Comeuppance
Fixed Blade EDC Emisssary
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2013
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And I don't mean creepy-weird, just strange.
Hundreds of people browse this forum and a few others like it. Young and old, men and (some) women, liberal and conservative, punks and 'muricans, religious and atheist, SHTF preppers, and more.
There are people that live city lives and those that spend a majority of their time wearing camo for its intended purposes - all coming together with a mutual interest...
... In cutting tools.
There's elitism, drama, arguments, experts, artisans, and lengthy technical discussions. Primary uses ranging from household tasks, office work, retail, collecting, bushcraft, hunting, camping, military and self defense, industrial and trade work, even just outright admiring and fondling.
Even the reasons for our interests vary widely - some need cutting tools every day and need sturdy tools, some are blacksmiths that have made a career of crafting knives, some see them as art, some as investments, some see them as necessary tools of self-defense, some see them as a kind of man-jewelry or status symbol, and some just like neat mechanical things (*raises hand*).
I have a strong feeling many of us wouldn't even have gotten into it nearly as much if we didn't have forums like this. Most of us only have cause use our knives once or twice a day, if at all - yet many of us are willing to spend over a hundred dollars on one and feel naked without at least one on our person.
Hundreds, if not thousands of us, from every background and every country, with strikingly different interests and tastes, directly conflicting societal and political views - realistically, many of us would hate each other and have no reason to talk or have any common ground.
But, here we are. An outright community. Active, informative, trading, talking, and even meeting over a shared interest in sharp metal things on our belts and in our pockets.
It's a funny little thing we have here, and I'm glad we do.
Hundreds of people browse this forum and a few others like it. Young and old, men and (some) women, liberal and conservative, punks and 'muricans, religious and atheist, SHTF preppers, and more.
There are people that live city lives and those that spend a majority of their time wearing camo for its intended purposes - all coming together with a mutual interest...
... In cutting tools.
There's elitism, drama, arguments, experts, artisans, and lengthy technical discussions. Primary uses ranging from household tasks, office work, retail, collecting, bushcraft, hunting, camping, military and self defense, industrial and trade work, even just outright admiring and fondling.
Even the reasons for our interests vary widely - some need cutting tools every day and need sturdy tools, some are blacksmiths that have made a career of crafting knives, some see them as art, some as investments, some see them as necessary tools of self-defense, some see them as a kind of man-jewelry or status symbol, and some just like neat mechanical things (*raises hand*).
I have a strong feeling many of us wouldn't even have gotten into it nearly as much if we didn't have forums like this. Most of us only have cause use our knives once or twice a day, if at all - yet many of us are willing to spend over a hundred dollars on one and feel naked without at least one on our person.
Hundreds, if not thousands of us, from every background and every country, with strikingly different interests and tastes, directly conflicting societal and political views - realistically, many of us would hate each other and have no reason to talk or have any common ground.
But, here we are. An outright community. Active, informative, trading, talking, and even meeting over a shared interest in sharp metal things on our belts and in our pockets.
It's a funny little thing we have here, and I'm glad we do.
