What's the KNERDIEST thing you've done for knive's sake?

Ok, I'm guilty of most of these things (not Boink's) , but i have to add that when I try on pants, I always Put knives in them, and make sure there's no snagging on pockets, and that they lay right, before I buy them.--Joe
 
Ah, my insipration!!! Welcome Mistakeroo!!! That post in the 'Pocket Minimals' thread was too funny!!!

-John
 
I think it means something that when I opened the package on my new Inova X5MT LED light my wife said, "Oh, a new EDC."

-John
 
X5s are nice. Very good for general urban use. I get a lot more use out of mine than I thought I would.

Another knerdy thing to add:
Weighing the pros and cons of particular knives against each other for days, if not weeks, in the obsessive logistics process of choosing the next knife to purchase. Especially when on a tight budget.
 
My girlfriend bought a digital camera. First thing I took a picture of after 6 weeks... my knives :D

Great thread. Soon to be classic.

/Colinz
 
One night around 1:00AM when my girlfriend wanted to go to bed i gathered all my knives and put them on the bed for a picture of my collection...for this websight.

And oh yeah i must defend the suburban knife store clerks because i'm one of them. If you think talking to one guy behind the counter who thinks he knows about knives is bad, try talking to the 50 people a day who come in that know absolutely nothing about knives.:eek:

I love it when on very rare occasions people like all you guys posting on this websight come in. Its great to talk and learn new stuff.
 
A complete list for me would probably crash the server, but I guess putting ten years worth of use on a knife in a couple of weeks "testing" it just to see if it will stand up to normal wear satisfactorily is up there:rolleyes:
 
Oh man this is just too funny! I'm guilty of about 95% of the offenses listed so far, in fact I think I only have one original to add. Several days after I got to the reception station for Basic Training, I was stuck on a one hour guard duty in the middle of the night. There was no one else to talk to, so in my boredom, I made a knife wish list from memory, complete with prices, and added up the total cost. I covered an entire sheet of notebook paper and the total was something like $20,000. I'll have them all someday too, MU-HAHAHAHAH! :D

Oh, yeah, once on a vacation in Virginia Beach when I was a kid, my family rented out a house for a week. They didn't have any kitchen knives with the place, so the CS Vaquero and Ka-Bar I had brought along got pressed into service. And the Vaquero got dropped on the tile floor, of course. Right on the tip too, I was a little mad but it worked out all right in the end.
 
These have all been great responses, thanks everyone! Makes me feel less 'sad'.

Let's keep this going. Anyone else?

Thanks,

-John
 
Guilty of just about everything everyone has mentioned (I haven't showered with a knife..............yet ;)

--But I do raise my head and take notice whenever I hear the word knife......once I was flicking through radio stations in my car when i heard the word knife. I spent the next thirty minutes or so trying to find the station and hear what they were talking about :)
 
I had ordered by Gerber AR 3.25 online. The next day I was in maine without a picture. Here's where it gets Knerdy...

I cut all of the parts out of colored construction paper, put them together with brass fasteners and got it to open and close, full-sized.
 
About the Knerdest:

I live in an apartment complex where I live in an upstairs apartment. When I want half way decent pictures, I take the knives and my camera and go outside and take pictures of the knives on the concrete walkway in front of my neighbors and there kids running around. I take about 10-15 of each knife at different lengths and in different modes so when I transfer them to the computer I can have one or two good ones.

It has to look pretty nerdy to the those folks walking by with me while I sit there on my knees out in the open taking picture after picture:D
 
As for talking to "strangers w/ clips", I sometimes work the door in a bar here. It's a military town, so there are lots of clips in pockets. I've had good knife conversations w/ patrons at the door about knives- partially because I'm curious, and partly to let them know that *I* know that they're carrying. I once told a guy w/ a necker that his carry piece was "printing"- and that the big piece of knotted paracord around his neck was a dead giveaway. He first looked at me like I had antlers, then thought about what I was telling him & then he thanked me. The many joys of public service.
 
One of the nerdiest things I'd done, was when I worked traffic control at the Airport, I saw a guy with two Microtechs clipped to either pocket. I approached the guy and politely reminded him that he might wanna get rid of those two Microtechs, cause TSA are the spawn of Satan, and it'd be a shame to see two perfecty innocent Microtechs come to harm cuz' of them. The guy seemed amazed that I had accurately pegged his SOCOM Elite and his UDT. (Didn't expect that from a rental cop I reckon) He was actually pretty thankful, said he'd forgotten and his son hadn't reminded him. Others haven't been so polite or thankful. Kinda went straight to the defensive, I think due to the uniform.

While working the same job I actually mailed a couple of peoples knives to them when they couldn't pass through TSA, and held others for people. Also when I helped people open thier packages (usually by whipping out my AFCK in a single blindingly fast movement) I was very quick to remind them I carried a tool rather than a weapon if they said anything.

While working my current job I practice with my Bowie knife at least a couple hourse a night, and spend about another four hours working on my folders, sharpening, adjusting, cutting out handle inserts, etc. My colleagues find it hard to sleep with the constant "THWACK!! THWACK!!" of my knife tip hitting the ply wood...

Very few people have seen a hair on my left forearm in years, I often sharpen and strop knives before going to bed, identify knives in movies, and tell people what I think of thier Pong Chong Sow Authentic Emerson Rip-Offs. Understandably, I am considered a quirky character by most, but thankfully even my wifes friends still say I'm sweet and harmless inspite of it all.:D
 
oh, oh, I got another one. . . . .

My desk calender/blotter here at work (you other corporate desk-jockeys know what I'm talking about) is filled with doodles of knives. And it also looks like I tried to draw a forge . . . I think. :D
 
Getting myself and two friends stopped by sherrif's deputies, patted down and inventoried across the street from the local taco shop. Having 4 illegal knives confiscated, two legal knives returned, and 6 knives overlooked in the search (this counts my friend's equipment).

Getting myself and the same two friends strip search at the Tijuana border while smuggling a switchblade.

Routinely carrying a pocket knife in my swimming trunks.
 
Knerd? damn man! you're soundin' like a regular damn Rebel!:D

Dare I ask for further details on the stop across from the taco joint? (Hopin' you didn't lose a fortune in knives or anything)
 
You know... I sat here LMAO until I realized that I've done just about everything on this list. Yes and the shower thing too.

Here's what I have to add as originals:

1. When I was a boy and far too young to carry a pocketknife, according to my parents, I used to carry around a small nail file and pretend it was real.

2. A little later I finally convinced my friend to convince his parents, easier than mine, to go to the Solvang knife show. I recognized Gil Hibben right away and ran over to his booth asking for his autograph. He looked a little confused but obliged. I still have it!!

3. I've worked in Seacut, Seattle's great cutlery. Hell, I probably met a few of you, lol.

4. I also have Chris Reeve's autograph from some years later. Still have that too.

5. My knives are my prized possessions.

6. I've built my career around the love of knives, see signature.

7. My wife is now correcting complete strangers about knife use and knife related subjects.

Sigh* and there are no signs of slowing. On the bright side I don't feel like such a fanatic now :D
 
Runs With Scissors,

Re the Taco Shop incident, commonly known as the Foothill Blvd. bust. I came back from a family trip to Tijuana with several switchblades that got by my parents. I brought them up to LaCanada to show my friends and thereby stimulated an arms race with my buddy, Chris. He loaded down with everything handy while fortunately I left some items at his house (since it was hard to walk with things like 6" blades).

It was my firecracker supply that attracted the cops and we would have avoided the frisk if we could have handed over that contraband. Unfortunately we had run out. When frisked I lost a brand new Italian picklock-style pushbutton with 5" blade (I hadn't even sharpened it yet), in today's money it would be about a $50.00 item and also a 4" blade tab-type Mexican switchblade which would have cost about 1/3 as much.

Off Chris they pulled a homemade yawara stick, a 4" blade folding fishing knife, a homemade 4" blade gravity knife, and finally a 9" blade gravity knife made from a folding pruning saw. When he opened the last item to its 19" overall length the cop asked, "What the heck do you need that thing for?" To which Chris cleverly replied "In case we get choosed." (As another nerd point, I had showed Chris how to use pruning saws as gravity knives).

Fortunately they got an emergency call before they could haul us down to the Sheriff's station. They only returned the yawara stick and the fishing knives since those were legal. When frisked me they missed one short switchblade in my shirt pocket, a fishing knife behind my wallet, and a box cutter behind a sort of secondary wallet I carried (I guess I also had a scout knife in that second wallet. On Chris they missed a commando dagger up one sleeve and a 12" throwing spike up his other sleeve. They also missed the straight razor in his boot. My other friend was completely clean the whole time.
 
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