What criteria defines a knife knut?

dePaul

dePaul

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What would you consider to be a serious sign/signs of a man (or woman ;) ) going down under the heavy burden of being a serious knife knut?
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~Paul~
 
Being registered here is a good place to start.

Carrying more than one knife so that one can lend a "cheap" knife to "non-knife nuts." ie. "I carry a sebenza for me and a SAK for you."

Carrying more than one knife because of specialization of task. ie. "This is my box cutting knife, this is my plastic package cutting knife, this is my apple peeling knife, this is my apple cutting knife..."

Chronic Sharpening Syndrome "Look honey, I can shave my arm with the soup spoons."

Spelling nut with a K.

Spending more time at bladeforums.com than you do at work, or exactly the same amount. "Eight hours in a work day, eight hours on bladeforums each day. Coincidence?"

There are many more.
 
Periodically checking the knife sale prices at your favorite vendors like you're checking your stock portfolio....
 
almost posting an " I'll take it ! " to a for sale post before you realize it's your for sale post !

Spending more time deciding which blade to carry than you decide on what to wear or what to eat for breakfast.

You remember each knife , where you got it , when and for how much .

and you can list every knife in your safe without looking.
 
John T Wylie Jr said:
almost posting an " I'll take it ! " to a for sale post before you realize it's your for sale post !
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:o Guilty. Worse is selling a knife you have no need/use for and calling off the sale when you take pics for a potential buyer and realize you must have it. Also guilty. :o

Not buying a knife that'd do what you want because it's not a cool brand or buying a knife you don't need because it's a cool brand are very strong indicators as well.

Having membership at several knife-related forums is a good hint.

Learning how to cook so you use knives more often might signal being a knifeknut.

Sharpening a friend's knives for free even though he lives across the country so you can check out said blades might mean you're a knife knut.

Pausing movies to identify blades is something knifeknuts do.

Learning to build or forge knives because one one 'gets it' has happened on occasion.
 
When you have given up trying to justify why all your knives 'look the same' to your wife, and just agree they do, and then buy another one anyway.

If you can trace the 'family tree' of each knife you own, based on what you sold/trade/bought/received to get it. e.g. "Back in '98 my friend gave me a knife that I ended up trading for another knife that I sold to buy another knife, and ended up trading that cash plus this and this knife for the one I have right here."

If you have a preference for grind angle on a knife edge. (I mean, who else even knows about that?)

If you can name more than 2 kinds of stainless steel.

I'm sure we'll have a nice long list.

Here's a classic, You have bare patches that never have a chance to grow back, because of edge testing, or you have to go to your legs to find any hair left because your arms are completely bare.

Daniel
 
Those bald patches, commonly refered to as "redneck mange" are a good sign but are by no means exclusive. You may have identified a hunter that does not know knives, but knows sharp. My dad would gut, skin, quarter, and debone a deer with a butter knife if you gave it to him, but he would make sure he could shave arm hair first. And if he couldn't, he would give it to me to sharpen.

If your beater EDC knife cost more than your wardrobe you may be a knife nut.
 
"If your beater EDC knife cost more than your wardrobe you may be a knife nut."

Shirt: Free for donating blood
Pants: $6 on clearance
Shoes:$10, 3 years ago (they still fit, so i wear 'em)
Watch: Free, graduation present.
MOD CQD Mark II: $199.94 after shipping/tax.

Meeting nearly all the "requirements" for being a knifeknut: Priceless.
 
If you sleep with a knife clipped into the pocket of your pajamas, you're most likely a knife knut. If you have knives scattered on every piece of furniture and flat surface of your home, and you can remember where a specific one is at any moment, you're a knife knut. If you have at least one knife on the desk in front of you while you're reading this, you're a knut.
 
moonwilson said:
If you sleep with a knife clipped into the pocket of your pajamas........... If you have at least one knife on the desk in front of you while you're reading this, you're a knut.
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Guilt on both accounts ( but instead of PJ's , they are denim shorts cause PJ's wont hold up to 1911 carry ;) )...

on the desk in front of me Simonich Crowfoot & Blackwood Henchman...


you ship & recieve so many knives that the local PO treats you like Norm from Cheers.
 
Hanging about in here for hours on end and revelling in it.
Neglecting everything else other than knives and knife use.
Dishonestly telling yourself that your latest knife will be the last and you will settle down and search for no more knife fixes..
Trawling the internet, e-bay and catalogues for the Golden Fleece of knives..
Being proud of the small wounds your hands carry from incompetent knife use or sharpening.
Getting sexual kicks out of wondering what sort of knife Xena Warrior princess would carry...
Having a nightmare that the sheeple state has banned all knives!
Keeping a knife or two..on your bedside table.
Brooding about steels.
Many more things too....
 
when you finnaly get money in your checking account you go and spend half of it on new knives.

one of the knives prevously mentioned a few posts above that you keep on your night stand you still keep there even though you snaped the tip off because "hey it still can cut stuff just fine"
-matt
 
giving up sex, eating, and all aspects of real life for hours persuing all the threads here I have yet to read:eek: Along with my perverted search for a Becker Necker, which, when one comes up for sale; I'm usually away from a computer for the day it comes up:eek: , but return in time to see that someone bought it:foot: :grumpy: :barf: yeah, life has it's quirks, getting the knife bug must be one of them:D
 
oh I want to play,just experienced one this weekend...

you get together with your friends and sharpen knives while you socialize
 
i think a good chef is a great example, heck they cary their cooking knives with them.. even in 7-11 (saw a chef randomly one morning with a little rolling bag behind him and i realized that he was toting his knives)

-matt
 
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