What are your dirty little knife secrets

- I do not like cheap knives at all. My tastes are just too expensive, even though I don't have the money to get the good stuff.
- All my knife purchases are usually compromises. See first secret.
- I'm a bit of a steel snob.
- I could never sharpen worth a darn until I learned to convex.
- Most of my knives never see the outside of the house. I bought them "just in case", for prep purposes.
 
Chewy1 said:
- I do not like cheap knives at all. My tastes are just too expensive, even though I don't have the money to get the good stuff.
- All my knife purchases are usually compromises. See first secret.
- I'm a bit of a steel snob.
- I could never sharpen worth a darn until I learned to convex.
- Most of my knives never see the outside of the house. I bought them "just in case", for prep purposes.
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Unlike Chewy1, I gravitate toward ~$10 knives, I must have a jillion...those $10 bills can add up!!...if you're not careful...and I never am. :(
 
I like Cold Steel and CRKT!

I do not like Buck, Busse, Strider, Sog, Case.

My thin scimitar Ginsu gets as much use as my home made Cocobolo kitchen knife.

Price is not as important as handle ergonomics.

G-10 should not be black- too many other colors to liven up a day.

I cannot buy CRKT as that brand is all that my wife buys me.

I will use every single knife I own for one task or another- it is not a knife if it does not cut!
 
I've had my wife order knives for me,then paid her back.I hate talking on the phone,now that's lame.....
 
1) I would much rather buy a knife used than than use a pristine new one.
I don't buy new cars either (generally a year or two old)

2) The fixed blade that I use all the time and like best is a PAL RH-36 Hunting knife. I just cannot find anything I like as well.
 
1) I just threw 400.00 down on a production knife.

2) my woman has no idea I just did that

3) I don't like sebenza's either....weird.

4) I have this strange want for a titanium ti-lite

5) My favorite knife out of the 40+ high end knives I own....is my little black 50.00 Izula

6) I enter each room with a plan for escape just in case a zombie breakout occurs.

7) I buy and sell knives, not for profit, just to be able to "rent" them.

8) I plan my entire summer around blade show. If my work would not give me those days off, I would leave to go.

9) Each night, I choose a knife to sleep with.
 
My favorite knife to use is a opinel No.7. I love the blade shade and reprofiled to a zero grind edge it is easily the most scary sharp knife i have ever owned but I cant carry it without and new one handed opening knife. I just dont feel right without somthing clipped to my pocket even if i know i wont use it.
 
I don't find Sebenzas aesthetically appealing. They are extremely plain at best, and downright ugly or even tacky at worst.

I think tactical knives are silly.

I love slipjoints and balisongs.

I hate cocobolo.

I don't like serrations, and grudgingly accept them on steak and bread knives.

I don't trust the Axis lock. I don't like the omega springs, and it seems like every week someone has problems with them breaking.

I have a drawer full of Chinese/Pakistani junk knives.

I don't believe in liner locks.

My SAK and a good portion of my other knives are dull because I can't afford a good knife sharpener. Some of my other knives still have the factory edge because I don't use them enough to dull them. I have no idea what a properly sharp knife is like.

My most expensive knife was a used Typhoon kit balisong.

I let my father use a cheapo junk carbide sharpener to sharpen the kitchen knives. He has taken several millimeters of edge off of the knives he has tried to sharpen with it over the past few years. Some of them are starting to grow a recurve profile. Furthermore, he insists on muscling the sharpener as hard as he can, so many of the knives aren't any sharper than when he started. Furthermore, it puts an edge on the blade closer to a chisel grind than a v grind, so it's going to be even more work for me if I ever can afford a proper knife sharpener.
 
- Despite having a $100 Great Eastern jumbo trapper on my desk, the most carried main knife I have is a Douk-Douk.

- I did almost a complete cat dissection in college with a scaleless Vic Recruit.

- The only knives I've ever had rust are a Buck 450 and a CRKT Stiff Kiss, and they're both stainless.
 
I'm disappointed with Spyderco's vg10.
I think Buck knives are junk.
I think 400 series stainless is junk.
I'm disappointed with Swamprat knives.
It seems like every six to twelve months I go through and revise my edc.
 
Sword and Shield said:
- I did almost a complete cat dissection in college with a scaleless Vic Recruit.
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Nice!! I wanted to do so but thought that using a CRKT Crawford Casper might get get too many eyebrows raised, so I had to teach my "instructor" (read ciity slicker preppy boy) a new way to skin a cat- man was he pissed when I showed him up and not only did a better job, but did it MUCH faster than him- Hmmmm.... nobody thought a farmboy knew how to take hide off of a critter!
 
I virtually never carry any of my classy pocket knives because they don't have screwdriver blades. I always carry my Adventurer SAK and on rare occasions also carry a Calypso Jr for one-hand functionality. All that fancy steel and one-hand opening takes a back seat to some handy tools and reduced pocket clutter.

I own hundreds of kitchen knives, but have probably only bought 6 of them new. I probably own 50 different brands. Usually the blade and handle configuration is more important than the blade alloy. I have a perfect knife for any conceivable kitchen task (actually probably 10 knives for each task).
 
I actually bought the UC Rambo III movie knife way-back-when and thought it was really badass!
 
I sharpen knives that are already sharp but none of them are ever sharp enough.Obessive/Compulsive? (Good one Jiggyfly,that is a classic)
 
I literally have a safe full of expensive knives. From black tactical to my Sebenza collection which dates back from 2000. My most carried and used knife..............................the little Buck Hartsook !!!!!

It's a little scalpel that goes everywhere with me.
 
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