Weekend away with snooty friends - what knives to take?

Depends on what you want to do. Want to have some fun - bring a machete. Want to impress people? Bring the prettiest, most expensive sharp object you can get your hands on. Want to be a skilled outdoorsman and knife expert? Bring a small to medium sized knife of decent quality that you have maintained properly, and use it with great skill.

It is always about the user, not the tool.

Have fun.
 
MikeC said:
Let me pile on. Take the largest most obnoxious blade you have, hell take everything you've got, throw in a few guns for good measure. If you can find a surplus army helmet and wear it all weekend and throw in a bullet proof vest and a tactical vest just for good measure. See if you can't find a copy of old copies of solider of fortune magazine and break them out and read them at random times. Put all your gear in a pack and wear it all day everyday while your out. Make a copy of this thread and when they ask you why your all geared up, show em the print out of this thread.

This will solve your problems with these ignorant political correct types, next time you go camping you won't have to worry about what knife to bring for fear of ridicule because your uptight, anal retentive, croissant munching, internationalist, pointed head, academic types. Dolt's the lot of them. Don't bow down to these ingrates and curb your legitimate right to carry and use these tools. Just bring what you want and carry/use it like you normally would, its your vacation too so enjoy yourself and don't worry about these fools.

One last thing you reference these folks as friends, maybe you should question who you deem as friends. I try not to make it a habit of associating with people who refuse to exercise common sense and logic by operating in the world of possibility instead of probability. If I need to clarify this for anyone let me know and I'll reply.
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Take your Mistress....you can sneak of and have fun with her when the wife is not looking.:D I would love to see their faces when you haul that out! You may make a few Busse converts......(don't you have a BATAC as well..also a nice camper)

Seriously Mark take a pistol with you....You don't want to be alone on the roads without one bud..........
 
I love to take my big blades out into the woods on group camping trips. I find that, frequently where I live in the city, I experience the "Why do you have that??? Oh, could you cut this for me?" phenomenon. On a camping trip, it's a nice excuse to show folks how *actually* useful these tools are, for so many things.

So, bring whatever you like.
 
The Busse will be fine as long as your wearing the hat....:D

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Seriously, take the biggest mother****er you can fit in the car.

Then pack a good SAK just in case the snooties pass out at the sight of your Thor sword. :thumbup::D
 
Displaying both the utilitarian value and artistic nature of whatever knives you choose should imbue any true dilettante with a desire that he too must have the best. Also, look down your nose at your friend's pedestrian gear as you utilize only the best knives money can buy. :p
 
Let It Bleed said:
Displaying both the utilitarian value and artistic nature of whatever knives you choose should imbue any true dilettante with a desire that he too must have the best. Also, look down your nose at your friend's pedestrian gear as you utilize only the best knives money can buy. :p
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Hahahaha! Hit the nail right on the head! Approach it like they might look at, say, your selection of electronic equipment, or perhaps choice of automobiles. Compare, point out the merits, indicate how obviously classy and high-quality your knives are, and allow them to infer (on their own) that they are exhibiting inferior product appreciation by not already having the best.

Such as:
"Ohhhh.... you've got one of those off-brand mp3 players.... my iPod Touch was totally worth the extra $250 I spent on it."
 
I figure that if they are ultra snooty and sensitive to knives, then anything larger than a 5" blade is going to be generalized by them as the "largest knife they've ever seen." So if you're going to go bigger than that, go as big as you like because it's all going to be the same to them. If it really makes things awkward for everyone, then I think it'll make it awkward for you eventually and you're the one that's going to have to deal with that. Maybe try taking out the BATAC and leaving the Battle Mistress somewhere where it can't be seen. Test out their responses to the BATAC and if they respond positively to it, tell them "You should see the other knife I have."

You gotta keep in mind that just about every little boy has dreamed of having a large knife at some point and chopping the shit out of everything in sight. They might wanna have a go at it if you guys get along well.
 
Snooty? Does that mean they'd not be impressed by anything but the best? Or do you mean that they might get scared by the sight of a big knife? Are you trying to impress or be obnoxious?

I'm all for being obnoxious. But keep in mind that by being obnoxious, you kind of lose all whining rights when the "sheeple" peg you as some kind of knife wielding cretin. Because your behavior provides reasonable justification foe such beliefs.

If you're just trying to impress, well, that has it's risks, too. Trying to one-up everyone else, particularly with stuff you can buy, is obnoxious in it's own way, and may come across as some massive insecurity to boot.

How 'bout this? Take the appropriate tool you anticipate using. If you find you don't need it, fine, don't use it. If you find it's not big enough for your needs, make it work. Now that'll really impress people.
 
Agreeing with Wilgoy: if it's about chopping wood I'd just take an axe. It's simply the tool for the job. So, the axe and some kind of universal knife. Snooty or not, people tend to appreciate the right tool for the job.
 
A little culture shock is always fun stuff, take your favorites, one thing I like to do is have my most useful with me, usually the SAK Forrester, now a days, but something like that. every time it can be utilized you whip it out, opening cans, bottles of wine, imported beer bottles, use at the table, kitchen prep, carve at a piece of wood, fix stuff with the screw driver, tighten up some light switch plates with the small screwdriver as a phillips, put a new buckle hole in your belt, you know MAcGyver the heck out of them with the diversity of a pocket knife and your intelligent use of it. Change them.
 
It's all in your delivery: use your bowie with a big smile on your face and a ready wit. Hopefully they're more into being friends than being snooty. Warning: it might go differently if there are kids.
 
on my last camping trip it was with a bunch of my city friends, ranging from NY to San Francisco. The first day out we had a pineapple to cut up, at that point i thought the Rodent Waki made the most sense.. with one quick horizontal swipe the top of it came off much to the glee of my friends, i could of used any one of a variety of more appropriate to the task knives that i brought.. but for the sheer fun of a short sword and my half baked samurai moves.... it could not be beat!
 
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