What makes you a "Knife Guy"

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We here at Blade HQ are getting ready to celebrate National Knife day. We will be giving away Free t-shirts with every purchase. But in honor of you and National Knife Day, we want to know where you get your love of knives? What has made you a "Knife Guy"? We will be featuring your replies on our blog. So please, share with us and everyone else what has made you the "Knife Guy" you are today.
 
The sum of money I have spent at your website qualifies me as a certified NUT by any objective measure :D.
 
I think you are born to be a knife guy. Nobody on either side of my family has been until me. I can remember going to my grandparents' and staring at an old fixed blade remington hunter that they used daily. I wanted that knife badly and would still love to have it. I now have hundreds of knives and I still think of that old hunter as the one that got away.
 
When I turned 13, my uncle gave me my first knife. The way he used a knife as symbolism made me feel that knives were special. Things just took off from there as I acquired more knives, each one more expensive than the last :p
 
I haven't always carried a knife, but since I started using them, I haven't been without one. I will not leave the house without one, where I live would be dependent on the local and/or state's knife laws, and now I've joined a forum that is about knives. In the end, I just genuinely enjoy a nice blade to serve my purposes. I do not consider myself a collector, as I've realized over the years, collecting things can quickly turn into one's self being owned by the item(s). I do make sure that each knife I own is different; and the only knife I will consider to be like another I own is MT.
 
When I was very young, I didn't want to go out in public using the crutches I needed in order to walk, as a lad. My dad said if I did, he'd give me this interesting, very small pocket knife he had. A bit of a bribe, but it worked. Since then, I've felt knives are something greater than the sum of their parts.
 
My great uncle gave me my first knife, a Wenger Nomad when I was 7 years old. I still have it and use it. My father gave me a large folding knife from Case when I was nine. I've been hooked ever since. Spending my summers down in Texas, my grandfather (other side of the family) taught me how to shoot correctly use knives etc since I was 8. And hey, I 'm 36 now and still have all 8 digits.
 
I've loved knives since I was probably about 10 and got a little pen knife while on a family vacation, but I'm not a knife guy. :)
 
Knives are fantastic historical relics, often treasured and passed down through families for generations.

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I lived in the Sticks of Arkansas when I was a child, every single male role model I had during the 80's had either a Buck 110 or Buck 119 on thier belts, when I turned 8 my Uncle gave me his old 110 when he decided to purchase a new one, wish I still had it for sentimental reasons. Since that time I have always been interested in cutting tools, I never leave home without one and everyone I know has me marked as the knife guy and comes to me for things to be cut or questions about what to get.

My Facebook page is ridiculous, have pics of a hurdred or so knives I've owned, used, and gifted away. Just this weekend when camping I chopped up a 6-7" Alder just so I could take pics :)
 
It's been said so many times, that it's practically a cliché now, but "I feel naked without my knife."

We all have/had a knife that we "forgot was in our pocket," but we definitely know when it isn't there.
 
The inability to go anywhere without a knife. The urge to buy something when I come to this site.
 
Just enjoying knives for their usefulness.
Always having one (or two) with me.
My grandfather always carried one and gifted me my first, so that plays a part as well.
As stated, I also believe it's in your blood.
 
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I think I only own 5 knives that aren't kitchen knives. I'm not a knife collector.
But I drool over pictures of knives, research blades from around the world and throughout history.

And have recently started making knives.

So I'm not your average knife guy, but that's why I consider myself a knife guy, and why my wife says I would marry a knife if I could.
 
Some people recognize the usefulness of a knife and choose to prepare themselves for tasks both predictable and unpredictable by carrying one. I am one of those people.

Also, ever since I was a child I always thought there was something very "cool" about certain knives. And I just liked carrying one around in my pocket. It made me feel prepared, but I also regarded my pocket knife as my own personal little treasure. And I still feel that way at the age of 45.
 
All the knives I have randomly sitting around to fondle and carry as it pleases me. Also the large sum of money I have invested in buying all those knives. Ever since I was little I enjoyed having and using knives. Now that I'm older unless I am somewhere where knives are very strictly verboten I have one of some sort.
 
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