What started you?

Anything can be a tool. Everythings can be a weapon. Anything can be a weapon, and everything can be a tool.
 
When I was a kid I don't know exactly what started it, but I thought of knives as weapons, and I loved most weapons. Not in a real violent way, but making bows and arrows out of branches and string. Slingshots, branches that look like rifles, PVC pipes as swords. And when my parents let me, I'd get some cheap knives from the surplus store or flea market with skulls on them. Usually duller than a spoon and poorly made. In highschool and up I had more girls and cars on my mind. Often carried some crappy folder in my backpack, which was very much against the rules, but never thought much of it.

Ended up holding down several manual labor jobs and finding the value of a good knife as a tool. Unfortunately there were more misses than hits until I got my first Spyderco. It's been all downhill from there :p

Now knives are 100% tools to me. Sure, I get the odd idea in my head about needed to defend against a rabid dog or mugger, but that's a slim chance, and doesn't really factor into how/what/why I carry.
 
as far back as I can remember , I was either watching or helping my grand dad butcher our meat .
I was kinda aware of the potential of a knife to be used to kill since an early age , and the mess it can make doing that . There have been a couple times when situations got really tense and I was considering using my knife , but then it was only as a last resort , fortunately , words worked better , violence was avoided totally .
For me tho the hunt was always to get a knife that could put up with rough treatment .. like skinning a sheep that had been out in a sandstorm wearing a year and a half worth of fleece ... and keeping its edge .. if youve ever done it , youll know what it does to knives .

I found a few production knives that Im happy to use , I found high speed steel .. and I make some knives of my own .. that stuff is addictive tho .. like really addictive .. Im kinda ingorant about the details of it,I scab machine shops and buy big hacksaw blades when they are cheap , make a few knives..they end up being sold / given away or just plain stolen .. so I repeat the process.. but seriously ..once you begin using a blade thats got a rc of 60+ that you are not afraid to flex and pry with ( within reason,near anything will break if you put it in a vice and use a cheater bar ) , and that sharpens as easily as a 1095 with rc around 56-58 .. its kind of a game changer, was for me anyway
 
When told as a kid, "don't play with knives or dangerous things"The first thing you wanted to do was get a knife, a box of matches and petrol (gasoline) fortunately guns and explosives weren't available. To any kids reading this don't be like me.
 
I'm having trouble understanding how so many people can say, "I've never considered using my knife as a weapon!"

If you were being mugged or placed in a similarly life-threatening situation, I'm pretty sure you'd think of your EDC knife as a weapon.

I've been to Iraq twice and Afghanistan once, and I've always carried a knife. I've carried it in the even that I have to engage in hand to hand combat, but I've mostly used it for opening MREs!

As for the answer to the thread, it'd be more "who started you?". My dad collects knives and I quickly fell in his steps.

In the civilian world, I use my knives mostly for opening packages, feather sticks, processing fish and game, etc.
 
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