one, too. Oh, the Pioneer Harvester has a second pruner blade - gotta have that.

Well, it good be worse, I suppose. I could have 'tried' a Busse Combat goodie. Wow... at least my collection cost less than the GNP of Tchad... a couple of Busse's would top that. Besides, when I whittle, it's on a stick - not a Mack truck!

Better news... no Fed #4473s to fill out - no ammo needed, either (Try to find ammo - even just bricks of .22LRs!). Did I mention, they fit, unboxed, in my desk drawer? Still, what an illness. I've said it before, we need a 12-step program - 'K.N.U.' - Knife Nuts Unanimous! Next, a charter...

Hey, a 'club' knife, too! Never mind.

Stainz
 
Beware, the knife buying monster within never goes away. Sometimes it rests for awhile, but it can, and will, resurface at any given moment..
 
pvicenzi said:
Beware, the knife buying monster within never goes away. Sometimes it rests for awhile, but it can, and will, resurface at any given moment..
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True true....

There MUST be some kind of genetic connection between knives and guns and men. Perhaps much like the way women have some connection with looking good and buying lots of shoes and clothes etc.

Just human traits I guess...

And those men that like to buy LOTS of Shoes and don't like knives and guns, well.... ;)
 
I don't think there's anything wrong with us knifenuts---we're perfectly fine.

There's something wrong with the people that aren't. ;)
 
I am in the same shoes you are in. I love those SAKs. I keep buying and buying. I bought the farmer and thought that would be it for me but no, now I have to have a Hiker model. I already have about 25 SAKs and I keep wanting more and more. That is really the only brand I have had this fascination about. I have over 150 knives of all brands and styles but there is something about the SAK that I just cant get enough of. Only Victorinox brand, not Wenger. For some reason I just love Vic. I even got a Vic wrist watch to wear. There is just something nostolgic about the Victorinox knife for me. I even like the Mountainous view behind the SAK factory. Im hooked on them. I would have to say for myself that the SAK is without a doubt my favorite brand. I just love them. Great knives for a great price. Every boy should want one and every grown man should have one. Actually every boy should have one too.
 
I used to have difficulty justifying buying Swiss Army Knives - there were so many different models, and they are mass-produced by the millions. But once I bought a few on closeout, just to say I did and to boost my Accumulation count, and now it seems I can't say No to an on-sale SAK. :)
 
I've had pretty much the same thing happen to me . Unlike a lot of stuff , SAK's are actually usefull . They are also inexpensive , not to mention sweet little pieces of engineering .

I doubt their is a cure .

Chris
 
I think it has something to do with finding the "perfect knife" or thinking that there is something better out there.

We do the same thing with women - we find the woman we love and then marry; but we still look at other women and wonder: "What would she be like..."

When it comes to knives - I write down thename of the knife I would like to buy and wait a month. If I still want it; I buy it.
 
I can not understand more. I just ordered a Benchmade mini-Gipptilan, a Case Trapper, a Boker Stockman and a CRKT Fulcrum, which I have yet to receive, and am already looking at the Kershaw O so Sweet and a Bark River Journymen. :eek:
 
markrwy,

Welcome to the forum... and the madness. Oh, re the B R 'Journeyman' - terrible, nasty, totally useless knife... avoid it!

Yeah, I lied. I was trying to help you. I kept thinking I'd stop with those B R knives. Well, the Journeyman was my last - from last summer. I have six more... including the similar Boone. Do yourself a favor - buy the cheapest handle - black Micarta. To Falkniven and others, that is a serious upgrade handle over their manmade rubber-like handles. The B R quality is to be experienced. The concave edge is to be experienced, too. Gee, I tried to warn you - now I am an enabler!!

Stainz
 
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