Good answers one and all!
Why do I like knives? Bloody good question
who asked that one? Oh yes
right. So I own a lot of knives well over sixty. My best folder is a Large Classic Sebi. Well I think it is the fact that a knife is a tool and useful. At the same time it is a deadly weapon in my hand. I like the fit and finish of a good design and knife. The snap when my Puma Protech locks up, the clack of my Vaq Grande. The smooth open of my AFCK or 710. The list goes on and on. I like line, form and function. When a knife makes you stop and look at it, you fondle it and look how the light plays along its sensual surface, the shiny gleam of steel, the honed edge, razor sharp, the thrill of shaving hair without a thought, the
gulp its getting weird again! Noticed how realizing it is to sharpen a knife? To get the edge, just so? To strip a knife and grease and protect it? To put it back together and feel the difference? My Nimravious for example, the first thing I did was remove the G10 scales and Tuf Cloth the area. What is the chance of finding rust here? Low, now infinitesimal!
The first decent blade bought is a difficult one. I will break it down
1. Gerber LST. First name knife owned and lets face it Gerber are nothing more than a lower end maker nowadays.
2. Gerber EZ-OUT P/S. First proper tac knife owned, still poor steel and glass bead finish (shudder)
3. Gerber EZ-OUT in ATS-34 (when I discovered that ATS-34 was the latest thing)
4. When I bought my first Spyderco knife, an Endura in ATS-55.
I am a knife nut cos, I am not afraid of a knife. I do not see a folder as something to be frightened of. My knives do not levitate and harm others, or use telepathy to force a persons fingers into the wrong place. When a dumb ass friend cuts himself on one of my knives, he blames the knife. It is like blaming a Ferrari for being fast. Stupid sheeple. My grandfather says he would rather be shot than stabbed. Most are so frightened of how sharp my knives are they do two things. One is try to cut anything totally unsuitable for a knife to cut. Secondly they look at it in awe and look at me like I am death destroyer of worlds (remember this is a Gerber EZ-OUT here!). The final decision on knife nut status is this. Just bought a Sebenza, many claim it is the best production knife going. Who am I to argue? Does that stop me from wanting the following?
1. Microtech LCC
2. Spyderco Starmate
3. Spyderco Native CPM 440V
4. Small wood Sebenza
5. Benchmade 940
6. Emmerson Commander
7. REKAT Sifu in D2
8. Spyderco Military CPM 440V Serrated
9. Busse Battle Mistress
10. Ceramic Boker knife.
11. Mad dog ceramic knife
12. Mad dog ATAK 2
You see my point? As a knife nut, I have a desire, a desire to own all the knives of the world, not once but twice. I have more knives than I can ever get through with constant use in my lifetime. It is like owning 60 cars, all slightly different. Stupid hobby, but would I give it up? NO WAY!!!
P.S anyone noticed the stonewash finish on a Sebenza? How it makes you look for patterns? Very hypnotic
must buy more knives, must buy more knives, must buy
W.A.
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"To strive to seek to find and not to yield"
Tennyson
Ranger motto
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