New Knife Syndrome (KKS)

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Whitlashflash

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Do any of you suffer from NKS?
You know that disease affecting thousands of knife owners that makes them not want to USE their knives?

For example, as a teenager, when I first started getting BIG into knife ownership...
I purchased a few Ontario machetes, some Ka-bars, and some HI Khukuris and I would NEVER use them for fear of scratching them or something.
I simply HAD to keep them in as good a condition as I could, I would barely ever use them!

Since then I have aged a tad and grown out of that stage, I LOVE getting my knives stained and dirty all the time!
I'll pry things, cut random branches off of my wife's trees in the front yard (Something I get yelled at for quite often)

Do any of my fellow forumites have stories, or pictures of knives that have either been used and abused or maybe even some you couldn't bring yourself to hurt?

-Keigan. (edit, I KNOW I messed the dang acronym up in the title, *sigh* I'm too tired)
 
I have an offshoot of NKS and it is called KCS or Knife Carry Syndrome. I get a new knife and then can't bring myself to carry it. This syndrome is more pronounced with knives with pocket clips. Traditional knives are not as affected by this syndrome.
 
Whitlashflash said:
Do any of you suffer from NKS?
You know that disease affecting thousands of knife owners that makes them not want to USE their knives?

For example, as a teenager, when I first started getting BIG into knife ownership...
I purchased a few Ontario machetes, some Ka-bars, and some HI Khukuris and I would NEVER use them for fear of scratching them or something.
I simply HAD to keep them in as good a condition as I could, I would barely ever use them!

Since then I have aged a tad and grown out of that stage, I LOVE getting my knives stained and dirty all the time!
I'll pry things, cut random branches off of my wife's trees in the front yard (Something I get yelled at for quite often)

Do any of my fellow forumites have stories, or pictures of knives that have either been used and abused or maybe even some you couldn't bring yourself to hurt?

-Keigan. (edit, I KNOW I messed the dang acronym up in the title, *sigh* I'm too tired)
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The solution is simple. Whenever I buy a new knife I take a chisel and a tack hammer and put some scratches in the handle and the spine of the blade.

This allows me to use the knife without fear of ruining its NIB look.
 
havnt experienced it. i try to get mine into some kind of use right off the bat. at some point i might decide to keep one more or less in like new shape if i was thinking about selling it later. that would mean for whatever reason i didnt feel it made a good user.
 
I don't understand what people mean by the word "use" - is it somehow related to knives?
 
mistermax said:
... what people mean by the word "use" - is it somehow related to knives?
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That would be a good subject for a new thread.

To some...it isn't "used" until you make a Youtube video of you batoning through engine blocks, hammering your knife into granite and then jumping up and down on it to see if it will hold you up. Others "use" their knives to pick the crud out from under their fingernails before opening the daily mail.

You either abuse the hell out of it or you baby it. There is no in between. :D :rolleyes:
 
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