Knife people are well rounded people!

Thanks Bill, for the clarification but are you trying to give me a headache? I'm still looking up coon cat. I'll get to the rest later :-)
 
judge for yourself: am i a stereotypical knifeknut?

current day job: busy network manager for a midsize academic department at a large university. (Hoodoo, you're right on about the faculty freaking at the sight of a blade. made THAT mistake only once.)

past day jobs have included: professional music director, professional singer/guitarist, composer (some of my songs actually made it to an album that got good reviews years ago). also professional liturgy director (person who organizes big fancy church services like for cathedrals and such). later, clinical therapist with research specialties in cross-cultural diagnosis protocols, childhood trauma, and multiple personality disorder (hey, it's been more useful than i care to think about in my current job!). and now i'm a computer nerd, managing 300+ computers and 150 users. go figure.

i spent two years in a catholic seminary--yes, they knew i was a woman
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studying theology and liturgy. spent several years studying clinical psychology.

off hours pursuits include a passion for hand crafts of many sorts, particularly weaving (i own two looms), spinning (on a beautiful spinning wheel i built and finished from a kit), beadwork, quilting, and refinishing beat-up furniture. i've discovered that i love having the best tools money can buy to use in these crafts--my weaving shuttles are handcarved wood, my beading needles are more expensive than some of the beads! i love the way a fine tool feels in my hands--over time, my tools have become my friends, and they have taken on personalities of their own. this is no less true of my sharp shiny tools, of course.

i'm also a southern traditional powwow dancer. i'm native american by birth, born in the rocky mountains of british columbia, where i spent the first six years of my life in a remote mountain village without electricity, running water, or white folks. we kids herded the sheep, picked the apples, that sort of thing. the womenfolk spun and wove, menfolk rode around in pickup trucks, sheared the sheep, raised ruckuses. at six, i was adopted by whitefolk and brought south to california. talk about culture shock!

the past several years i've been getting back into my heritage. i spend a lot of time making my own dance outfit--as a matter of fact, the whole knife thang started because i wanted a powwow knife--a belt knife and pouch to wear with my dance regalia. i asked a knife-savvy friend a few questions, and the rest you can guess.

oh yeah, and i like science fiction, murder mysteries, forensic suspense, and dean koontz novels. love music of all kinds from classical to folk; currently on a country music binge and adore the dixie chicks. i program in perl too; write poetry; love watching movies, hate network TV except for secret vices like buffy the vampire slayer and the xfiles, love my cats and other folks' dogs, like to garden, and i collect toys of all kinds intended for folks much younger than myself.

oh, and i'm also a webmaster for an online art gallery and for an antihate website.

sheesh, this is a LOOOONNGGGG list and i apologise for blithering and boring everyone...

but i think the point is being made: assumptions are foolish, prejudices downright dangerous. i don't look like i'm carrying a sharp shiny thing on my person, and right now i'm not--in fact, i'm carrying *two* sharp shiny things.
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still have not found my perfect powwow belt knife, tho. someday i might come up with a wishlist for it and post it for y'all to make suggestions
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silverwing
 
Dang! Some of you folks make me feel like a real slug.

I spend my week dragging my @ss to work (mid-level government bureaucrat), to the gym (non-competitive bodybuilder), and then home again so I can prepare for the next day (over 2 hours a day commuting doesn't help). Weekends, it's sleeping, reading (sci-fi, horror, anything else interesting), and maybe a little TV.

 
I work in a violin shop. I`m an actively gigging classical guitar and lute player. I`m an opera fanatic.

I also love knives, watching the WWF with my son and going to loud, obnoxious, satanic rock & roll concerts with my kid.

I figure I`m pretty well rounded.
 
I teach Mathematics to College students by day. My hobbies are quite varied:
knives, running (but not with knives :-), guitar playing(just started learning, and boy is it fun!), shooting, drawing, reading, church/ bible study, reading, cooking, listening to virtually any kind of music (jazz, classic rock, blues, classical, etc.), spending time with my sweetie whom I just married this past May, and synchronized underwater basket-weaving. Okay, all are true except for that last one.


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"We Don't Rent Pigs" --Augustus McCrae


 
Geeze, there are some pretty hefty credentials up there! Myself...I'm a graphic artist working at a major ad agency, & unpublished cartoonist and a fishin' fool. It is funny how the folks in the art studio react to my folder, when it comes to slicing cake or pizza. We are knee deep in single-edge razors and mat knives that everyone uses, but my folder gets the attention. My hunting and fishin friends can't believe I'm an artist and the artists can't believe that I "Actually go hunting and fishing"
Keep 'em sharp.

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Great topic.

I'm a cartographer with the Australian Geological Survey Organisation. I sepd about half of my weekends a year doing volunteer work with a local Duke of Edinburgh group taking teenagers out on camping trips.

When I'm not doing that I'm:

a) walking the dogs
b) reading (History, science, sci-fi, techno-thriller)
c) listening to music (ranges from classical to metal)
d) on the PC (Flight-simming fool here
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e) hunting (both rifle and bow)
f) convincing people I really DO need all those knives.

 
Great topic.

I'm a cartographer with the Australian Geological Survey Organisation. I spend about half of my weekends a year doing volunteer work with a local Duke of Edinburgh group taking teenagers out on camping trips.

When I'm not doing that I'm:

a) walking the dogs
b) reading (History - military and other, science, sci-fi, techno-thriller)
c) listening to music (ranges from classical to metal)
d) on the PC (Flight-simming fool here
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e) hunting (both rifle and bow)
f) convincing people I really DO need all those knives.

 
I have to agree with Bald1, I find myself shopping at the "we-b-round" store more and more.

I hunt and fish when I can, play a 12-string and sing at church, love my wife and family.

All and all we are a diverse bunch.

Dwight

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Well i'm glad to see so many replies! Seems i was indeed right
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Bald1,
well..i didn't really mean it that way..*grin*..i just can't help a little giggle here and there whenever i'm talking about knives.
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Lagerman, congrats on your marriage..little late for congratulations...but lately, it just makes me happy to see people getting married...

Thanks for all the replies guys...we certainly have a wonderfully diverse group of people here.


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"I wouldn't mind you being inside my head if you weren't clearly so crazy."

"Suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at
my chamber door." Tis only me with my Sifu, nothing more. ;)

 
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Thanks for all the replies guys...we certainly have a wonderfully diverse group of people here.
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yep. 'specially since some of us "guys" are gals.
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(sorry, couldn't resist!)

i think "diverse" is an understatement. clearly proved no assumptions can be made about knife folk, not even about gender.

i'm proud to be a part of such a great group of, um, "guys".

silverwing
 
Man after reading all that I feel like a Real A-Typical Knuckle dragger. Im now a Former Draftsmen going into the Military to pursue a career in Security and Law enforcement. My background is as a Shooter, hunter, and outdoorsman. As for music I like Metal, Rock, and sometimes a little blues guitar or country. I do Have a philosophic twist though I like reading Sun Tzu and Musashi.
 
Topic: Knife people are well rounded people!

Hey, I resemble that remark!!!!!

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"Always think of your fellow knife makers as partners in the search for the perfect blade, not as people trying to compete with you and your work!"
 
Sorry 'bout that silverwing, most of the time when I say 'guys', girls are included..*chuckles*...because i am aware of the women here at bf....i love telling my friends that girls love steel too!
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"I wouldn't mind you being inside my head if you weren't clearly so crazy."

"Suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at
my chamber door." Tis only me with my Sifu, nothing more. ;)

 
I'm not too proud to admit it, but I too am a writer/poet. Well, let me say I am an EROTIC writer/poet. I've had 'stories' published in such publications as Swank, Leg Show, Cheri, and other titles I don't think are printable in this forum. Sure, I get paychecks, but I can't show my work to my mom or my kids.
I also work the graveyard shift as a lab tech in a blood bank. Love that plasma!
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I've also delivered groceries and newspapers in the last year. (Gotta pay for those knives!)
I was also a 'failed' stand up comic, although I do make my kids laugh.
And during this whole time, I've had a fixed blade/folder on me...

 
no problem, Vailin, no offense taken, i was mostly just playin' with you to prove the point of the topic: most folks, when they look at me, think they are seeing the LAST person on earth to be carrying any kind of knife on her person.

little do they know that most days, it's TWO knives, and some flavor of multitool...

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i like surprising people
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but then, y'all surprised me with the sheer DIVERSITY of forumites....awe-some!

silverwing


 
My sister's old boy friend was a tooth driller and a bigger knife nut than even me. He only had one other thing that he was more crazy about than knives, Hot Air balooning. Last time I talked to him he was getting his 3rd one. Damb those things cost alot.
 
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