The thrill of a knife.

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NirreBosse

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I must tell you: Im exited about knifes, mabye because they are such a touchable thing.
When I got my drivers licence at age 18 I bought myself a Helle nying and when I graduated from university I bought myself a Victorinox stainless director, when I got married We were given many beautiful things and sometimes expensive, but the engraved Victorinox alox electician my wife gave me is together with my wedding ring the item I walue most.

Spring two years ago we bought ourselfes an new house of 165 squaremeters and just that week we started building I reseved a CV stockman from SunnyD. I could easyer feel the joy of the new knife than the house. The feeling of the house was/is to big to be a simple feeling of shear joy.

Just the other week I got a compleatly new Subaru legacy, four wheel drive, diesel, station, car. The simply best car I can imagine for my needs. I have waited for it a time before delivery. Besides of my house the car is the most waluable and nessisarry thing I own.
Despite this during the time I waited for the car my longing feelings was focused on the custom knife I waiting for from Kerry Hampton. I thinking more about the coulour of the micarta of that handle than I been thinking of the coulour of the car. I thinking more about what pattern and steel to shouse than about what to expect fom the car, and I have felt a stronger longing for the knife to arrive at last.

The beauty of a useful tool, the tradition, the size that you can compleatly overlook, the portability and some magic from the childhood mixes in a way that makes knifes more important for me than I can truely understand!

Bosse
 
NirreBosse said:
The beauty of a useful tool, the tradition, the size that you can compleatly overlook, the portability and some magic from the childhood mixes in a way that makes knifes more important for me than I can truely understand!

Bosse
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The last statement of yours sums up my love for knives better than I ever could. It is a pure mixture of all those things, but I really appreciated the phrase "some magic from childhood". I thought pocketknives were the coolest thing on earth as a kid. I'm still just a big kid, but now can afford to indulge this lust more than ever.
 
i completely understand the house thing, i recently bought my first home, at age 24, but the house is just too big and all encompassing to put your hands on, and sometimes it's hard to wrap my head around the idea of the house, yet a pocket knife i can close my hand around, or drop in my pocket and take it to show my buddies at dinner, while i can't do that with my house. i, also as a little kid thought that pocket knives where the best thing in the world, at that time i'd have traded all the toilet paper in the world for an ultimate knife (at that time it would have been anything by case). these posts make my days a little brighter to know someone else loves pocket knives as much as i do.

thanks
sam
 
Well said, Bosse, well said. :thumbup::cool:
 
I have read many posts over the years here on Bladeforums that have expressed the emotions that one feels when owning,buying, trading, and making these knives. I must admit this post probably sums it up best:thumbup:

Thanks for sharing,

Ken
 
I really feel you...I'm waiting for my first Halfrich to be delivered tomorrow. I've the whole day off to sit around waiting for the FedEx guy to come-a-knockin'...and all I do is chicken eye the dealer pics. My girlfriend thinks I'm a little nuts me thinks ;).
 
Oooh yeah!, that was good reading!
I too am waiting for a box to come my way...its like being a kid at christmas time...and Im sure that as a child I never did appreciate my presents like I do my knives.
 
I completely agree. The only thing that has ever come close for me is a guitar. When I want to think or have a good conversation, I like to hold my knife. Comfort. My best friend and I have been playing music for over fifteen years and whenever we get together we both pick up a guitar. Almost hard to talk without holding it now.

There is an intimacy with these things that is hard to explain to "civilians" without sounding like a weirdo. You nailed it. I hear you. Well put. :thumbup:
 
There's 4 things I take passionately:

Knives
(Digital) Cameras and photography
Computer's
Movies

Nothing yet has come to close the anticipation of my first custom's, aniticaption of new knife, wether bought or traded. Its... like a drug. I finally got little bit money by selling off stuff I don't need and bought GEC # 65 Ben Hogan.

#65 Ben Hogan in Ebony is comming to me. I am... waiting so eagerly. I am like a little kid in christmas. Last time I was expecting this much, it was my GEC #66 Four blade congress.

Have I ever been this excited: Yes, but easiest and cheapest way it has been by buying new knife. It can be cheap rough rider or similar, the feeling is like Nirre said. It just tend folds when its something really special like custom or gift.
 
NirreBosse said:
The beauty of a useful tool, the tradition, the size that you can compleatly overlook, the portability and some magic from the childhood mixes in a way that makes knifes more important for me than I can truely understand!

Bosse
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Bravo, Bosse!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Wiser words were never spoken.
 
ken erickson said:
the emotions that one feels when owning,buying, trading, and making these knives. Ken
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This sentence inspires me.
Its sutch a thrill making a knife. For me who dont do my blades myself its the interesting way to find a blade of good shape and from a skilled smith, the shousing of handle materials to give a unity of harmony and to sew and coulour the sheath. It gives a good feeling desiding and visualising how it should be done and then see the hopfully nice resulty of the plan pared with adjustments depending of the marterial.


Bosse
 
macmiddlebrooks, campbelclanman, thejamppa: You sound bad infected at waiting for goodies, BUT, I may be worse.
The knife I wait for is mabye half or full a year away yet. It can even be so that the waiting itself is the best part of this.

All the ideas that can be thinken about!
I plan this to be a major user and bouth city and wilderness EDC. Mabye its the knife that will push all the others out of my pocket. I almost know Im best suited with one blade as I want a blade that can be pinched open. I almost know I want a stainless steel as I think they pair themselfs best to the shadow micarta looks I so lust for.
But in the same time. There are souch a lyxery with two blades. A one bladed slipjoint could sometimes even be better with as lock witch is not the case with a multiblade.

All this ideas has to come to an end when the so waited for message arrives. The plans has to settle for a pattern, a size, a steel, a micarta quality......The free thinking is over and the longing for a new knife gets sattisfied. This is a pleasant form of hunger, mabye I solve the problem by puting myself on another waiting list to have this feeling again...Who nows!

Bosse
 
I understand exactly how you feel. I'm waiting for my first GEC and everything else (almost) in my life right now is taking a back seat to the anticipation of getting that package. Well said sir!:thumbup:
 
I have been into knives of all sorts since getting my 1st one with my Whittling Chip in Scouts. 34-35 years later & I still get excited when I get a new knife. Does not even have to be fancy or expensive. Yesterday I saw a package on the table & I tore into it like a kid on Christmas eager to get my new Mora 510. Definitely something magical to me.
 
Knives and firearms have always been my greatest passion,though now,it's mostly knives.Approaching fifty,my focus has mostly shifted towards slip joints.They are what I really use the most.Sometimes I still like a good fixed blade for the woods,just in case.What I'm really trying to say is,yes,I feel what you're saying.Great post,thank you.
 
I skimp on other areas in my life, just so that I can buy another knife. I keep telling myself "You don't need anymore!", but I see one that takes my fancy on here (The last one being a Tidioute #561210 in Smooth Ivory Bone), and I have to get it.
 
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