Take it with you?

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I just got through watching Meet Joe Black and it started me thinking a bit. I'd always planned to take at least a couple of knives with me when I die and the rest of my collection would be distributed among my closest friends and family to remember me by. What about you guys--plan on taking some with you?

Two different questions--what knife that you already own would you take with you and/or what knife that you wish you owned would you take?

I would take my Kershaw Boa with me since it's currently my favorite knife and at least one or two of my Benchmade Balisongs (gotta have something to do on the other side). As for something I wish I owned--I would want to take something to fight off them demons with and I think that this Mike Snody Narita Tanto would do the trick...
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picture "borrowed" from Mike Snody's website

Hmmm...I wonder if the gates of hell are equipped with metal detectors? Definitely hell for a knife knut...
 
Unfortunately, I probably wont be allowed to take in any knives, unless, of course, they allow us to prepare our own food in Heaven:D But, Hey, this will be Heaven, right? and that would mean that all our dreams come true??? Or, I could just hang out with the arcangels and check out their Heavenly swords.

Well, If I could take something with me, from what I own, it'd have to be my MT LCC D/A, and if I could pick something, I'd say this one from DDRalph. I think it's the arcangel Michael's sword. That might be appropriate...
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I think that it would have to be my Bill Siegle Bowie with the 11 inch-long, 1/4 inch-thick 5160 blade. (I'd be able to chop my way out of Hell with it.:D.:D.).
 
I once saw a TV interview with a man who had escaped from North Korea and had made his way all the way to America through a series of daring adventures, stowing away on a ship and so forth. The interviewer asked him if he'd brought anything with him. He laughed and said, "No, there's nothing in North Korea worth the effort to carry."

God himself is a knife collector, more swords than knives, but you know what I mean. It sounds like he's got a very interesting collection too. While we argue about ATS-34 vs. 154, etc., God talks about his some of his swords being made of fire. That sort of would seem to mute any discussions of edge retention, eh?

God tells us that you can't take anything with you. You came into this world with nothing and you shall leave it with nothing. Sorry.

But, on the other hand, God also tells us that the streets of heaven are paved with gold and saphire. If you brought a knife with gold and saphires, they would look on it just as we would look on a knife with asphalt and gravel handles. If they pave the streets with gold and saphires, what do you think they make the knives out of??? I can't wait to find out.

Once you get there, you'll see that there's nothing you can take from here that would be worth the effort to carry.
 
Gollnick, having looked at it from your perspective, there's nothing else I need to take it'll all be there when I get there.
As for the collection I have left, my wife and daughter,(mostly my daughter) would get what's left, and distribute what they wanted to my close friends.

Most likely my wife would keep my Pearl Handled WH P10 Lancet, and my daughter, my Bud Nealy Aikuchi.

The other 250+ knives they could auction off and vacation in the Islands for a while.

Keep watching the obituaries for my name, it'll be a hell of an auction afterwards.

:D
 
I'm taking everything with me...


When I reach those pearly gates, I will look back and smile at my family and say "see ya soon" knowing that any material possessions I owned on that green and blue rock below me are now serving my children.

One particular knife-maker-supreme is creating a beaut with my surname on it. I plan for that to stay here on terra-firma for a long long long time. I don't have kids yet, but I know that my favorite possession in the world is my Father's Navy Officer's sword (tell the truth, though it looks like it was bough by the gov't in a Bud K catalog) but that's not the point! His last name is inscribed on it as well... Iverson.

I don't actually have it yet, as my father is still with us :) but I have known two things for certain since I could understand the English language as a young child... #1--- If I did not go to college, my father would physically kill me... #2--- No matter what happened, his officer's sword would be mine post-mortum.

I have many ex-stepmothers/fathers, and a young sister who lives with my Dad. I don't care if she get's EVERYTHING else (in fact IO hope she DOES get everything else)...as long as I can have that sword. (she thinks it's "stupid" anyway)

Oh well... I am the last male in our strain of Iverson's, and need to continue the line.... so I hope to get some good goodies to pass on to my children.

-Dave
 
C'mon now guys...I know I can't actually take anything with me. But it's kinda like wanting to wear your favorite shirt or something when you get buried. Something you want with you just because it's always been with you. By the way, I am also curious to see the swords/knives they have on the other side...I wonder how different the ones in "uptown" are from the ones "downtown?"

Daniel--that is one "heavenly blade." I think you could definitely smite some evil with that bad boy...:D

-Z
 
Originally posted by ZENGHOST
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picture "borrowed" from Mike Snody's website


GOD the grind lines on that puppy are HEAVENLY. that is the most beautiful knife blade I've ever seen. Who makes it and how many sheckles to put one in my safe?
 
My bad, Zen...

Ok... I want to be buried with a Mayo TNT, an ed Fowler 52100 forged blade... My first pistol/wheelgun; my Ruger GP100 4" barreled stanless .357. My wife (assuming I get one before I die, and that she is dead at the same time I am ((I'd hate to bury her alive, you know)) , My Danner fort Lewis Boots, a bottle of really old Scotch, my golf clubs, My AR, A whole bunch of worm-repellent, and a bottle of really old Scotch. Ha.


-Dave
 
Originally posted by #16,452
GOD the grind lines on that puppy are HEAVENLY. that is the most beautiful knife blade I've ever seen. Who makes it and how many sheckles to put one in my safe?
#16,452 (man, that's a difficult handle to remember...:D), the knife in question is a Mike Snody Narita Tanto and can be found here (the URL for his homepage is http://www.snodyknives.com). His knives are very affordable as far as customs go and look to me to be pretty high quality (I haven't actually handled one). Unfortunately, as per his website he is not currently taking any orders so I have to wait patiently until he starts once more.

-Z
 
Originally posted by Iverson
My bad, Zen...

Ok... I want to be buried with a Mayo TNT, an ed Fowler 52100 forged blade... My first pistol/wheelgun; my Ruger GP100 4" barreled stanless .357. My wife (assuming I get one before I die, and that she is dead at the same time I am ((I'd hate to bury her alive, you know)) , My Danner fort Lewis Boots, a bottle of really old Scotch, my golf clubs, My AR, A whole bunch of worm-repellent, and a bottle of really old Scotch. Ha.
No kitchen sink, Dave?:rolleyes: :D I think I told someone to make sure to stash a drill and a pack of straws in my coffin--enough to reach through six feet of dirt...:rolleyes:

Maybe I should bring a cell phone too..."can you hear me now?"..."can you hear me now?" Now that would be a good signal...:p

I think I have way too much time on my hands.

-Z
 
Zen, that Snody looks like a beaut. I gues I'll probably bring a cell phone with me, too. Edgar Alan Poe would have like your idea. He was terrified of being buried alive. I'm going to try to wait til I'm all the way dead to do the whole burial ceremony.... :)


-Dave
 
Iverson??? Northwest Washington State???

Know anything about Clam Chowder???
 
Hey, now wait just a darn minute!!! What about Busse!!!! Well, since I only own one right now, I'd hafta take my Assault shaker. But, if it had to be a knife I didn't own, I'd make it either a Battle Mistress, Busse Sword, a Snody Ronin or Overlord Fighter!
Matt
 
Might as well make my coffin a mini technology time-capsule! What would represent really "durable" goods? A knife certainly... Probably go with my large Seb since the titanium would likely survive well. Might as well have my little ARC-AAA flashlight too, though the battery won't last very long. I wonder if my Blazer micro-torch would still be working?

Probably will end up creamated though and my ashes thrown into a subduction zone! No one will see me again until the next geologic age! Might as well leave the technology to my children, or whom ever they choose to sell out to...
 
Chuck... I was born in New England, as well. Worked at a couple seafood dives in my life, and now, I go clamming a lot! So... yes, I am quite chowder-oriented. I believe there may be a reference hidden in your post... all I have to say is "KEEP CLAM" --- Nope, no realtion to Ivar. :)
 
Nope, no realtion to Ivar.

Drat.

Oh well, you're a knife Knut, so you're ok... even if you're not my connection to an endless supply of clam chowder
;)
 
Well, Chuck... that's not necessarily true...



I'm sure I could supply an endless amount of great clam chowder: I would just need an endless supply of knives in return... :) Or you could teach me to play Guitar... that would be cool too.

-Dave;)
 
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