"To cut or not to cut"

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You know,getting a new knife isn`t as good as it realy seems to be.K I have to admit im afraid to damage my nice,clean,sharp,new edge.I find myself carying my old beater blades along with my brand newbies.I know im realy not gona cut anything besides rope or paper with the new one.These thing are like vintage cars to me....ya know?The other day a tape got stuck in my 10 year old VCR and the only blades I could find on my dreser were new ones or nice."CAUTION DO NOT STICK NEW KNIFES IN THE VCR".So I proceed to the kitchen to get a butterknife.Sad aint it?
I guess I need professional help.....do you?Well atleast im not afraid to cut them damn corns.Ill use anything for that.
Thanks for listening,

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Jay
Life is like a box of chocolates,never know what your gona git!
 
I'll admit that I, too, have trouble bringing myself to use a cool new knife. If I use it, it's not new anymore and where's the fun in that?
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Knave- where do you get your knives in lexington? I lived down there for 2 or three years before coming back to cincinnati to live and I never saw or went to any good knife stores there.

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You can tell a knife nut by his hairless arms....
 
It is always a struggle for me. I have been getting a lot better since finding a sharpener that I can get a better than factory edge with. Maybe there is hope...
 
DEFINITELEY

I agree soo much I still have some of my new knives laying around that I am too afraid to even touch, also I find myself wiping do the blade with tuff cloth every other day.....
 
'Tis sad, but true. All of us are like that to a certain extent. Even my new Delica and Endura got babied like crazy. I'm weening them off of the bottle now.

Howie
 
It's like with losing virginity
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. You're nervous the first time, but after that it comes naturally.
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And good knives after being used still look good (although not as new).

Kris
 
I do know the feeling... I gave my partner a pos that I put a good edge on so he would quit wanting to 'borrow' my blade of the day to do some dirty chore with. I don't mean to be a primadona about my blades...I use em but I don't care to do any unnecessary wear on a nice fresh blade. Yesterday he wanted me to cut him a piece out of a 6' piece of heavy cardboard that had been laying around, had plenty of dirt ground into it, nasty stuff. I told him to use his pos gift blade. He didn't have it. I finally had to put my nice freshly 'mirror' sharpened bm710 to it. It slid thru that heavy nasty stuff like it was a piece of typing paper....he dropped his jaw. He asked why I didn't want to cut it with such an obviously great blade. I said 'no problem' as I wiped off the fresh dirt scratches on the blade.... its a user and now its used...another popped cherry. Now I can use it without paranoid concern, its just another used blade.

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Only perfect practice makes perfect
 
When used to buy a nice new guitar (which is not very often, especially now with the knife habit) I would be afraid to play it. The finish was so perfect, it shined so pretty, that I would take it out, strum, polish, and return to it's safe case.

Then one day I was watching Austin City Limits and saw Willie Nelson playing that old beat up guitar he uses. It kind of clicked. These are not pieces of art, that I want to stare at, these are tools, that I want to use.

Now when I get a new guitar, I let the kids handle it first thing. That always produces a couple of dings and scratches. With knives, I just find something to CUT right away. An apple, cardboard, tape, rope, paper, whatever. Blades can be reshaped and sharpened; and finishes can be buffed and polished.

I don't have any high priced customs yet, but I use my MT's. No point letting them sit around!

If I had a Vallotton Icepick, probably be my first custom, I might change my tune...
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Brandon
 
Its only new until it gets that first scratch. use and love them. thats what we buy them for.
 
Sneaknpek:
I don't know of any good places to buy knives in Lexington. There's a kiosk in Fayette Mall, but, not surprisingly, they're way overpriced. I buy mine from online dealers and makers. It would be nice to get a dealer here with reasonable prices and a good selection, but I'm not holding my breath.
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I'm like that too. I can sharpen it decently to a point where it is as sharp as or sharper than a factory edge, but the original polish just isn't there, so I try to hold off without sharpening it for the longest time until the edge actually begins to bend noticely, after which I use a steel to shape it, and eventually it just wears out and I have to sharpen it
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. Of course it's no big deal, I use knives ranging in the 20-50 dollar range and so they are all beaters anyway.


--chang the asian janitorial apparatus
 
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