What does your knife say about you?

pinnah said:
What does your knife say about you?
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My knives are smart enough to keep their mouths shut about me. Or I'll replace the mineral oil with castor oil.
 
I have no words to describe how awesome that comment is Knarfeng. You win, I can't top that.

My knife says I like what's practical and comfortable to use, that is how my knife selection is done. Canoe, comfortable and 2.5in blade is perfect length in m opinion. Wenger Patriot, slim profile, lightweight, disappears until needed, slightly smaller than desired blade length but still practical. That covers my 2 favorite EDC's right now. Both have a small backup blade, just in case which makes me feel better too despite the fact I almost never use it.
 
My knives say I am a sharp whetted individual, sometimes highly cutting and a bladey minded honed interlect
 
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That the owner has impeccable taste, is suave and debonaire, an intellectual of the highest order, and a man of principle...a gentleman for all seasons.;)
 
It says: You must like Lockbacks. Because after riding in a car for 6 to 7 hours straight, your knees aren't only locked up, so is your back. :D
 
My knives could maybe say a lot about me if someone would care to analyse, although my knife love is very international and changing... Sure thing is I do say a lot about my knives !
 
jackknife said:
Or, maybe the carrying everyday of those same two knives, you got the idea that we don't really need all those knives we accumulate. The fact that you haven't switched around, or rotated your knives shows you that just like our grandfathers, we can get by with one or two pocket knives very well. The world still went on, and you learned something.

Carl.
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Of course we don't need more than one knife. We just like the fun in trying out different things..... as long as they are old fashioned that is. :p
 
I always thought based on how few people seem to carry knives these days that carrying a knife alone makes me a knife person!
 
pinnah said:
What does your knife say about you?
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My knives say that I need to stop reading Carl's stories. Did you know that I bought a Camillus Army Engineer's pocketknife just so I could have a knife like Mr. Van?

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Top to bottom: Knives of Mr. Van, Pavel Luckowski, Captain Martin, Reverend Harding, Granddad, and Trapper Bill

:D

- Christian
 
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These are the ones I tend to carry. The #85 has been flitzed a few times. The Queen mini trapper has seen a lot of pocket time. The GEC 2012 forum knife doesn't get carried as much but it's seen pocket time as well.

Not sure what they say about me.
 
Mine say,"WE NEEEED more friends":D More and more and more. I've been a collector for way too
long to change my ways.

Best regards

Robin
 
A while back, I had an older lady approach me while I was gassing up my truck.

"Young man! Young man! I wonder if you could help me. I think there is something stuck under my car, it is steering funny." ("Young man" made me laugh, I was in my mid-40s at the time. I found out later she was about 93, so I suppose from her perspective I was young.)

I crawled under her car--a nice 2-dr Ford Falcon--yep, something wrapped around the steering. I slid my right hand out to get the barlow from my pocket, and as I opened it I heard her say, "Oh good. In my day every proper young gentleman carried a pocket knife!"

I started cutting and realized two things. First, the "something" was the dried remains of a skunk that she'd probably hit a few months before; and second, the barlow just wasn't enough to lever through the skunk jerky. I set the barlow down, reached out with my right hand and twisted my hips enough I could hook the lanyard of the Boker "rangebuster" in my left front pocket.

As I one-handed it open and brought my arm back under the Falcon, I heard her mutter something about how ". . . THAT is not a gentleman's knife!" After I got the skunk cleared away, the steering was fine and she was back on the road shortly.

I guess that's what my pocket knives say about me--I'm not a "proper young gentleman." I'm OK with that. But it is probably a good thing she didn't see the old Russell Sting 1A I was carrying in an IWB sheath just over my wallet, she might have thought I was a serial killer or something!
 
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