What do you guys gota say about this...

Last Christmas the Missus got me a knife safe.Well,it's a stand up lockable toolbox that I put moisture resistant padding on the drawer bottoms in,works great.
 
my wife is great - I copy the page off of the Knifeworks website and bingo! Thats what shows up for Christmas or birthdays, or just because. She was teasing me the other day about my knife drawer. "you think I don't know how many you've got - I know you have them sent to work - quit screwing around and just have them sent to the house!" All this said with a smile and a laugh. We have a great relationship - 35 years of dating and marriage, because of, among other things, a desire to please and see the other one happy.
 
It took me four tries over 21 years to find one who does not mind knife weirdness at all. I surely do miss the knives the first three stole or sold.:D
 
Andrew Colglazier said:
Every woman I have ever known has had difficulty understanding a man's interest in gadgetry, be it watches, bikes, guns, knives, phones, cars, pens, whatever. They don't and usually won't get it.

So, we lives with them as best we can.

Andy
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That sums it up in a nutshell...I buy a new phone every year just about to keep with the times (but it needs to have every function under the sun :D), I have spent big dollars building cars up (and continue to do so), and buy knives of which she bought 3 for xmas but i had to pick out a list to pick from since she said "I'm so damn fussy with the knives i own"...once in the US my gun collection will also start, my wife understands none of these, but she doesn't care as long as she gets to buy herself stuff that she likes so its a swinging door...I don't understand half the crap she buys, but i respect that she enjoys it.

Granted though my father in law doesn't get my obsession with blades, and his idea of a sharp knife is using a draw through sharpening that shreds material off instead of honing your edge sharp...he cant wrap his mind around a knife sharp enough to whittle a human hair :D
 
To the average person who doesn't share the obsession, knives are only for rednecks, hunters and serial killers.

They don't get that what most collectors appreciate about knives is the craftsmanship function and design.

It would be like trying to understand people who put those little Smurfs in the rear deck of their vehicle. Maybe it means something to them, but to the rest of the world just think its wierd.
 
Glock26 said:
Oh well, my girlfriend has liberal ideals. Against my ownership of firearms and knives. Whats your say ladies and gentleman, don't freight to share any similar stories. :confused::jerkit:
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This may sound hard, but:

Ditch her. She'll moan and bitch until you give up your knives and guns.

Kind regards,

Jos
 
There is no way that I can make any sense of the number of Knives that I have. I could not use all of them in ten decades. My wife goes along with it even though If I can't understand it, I don't know how I could ever expect her to.
 
I feel you. I'm not "understood" by most of my peers. That's why I don't even bother
sharing this particular hobby to others.
 
Get her a MAC (Tatsuo Kobayashi) chef knife with a MAC/Fiskars sharpener. Combined $80 total. Now she can begin to appreciate the knives you own. If she doesn't cook...ditch her.
 
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