So what does a knife guy (read enthusiast) look like?

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Here’s why I ask: Today I was buying a bike (human powered) for my wife. I had my 6 year old daughter with me. I’m wearing khaki shorts, a tee shirt and a hat. My shirt is a target especial with Phantoms in black. Totally average guy (knife enthusiast).

The salesman is un-boxing a part that I need to carry my wife’s new bike on my bike carrier. He starts to poke at it with his car keys. I always have a folder with me so I grab my Spyderco Manix 2 and hand it to him. He then says no thanks and pulls out a Benchmade Bone Collector with an Axis lock. I’m not an expert, but I notice it has the Sypdie hole so hey we have something to talk about (please I’m not a fanboy the spydie hole and the lock helped me know what brand it was). After 2 minutes talking about knives, in a bike shop, he tells me that he has had complaints lately when he uses “his knife to open boxes for customers.”

I know I live in Colorado and that it has a tendency to be liberal, but really. A guy can’t use his knife to open bike parts without a complaint. I know the saying goes the customer is always right, but since I’m a customer there too I wish I could have been there to say that knives open boxes better than keys.

I’m getting off my soapbox, but really I can’t see the problem using a knife to open a box?

Best,
 
Maybe the problem is that the knife was too big? Haven't you ever cut open a box and accidentally sliced too deep, cutting whatever was in the box? I've done that a handful of times and that's why I started carrying smaller knives to EDC. The worse was when I was cutting the cardboard that was wrapped around the tubes of my brand new carbon fiber mountain bike frame. I was EDCing a spyderco chinook 1 that day and that's all I had so I was being as careful as I can.

If you know what the knife looks like it doesn't exactly allow you for much control. I accidentally put a 2 inch gash on the top tube. :eek:

So.... if I just bought a new bike or if I was the shop owner and my employee was cutting the box with a 3.5" knife I would be a little concerned too.
 
So.... if I just bought a new bike or if I was the shop owner and my employee was cutting the box with a 3.5" knife I would be a little concerned too.
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Very fair point, and I'm sorry for your top tube. I agree, don't come near my CF, but I'm OK with him opening a bike adapter for my car rack with a pocket knife.
 
Heavyset,black hair,goatee,5`11" tall ,blue jeans,black t-shirt .Large SAK in my right front pocket and a large locking folder clipped in the same pocket.
(Bone collector,Para2,ZT0200,Endura,Blur,Manix2,Grip)
I work construction and I use my knife daily at work and I still get looks even from people I have worked with before . People are different now when I was a kid everyone had a knife (I am only 35) my dad and uncle carried and so did all the smarter older men I ever came into contact with. Many in the younger generation have lost the need to do things correctly and no longer see the wisdom of the older folk (like carrying a lighter even if you don`t smoke or having a knife on your person or wearing a watch for anything other than looks).
 
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That's me...

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A 5'10", 210lb, man, with short, short hair, not quite a GI cut, but close, a fu-manchu mustache, dressed in 5.11 tan or green shorts, with a pocket t-shirt (several colors), a ball cap, and some discontinued Nike sandal's. Knives in both front pockets, with the right holding my big knife (Lionsteel SR-1-B) and a slippie in my left pocket (Case Humpback whittler). Gotta have a pocket t-shirt (Carhartt's are the best) so I can carry my pen and my 4Sevens Preon 1 flashlight. I am a dedicated knife enthusiast/knife guy, and when I look in the mirror the above is what I see. Handsome rascal at that!

Damn, I want to be like Mike!
 
6'1" 295lb guy with sideburns, short hair, blue wrangler jeans with a chew ring in the pocket, T shirts or button ups, Chuck Taylors or Georgia Boot Romeo's. Buck Metro on my keychain, CRKT Ripple in my jimmy box on my car, always 2 knives on me. Working Cherries right now, I always use my knives to cut burlap sheets, plastic bags, tags. Don't mess with the only guy in the Rainier room who carries a knife, he won't help you cut anything.
 
Age 22
5'11''
165lbs
Short hair
Beard
Hat

And I always have 2 knives on me. One almost always a Spyderco Military. Also, one is always visible, gotta represent.
 
Me: 300 lbs., 5'11'' tall, short hair, short beard, cargo shorts, black T-shirt, hiking shoes. Everyone who knows me knows it's not a matter of, "Do I have a knife?" but a question of, "Which knives do I have on me today?"

I almost always have a regular locking folder with me, and a smaller traditional pattern that I use/loan out (to trusted friends) when the situation is more "politically correct".

~Chris
 
Me: 6'5", 215 lbs, khaki shorts and a tshirt. Short brown hair with sideburns. Always a SAK rambler on the key chain and a peanut in the pocket (both in RFP). Sometimes a SE manbug in LFP. Usually Paramilitary 2, Sage 1, or Mini Grip clipped to RFP.
 
There was a time not long ago when every man carried at least a pocket knife at all times, for anything that might arise. It's unfortunate for us knife people that we have to worry about the perceptions of people who see knives as weapons first rather than valuable tools. I think that as knife enthusiasts, we want to carry and use any and all knives whenever and wherever needed. On the other hand, I can see how anything larger than a SAK is probably overkill for most daily cutting needs and also probably easily threatening to a non-knifer.

We just need to start educating people as we scare them with our big scary knives. :)
 
Until this thread all I knew about knife guys is that all you f'ers seem to own watches that I can't afford!

to continue the thread
5'6"
205lbs (former college strength coach who also likes southern cooking)
Short hair
Usually polo shirts and jeans or khakis (Memphis summer means shorts though)
no tattoos
SAK in right pocket, locking folder in left
ALWAYS armed.(I don't consider the knives part of being armed)
 
6', 160 lb. White short hair and beard. Long sleeves shirt. Black overalls. A PM2 in the leg pocket, a Calypso jr. and an Imco lighter in the chest pocket. A piece of rope in the left front pocket, a cloth in the right one. Leather gloves in the back pocket. A cap. Almost as sinister-looking as Charlie Mike. I never show my knives, never talk about them; live hidden to live happily.

dantzk.
 
5'11"
165lbs
23 years old
Goatee
Messy hair
Black T-Shirt
Blue Jeans
Spydie Sage/BM 707 Mostly
Rest of my knives during rotation
 
Magnaminous_G

What forum do you think you're posting in? This isn't Whine & Cheese.

Jason
 
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hmm I kinda look like CM in his pic...less tatts/leather and more facial hair (goatee) tho.
about 6'
about 200lbs
shaved head or 1/16th buzz
goatee
jeans/cargos or shorts of either
been wearing black tees and hoodies for far to long but I don't see it changing any time soon.
few visible tatts depending on gear
carried knives since about the same time I started wearing black (but no it wasn't like "that")

funny story
I used to work in a retail chain joint that sold a mishmash of stuff . There was a warehouse and furniture area (sections I worked). In this place we were issued these crayola looking safety box cutters, bright colors, spring loaded to retract as soon as you let off the button....sad...I never used it.
So one day my boss takes me aside in the warehouse and says "we are getting some complaints blah blah weapon blah blah scary blah blah insurence liability blah blah".
He asks where my issue knife is. I tell him its in my locker. He asks what I have been using the whole time. I show him the Gerber Paraframe (small one) I had been using. He gives me dirty look and tells me, in a lot more words, to get my issue knife and do as I'm told. So I'm getting kinda mad at this point and I snidely retort "I'm not using something issue that we have not been properly trained with". Well he swallowed some pretty blue words at that I'm sure and picks up a box an procedes to cut it open "this is how you use it" with full on unspoken expletives. Now I don't know how he managed it, but the blade got stuck somewhere in the packaging. So he pushes to hard and drops the package but when he pushed he somehow shived the button under his thumbnail (enough to bleed). There this moron is, standing with his thumb in his mouth and the box and knife on the floor. So I pick up the box and open it with my knife and walk away. I so wish I had said something very mean and witty but I was having a rather hard time trying not to LMAO at the time.
 
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5'7", 185lbs, bald, mustache, razor stuble, bib overalls, camo ball cap. Millie front right pocket, Case trapper bottom of front right pocket, pm2 or endura or delica in top right bib pocket, bandana of various colors in right rear pocket, wallet left rear pocket, keys front left pocket, cell phone top left bib pocket. Hypothetically of course. Lol
 
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