SALTY
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Many here are outdoorsmen (and women) but perhaps not all.
All here are obviously gearheads - certainly in regards to knives.
That said, What got you into Becker Knives specifically?
To we it was a circuitous route. i was a Boy Scout, hunter and outdoorsman before i was even a man. Having and using knives was just a past of that and eventually morphed into a part of my being an outdoorsman that I paid more attention to it than seeing it as merely another piece of kit. I started "collecting" and do I ever use that term loosely, cheap knives as finances would permit.
Then my tastes refined to where I flipped numerous cheaper knives for a lesser number of "better" knives. Eventually I revisited that cycle and got even fewer "finer" knives. That collection grew in number and quality until more and more knives were safe queens and less were being used afield. I still have safe queens as owning and appreciating a knife can be exclusive of using it but there is a guilt of "nonsensicalness" about Jonseing for a knife only to put it in a safe.
Today I am blessed to own a bunch of knives and there are safe queens, users and keepers - that latter category sometimes being a duplicate of a piece in one of the former categories.
So where does Becker fit into all of this for me? They are the users. They excel at their intended purposes, easier to keep keen afield than the vast majority of knives irrespective of price and, on the subject of price, are at a level where they can be used and even abused perhaps not with abandon but certainly freely. If there were Becker knives earlier in my life - my journey could have been less circuitous.
All here are obviously gearheads - certainly in regards to knives.
That said, What got you into Becker Knives specifically?
To we it was a circuitous route. i was a Boy Scout, hunter and outdoorsman before i was even a man. Having and using knives was just a past of that and eventually morphed into a part of my being an outdoorsman that I paid more attention to it than seeing it as merely another piece of kit. I started "collecting" and do I ever use that term loosely, cheap knives as finances would permit.
Then my tastes refined to where I flipped numerous cheaper knives for a lesser number of "better" knives. Eventually I revisited that cycle and got even fewer "finer" knives. That collection grew in number and quality until more and more knives were safe queens and less were being used afield. I still have safe queens as owning and appreciating a knife can be exclusive of using it but there is a guilt of "nonsensicalness" about Jonseing for a knife only to put it in a safe.
Today I am blessed to own a bunch of knives and there are safe queens, users and keepers - that latter category sometimes being a duplicate of a piece in one of the former categories.
So where does Becker fit into all of this for me? They are the users. They excel at their intended purposes, easier to keep keen afield than the vast majority of knives irrespective of price and, on the subject of price, are at a level where they can be used and even abused perhaps not with abandon but certainly freely. If there were Becker knives earlier in my life - my journey could have been less circuitous.
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