Sometime's sheeple dislike knives, but have they ever made you feel epic?

I am not the best sharpener out there by far, maybe close to being the worst. I have given "refurbished" knives as gifts to friends and family. I wish I could have put better edges on them, and sometimes friends have bailed me out and done a fantastic sharpening job on gift knives (I'm good with carbon and basic tool steels). I am always amazed when I hear someone say the knife I gave them is too sharp. Too sharp? Maybe a wire edge needs to be stropped, but too sharp? My father actually told me he didn't want his old Schrade Sharpfinger too sharp.

Everyone is always impressed by Case knives, but show them anything "vintage" with a patina, not as enthusiastic. Usually, other than a few knives here and there, it's "Oh, you got a new knife, that's great. Should I crack a beer for this?" I only show off slipjoints, I don't even show off modern one handed openers or anything that could be labeled tactical.

Huh, maybe it's all in the delivery...
 
Last summer my wife and I visited a dear friend at his family vacation home near Yellowstone Park. It had been the summer residence of his wife's parents, but they no longer went there due to age and health concerns. The kitchen was outfitted with a variety of Henckels "one man" knives that were beyond dull. So I sharpened them all with Diafolds and Sharpmaker. Wore out my coarse/x-coarse Diafolds in the process and bought a small SiC stone to finish the rebeveling work. Anyhow, they were all good when we left.

Now remember this is a vacation home. It is 600 miles from where they live. This spring the English parents of my friend's future son-in-law are visiting USA. They all drive to the house in two cars. The Brits plus their son arrived a few hours ahead of the second car containing my pal, his wife, and their daughter. So the foreign guests prepared a dinner that was waiting when the second car pulled in.

To get to the house they drove through Yellowstone Park, it is the fastest route. These guests had never been there before. So my buddy walks into the house, smelling of dinner, and the fiance's mom greets them. First thing out of her mouth is, "I have a question. Why are your knives all so SHARP?" My friend busts out laughing and answers with, "Well, I have this friend who visited last summer and he spent hours right over there (points to couch) sharpening all our knives."

When he called to tell me the story he kept laughing.
 
My family owns a Hardware store and from time to time ill take stock that is getting kinda old or not selling and take to to a local flea market and set up a table to sell it off cheap. One day I took my edge Pro on a whim and started charging 5 to 10 dollars to sharpen knives. Now every time I set up at the Flea market I have guys looking for me to get there knives sharpened. The best time is around hunting season I usaly make more money on sharping knives than I do selling off old stock. It is cool to see all the different knives but wow do people run their edges ragged.
 
My brother thinks my minimal blade knowledge is "epic". I gave him a Kershaw Tension a couple of months ago and you would have thought I gave him a million bucks. He said he didn't have anything that nice.
 
bean_sips said:
One of my favorite moments was actually on my wedding day. During the reception after the wedding, my wife and I were getting ready to cut the cake in front of all of our family and friends. However, there was a fancy ribbon strung around the edge of the cake that didn't want to come off. After tugging it a bit and realizing that it would smear frosting everywhere if she pulled it off, my wife glanced at me and gave me the, "go ahead," look. I promptly whipped out my green Endura 4 (I had been carrying it the entire day), and sliced the ribbon off, which resulted in the entire crowd laughing and clapping. The photographer loved it, and I have a great picture of my wife and I in front of the cake while I'm holding up the Endura with a big, goofy grin on my face.
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Okay, someone has to say it...
Pics or it didn't happen! :D
 
FoxholeAtheist said:
Okay, someone has to say it...
Pics or it didn't happen! :D
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Durn, photobucket is down for maintenance. I was about to upload a photo of my wife and I cutting the cake with an 18" Himalayan Imports WWII khukuri. To a chorus of "That's not a knife, THIS is a knife," from the wedding guests.
 
FoxholeAtheist said:
Okay, someone has to say it...
Pics or it didn't happen! :D
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Ha! I think we have all of our wedding pics our our external hard-drive. I'll have to ask my wife where they are and I'll post a pic. I know that carbon fiber, steel, etc. are generally thought of as "classier" looking, but since I actually had some green in my tux vest, the green frn went really well with the outfit.

Two relatives actually bought Spydercos later after playing with my Endura in the wedding reception!
 
So what is it about a knifeblock containing cheap knives, makes everyone but you a "sheeple"?
 
I live in the South West USA, and this story comes together back in the summer of around 93'. Earlier (before she left), I had given this gal who was going to Mexico $20, and asked if she could get me a switchblade. One of the stiletto push button ones and she knew the type I was talking about. I never had a lot of money back then, but I had taken a job sanding cars for the local paint and body shop. Most of my friends at the time were still kickin’ around their parents houses going to that “school” place. It was around mid-July when this gal returned back home (I had forgotten all about the $20 and the knife).

My bearded friend was able to pull-out some beer from the local drive-through beer sales place that night said &#8220;Let&#8217;s go to the woods&#8221; (this patch of cottonwood trees on either side of the Rio Grande (river). The drunken people later on were trying to get hollow pull-tabs by turning them around backwards on the cans and popping them off. Soon there was some guy smashing his key(s) into some of the leftover cans trying to get them open. I had forgotten I had the switchblade when we were all standing around a bondfire, but it came to me when a friend of mine was about to throw one of the inoperable beers into the fire. I said something like &#8220; check this out&#8221; >Snap< out came the stiletto and I saw some grins and heard some laughs jump out around the bond fire that made the $20 back then all worth it.
 
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I think the title is just have knives ever made you feel epic, because we all know sometimes sheeples dislike knives... and the stories all reference NKP. As for me, never had an "epic" moment, but some decent ones I guess. Once, we were cutting cloth for something or another, and the problem was scissors couldn't cut it(no pun intended), and the cloth wedged itself between the blades of the scissor instead of being cut. So someone was asking for better scissors, and I just asked if they needed a knife. So they said yes, I had them stretch the cloth, and then lifted my shirt, took out my endura from the holster, and then cut right through the cloth, in a quick zip, and then returned it to the holster. Everyone around were just shocked, like they couldn't believe I had a knife. And I was just kind of chuckling the whole time.
 
Minibear464 said:
I think the title is just have knives ever made you feel epic, because we all know sometimes sheeples dislike knives... and the stories all reference NKP. As for me, never had an "epic" moment, but some decent ones I guess. Once, we were cutting cloth for something or another, and the problem was scissors couldn't cut it(no pun intended), and the cloth wedged itself between the blades of the scissor instead of being cut. So someone was asking for better scissors, and I just asked if they needed a knife. So they said yes, I had them stretch the cloth, and then lifted my shirt, took out my endura from the holster, and then cut right through the cloth, in a quick zip, and then returned it to the holster. Everyone around were just shocked, like they couldn't believe I had a knife. And I was just kind of chuckling the whole time.
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yeah, it seems like if you boast too much in public, certain people get offended. Then were left defending ourselves anyhow
 
CWL said:
So what is it about a knifeblock containing cheap knives, makes everyone but you a "sheeple"?
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It's got nothing to do with the block. I don't even own one... :p

I believe the term has something to do with the fact that knife-less people are as helpless as sheep. It's more of a pity term, than an insult.

Well, for me at least.
 
You should have said something along the lines of, "Can you get rid of this for me?", followed by a wink. :)
 
Grease said:
It's got nothing to do with the block. I don't even own one... :p

I believe the term has something to do with the fact that knife-less people are as helpless as sheep. It's more of a pity term, than an insult.

Well, for me at least.
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Actually it's a term that drives the wedge between non-knife people and us deeper. I wasn't going to make an issue out of it, but your understanding of the term is different than mine.

I really wish this arrogant and insulting term could simply go away or otherwise become distanced from self respecting knife enthusiasts.
 
Not defenseless like a sheep, but more of mindless. I think sheeple is supposed to mean people who believe the government will do everything for them, and will protect them, so they follow the government and do whatever it says, such as the government will protect you and you do not need your own means of defense. A great example would be the TSA. People who believe the TSA does all their strip searches and such all in the name of protection, believe the TSA does protect them, and allow the TSA to do as they please can be seen as sheeple. So someone who can't think for themselves, and will instead follow the herd, regardless of the leader. I think. It's insulting because you're stating the person cannot think. A better term would just be NKP, non knife person, which is simply someone who is not really familiar with the world of knives.
 
Minibear464 said:
Not defenseless like a sheep, but more of mindless. I think sheeple is supposed to mean people who believe the government will do everything for them, and will protect them, so they follow the government and do whatever it says, such as the government will protect you and you do not need your own means of defense. A great example would be the TSA. People who believe the TSA does all their strip searches and such all in the name of protection, believe the TSA does protect them, and allow the TSA to do as they please can be seen as sheeple. So someone who can't think for themselves, and will instead follow the herd, regardless of the leader. I think. It's insulting because you're stating the person cannot think. A better term would just be NKP, non knife person, which is simply someone who is not really familiar with the world of knives.
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+1
Hit the nail right on the head with this one!!

I hate it when knife guys automatically refer to non knife people as "sheeple". Thats not really what the term is for, and when I see it used in this context it seems like more of a passive agressive comment.. Dont get me wrong, I really HATE it when people start to cry every time they see someone get a knife out, but its not fair to call them sheeple... I'd rather we just call them pussy, bi+ch, or sissy..

The last knife I sharpened was my brothers beat up Mora and he promptly cut a paint can in half with it just to see if he could... :rolleyes:
Before that, it was my uncles Benchmade CQC-7? that he apparently uses for everything except for cutting. It pains me to see a mirror polished edge get destroyed in a matter of minutes
Anyway... I stopped sharpening other peoples knives because they either dont take care of them, or they constantly cut themselves and then jokingly blame me (but i'm pretty sure they mean it lol).
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I was shooting (photography) a wedding for a young couple as a favor to my sister in law. The place we were taking photos was a park with lot's of tree's. In one photo, there was this really annoying branch, about 1/2" diameter that kept getting in the way.The groom tried to break it, but it would only bend. I smoothly popped out my bark river patch knife (scandi grind, canvas handle) and did a reverse grip pull cut on it. Popped the branch off at a 45 degree angle. The groom was like "OMG, that is amazing. You are so prepared you even brought a knife." (Earlier on, I had to use a stick of tide-to-go to clean a stain out of the grooms shirt).

Later on, during the reception the groom asked to see my knife. He liked it so much that he ordered one for himself! When I drop the photos off, I am going to show him how to sharpen it on a stone.
 
I recently sharpened my sisters kitchen knife set, they were so sharp she wouldnt use them and asked me to dull them again!!
 
Spinerazor said:
I recently sharpened my sisters kitchen knife set, they were so sharp she wouldnt use them and asked me to dull them again!!
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Hahaha. That IS epic. What is with people that ENJOY using a dull knife? I was breaking down a turkey (went on sale today! $9 each) and was thinking "Boy, this would be unpleasant with a dull knife.". I really don't like having to apply force to any kind of cut i'm making with food. You have to concentrate so much on trying not to cut yourself when the blade slips. With a sharp knife, you can concentrate on where you want the blade to go.
 
I was with my Lithuanian inlaws at a hotel, having a picnic lunch at the balcony. My mother in law asks if I have a knife to cut up some bacon fat and I give her my green FFG Delica. Directly she compliments me on how good it is and does so several times during the meal. She just wished it was a little bit longer for cutting up bread rolls and things like that. We're getting her a purple Endura for a gift now. :)
 
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