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

I LOVE this thread! I found this forum by the referral of a customer who is a poster here. I am having a great time. (I am with you Owen, a surbaban knife store clerk)
Okay, so nerdy things done - well, other then YES to a lot of the ones listed already - making the pocket clip connections, catching things at movies, folder with "wish" list of knives in it......
How about being a Woman and carrying a knife...that is pretty nerdy. Trying to find a place on a slinky dress to clip your knife to...and then changing clothes because you can't. Being the one at Thanksgiving that your Dad hands the steel and carving knife to so you can get a good edge on it. Or if at your brother in laws....hiding in the bathroom while he uses the ELECTRIC knife to carve (i mean butcher) that turkey.
 
I just handed my wife one of my two new Spydercards for her to check out. She popped it open with her thumb then promptly closed it correctly using the somewhat unusual hole in the handle to access the liner. "Pretty cool.", she said.

I think one of the Knerdiest things one can do is to spread your infatuation (infection?) to others around you. It a beautiful thing.

-John
 
Let's see...besides owning way too many (it's just NOT TRUE!! But maybe it should be....)

-Calling names of knives on-screen(as well as calling certain people with knives on screen names)

- Knife within reach from any side that I may have to roll out of the bed

- Take knives into the bathroom

- Play with them when bored

- Compulsively stick and strop blades before leaving house (I won't carry it if it won't shave)

- Use in friends' kitchens, as their knives suck, and good food deserves a quick, clean cut....

- Give knives as gifts

- Give knives to pretty girls

- Carry two spares in my car in case I just want a change

- Actually took an afternoon to photo inventory(and still missed a handful)

- Admit all of this here on this thread



:D :rolleyes:
 
Talking about this thread with my husband and he throws in the reminder of the day that I got stopped for speeding and ended up showing off my knives to the state trooper (who was a SOG owner and knife afficienado) AND getting a warning instead of a ticket - maybe because I could tell him where to get a great deal on knives.....hee hee....
don't know if it goes under "knerdiest thing ever done" but it sure falls under 'because I love knives'.
 
Walk all the way from the kitchen to the back room so I can open the mail with my newest knife and not the one I've had clipped in my pocket the whole time.
 
Actually I have so many odd knife habits I tend to forget how odd they are. I have a sketch of a hunting knife that I am designing on my desk here at work, along with a length of 1084 steel I plan to use. Since I am an EE type it looks a bit out of place. At least a couple times a week I stop by the local Goodwill store to see if there are any interesting used kitchen knives there. I own something like 150 to 200 kitchen knives. Our friends now expect me to show up with my sharpening tools when I come over for dinner.

Back when I was young I did much stranger things. One thing that impressed my friends was all of the odd places I hid knives around my room. There were hollowed-out places in furniture to hide my illegal switchblades. I also kept throwing knives in hideouts that could be reached quickly. I kept one in a sheath taped to the underside of a shelf on my headboard. I used to practice throwing it into targets from my bed. Often I put a target on a chair at the door to my room. I could nail that target in the dark or with my eyes closed. I frequently had to patch holes in my walls.
 
Reading this, I can only have the feeling that "I'm home"...it really does make me feel a little less of a freak. A few observations from the previous writings:

Betts - Women who carry knives are NOT nerdy...they're dead sexy!

I often take a knife to the bathroom with me, to flick and admire; and here I thought I was the only one.

I have made several "conversions" amongst my friends, 2 co-workers, a nephew and counting into budding knife enthusiasts. For example, there are now three of us in my shop at work that endlessly flick open our Spydies and close them...rythmically. Very cool indeed.

I will definitely have to try showering with a knife...what was I thinking...but wait a minute, what do you clip in onto?

I long ago earned the reputation from family and friends for the "knifeguy", and have often seen looks of guilty alarm jump onto the face of my wife and others as they catch me watching them try to chew or rip open a package, and hear me sigh under my breath. They invariably then hand me the partially opened package with a look of sheepishness and resign so that I can cut it open for them.

My kids (5 & 8 years) are completely used to asking the question: "Daddy, do you have your knife with you...oh, which one is it today?" as they need something cut.

I too am constantly scanning television and movies for knife glimpses, and have rented several movies strictly because they were reported "to have a good knife in them..." or the like.

My right arm is mostly bare, and the rest stubbly. Everybody I know just expects that. I really like demonstrating this arm shaving technique to non knife people for the first time...fun.

Finally; Megalobyte - your story of "flicking under the covers next to the sleeping wife" just about made me fall off my chair. Damn, that's funny. As a matter of fact...

Many times I have gone to bed, then waited until MY wife was asleep only to then get back up again; either to "check the forums" one last time, or to get out a knife to fondle and flick for awhile before going back to bed.

Man, this is a GREAT thread!

Best wishes, Jeff/1911. :p:)
 
Well, I always carry a fixed blade with me in the car. I usually have two or three knives by my recliner along with the latest issues of Tactical Knives and Blade for commercials and dull shows my wife likes (trading spaces). I also like to practice opening and closing my folders as I am driving. I also get the questions from my friends like "well which one is it today"? or "How many you carrying today?" They know I'm harmless though!:) This is a cool thread! I'm not alone!!:D
 
Many times I have gone to bed, then waited until MY wife was asleep only to then get back up again; either to "check the forums" one last time,
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haha.. That's gold! I get called on that so much that I even feel guilty about doing so. I try to time it for bathroom breaks during Scrabble or a movie so it doesn't seem so bad.
 
All the stuff Boink and others do using Photoshop plus taking a knife that I like and making two or three copies of it with different blade lengths. Also adjusting the blade style. I'm currently doing this with a Bob Dozier knife.
Shaving my arm after sharpening a knife at night then testing it again in the morning to make sure it's still sharp.
The bathroom stuff.
The couch stuff.
Checking the forums all the time.
Occasionally having to resort to shaving hair off my leg or chest 'cause I've run out of hair on my arms.
 
For various reasons, my time this weekend to surf the forums and knifesites was really limited...and it was driving me crazy!!!

Jeff/1911.:rolleyes:
 
I was late for work because my CRKT Urban Shark had a loose scale and I HAD to find the dayumed Torx drivers to fix it. Yeah, I could have simply left it at home and took another knife out ofthe dozens I own but that would be like leaving a wounded comrade behind enemy lines...

Andrew Lim
 
Hmm. OK, I'm guilty of IDing knives in movies. But usually I'm looking at the guns and aircraft, too! I can't count the number of times actors run around with guns with no clips or locked slides or they use the wrong file footage of an airplane or call something by the wrong name(by far the worst was Top Gun... still bothers me but it was a crappy movie anyway).

I didn't see it on the thread yet... What about radio and computer repairs? Can't get much knerdier than flipping open a knife to do something stupid on the motherboard! :D

What about being too lazy to find a paper cutter and slicing it up on the table top(and leaving more marks of course)?
 
There HAVE to be some other Knerdy things some of you are doing...don't hold back...we won't laugh (much)...

-John
 
Every now and again, late at night, I go downstairs into the safe room, pull out 5 or 6 safe queens, align them in processional order, sit cross legged, arms forward and fingers pursed, and chant matras to the knife gods:
"hauuuuuuuum---hauuuuuuum --- oyeeeee oyaaaaay great knife gods, great wonderful knife gods, thank you for great wonderful knives, for cryogenic treatment and differential tempering, for AUS, D2 and 440, for kydex, micarta, leather and paracord, oh great knife gods, thank you --- hauuuuuuuum---hauuuuuuum".

Pretty common with most knifenutz I expect, right?
 
... during a Becker Brute search. Thank you everyone that had the courage to come forward and share things that are straight KNERDY!

- Our bathroom sink is kinda strangely placed too close in front of our toilet and I have ruined the tips on a 710 AND('cause I didn't learn the first time) an 806D2 while sitting on the toilet.

- Buying knives I'll never carry 'cause they're just soooo H-O-T.

- Keeping a knife photo album on my Palm Tungsten E and categorizing photos of past or present collections under "Friends".

- Reviving an old thread so newer members feel "They aren't alone".

- When playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, No matter where I start out, I always go to the Malibu club so I can pick up the Blackjack Marauder... :rolleyes:

- Knock and wake up my roomate(one of my best converts) no matter what time it is to share my newest "revelation" of THE knife.

- Knife Pictures on the wall :o

- Fret over an apocalyptic bug-out-run-for-the-hills-SHTF scenario where I have to CHOOSE between a which knives to take and which to leave.

The fact the some of you still got MARRIED makes me feel better... ;) :D
 
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