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Strange title for this sub-forum. I will explain.
I started to collect knives about 9 months ago and I went obsessive on it. I quickly discovered that I liked unassisted flippers the most. I like the look of the knives but I also like that I can sharpen them to a mirror's edge. I like that I can pull them apart and change the knives action with cleaning, lubrication, polishing surfaces, adjusting lock bar tension, changing pivot bearings, adjusting detent ball height, etc. I also like that I can change the finish on a blade or anodize the handle/scales. I have ground down handles to get a better thumb purchase on the lockbar and even experiment on making choils where none existed. In fact when I get a new knife I go "wow, this is a great knife", followed by "hmmm.... can I make this any better for my tastes".
In the process of learning how to do this I ask a lot of questions on this forum and several FB forums. And I post what I have learned, sometimes with videos.
This forum has been great and very helpful.
But some of the FB groups have much less open people. I have run across people who would never consider sharpening thier own blade. There are people who get a knife and show it friends and other collectors, and post stuff on the internet and then it goes back to the safe. Probably spending 99% or higher of its life is in the safe. Some people think you should never ever disassemble a knife and think you are an idiot if you do so. Some people think a knife is a EDC tool for chopping 2 x 4's and hammering the back of the blade to cut through thick items. Others will only cut paper, string, tape, and cardboard boxes. This list goes on and on and I think they are all valid knife owner's interests. I would never judge any of those people and how they think their knives should be used.
A recent post by me on a knife fan page talked about me getting a new blade because I had put a loose diamond particle scratch across the old blade. It was $30 and worth it for me as my usage usually never puts a scratch on the blade other than the edge. I also talked about how I discovered that the knife that came back from being repaired had all these bearing shaped deformations in the Ti. It was like someone, at the manufacturing shop had really cranked down on the pivot screw or something??
I ended up getting these hostile posts about how I should never take a knife apart, that I complain too much ( I think this was my first post on this site), that it was ridiculous that I changed out a blade for a scratch and that I should learn to live with a scratched blade. That I should not be concerned about these bearing deformations. One of them must have followed some of the adjustments I was doing with a much more expensive knife, on another fan group, and he inferred i was a real idiot for adjusting that knife. He wanted to track all the knives that I had worked on so that he knew not to buy them from me or from the next person who might buy that knife. Note that I always explain the work that I have done to a knife if I am selling it.
I am just blowing off steam here but how do people get in their head that there is only one way to enjoy a knife and that is their way. And if you do not do it their way you are an idiot.
I started to collect knives about 9 months ago and I went obsessive on it. I quickly discovered that I liked unassisted flippers the most. I like the look of the knives but I also like that I can sharpen them to a mirror's edge. I like that I can pull them apart and change the knives action with cleaning, lubrication, polishing surfaces, adjusting lock bar tension, changing pivot bearings, adjusting detent ball height, etc. I also like that I can change the finish on a blade or anodize the handle/scales. I have ground down handles to get a better thumb purchase on the lockbar and even experiment on making choils where none existed. In fact when I get a new knife I go "wow, this is a great knife", followed by "hmmm.... can I make this any better for my tastes".
In the process of learning how to do this I ask a lot of questions on this forum and several FB forums. And I post what I have learned, sometimes with videos.
This forum has been great and very helpful.
But some of the FB groups have much less open people. I have run across people who would never consider sharpening thier own blade. There are people who get a knife and show it friends and other collectors, and post stuff on the internet and then it goes back to the safe. Probably spending 99% or higher of its life is in the safe. Some people think you should never ever disassemble a knife and think you are an idiot if you do so. Some people think a knife is a EDC tool for chopping 2 x 4's and hammering the back of the blade to cut through thick items. Others will only cut paper, string, tape, and cardboard boxes. This list goes on and on and I think they are all valid knife owner's interests. I would never judge any of those people and how they think their knives should be used.
A recent post by me on a knife fan page talked about me getting a new blade because I had put a loose diamond particle scratch across the old blade. It was $30 and worth it for me as my usage usually never puts a scratch on the blade other than the edge. I also talked about how I discovered that the knife that came back from being repaired had all these bearing shaped deformations in the Ti. It was like someone, at the manufacturing shop had really cranked down on the pivot screw or something??
I ended up getting these hostile posts about how I should never take a knife apart, that I complain too much ( I think this was my first post on this site), that it was ridiculous that I changed out a blade for a scratch and that I should learn to live with a scratched blade. That I should not be concerned about these bearing deformations. One of them must have followed some of the adjustments I was doing with a much more expensive knife, on another fan group, and he inferred i was a real idiot for adjusting that knife. He wanted to track all the knives that I had worked on so that he knew not to buy them from me or from the next person who might buy that knife. Note that I always explain the work that I have done to a knife if I am selling it.
I am just blowing off steam here but how do people get in their head that there is only one way to enjoy a knife and that is their way. And if you do not do it their way you are an idiot.
) All my knives are users. All my opinions are subjective. Like to hear what others have to say but realize that there are some fully self important - what the hell do you know bloviators out there. Ignore them. Love the comrades who share and commiserate and know that today it's one, tomorrow another. In the end - ENJOY your knife. Nothing else matters.
