Odd habit with traditional knives?

"Worry stone" is about right for me. I sometimes reach into my pocket and feel the knife covers.
 
I didn't realize that I had this habit. My wife pointed out to me that I did. She pick up my Gary Crowder Trapper from my night stand and looking it over pointed out where I rubbed it. I had no idea up until that moment. But there is a definite wear area there. I have since become more aware of it.

Chris
 
I drive a lot for work. Find my #15 Radio Jack in my hand most of the trip. Used to smoke, sunflower seeds... Now I just fondle my knives. Second favorite is my yellow nut. Odd to others maybe but not me.
 
Spameater12003 said:
I drive a lot for work. Find my #15 Radio Jack in my hand most of the trip. Used to smoke, sunflower seeds... Now I just fondle my knives. Second favorite is my yellow nut. Odd to others maybe but not me.
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My yellow Peanut is particularly smooth with those delrin scales. I find the smooth scales especially relaxing to fondle. Same with my African Blackwood Barlow.
 
Pardon my ignorance but I have heard of the phenomenon known as "Coon Fingering"
is this the same or a kind of offshoot of that?
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I do this as well. Driving, in meetings, just standing around. I always carry several knives and worry with whichever I grab. Always carry a Leatherman Micra, then add one or another Opinels for food prep (I own a restaurant), and a Case Hawkbill for "work" duties.

I try not to fondle the Mora that lives on my hip or my chef knives...freaks out the customers for some reason.

My wife says most people don't carry four or five knives all the time. Why not?
 
I like knives (or I wouldn't own so many and hang out here) - I like to pull them out, work the blades, and simply look at them - it's part of the pleasure of owning nice knives. OH
 
Coon-fingering is when you pick up a knife and turn it every way, inspecting it closely. Related to chicken-eyeing, where you are turning your head like a chicken does when it is looking at a worm or something else interesting.

Coon-fingering and chicken-eyeing are behaviors typically associated with your first contact with a new knife - a close visual and tactile inspection. The terms are used colloquially in mild self-deprecating jest, as we imagine how we must look to others when we first pick up and inspect a new knife with great interest. Chicken-eyeing can be done without touching a knife, such as when it is in a display case at a dealer.

The behavior described in the OP is more of an absent-minded fidgeting or fiddling with a known object, rather than an exploration of a new object.
 
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I'm similar, but I keep whatever knife I'm carrying, traditional or not, in my right front pocket, vertical next to my wallet, or sometimes in the watch pocket. I constantly find myself feeling for it through the pocket. 50% just checking that it's there, but the other 50 just kind of to feel it, takes my mind off of whatever and reminds me that I have something cool with me
 
Traditional knives always seen to have a "warm" feeling if you know what I mean. Natural to feel it over while not thinking about it.
 
Yes, it's wierd, to those who don't share our affliction, but we're all a tad tainted, in these parts. :eek:
Otherwise we wouldn't hang out around this asylum.;)
 
Yep. I do it all the time. I mostly like the smooth panels for my worry stone, be they delrin, wood or bone. I've been rubbing my Moore Maker Stockman all morning. Just contemplating deep universal truths. Or, maybe not so deep.
 
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