What are your dirty little knife secrets

- I hate Buck knives, the 110 especially.

- My kitchen knives are a collection of mismatched junk, all of which are very dull. I sharpened them all once and then cut myself every time I did the dishes. When I do sharpen them now, I use one of those cheap "sharpeners" with the carbide blade that scrapes a new edge on the knife, even though my good sharpening stuff is just a few feet away from the kitchen knife drawer.

- I have ten different Busses, but know in my heart that one of my Moras will out-perform them for most tasks.

- I have a fully serrated Cutco hunting knife. It was a gift, so I have to keep it around for when she visits.

- I have lots of knives I bought as "collectors" but couldn't resist sharpening them and trying them out. They're not the type of knives I care to use, so they'll probably never get used again and I've lessened their value for nothing.

- I have used the end of the frame of two different Microtech automatics to open beer bottles, thus permanently marring their finish.

- I don't know how many times I've gotten out of bed to go sharpen/strop a knife I was thinking about, just to be sure it was hair-popping sharp.

Yours in mental illness,
desmobob
 
I own a "survival" knife complete with hollow handle wire saw and ball pommel compass.

I own a Divers knife, I have never been diving. except if you count playing with my friends dive tanks,in his swimming pool.

I own a Gil Hibbon knife, double edged with a large slot bisecting the blade ergo-making it a twotined blade. The handle is wrapped with shiny wire and has a "skull crusher" pommel.

woot

my only defense is i don't know where the survival or divers knife is and i have owned each of them for easily 20years.

I have owned more then one utterly useless ninja throwing star. (you could do more damage with a Trapper Keeper)

I know what a Trapper Keeper is.

I have more then one friend who owned a Ninja suit.

I have always secretly coveted their Ninja Suits.


Pointy
 
I owned and used a Cold Steel Tanto Voyager for about 5 years. It was l337

I got a boot knife that was made of sheet metal (or may as well have been) because Kurt Russell had one in Big Trouble in Little China

I like yellow handled knives because of my Pacific Salt, yet it's the only one I own. I want a yellow, stainless Case Peanut, but I can't find any to save my life. Every one I find is CV.

My favorite knife is the 15$ Case Sodbuster from Lowes. Love the size, weight, blade shape and size, handle material, build quality and lack of blade play. Only downside is the blade graphics, which can be easily taken care of if I had some polish or something.

I travel for work quite a bit, and I get excited when I see even a Silver level Case dealer near my destination.
 
Pointyend4you said:
I own a "survival" knife complete with hollow handle wire saw and ball pommel compass.
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I have owned more then one utterly useless ninja throwing star.
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I was waiting for exactly these two confessions. In the past, I have owned these items as well. :o:foot:
 
Oh yea and the "survival" knife blade had ... in addition to a saw edge on the back of the blade, it also had a bottle opener ... yes stamped OUT of the blade.

Also i have used some ninja stars that would actually stick into hardwood or doors or trees or ...
 
-I kind of miss the days when I only owned one knife. Back then I used to be very familiar with my knife and what it could do. Now that I have a bunch, I feel like I'm obligated to use them all, and don't feel like I get to know any of them that well.
 
Perhaps the feeling that i get that i just need to find the perfect knife that's perfect for everything, when i already have almost every knife type there is.
 
desmobob said:
- I have used the end of the frame of two different Microtech automatics to open beer bottles, thus permanently marring their finish.
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Why is that a dirty secret? What's more important, a Microtech or the beer that's trapped in the bottle in front of you? There are plenty of Microtechs in the world, that beer may be the best beer you ever drank. And you regret scratching a silly knife when the beer was suffering...

I'm completely serious by the way. My knife opens beer bottles all the time when there's no bottle opener around, or I'm too drunk to remember where the the bottle opener on my SAK is located.
 
I always wanted those ninja throwing things

But as of last week my favourite EDC is moving to being a spyderco ladybug vg10- My Gerber LST Micro with 520 just can't compete with vg10

and the corallory is that is really all I need!

So I have no right to even participate in this forum

Adieu sweet world
 
I actually kind of like the ZT0400
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I have no idea why.
 
I rarely use my EDC to cut cardboard. I have a beater or a Home Depot superknife knockoff I use for things like that. I have knives that are far better at it... But I try to avoid scratches!

I used to honestly think people carrying 2+ knives were nuts. Nowadays 'm lucky if I get out the door with 3, because I can't decide which one to carry.
 
Here are my dirty secrets...

my first knives were really cheap chinese and pakistani crap, before I realized that they were crap.

I destroyed most of them trying to learn to sharpen freehand. Now I just use a sharpmaker. I'm not confident enough to sharpen freehand and have become spoiled by the sharpmaker.

I'm obsessed with sharpening, most of the time I'm at my desktop PC I'm sharpening as a watch videos or read the posts here

I have several CS knives in my small collection and they are often the most interesting ones I have.

Whenever I'm at hardware store, I go straight to the gardening section to check out their machetes.

I feel naked when I happen to leave the house without a knife on me

My first "quality" locking folder is a CRKT M21-14, which is still pretty good to use.

I've lost a fair number of SAKs through the years.

I have a strange prejudice against Emersons and Striders. I've held a few Emersons and I haven't held a Strider and yet I can't shake the idea that they're overpriced and overhyped.

I'm sick and tired of balisongs.

I bought a Endura4 wave as a EDC but I've been carried a ziptie waved 5.11 journeyman karambit more often.

I bought a extra large Vaquero just to have a very sheeple-scaring knife.

I don't tell my wife how much I've spent on knives.

I have knives all ove the house and my wife and I are a little worried about what her mother and the rest of the family will say if they find out about the "unsafe" conditions in our home.

I'm not interested in damascus blades.

Some of my friends don't know I carry a knife, and they'll think I'm a psycho if they find out

I have an excel file for all the knives I want to buy

I'm not particularly hairy so most of the hair I used for sharpness tests are on my leg. I have bald spots so I often wear pants to hide them.
 
Best. Thread. Ever. I'll go again.

I only buy hard use knives now--Busse, Fehrman, etc--even though I'm unlikely to need to use them more much more than splitting firewood.

I will always opt for a big knife over an axe or hachet, even if it's ten times the work.

I only buy satin finished knives.

I think Sebenzas are way over hyped.

I enjoy watching Noss' destruction test videos.

My wife has no idea how many or how much.
 
After I show a knife to someone and they touch the blade, I wipe it down. I don't like fingerprints :o .
 
try as i might i can't like spyderco knives, and believe me i've tried!

i'm starting to think that i only really need a couple of knives and i should sell them and do stuff like buy shoes and pay rent.

sometimes i'l buy a knife just because it's cheap, not because i want it
 
I'll add some new ones too:

I have knives that I remember buying and never using, but I don't know where they are.

I avoid flying if I can just because I'm not allowed to have a knife.

I'm biased against some brands of knives because of the behavior of their fanboys on BFC.

I think assisted openers are a solution in search of a problem.

I have avoided buying what are probably some great knives just because they are liner locks.

I think if you pay $300 or more for a new knife you should have been able to make some design suggestions before it was created.

I'm not a huge fan of the Buck 110 (although I do own one)
 
Hi, I'm Paul and I'm a knife-o-holic. I hide knives around the house and in my vehicles so I'm never too far away from a quick fix. I need help.
 
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