What led you to Blade Forum

Probably a deep-seated, genetically based character flaw, which I blame on my mother, whose whittled sabre (dated 1925) I still have. I started with knife forums, then somehow discovered this one, and umpteen knives later, it's been downhill all the way:D.
 
I've been collecting on and off for about twelve years, but avoided forums because they always seemed to be home to "professional posters", as it were. I remember some of this stuff on USENET - you know, keyboard commandos at the ready to do cyber-battle. There are also some forums that are too highly commercialized or actually run by vendors who are more than happy to impose their biases on the discussions.

So far, this place has changed my previous impressions of such forums. :)
 
ive been always fascinated by spydercos, and wanting to find more info on them, i found this place, which is "The Place to be"...for knives enthusiasts and more
 
Bought a CRKT Point Guard at a local store. Googled to find out if the knife I bought was good quality. As they say, the rest is history.

- Mark
 
Al Gore mentioned it to me over lunch one day.....

;)

pretty sure it was either a google search or mention of bladeforums in a issue of American Handgunner by Ichiro.
 
I first got into knives when I heard about the series of school shootings earlier this year. I decided I don't want to be unarmed, but I also didn't want to break the law, so I read up on my state's knife laws.

I read Jim March's article on CA knife laws, and he mentioned BF. So a few months later, I joined.
 
Somehow I got here from A.G.Russell, but frankly I don't know how (Why doesn't Russell have a link?). I do know my first try at a forum was knifeforums.com, but its response time was painfully slow, so I lost interest before I even started. Bladeforums.com has been amazing.
 
Cold Steel. Did a search after learning about how "tough" their knives were.
 
I have always carried a knife. I just used to not care what knife, had a cool mac tools lock back folder my dad gave me when I was about 10. One day I seen a knife with a clip at a gas station...... Mmmm that would be nice. Cheap crap, but it worked great (so I thought.)

Years later we moved to NC, and rednecks ='s fleamarkets :D


So I went to a few... (you know trying to fit in :p) and bought more crap folders. They didn't hold a edge, blade hit the scales. Just crap! Anyways my job at the time (home depot) required a knife. So I heard Gerber was good, and bought a $15 one. Now thats a High dollar one, that should be a good one! Right? $15 is a lot for a knife, this should last the rest of my life. :D

Fell apart, lock sucked... Yahoo'ed "knife" to get a good one. Now years later I feel I have some good ones. :D

Should I post pics? :D its funny, setting a sebenza next to a knocked off Tom Anderson.

BTW the first good one I got was the Native at wallmart. Hooked me hard I guess.
 
I don't buy Gerber knives anymore, simply because of bad experiences, and most of their knives are Chinese made. I am 27, and call me old fashioned, but I like a good, quality, American made knife like a Case. I like the Leatherman knives, but I know they are assembled in the USA with American and domestic parts, but my dollars are going to the men and woman who build them, and thats important too me. I carry a Leatherman Wave on me at all times, but before that I carried a Case yellow handle stockman with CV blades. That was a good knife and got lost in the mail when sending it in for warranty work. I since bought a Case trapper, but it is in my knife collection. My fondness for knives brought me here to bladeforums. I went to yahoo and typed in knife forums, it brought up knife forums and blade forums. I am a member of both, and both are great. Personally though, I like to carry a MT that just a pocket knife, because a pocket knife can do so much, but the MT can do that much and than some.
 
I was researching cutlery steels and found steel guide by Joe Talmadge.
 
I've been a knife enthusiast since I was ~8 years old. That would be about 1960.

A couple of years ago I was looking to choose a new knife and was looking for information. My googling lead me here. And here I have been hanging out ever since.
 
powernoodle said:
I lived in the back of a funeral home for 3 years during law school. Tiny room right above the embalming room and right next to the casket showroom. I'd hear the embalming machine whumping away all hours of the night when they would bring in a body. Sometimes there were as many as a dozen dead bodies in the building. And me. Alone.

So I bought a S&W K-frame. It was the only way I could sleep. While you can't stop a zombie attack, its common knowledge that a cylinder full of magnums to the forehead would slow a zombie down long enough for me to dive out a window. I'm serious. I've seen Dawn of the Dead, and Night of the Living Dead.

So the zombie thing got me into guns. Mostly checked out things at glocktalk.com. Own a dozen Glocks of all different flavors. Now I own just about everything that I could want in the range of handguns and long guns.

Then I got hooked on flashlights. Started buying a few lights, and spent a lot of time at candlepowerforums. Still do. Always have at least 2 lights on me. Sometimes 3. Maybe its that fear of zombies thing. You can't fight a zombie in the dark if you can't see it.

On day I bought for myself a cheapy Gerber EZ Out Jr. Not a bad little folder, really. Used the heck out of it, and played with it even more. People who dig guns and lights eventually work there way into knives, though not necessarily in that order.

So in essence, I ended up here by way of law school and zombies. Strange how things work out. :thumbup:
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That is one of the funniest stories I have ever heard.
 
I was looking to replace my lost, first run Milly, most of the links took me to BF, so I stayed.


After lurking awhile in the Spyderco forum and General Knife Discussion, I stumbled into the Busse sub forum. Oh well :D







Found a replacement for my Milly, now I can't remember where I put it :foot:
 
Was doing some checking on a price for a knife and unfortunately came across this site AFTER I bought it from TheBladeShop.com :(:o.
 
Repeated internet searches on topics of interest continually led me to topics in the W&SS subforum. I figured that I might as well join.
 
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Owned a Glock 78 Field knife and a USMC Ka-Bar (bought it from a local shop about 30 minutes before joining bladeforums:)) and did a google search for information about them. Lead me to bladeforums.

I've been short on money, and high on [knife] knowledge ever since.:D
 
I wanted some info on a couple of knives I inherited, and every time I looked up anything about them, Google would direct me here within the first three or four hits. I was hooked from that point on. Lurked for awhile, then signed up.

thx - cpr
 
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