What Have YOU Learned Since Joining BF???

I've learned that I'm not alone...and that if ever questioned about my ever growing collection I can at least say that mine is but a thimble full compared to others out there.
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This is hard to quantify. Practical experience, whether using, making, or sharpening, is weighted on a different scale than theoretical knowledge. It is fun to explore the far recesses of cutlery geekdom in the company of fellow enthusiasts.
 
Ares1307 said:
I want to know a few of the most important things you have learned here on BF, good or bad. So post a few of the most important things youve learned on here and how you learned them.
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My visits here are cyclical.

I usually arrive when I'm looking into a specific knife. This forum is an invaluable source of information for me. I quickly:

• learn about the new technologies, steels, lock designs, and materials that have appeared since my last major purchase.

• get a sense of the overall market, what blades are popular, and what the alternatives and similar designs are.

• see a huge amount of photos and read a huge amount of experience that tells me if I'm on the right track, and gives me a better idea of the small details than any manufacturer or store site ever could.

Eventually I will make my purchase, and if I can add anything to the body of knowledge as a 'thank you', I try to do that. But sooner or later, over weeks or months, the newness wears off and the tone of some of the discussions here discourages me. I've recently learned:

• That I should treat people who don't share my opinion – the vast majority of the population – with condescension. After all, they're Sheeple.

• That it's acceptable to draw and brandish a firearm in order to impress/intimidate someone I'm having an argument with.

• That the world is full of Bad Guys who are just waiting for me to be separated from my pocket arsenal so that they can pounce.

… I've also learned that, when the next major purchase comes around – and there's always just one more – that I'll be back.
 
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I'm here mainly to keep up my typing skills, which explains 3700+ sacrilegious posts. Let's see, I like reading about knives more than flashlights, there's lots of nice knives out there, and Sal makes a lot of them. ;)
 
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I have learned more on this forum then what was humanely possible in my mind. I have learned to ask questions (even if they're dumb ones). Before I thought that looking at the knives I was looking at on eBay were the best manufactured knives in the world. Now that I found this forum, I can't stop getting on it. I look forward to reading just about everything on here. I feel like we're family and that if anyone attacked us, then we'd all stand up for one another. The knives that I'm now interested in are 10 times superior then the ones that I thought were the greatest of mankind. I'm learning something new EVERYDAY. I'm pretty much addicted to this website.
 
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I knew so close to nothing when i signed up that it might as well have been nothing. What i did "Know" was mostly wrong, and the questions i thought i needed answered were not even the right questions.

I knew NOTHING about steel. I didn't know that there were more than a few kinds of "stainless" or that "Carbon" steel was a whole different family, with entirely different strengths and weaknesses. I assumed that "stainless" was "the good stuff" and non-stainless was just cheap crap.

My most expensive knife was my Case Trapper, and i couldn't have told you to save my life why a person would POSSIBLY spend more than 40 bucks on a knife.

I couldn't sharpen a knife, and pretty much assumed that if it cut paper, it was "sharp". Now i can put a hair popping edge on one, and i'm STILL not happy with it.

I assumed that sharpening a machete with a hand grinder was just what you did, and when the blade got hot enough to glow, i gave it a second to cool down, then ground it some more.

If it weren't for BF, i wouldn't have the collection i have today, and i wouldn't even know i was missing out. This place has changed what a knife is in my mind.
 
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I really like this place and have met a lot of great people, online and in person because of this forum. That being said, I have also learned how to more quickly recognize troll posts and who not to deal with.
 
I've learned that it's actually OK to flick a Sebenza. Wait. Maybe not. I'm so confused.:D
 
that people here consider $100 a lot for knife
that people here like BK knives
that people here like simple design knives
that people here like old folders a lot
 
LMAO. I think $70 - $150 is a really good place to get alot of knife without breaking your wallet. To me $200+ is still alot but for a few knives I will pay that. $300+ is too much for this family man to spend, at the moment, on a knife when I am sooooo happy with what I have and what I can buy for much less cash. I still tell my friends that like knives but are not knife knuts to try and stay around $40 - $80 and they would be happy, of course I help them figure out which knives are better than others and actually what they are looking for.

Ive realized that Im not happy spending $100+$200 on a knife and just watching it collect dust, Id rather use it and enjoy using it. Im still afraid to break my knives but Im realizing that I can replace them... well some of them, I have one or two that I am going to buy duplicates of because they are either discontinued or exclusive and I know they will hard to find later on, and if I wait until one breaks to replace it Im going to have to spend double or triple of what I can pay right now.

I have also learned that just as there are bad people, there are very good people who will stand behind one another. I too see you guys as family, when my daughter was sick I came here to ask for prayers, and alot of people sent their prayers and kind words to my daughter and my family. ALOT of good people showed their support and prayers for a little girl that they had never even met... I was humbled by that.
 
I've learned there's only one true answer;

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I have learned much of what is already posted and also that taking good photographs of knives is a LOT harder than I thought it would be :)
 
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Besides the nuts and bolts knowledge I've gained from being a member:

-I've learned that not everyone has the same taste in knives and that this is a great place for anyone/everyone, no matter what turns you on, to learn about and share your passion for all things sharp.

-Recently, I've learned that there will always be folks who generalize and make blanket statements about brands/makers and that it's pointless to argue with people and their opinions, no matter how ignorant or ill-informed they seem.

-I've learned that knife collecting isn't cheap and that I need to make more money, or save better, if I'm to continue buying the knives I want. ...If only I could brush my teeth or wipe my butt with my knife collection.
 
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