Knife guys are weird......

david tn

david tn

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Knife guys are weird......My fear of being sliced open always put a certain amount of fear in me about knives. I have always owned some kind of a knife. I even bought and waited for a Randall Made (model 5-6) knife. But I always had a unspoken or maybe even a subconscious notion that if you had more than a couple of knives you were weired.....Well guys and gals.....I am sorry.
I was looking for an axe/ hatchet for camping. In my search I stumbled on a knife that I had never heard of, a "chopper". In educating myself on choppers I found the Swamp Rat/ Busse folks then I found ESEE, Cold Steel, Becker, etc.
I have gotten some great info from this forum and and also ZKnives.com. There is so much more than I realised about steel and shapes of cutting surfaces.
Let me tell you what I am looking to buy in the next few months;
A chopper, maybe a Swamp Rat Rodent 9 or the Browning Barker
ESEE 5
Swamp Rat Rodent 4
ESEE Izula
and I a still looking for the right Busse.
So, here I am. Thanks for all the info and once again, I am sorry......
 
i'll tell you who's weirder: flashlight collectors

and there is a group even weirder then them: atwood tool collectors; those who can't get enough of little pieces of steel tools.
 
Mom mom collects little fairy looking ceramic shoes. My dad collects thousands of software he will never use. Makes knife collecting look sane. :D

As for having a fear of being cut..... I actually really don't like to be cut myself. I've had severe burns in the past and I even prefer them over being cut. Odd eh? But I've been a knife guy since I was 5yrs old and a knifemaker for 20yrs now. I just make sure not to cut myself much ;)
 
"Weird" is a relative description. I once got drunk and mowed the lawn in my underwear. I'm fairly sure my neighbors' application of the term "weird" in regard to my behavior in that instance supersedes how they feel about my interest in knives. So, take heart, it could always be "weirder".
 
david tn said:
Knife guys are weird...... I always had a unspoken or maybe even a subconscious notion that if you had more than a couple of knives you were weired.....Well guys and gals.....I am sorry. Thanks for all the info and once again, I am sorry......
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No need to be sorry - that sounds about right to me. :thumbup:
 
There are still lots of knife fearing sheeple in this world that believes that knifemakers/collectors are addicted to knives, and slit throats at night.:yawn:
 
david tn said:
Knife guys are weird......My fear of being sliced open always put a certain amount of fear in me about knives.
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Welcome to the party! You like knives...you're gonna do something stupid and get cut occasionally (usually when your wife is watching). Just like the rest of us.

Think when you cut and keep your knives sharp. That's all you can do. And a "sharp knife" cut is much better than a "dull knife" cut. Those sharp knife cuts you don't even feel.
 
Whenever my wife starts wondering about my knife collection, I just point to the room full of yarn and crafty stuff.

Knife collecting is a sickness. You know you don't need them, but you can't convince yourself of it and you'll buy it anyway! What kind of chopping do you plan on doing with this purchase? If it's actual log splitting and you don't need to pack it in anywhere, I'd grab a Fiskars Axe and call it a day. If it's because you are fulfilling your primal urges to chop with a big freaking knife, then the Ka-Bar Cutlass is a nice inexpensive option to check out, and it chops like a madman!
 
Welcome my friend. It is here that you will not be judged by the number of knives that you have or shunned from society based on that number. Instead you will be applauded and will only increase in your dedication haha
 
mrn8 said:
Whenever my wife starts wondering about my knife collection, I just point to the room full of yarn and crafty stuff.
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Yupper. And I do care actually how society percieves me as a person with knives, machets, hawks etc because I have a social conscience. So I make reasonable efforts to be responsible with my knife use\handling\transporting etc. As for being weird, well, I prefer eccentric.
:D
I have major outdoor interests like Fur Trade history, hunting, fishing, camping, whatever, uses for knives. And sometimes I just like a knife...because I like knives. I figure that as long as I bother\harm no one as common sense dictates to most people, who cares ? I could be a base ball bat collector\user and the same applies.
:)
 
I love knives, just went to the ER last night because of a knife. I was cleaning a Case Canoe, my hand slipped, and now I have 4 stiches in the meat area of my right thumb, I look like this:thumbup:
I don't like cutting myself, but it happens when you get too comfortable. The thing that bothers me most, is what I could have bought with the money spent at the ER! Crap, that was $188, spent because of a $70 pocket knife, a bit painful! I'd rather have spent $188 on a new knife, or ammo, or towards a new gun, etc..
 
Some of us may be too complacent around knives. I've met lots of knifemakers at shows and I think knife people are more normal than other people.

I have seen people that collect lots of weird things so I think knife collecting is fairly normal.
 
foxx said:
I love knives, just went to the ER last night because of a knife. I was cleaning a Case Canoe, my hand slipped, and now I have 4 stiches in the meat area of my right thumb, I look like this:thumbup:
I don't like cutting myself, but it happens when you get too comfortable. The thing that bothers me most, is what I could have bought with the money spent at the ER! Crap, that was $188, spent because of a $70 pocket knife, a bit painful! I'd rather have spent $188 on a new knife, or ammo, or towards a new gun, etc..
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This is why my hands are covered in scars, last time I cut myself there abouts I squirted in anti-septic and butterflied, gauzed and taped it shut. Bled like a pig and left a good scar...BUT I picked up my first Emerson the next day! :D


If one simplifies "weird"'s definition to: Someone holding views outside the majority. You'd be 100% right, us knife folk are pretty damn weird. haha, welcome to the sickness.
 
Buck Hoodlum it's 5160 is heat treated well and will outperform a lot of customs let alone factory knives. If you want ultimate performance though I have a J. Neilson amp knife that's a bad assed little monkey of a chopper.
 
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