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

Tall, bald, and jovial fits me. I often wear a suit at church but mostly jeans at work and relaxing. No tattoos or scary haircut/facial hair, though I was bearded for years. I see myself as looking like an ordinary guy my age, mid 50's.
 
OK so my title was a little off the mark as to the point I was venting about. It was the fact that he thought he had to use his key and not his knife because he thought I would be offended. Anyway thanks for the stories, I really liked the one where the boss ended up cutting himself with the issued box knife.
 
5' 4"
110 lbs.
Carpenter jeans in the winter, spring, and fall; basketball shorts (the more hood the better:D) in the summer
Phineas and Ferb t shirt
That's me!
 
I don't feel that I have to apologize to people if I pull out a LEGAL knife to use as a tool. But if I was working somewhere and it was a problem with customers I would have to behave in a way that was best for the business, although I might have a problem working or living somewhere like that.

Today I am carrying my big dog CRKT M21 with 4" blade, my wife made a comment about it when I pulled it out last night to open a bag of M&M's.


Oh and here is what a knife enthusiast looks like (atop Angels Landing in Zion National Park):

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rnbtexas said:
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?

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I'm new here and dont want to get too far into a political or ideological realm, but the fact is, we have a media and Hollywood who are very liberal, and many are flat-out ideologs, who dont like guns and knives, and they make it a major point to not only let us know THEIR feelings on the subject, but also to try and "convince" us that these things are bad. Knives and guns are regularly vilified and made out to be evil weapons that our society can do without. Only roughly 20% of our society are self proclaimed liberals/Progressives, but they control the media, our schools, etc. They see it as their jobs to make our society into their image of perfection. That perfect society doesnt include knives or guns. This wasnt the case just 20 years ago. But its become a major propaganda coup since then.
 
rnbtexas said:
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.
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Take a very short trip to Golden, visit the Spyderco Factory Store, and celebrate that you live there. To hell with the paranoid types.
sonny
 
20, 6'2, caucasian, blonde/brownish hair, blue jeans with no holes in them unless I fell down, either a Dead Kennedys t-shirt or a polo, slip-on checkered vans, kinda chubby, spyderco smallfly and case peanut in right front pocket. I have been trying to carry only one knife. The peanut doesnt count since it is apart of me.

I usually carry two, one folder that is honestly purely for my sole enjoyment (emerson, massad ayoob, balisong) and another one that is more people friendly (slipjoint, delica, caly3, benchmade 530).

My left arm is shaved and some off both my legs above the knee.
 
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I'm 4'11, 300lbs, red curly long hair, black handle bar mustache. My typical choice of clothing is a short sleeve dress shirt with a tie, shorts and dress shoes.
 
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