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The General

The General

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What is it about a knife that you like? What makes you a knife nut and not a sheeple? What started your knife nut status and what was the first decent blade you bought?

I will answer my questions when I see that my views are not as weird as my friends think
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As a baby-boomer, most of life has been sanitized. But I like freedom and options. In my coat, I carry a small screw driver handle with a compartment for four bits. I like 4-wheel drives, I load my own cartridges, and I get to the gym every morning. I don't panic when the electricity goes out. I think having a knife as a tool fits perfectly into this lifestyle.--OKG
 
what do i like abpuit knives?i dont know.i really have no idea.but it is mans most practical tool.
like okg,i am not worried when the lights go out.when that does happen,the whole family turns to me(and im only 17),because i have all the good stuff in that situation.
"you got some candles?"--do i have candles<snicker snicker>

glad to see you trying this again,General.
 
Okay, I'll give this a try.
What I like about knives is the way they look and feel in my hand, as well as the infinite variety of shapes and styles such a basic item has evolved into.
Why am I a knifenut? From the time I was a small child everyone I knew carried a knife, it seems to me it was a lot more common 40-50 years ago. Everytime I saw a knife in a movie or on TV I found myself focusing on it. Growing up as a teen in Brooklyn knives were no longer a tool for me I'm sorry to admit. When I went into the Navy they became an everyday tool once more. I have carried a knife every day since I was about eight.
What was the first decent knife I bought? Well they all seemed decent when I bought them. Probably the one that stands out in my mind is the knife I bought from the Ships Store while in the Navy. I don't remember the brand, but it looked like a Buck 110 lockback with stag scales, although I know it wasn't a Buck. I don't know how I lost this knife, but I do know it was one of the things that started my love affair with stag.

It has only been about 2 1/2 years ago that I found out that I wasn't the only knifenut in the world. I had no idea there was such a thing as a custom made knife. I'm really glad I found you folks.
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I've always carried a knife, and was given my first knife at age 10. I guess I discovered high quality knives when a friend showed me an old Pacific Cutlery linerlock, with aluminum scales. (for those of you who may not know, Pacific Cutlery is Benchmade's predecessor)This friend was a Benchmade dealer, and I bought the AFO as my first semi custom knife, followed by a BM 970 SBT soon afterward, and I've been hooked ever since. The knife I carried before I got a BM was a Gerber Multi Plier (still carry it, too). I discovered custom makers about a year ago when my friend showed me a custom he purchased at a knife & gun show. I cannot recall the maker, but it was a sweet fixed blade.
I plan to buy a custom in the near future from a maker on the forums, but haven't decided who's, or what. I have to justify the expense first.
I work with several "knife nuts", and we have great discussions over knives, and guns,and the varying opinions make for some heated discussions at times.
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I am not sure what I like about knives so much either. My wife thinks I am crazy. My grandfather was a knifenut though and kept several pos knives around. If he was in a good mood, sometimes he would give me one. He always promised someday he would give me one of the "good ones". That was probably 20 years ago. Now I have them all. My first quality knife was the Spyderco endura. I found this place in January. Like some of you I had no idea that there was so many people like me. I have learned tons of info here and have owned way too many different knives since coming here. I am off to continue my search for the perfect knife.....BTW, the Spyderco native is damn close....

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I figure it's genetic. I have a wooden knife which my mother whittled in 1913 when she was a little girl (she's still dangerous, too). I made miniature knives at about age six, and been carrying one daily since 10 or so. Been looking for the perfect knife ever since.
 
I have always found myself focused on intangible "quality". Whether it is in the things around me or myself. I find that high quality men and high quality knives go together, both in carrying and making. As such, I look for the best quality knives I can own, both to improve myself, and to improve the company I keep.
 
I really don't know. A knife somehow just feels right when i'm holding it. I know I feel naked when I don't have one on me. Maybe the beauty in a knifes simplicity does it? My Father gave me a knife when I was 6 yrs. old, I haven't been without since. It is sort of like motorcycles, it reaches me on a level that I can't explain.
 
I can honestly say that I have no idea how my knife interest came to be. Knife collecting and appreciation, as far as I can tell, does not run in my family. One day a few years ago it just hit me--I wanted a really nice knife. Off to the mall cutlery store I went and it has gone up, or down depending on how you look at it, from there.

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I love how knives are extremely practical tools that can be embellished in soooooo many ways, have a simplistic beauty about them yet when you make them you discover all of their complexities! What a package!
My first quality piece was an AFCK a couple of years ago. I have a few more now but I NEED MANY, MANY MORE!!!

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I believe that our urge for knives comes from the same urge as those our ancestors had for some millions years ago, whereas the quality of the weapon used for hunting, skinning and other such duties was crusual.

That is why I beside knives also like to "play" with my fishing reels, guns and items involving those. For a while I also got into bows and it is the same feeling.

An another matter is the esthetical look of those items. I just love the look of a shiny knife or fishing reel, feeling the smooth action ........
 
I grew up in several northern NY towns where it seemed that every boy's passage into manhood included joining the Boy Scouts and learning the ways of the woods. That included learning to use and care for a good knife, hatchet, axe, and for most, a gun. As children, we whittled and played mumbly peg. Soon we progressed into young adults who understood the need and use for such tools, and began to demand more "performance" from those tools. Like many of my peers, my first knives of respectable quality were Buck 110's, 112's, or 102 Woodsman's. My 112 and 102 still serve me well in the field today. While hunting Tuesday, although I had a Sebenza clipped to my pocket, it was my Woodsman that naturally came out to perform field dressing chores when I got my buck. Thinking about it now, grabbing that old Woodsman was an involuntary reaction. Anyway, it was when I became involved in law enforcement that I required even "more" from my knives and soon became a knife knut, and after having mentioned the Seb, you can see where I'm at now.
 
I'm also a boomer. I grew up in rural areas and there was always a creek nearby. I became a relentless fisherman. If there is water around I'm over there speculating on the presence of fish. Knives are a huge part of fishing. I wound up doing lots of saltwater fishing and began looking for the perfect filet knive. Most of them abolutely suck. That search led me to this forum and eventually a custom f. knife.

 
I'm also a boomer. I grew up in rural areas and there was always a creek nearby. I became a relentless fisherman. If there is water around I'm over there speculating on the presence of fish. Knives are a huge part of fishing. I wound up doing lots of saltwater fishing and began looking for the perfect fillet knife. Most of them abolutely suck, and that includes expensive, name brand stuff. They don't cut, they go dull, they flake, pit and corrode. That search led me to this forum and eventually a custom f. knife. What really opened the knife flood gate was the realization that high tech folders exist. "Pocket knifes" in my experience had been, crappy little low quality knifes which rusted, didn't cut very well, didn't take an edge, and had no locking mechanisms (it never occurred to me that might need such a mechanism or that any such thing existed). I purchased a Wegner jr. after an exhaustive and fun filled search and have been lugging it around everywhere for about a year. Within the week, I'll be purchasing a MT SOCOM Elite MA(bigger blade, higher quality, more tactical possibilities). Collecting doesn't interest me, but carrying a wonderfully engineered tool which also has tactical implications is irristable. Jack
 
Ok, guys so I'm older - a pre-war edition - I really can't tell you when or why I became a knifeknut - I know I can go back to my grandfather who was never without one - like my dad - like me! maybe it was a pos knife - maybe not-- but it was there! WHY am I a knife knut - a part of my heritage is native and there's a "tradition" about what you carry - there is some thing whatever that may be that YOU absoulutely MUST have with you to be in harmony with yourself and the circle of life. for me I guess that's my knife - whatever one it is that I happen to be carrying at the time - there are some I have that belonged to a great-great grandparent - some are brandnew - doesnot matter as long as one of them is with me - I'm in harmony and that's what counts. Yes I have some customs like a "Ted Miller" small skinner with carved stag and turquoise inlays - and I have a few "pos" knives for beating up on.. and I'm really glad to know that there are others like me out there as well - May you all walk in the beauty !

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My fasination with knives stems from my long term belief in the knife as the ultimate tool of self sufficiancy. It is the original multitool. You can build shelter, prepare food, protect yourself, dig and so on.

This leads naturally to an enhanced appreciation of construction and design.

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I will answer my questions when I see that my views are not as weird as my friends think
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1000% certain that that particular sentence has never been uttered in the entire history of the English (American and the other versions) language, and I shall go so far as to say that I am equally certain that nobody's ever had a thought like that in their heads as well!

Seperating the sheeple from the knifeknuts is comparing apples and bulldozers. Sheeple do whatever our illustrious leaders tell us to do, while us knifeknuts (or gungnuts, for that matter) tend to think for ourselves (which in the case of CERTAIN people, is a very, very bad thing indeed)

The first decent blade I bought was a Buck 110 on Times Square in New York City. Prior to that time, I'd just wanted a nifty (read: "BRAVO!") knife, and the Buck was the best they had in the place.
I still have it, although it now looks like a fliet knife due to my expert sharpening techniques.
Funny, I thought that dragging the blade across the highway as my lawyer drove 150 mph mighta been a fast way to sharpen a blade, but sometimes the best ideas go astray.

Now I really like whatever scares the shi...oh, sorry... doody outta liberals.
being an incredibly non descript and totally un-noticeable kinda fella, I am somewhat insecure. I compensate for this by waving around large knives and dead octopi at pedestrians.
That said,
The main reason I like knives is cuz they're shiny.

Still fascinated with shiny objects after all these years,
I remain,
VG
KING OF ALL PROSTITUTES

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Oh and I forgot
My first daily carry was an Old timer folder. Cant remember the name but it was a single blade with a kind of liner lock thingy.
Alex
 
I agree with dePaul,it's something primitive.In Colin Fletcher's book,The Complete Walker,he uses a term in Swahili referring to watching camp fire,'Anahota moto', which means 'He is dreaming the fire'. Pick up an old knife at an old estate sale,or a brand-new one at the store.Those that know will know what I mean,those that do not would not understand even if they were told.It's the same as 'Dreaming the fire' Mystically your's , breeze.
 
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