Knife prospective from person to person long pointless post .

Frozen Bear Trading

Frozen Bear Trading

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I see lots of people in my little world that carry a knife. It's fun to look at the people and the reason they carry or the reason they carry a certain knife

I get caught up with being a knife fanatic. But you look at most people and they have one folding knife and they carry it to use. No pre thought of what steel it is or the design or style

Most people learned it from Ethier parents that learned it from long ago.

Deep thought of quality or maker maybe a curse if you really think about it. I have obsessed to the point of making knives based on things I want that maybe not available or in most cases I cant afford. You can make a knife that could cost 500 bucks for under 50 and your time. At first I was not happy with the results but the obsession to create my own took over and doing it over and over makes the result better over time.

Do you ever think that the urge to carry a knife has been hard breed into us over years and years of surviving?

If your alive your blood has withstood the test of time and you made it congrats !

I look at the people on this forum and many like myself that obsessed in a good way over the hobby.

I think people like us may have at one time been blacksmiths or fighters or farmers ect.

Why do some have such a obsession with knives when some dont ? But still carry one

I believe that nothing is just "because"

I really think our family tree back thousands of years would reveal alot more than we think.

What ever reason why some just carry a 10 Walmart knife compared to some one that buys the best or makes something good can be traced back to things we will never know about ourselves from long long ago

Done lol
 
Darn it I misspelled knife. I went into the options how do I change the title ? Can I on my android phone ?

edit I ever logged into here with a computer and still cant fix title. guess it can just be wrong lol

second edit: i figured it out....ha ha i am computer hacker now ; )
 
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Frozen Bear Trading said:
Darn it I misspelled knife. I went into the options how do I change the title ? Can I on my android phone ?

edit I ever logged into here with a computer and still cant fix title. guess it can just be wrong lol

second edit: i figured it out....ha ha i am computer hacker now ; )
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yeah I do that all the time too.
Look up at the right side of the title of your thread. It should say "Thread tools or Title tools"; click on that and you should get a pull down and then click on "Edit Title".
 
Frozen Bear Trading said:
Do you ever think that the urge to carry a knife has been hard breed into us over years and years of surviving?
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Maybe you and I . . . an the people we hang out with HERE . . . most of the people I work with, almost to a person . . . don't carry a knife. Or, they carry a knife that is so dull to be worthless.
When I offer to sharpen it they say some sheeple thing like "Well . . . ok . . . if you need a project".
Then forget to give me the knife. If you think this is an exaggeration or rare case the two people I work the closest with have just now started carrying a knife that they usually leave at home (they don't carry a knife) but have just started carrying as a conversation piece because I am all about it.
One of them I asked to help me cut up some stuff when he came over and saw me using my knife.
We had many of the same cuts to do. He said he didn't have his knife that day. I went on to finish the work alone.
Anyway these two carry dull knives when they carry one at all.
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Some sheeeeeet.
My Mom's maiden name was Myers. Nice German name. I like to think my ancestors on her side were machinists and tool makers. I don't know that but it sounds good so I'm sticking with it.
Machinist and tool maker; that's roughly my trip. My first love anyway.
My Dad was effortlessly "handy"; a farm boy and a steam fitter by trade. He could build a barn, lay brick and block or (help) build steel mills and coal fired (steam turbine) electrical generating plants.
He carried knives that he sharpened full flat but convexed and toothy on wet or dry sand paper.
He ALWAYS had a slip joint on him and it was always sharp.
My Mom had her utility knife that she kept on a loop of leather belt tacked to the inside of the kitchen cabinet under the sink. She didn't sharpen but the knife did what she needed it to do and it was used a whole lot.

These days . . . ? . . . I hate to say the thing you are referring to . . . it seems to me . . . is just a shriveled up little nub on the back side of some chromosome or other that is about to drop off all together.
You will know it has finally happened when you see somebody trying to tie something together with string (but they don't know any sort of effective knot) and then gnaw through the string (or rope) with their artificially whitened teeth. :thumbsup: ;) . . . before the "knot" comes untied.

Perhaps I over react.
Perhaps I'm just trapped in some kind of vortex of dumbass here.
I am located in The Wild Wild West . . . one would think something from the old dudes ( and dudetts) would have rubbed off on this bunch . . .
. . . but . . . nah dude, nah.

PS : I said my Mom didn't sharpen but come to think of it she had one of those knife sharpeners with all the round wheels stacked up in two overlapping rows; she used that.
 
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Wowbagger said:
Maybe you and I . . . an the people we hang out with HERE . . . most of the people I work with, almost to a person . . . don't carry a knife. Or, they carry a knife that is so dull to be worthless.
When I offer to sharpen it they say some sheeple thing like "Well . . . ok . . . if you need a project".
Then forget to give me the knife. If you think this is an exaggeration or rare case the two people I work the closest with have just now started carrying a knife that they usually leave at home (they don't carry a knife) but have just started carrying as a conversation piece because I am all about it.
One of them I asked to help me cut up some stuff when he came over and saw me using my knife.
We had many of the same cuts to do. He said he didn't have his knife that day. I went on to finish the work alone.
Anyway these two carry dull knives when they carry one at all.
I
don't
know
:( :( :(
Some sheeeeeet.
My Mom's maiden name was Myers. Nice German name. I like to think my ancestors on here side were machinists and tool makers. I don't know that but it sounds good so I'm sticking with it.
Machinist and tool maker; that's roughly my trip. My first love anyway.
My Dad was effortlessly "handy"; a farm boy and a steam fitter by trade. He could build a barn, lay brick and block or (help) build steel mills and coal fired (steam turbine) electrical generating plants.
He carried knives that he sharpened full flat but convexed and toothy on wet or dry sand paper.
He ALWAYS had a slip joint on him and it was always sharp.
My Mom had her utility knife that she kept on a loop of leather belt tacked to the inside of the kitchen cabinet under the sink. She didn't sharpen but the knife did what she needed it to do and it was used a whole lot.

These days . . . ? . . . I hate to say the thing you are referring to . . . it seems to me . . . is just a shriveled up little nub on the back side of some chromosome or other that is about to drop off all together.
You will know it has finally happened when you see somebody trying to tie something together with string (but they don't know any sort of effective knot) and then gnaw through the string (or rope) with their artificially whitened teeth. :thumbsup: ;) . . . before the "knot" comes untied.

Perhaps I over react.
Perhaps I'm just trapped in some kind of vortex of dumbass.
I am located in The Wild Wild West . . . one would think something from the old dudes ( and dudetts) would have rubbed off on this bunch) . . .
. . . but . . . nah dude, nah.
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ironic yout German as well

We came over in 1724 from religious persecution. Our last name at that time was "lanzo" and took the last name "lance" that's my last name now , they felt lanzo was to German sounding and wanted to seem English

Maybe our forefathers sat on a train with each other or a wagon at some time lol
 
"We Irish will fight at the drop of a hat,
with our words or our fists, a knife or a bat."
Something tells me my ancestors rising up out of the bogs of Western Ireland were familiar with sharpened tools, as well. For my part, I'm glad to be in the Western United States, where citizen's views on knives are a lot more open than in the Europe of today. Good for you, Frozen Bear Trading Frozen Bear Trading , for making the knives that you want to see made. It's a grand tradition, indeed.
 
Crimson Cloud said:
"We Irish will fight at the drop of a hat,
with our words or our fists, a knife or a bat."
Something tells me my ancestors rising up out of the bogs of Western Ireland were familiar with sharpened tools, as well. For my part, I'm glad to be in the Western United States, where citizen's views on knives are a lot more open than in the Europe of today. Good for you, Frozen Bear Trading Frozen Bear Trading , for making the knives that you want to see made. It's a grand tradition, indeed.
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The Irish got a real unfair deal for a LONG LONG time.

I dont even think they technically declared independence till like 2014 or something but my history could be off but it was recent

But no one ever talks about that part of history
 
Irish ancestry as well. Swords and daggers back in the old country fighting the English until they lost the 30 year war in the 1670’s.
Lost all our land and headed to America in 1700. So blades were a way of life for those warriors and still a tradition to carry a knife,drink Guinness and Jameson Irish Whiskey now and then. It’s definitely in my blood.
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FBT, here's my contribution to the "long pointless posts", for the good of the forum, of course... ;)


For many years as a R.H. Forschner/Victorinox sales rep I carried a small Swiss Army money clip everyday, still do most days, then about 20 years ago I was in a customer's store, a knife shop in Oakland, CA long since closed, and he had a bunch of new William Henry flippers with carbon fiber scales, Ti liners and clip and a D2 drop point blade, the knife was $210, an expensive flipper back 20 years ago, but I fell in love with it's thinness and how light it was and how fast it flipped open and bought it that day, I bought more William Henry knives in the months that followed and visited their factory. I was always around knives growing up, my Dad was the R.H. Forschner rep and I eventually worked for him doing the same, but flippers weren't a big deal, fixed blade hunting knives were a big deal, especially the Ralph Bone, Randall Made, Camillus, Case and Schrade ones, they were serious knives in our home. There were always pocket knives around the house and we bought Swiss Army/Victorinox everything for less than wholesale as factory reps, but the flippers were something I taught myself, but many people laid the ground work.

I remember playing in my Great Grandfather's barn in the late 1960's, I was maybe 7 or 8, my Great Grandfather was a farmer in the Napa Valley in California, he was also a WWI veteran. Above his long barn-shop workbench was a bayonet, a 17" American bayonet in it's green leather scabbard made by Winchester for the American fielded M1917 Enfield rifle. I was fascinated by the object and took it down to look at it, my Great Grandfather took notice and advised me that the edge was very sharp and to be careful. I asked my Great Grandfather why it was hanging over his workbench, he said to me, "That knife saved my life, Jay, I killed many a Hun with that knife. I'm not proud of it, it was either them or me and I did what I had to do...It's not a toy." I thought a lot differently about knives after that, much more seriously, in a way, more as tools, they became fun when that William Henry came home with me.
 
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I think the invention of knives was as important as fire or the wheel.
Humans are basically defenceless against larger animals, and we are dependant on knives to help process our food. Really knives should be a basic human right.

I think the problem with modern society though is the internet has made us all dopamine addicts where we seek that temp high of finding something new. And it's not just knives. I think that's why we keep seeing the negative behaviour associated with collecting such as flippers acting like drug dealers.
 
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Frozen Bear Trading said:
...Do you ever think that the urge to carry a knife has been hard breed into us over years and years of surviving?

Why do some have such a obsession with knives when some don't ? But still carry one
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(1) Nope. Social conditioning and experience. Smart people have knives.;)
(2) Some people have psychological tendencies toward "getting things" and get gratification from it.
 
I think some people are just predisposed to carrying tools. I don’t believe I’ve ever met a man in my family that didn’t carry a knife of some kind.
Two gun rigs are not unusual in my family either.;)
 
It's definitely inherited for me. My papaw always carried a knife, most days it was a Case of some sort, but he had a Buck 110, too. We were involved in Boy Scouts, so once I got my Totin' Chip, I started carrying my knife too. Even in school, all the male teachers (and heck, probably some of the female ones too) carried pocket knives, and once we were in high school we could carry one too as long as it was under a certain size. I was fortunate enough to be raised in a small town where we were taught gun and knife safety as a matter of course, and where it's still odder NOT to have a gun or a knife than it is to have one.
 
I had no influence by anyone in my life toward carrying knives or liking knives. I was always draw to them. When I was a young guy I had to stop myself from carrying a knife because I thought there was something wrong about it or wrong with me. In my early 20’s I gave in.

I had no real knowledge of blade steel or knowledge of many brands. Then I pick up my first knife magazine and it all started to change from there. That opened up the world of blades and edged tools for me. Then finding Bladeforums was the icing on the cake.
 
I just enjoy them. Carrying them..using them.
I feel naked without one in my pocket, on my belt, or in my pack.
Thank you dad ;)
 
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