Random encounters with fellow knife nuts

My wife and I go restaurant up in San Francisco after catching a baseball game. One of the managers carries one of the nicer Kershaws. Not a knife nut, but likes watches, knives and food.

Ric
 
My grand pappy in law pulled out a Schrade plus USA 70t lockback I bugged out and showed him my UKPK
 
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2 weeks ago I cut my thumb down to the bone as I awoke after surgery 2 anesthetist where talking about folders, one said he had an new spyderco that wouldn't rust I told them that it was H1 much to there surprise.
 
momouppa said:
2 weeks ago I cut my thumb down to the bone as I awoke after surgery 2 anesthetist where talking about folders, one said he had an new spyderco that wouldn't rust I told them that it was H1 much to there surprise.
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That's awesome man!
 
I finally did my GAW for my 6,000 posts. A good friend was looking at a folder that he wanted so badly, but his funds were at zero.
It is a custom traditional folder...rather strange for my taste, but this guy loves the old slippies.
So I bought it for him; will gift him with it in another week or so...and then tell him..."Don't pay me back. Sell it, keep it, use it or not...I don't care. This is my gift to you for being such a good knife buddy. Someday, just pass on the favor to a fellow younger or less experienced than yourself.
It makes me happy.
 
This is a fun read. My wife and I try to "spot the knife clip" when we are out.

You can tell a lot about a person by the knife they carry!! :D
 
Rasco said:
I always see pocket clips, but I tend to look at the person and judge whether or not it's even worth it to ask them about it.
Like I said, more often than not, the visible pocket clip is attached to a Husky folding box cutter in the pocket..... :rolleyes:
You can imagine, the conversation pretty much ends at that point lol
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This is so true for me. I see plenty of knives on pockets and I have asked a few what kind of knife they have. They usually have a gas station knife or a flea market knife and could care less about talking about them
 
I see a lot of knives out and about in upstate NY, even in urban areas. Today I saw a handyman with a Kershaw Junkyard Dog. Previously I've encountered Software developers with 0350s, guys in polos with popped collars sporting Griptilians, chefs with Spyderco Assists, handymen toting around traditional fixed blades..... although mostly I see Leatherman sheaths on the belts of about 20% of the general population.
 
Living up here in Canada, I tend not to meet anybody who buys anything over $40. Although, I was at a barbecue outside a homeless shelter and nobody had anything to open the hotdog packages with, so I pulled out my waved endura. Much to my surprise, one of the other volunteers looked at me and said "Hey, is that a Benchmade?". I explained that it was a spyderco but that I did have a few Benchmades, and it turned out he had a disco'd model I don't remember and the folding river knife. He usually asks what I'm carry whenever I see him now.
 
I really lament not having local guys around to talk knives. I'll edc a 500 dollar folder and need to cut thru something tough and really work over the blade. It will be something most 20 dollar knives could never pull off and no one will notice or will say something like "sharp knife".Good thing I spend that kinda money for my self and not for the attention. Otherwise, I would of failed. When I do see a knife on someone and ask them about it, most of the time it's a junk knife that's not even sharp and they have no interest in having anything better. Guess a folding butter knife is a tool.
 
I wish I can say I met someone that has the same interest in knives as me.but I do live in NYC......
I usually have my Hinderer or Sebenza with me everywhere I go.
 
Miknuyh said:
I wish I can say I met someone that has the same interest in knives as me.but I do live in NYC......
I usually have my Hinderer or Sebenza with me everywhere I go.
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I live and work around NYC as well. Born and raised in Brooklyn. Maybe it's the New Yorker in me but I try to a out other knife nuts, quite often out of the off chance that they may really be nuts. Lol.
 
Smooth_Operater said:
This is so true for me. I see plenty of knives on pockets and I have asked a few what kind of knife they have. They usually have a gas station knife or a flea market knife and could care less about talking about them
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It kind of feels like scratching off a lotto ticket and losing doesnt it?! I try to even show some intrest in the (for lack of a better description) POS they are carrying and it just turns into a "you paid HOW MUCH for yours?" Sometimes i care enough to defend our hobby, other times i just move on realizing not everyone cares as much as my fellow BF'ers.
 
Miknuyh said:
I wish I can say I met someone that has the same interest in knives as me.but I do live in NYC......
I usually have my Hinderer or Sebenza with me everywhere I go.
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To be fair, until there's a fix made, those are both considered "gravity knives" by Cyrus Vance and can be confiscated if a cop finds them and/or get you locked up, unless you've made them so impossible to open they're no longer fun.

If I was in NYC, I'd be rocking a fixed blade. I would not be carrying an expensive NYC-created crime with me that at best will be confiscated if found by cops.

Zero
 
Zero_Time said:
To be fair, until there's a fix made, those are both considered "gravity knives" by Cyrus Vance and can be confiscated if a cop finds them and/or get you locked up, unless you've made them so impossible to open they're no longer fun.

If I was in NYC, I'd be rocking a fixed blade. I would not be carrying an expensive NYC-created crime with me that at best will be confiscated if found by cops.

Zero
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According to a recent Village Voice article, the NYPD look for pocket clips, and you're more likely going to be arrested than have your knife confiscated; if your carrying anything other than a SAK. And depending on your record, you can even be charged with a felony and do serious time. Just not worth it.
 
Had a patient who was into the bushcraft scene. I'm more interested in modern folders, but we would chat about Becker and ESEE, Opinel and Moras when he came in. Great guy.
 
Not too many run in with knife nuts.

Once, I met a gentleman in a park. I brought a hand full of Busse knives. He brought cases and cases full. Giant storage cases!

It was a surreal thing. We did not know eachother at all.

We are friends now. I've visited his home. He makes custom knives, and mainly custom slipjoints/folders now.

My wife was sure I would end up murdered on that first meeting!
 
The knife rules are vague in NYC, it's why I switched out my UKPK which I love to a small slipjoint! I just don't want the hassle being how they are allowed to search your packs before entering the subway. Sometimes I stow my knives in my pack.
 
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