Not sure if I'm ashamed or proud...

Mark J

Mark J

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I gave my wife a red Spyderco Ladybug for our anniversary last year (yeah, I'm such a romantic ;)). Well, tonight I checked it, and she obviously has been using the heck out of it. It has that goopy stuff from tape, scratches, dings, etc. I'm so proud of her for using the heck out of it!!

On the other hand, my office EDCs look like they were never even carried, even when I use them on a regular basis. Maybe I just need to lighten up and not worry quite so much about keeping them pristine. So, while I'm proud of her, I'm a little ashamed of my pristine knives.

- Mark (off to chop down a tree with my William Henry lancet)
 
Mark,

Clean it up the best you can, and give it back to her for your NEXT anniversary.:D.
 
Do this: cut some boxes with tape scum on them with YOUR knife. Then, in a loud voice with your wife in the room exclaim, "Oh, gee! Will you look at that! I got sticky tape scum all over my nice knife blade. Well, I'm just gonna take some of this WD-40 that's on the shelf out in the garage and spray it on a paper towel and clean the knife blade off. Wow! This WD-40 takes the tape scum right off. That's much better. I'm Glad that I cleaned MY knife up nice and shiney like that."

One of two things will happen depending you your wife's personality. She'll either say, "As long as you've got that smelly spray stuff out, will you do mine too?" Or, when you step down to the corner to get a newspaper, we'll sneak out to the garage, get the WD-40, and clean her own knife off and carefully put the WD-40 back exactly where it was and flush the dirty paper towel down the toilet so there'll be no evidence.
 
my wife is very hard on a knife, ya can tell her BM 905 gets a LOT of use, and abuse, w/very little care. she even pries stuff w/it, no sign of damage though except some scratches on the coating.

BUT she wants it kept razor sharp, so i clean/etc every few weeks.


greg
 
Dan: That's a pretty good (and sneaky) idea, although there is the remote chance she might notice. :D

Chuck: I'd be the one cleaning up her knife. It's the law of the jungle in our house. ;)

Greg: Yeah, I should really get into a habit of regularly checking and cleaning her knife.

- Mark
 
Mark - I think it's great that your wife is actually using her knife. I gave my wife an SAK a long time ago, and she never touched the thing, so I was forced to "repossess" it. ;)
 
Mark,

Actually, I was kidding about giving your wife the SAME anniversary gift two years in a row...IF I were to do that, it would be my LAST anniversary.:D.

...And it's Dann, not Dan...:p.
 
Hey Dann,

did you know that your last name is very similar to the German word for "carnival"? It's "Fastnacht" in a few regions over here.
 
My wife is the same way with a knife. I do the same thing I do as with guns, you teach her.

As it was with myself, I learned to have more fun with a knife or a gun if I really knew all about it.

I once took my 5.0 Mustang up a long on-ramp and banged two perfect gears at the exact point of torque. We accelerated, but it felt like a smooth automatic transmission.

I asked her, "Did you feel that?"

She turned and said, "Feel what?"

I try to make her an active participant in my hobbies. Last night she used my Super Knife to open her Shaklee boxes. She thought the knife was ergonomic and sharp. She commented on that without being prodded, as she might have done before.
 
Dude, y'all got your own rules I'm sure, but I'd "suffer" through cleaning her knife. Here, I clean (and tune) the knives, guns, cars and other toys, and she cleans up after the boys. :D No greater bargain on the face of the earth! After inspecting her EDC a week or two ago, she swore she had filed a nick in her nail once, opened a slim jim, and used the scissors once. I couldn't tell.
 
Do like I do, just take it back for periodic cleaning and sharpening, hell she don't look at you when she does the dishes after dinner and shout, "Will you look at all that crap on the dishes, why a little Palmolive will clean that right up". Or " Oh my goodness will you look at the skid marks on those undies, why a little bleach and detergent oughta clean that right up".

Take the high road keep your knives pristine, and clean hers when you see it's gunked up, and be happy she uses it.
 
Originally posted by Quiet Storm
Hey Dann,

did you know that your last name is very similar to the German word for "carnival"? It's "Fastnacht" in a few regions over here.
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Yes, I knew that. I've run a couple searches on my last name, and found ALOT of info, but sadly, my German language skills are pretty lacking, eventho I do speak some...
 
Originally posted by Nathan S:
Mark - I think it's great that your wife is actually using her knife. I gave my wife an SAK a long time ago, and she never touched the thing, so I was forced to "repossess" it.
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Thanks for reminding me, I gave my wife one for Christmas a few years ago and I got the:rolleyes: look.I wonder where that went:D
 
Be proud!
I would like to make as many women as possible to be interested in knives!! My girl friend accepts my hobby to collect knives,and that there are knives all over my appartment,but she her self is not interested. For an exeption,she is interested in kitchen knives,due to the fact that she is doing all the cooking. I have taken ther to Cutlery stores,where she herself has chosen the knives she wants to the kitchen,and thats a start!
I have asked her several times if she does not want an EDC knife to put in her pocket,but so far she has not being interested.
Support and encourage your women and other women to be knife interested!
Manowar
 
On a related note, my wife recently used her knife at a birthday party to help open presents. The guy that was sitting next to her thought the knife was pretty cool, and wanted to see it. Of course, he didn't have a knife (wimp :p). So she is definitely converted and evangelizing others already. Now I just need her to start hiding her knives on her body and make me search for them, like T. Erdelyi's wife. :D

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=264734

- Mark
 
My wife bypassed her razor knife and used one of my fixed blade hunters to cut carpet. Yep, one of the good knife gals, goes for the real thing every time. She handles a knife very well, and yes, I know enough to behave, or sleep with one eye open.
 
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