My Knife's Not Mine Until...

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dragonist2

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We all have traditions that make our knives truly ours. Whether it be being bitten by it or customizing it or sleeping with it under your pillow (mine), everyone has a way of claiming his or her knife.

After all, this is my knife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My knife is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My knife, without me, is useless. Without my knife, I am useless. I must use my knife true. My knife is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its blade and its scales. I will keep my knife clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will...Before God, I swear this creed.
 
hahah nice rendition hooyah!!!-USN


Mines giving being bonded through blood...... every knife i own ive donated blood too, or took blood either one :D
 
A knife isn't mine until I pay for it. When I'm handling a knife at a store, I sometimes feel tempted to just run out the door with it.
 
When I fall in love with it.
I have multiple mistresses right now.
The relationship usually happens like this:
I see her.
I get her.
She bites me.
I use her.
(Get your mind out of the gutter)
 
Hmmmm...this is interesting.

I've never truly considered this before but I do feel a knife has been fully welcomed into the family after I have used it in a rough and tumble manner the first time. Once it has completed one serious job, it is truly mine. It has to be alittle more than opening a box.
 
I usually like a new folder for about an hour and then don't care any more. I rarely carry a new knife and usually sell them soon after photographing them.
Very few knives that I like for long. I usually carry a large Sebbie and recently stumbled across a Grayman DUA that I really enjoy. We'll see how long it lasts.
I don't do anything to make it mine. I'm afraid to, as I "know" I'm likely to sell it soon and don't want to screw it up.
 
My knives go through two stages to be mine :thumbup: first it must bite me, no matter how little, the knives that bite me usually stay, secondly I must sharpen it to bond myself with the steel :D If the knife at first is too dull to bite me at first, then it needs to go through the reprofiling process before becoming mine, all others are up for grabs to highest bidder (or trader) :p
 
For folders - carry it for a day at least;
for fixed blades - cut, featherstick, chop through a log 3~4" shorter than blade length

and then sharpening them after use. This way, I get to know their base level and handling performance.
 
A knife is not welcomed into the fold until the first time it transforms my face into an ear to ear smile of satisfaction. This usually occurs with first use, first sharpening, or on occasion as soon as I open the box and grasp her.
 
I don't really consider a knife part of the family until it joins it's place in the EDC and actually gets pulled out of the pocket to be used.
 
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