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JK Knives

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As you know, I’m John, almost 66 years old, and I make knives. Formerly I worked in manufacturing for over 37 years.
Married to Connie for almost 32 years, 3 daughters, 4 grandchildren, and 5 dogs.
 
My name is Craig, and I have a problem, I like JK knives. I enjoy camping, have a travel trailer so more glamping. I also like reading about history, international relations and other cultures. Besides knives, I have a small collection of currency from other nations, some coins and a few paper, those that have no monetary value once they change their designs. I was a former Spanish teacher (not fluent) so the currencies from Latin American nations are fun, to see what is important to their culture and history. Lastly, I like old cowboy movies, two of my favorites are The Outlaw Josey Wales, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
 
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I'm Chad and my hobbies focus around getting out of the house, though I play too many computer games (free stuff) to say I get out a lot. I like to hike, bushwhack, and ride my bicycle a lot. I try to camp when I can, nothing too long usually but I have hopes in the future. I have a baby (1st) and we're coming up on 7 months of entertainment from him. I have 1 dog that I've had for 5-6 years.

I work in the food industry as a scientist/food safety expert and have work in nutrition/nutrition supplement as a product development specialist and process engineer. I'm also working on formal training in business, though I like to say I'm receiving training in leadership and strategic management since that's really what I like and especially as it relates to product development and business growth and development. I don't care as much for the finance and accounting aspects which was 1/2 of the business training.

I'm less of a reader (I see a lot of mention of books in the JK threads) but I like to watch a lot of education videos on youtube. TED talks have been a favorite and I do subscribe to several leadership based podcasts. I think behavioral psychology is fascinating and might be something I start to looking into studying more heavily in several months when I finish up my current round of classes.
 
My name is Chris and I do my best to be a minimalist.

I have a small house, only the tools I need. No real collectibles like watches or beanie babies or matchbox cars. In 30 years of using, trying and collecting I only have six firearms and six knives that one might call custom or made by and individual knifemaker. One is a JK.

I’ve carried the same Spyderco for almost ten years and haven’t felt like I needed more. I have swapped it out on occasion but I still go back to the tried and true.

I have some inexpensive kayaks that the wife and I enjoy when we can.

For a living I work for an automotive paint company selling to and supporting auto body shops.
 
Mid 30s. Career infantryman 2 years till I can drop my retirement packet. 3 sons all wanna be airborne rangers. Slightly younger wife of ten years or so. Currently in alaska. I like hunting and fishing but cant find time anymore. I have a small family of jk's and growing. I like to work on leather and sip good bourbon neat of course.
 
My names Ty I'm a Wildlife Biologist partnered with the NRCS. I do leather work on the side for extra funds and a way to relax when I cant get outside. Most of the work I do is sheaths and wallets, But once I get some free time I plan to start some gun leather and maybe try a small bag or two for the Fiancee. Along with figure out how to make some simple sandals per my sisters request. I love fishing, hunting, hiking, camping and just about anything that involves not being inside. Me and my fiancee have two dogs a Blue heeler border collie mix and a great dane German shepard mix.
 
Ben Herman: 20 Y/O Entrepreneur, musician, handyman, computer programmer... Oh, And I'm super humble and modest too. ;)

Born and raised in toronto, Canada. I run a sharpening service in my city, and I am going to blacksmithing college in september. When I make things, I try to do them right, the first time.

Ill tell a little story that sums me up quite nicely.

Two years ago, I was given a knife for my birthday. Real Steel bushcraft 2. Anyway, as any sane person would do, I shook it in the sheath violently to test retention (at this point you should probably be cringing). The knife popped out on the up-stroke and as it was falling, the down stroke gave it a nice, tight home... directly into the palm of my hand.
Fast forward 3 days, Im at my surgery (I ended up nicking a nerve, had to be fixed up) and I ask them to keep me awake. They had put a nerve block in my shoulder (stops nerve signals from reaching my brain). Anyway, I'm in the operating room chatting with my surgeons as they cut into me. They were quite interested in the knife stuff and youtube...
We were chatting for a good 30 minutes before a problem arose - whenever the automatic pump pushed painkiller and sedative into me, my whole arm would ache (IV). I ask Them if they can turn it down, to help with the discomfort. They turn it off, assuming I wouldn't feel anything with the nerve block in..... 5 minutes later, I can feel everything. I ask them to turn it on again....
They put it up to max to knock me out so I'd stop talking :oops:


Tldr; was awake for surgery, the doctors got fed up with me talking, and knocked me out


Anyway, thats me
 
Also I appreciate well made gear that can be really used sometimes abused, and favor fixed blades over folders usually and that is why my preferred blade is a JK.
 
I am a hobbyist knife modder and soon hope to be custom maker(yeah, that will happen, LOL). I enjoy tools and knives, and have way more of both than I can use.

I am married and we have a son working on his graduate degree and still living at home, sigh...

I work for a large electrical contractor, heading up their low voltage dept.

I have a decent handful of JK knives. I don't get out anymore as I would like to, so they don't get used enough, but they are FINE knives and solid performers. That ought to tell you something about John's knives...I keep buying them, even though I can't use them all.
 
I was born the 7th son of a sharecropper in Mudbucket, Mississippi during the Eisenhower presidency, on the kitchen table of our ancestral tar paper shotgun shack. I had a happy childhood once all my older siblings moved out and I found out that the best part of the fried chicken really was not the neck. I learnt my letters and numbers in one of the last one room school house in MS.
I did pretty good so I got sent off to a nice trade school and learned how to clean outhouses and chicken coops.
Mostly these days I sell worms.leeches, chubs and crawdads to city folks for fishing.
I do this in a 2100 square foot shop with about $300,000 of other assorted fishing inventory so as to supplement the live bait business.
I have a real pretty and smart wife named Cindy who keeps me out of jail and 3 wonderful daughters who call sometimes. I like big knives and small knives as well as fixed blades and folders.I knowed John for some time now and sometimes he is friendly with me, this makes me happy and proud.
My goal is to retire and live under a bridge someplace warm,or maybe get a nice house in South Dakota or Florida. Well, I got to go now, they is some crawdads that escaped that I got to go wrangle.
 
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I was born the 7th son of a sharecropper in Mudbucket, Mississippi during the Eisenhower presidency, on the kitchen table of our ancestral tar paper shotgun shack. I had a happy childhood once all my older siblings moved out and I found out that the best part of the fried chicken really was not the neck. I learnt my letters and numbers in one of the last one room school house in MS.
I did pretty good so I got sent off to a nice trade school and learned how to clean outhouses and chicken coops.
Mostly these days I sell worms.leeches, chubs and crawdads to city folks for fishing.
I do this in a 2100 square foot shop with about $300,000 of other assorted fishing inventory so as to supplement the live bait business.
I have a real pretty and smart wife named Cindy who keeps me out of jail and 3 wonderful daughters who call sometimes. I like big knives and small knives as well as fixed blades and folders.I knowed John for some time now and sometimes he is friendly with me, this makes me happy and proud.
My goal is to retire and live under a bridge someplace warm,or maybe get a nice house in South Dakota or Florida. Well, I got to go now, they is some crawdads that escaped that I got to go wrangle.
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When we first met 37 years ago you were selling guns, now you’ve moved up to crawdads! I always knew you had potential.
 
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