What's your neatest knife sighting?

Razoredj

Razoredj

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By this, I mean what's the most interesting or unusual or just plain cool story you've got that involves seeing a fellow Knife Person out and about?

A couple of years back I was at a restaurant at a Thruway rest stop with the lovely Mrs. Razor, taking a break as we traveled to visit relatives. As I contemplated the menu, I noticed a well-dressed, middle-aged black man threading his way through the crowded eatery. He was wearing a cloth vest, almost like you'd wear with a three-piece suit.

The back of the vest had gotten bunched up, though, and it was hooked on his knife sheath. The fellow was carrying a fixed-blade hunting knife in an ornate leather sheath. It was attached to his belt over his back pocket, with the sheath tucked into the pocket.

When I saw him again (on his way to the salad bar) he had corrected the problem; the vest, when properly draped over the small of his back, completely concealed the exposed portion of the sheath and knife handle.
 
A few summers back I worked backstage at the Concert for a Free Tibet in Golden Gate Park. The bass player for the band Sibo Mato is Sean Lennon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's son (he also played with Yoko at the show). He had a Katana and Tanto set strapped to the side of his amplifier rig. Never saw him pull the blades out, but the handle wrapping was first rate.
 
I was sitting in anthropology class at school and I noticed a Benchmade clip sticking on his pocket.
It was an AFCK...not anything real special, but to know there are people who know quality production knives is cool :)
 
The knife I see in the most people's pocket is the plastic clipped Endura. I've gone up to a bunch of them and asked, "Delica or Endura?" After all, it's not always nice to just go up and announce "hey, you're carrying a knife! Me too!" I figure it's more subtle to just mention the model names: that way only us guys know what's up. The funny thing is, most of them just reply, "huh?" Then I have to blow my cover :) "What's your knife: an Endura or a Delica?" Then they say, "niether: it's a Spyderco." :p

My coolest moment:
It was early in the morning and I was in a rush. I had to stop at the gas station to fill up. When I went in to pay I crossed paths with guy who was clearly working construction that day. I noticed his knives and he noticed mine. We each gave a nod and continued on our ways. The unspoken bond of steel :cool:
 
like every time i go to ag russell
like every time i go to the gun shop
blade show :p
and the lady at the computer store collects knives,too.

mostly the clips i see are cheezy knives,but occasionally you see a good one.

i wonder if non nuts notice the clips sticking out of my pocket.
 
On a survival parachute jump, when we all got down, collected gear and folded chutes, we noticed we missed someone... we all looking, and when we found him, he as hanging 2 inches (really) off the ground, someway strapped in real tight in the chute ropes. He was reaching for his Chris reeves project one, but he couldn't get it out of it's sheath (he could touch the butt cap ith his middle finger but not further without breaking his arm) At that time, that was like a WOW knife. He was nearly choking sooo I cut him loose with my delica. :rolleyes: . :rolleyes: . :D :D
He bought it later on from me. :cool:

That must have been the biggest laugh of my life concerning knives ! :rolleyes: :cool:

greetz, Bart.
 
There's a local restaurant owner here in Richmond who likes to parooze his domain during working hours to ensure customer satisfaction and to "keep the peace" I suppose. I noticed he had two BM's clipped in his back pocket, and what was either a small pistol in his front pocket or extreme happiness to see me, one of the two. Good guy, and even better food!

Professor.
 
At last March's East Coast Custom Knife Show in NYC, I was talking to Bob Dozier about the D2 steel he uses for all his knives. The discussion related to the stainless qualities of D2. Bob told me he uses one of his folders in his kitchen to cut up all sorts of things with no substantial staining problems.

Later, I saw him outside in the lobby, eating some ordered-in food with one of his folders. How's that for a "neat" sighting?:cool:
 
I just remembered another one:
You know how you see people flipping their keys when they get bored? Well, I was stopped at a red light and I saw a man walking down the street flipping his keys. I could tell by the way that he was flipping the keys that he knew how to flip a balisong. In fact, from the way he was flipping and spinning them he really knew his stuff. Never saw the balisong on him but I'm sure it was there.
 
When I was living in Costa Rica 21 years ago I saw a lot of neat knife work. Some of those people were nagicians witha Machete. I had a Buck 110 at that time and I was offered all kinds of neat trades for it. I eventually gave it to a friend of mine that worked on a farm in exchange for alll the guidework he gave me in the jungle .
 
The only time I've seen anyone carrying a <i>quality</i> knife was this guy in front of me at the movie theatre carrying a CRKT M16 in his back pocket.

There are some people at my school who buy cheap Frost Cutlery or Jaguar knives. One kid showed me his and said, "These jagged edges are for piercing armor. You could stab it straight through a car door." Ugh, ignorance...
 
It was at a bar in Atlanta a few months ago. There was this guy next to me playing with a very cool carbon fiber and titanium DA. (okay, it was the hotel and weekend of the Blade show) Turns out it was Larry Chew, with whom I proceeded to toss down a few with. Great guy. Ended up ordering a Covert Spitfire from him.
 
I actually see a lot of knives out on the boat I work on. I've seen everything from cheap Pakistani folders to Benchmade AFO to Spyderco Rescue. Just today there was a guy that had two CRKT knives, one hanging from his fishing vest, the other clipped in his waistband. I saw another guy walking on another dock about 20 yards from where we tie up, and saw the sun reflecting off of what looked like one of the all steel Spyderco folders.


Oh, Professor, which restaurant were you talking about? I'm always trying to find some place nice to eat while I'm going to school in Richmond. If it's downtown, it'll be right up my alley.


Chris
 
Best knife sighting? How is this one. One of my college interns at Georgia Tech wound up working for the NSA and I lost track of him. But I did introduce him to the girl he eventually married. SO, 20+ years later I am at the Allegro Terrace in the Four Seasons in Prague looking out over the Vltava River. I turn around and he is there with two guys in terrible suits. I catch his eye, he recognizes me, but gives me a quick, but barely visible "no" headshake and I turn back looking out over the river. Five minutes later, they are gone and I walk over and sit down at the same table. In one of the chairs is an honest to goodness HALO II. SCORE, I think and quickly realize that if I wind up as its owner I will have to check a bag.

This isn't to be a problem as one of the guys with the bad suit (and terrible teeth) comes back with a panicked look on his face. I have the knife in my hand and am not sitting in his chair. He says "excuse me" and starts looking around. I say "nice knife" and hand it to him very discretely. He says thanks and leaves. I never see any of them again.

I didn't even get to open the knife.
 
I see a bunch of knives on folks daily. Most are the usual, Benchmades, Spyderco, Gerber, yadda, yadda. The majority, of course, being $5 junk from large Asian countries.

The two that come to mind are:

1) Running into a group of Air Force PJs at a local sub shop, I see the "Usual Clips" when my eye hits a well used large Sabenza. Instant conversation maker. :D

2) Talking with some friends on the way out of a local Seafood place (of course the conversation was about knives and we were passing a few around). As a Gentleman and his wife pass us he stops, smiles wide and whips out a Microtech LCC MA and joins the discussion (dispite looks from his wife).

John
 
Walking down the street of Ann Arbor Michigan (college town)
I see a very attractive girl walking towards me, with another guy walking with her. I think its her boyfriend, turns out being her brother.

Anyway, he has a plastic handled, plastic bladed balisong. He's flipping it around, since it is, just plastic, and no one else is on the street. We're stopped at a crosswalk, when I purposly raise my arms so my shirt will lift up some and they can see my cheapo jag bali in my pocket. He looks at me, says "hey, you flip too?" We chit chat a little, when he says "yeah, i've gotton pretty good, nothing like her though" she proceeds to turn towards a building wall near us, to "conceal" herself from the street, and pulls out a new BM43BLK. And DAMN she was good.

I still see him around town, he ALWAYS has that damn plastic knife...
 
Got a nice email from a (lurker) friend that knows us both. Claims my old buddy was in technical sales for a European firm that provides electronics surveillance, monitoring. Not spook stuff, more like burglary prevention. Had the emerging Eastern Europe/ Eastern Bloc countries as his territory. Makes my knife spotting slightly less intriguing. But who knows, maybe that was his cover..........:rolleyes:
 
Well, I just started to buy real quality knives recently, and thus haven't had many neat experiences. One event does come to mind though. I went to a local Sports Authority in New York City, where I THOUGHT NO ON LIKED KNIVES. Anyway, I asked for a Lansky sharpner that was locked in a display case as if it were a weapon, and the salesman starts to talk about knives a little. I find out he is into some quality knives to, and tells me of a few small hidden away shops IN NYC that specialize in quality knives. Real cool for me, now I can actually try out a knife before buying it.
 
I got into a gun store on Oahu (Young Guns) to look at a few Tom Mayo knives they have on hand. The lady tells me with a wink, "If you buy it, he might autograph it for you." I gave her a puzzled look. There's a older looking guy on the other side of the shop showing a rifle to one of the gun shop employees. He comes over and introduces himself - Tom Mayo. I'd only seen him from the picture on his website (probably taken when he was 30!). At least he now has an updated picture.

But I digress...I ask him what he carries - he pulls out a Spyderco knife. :)

~Mitch
 
i cant decide whether its seeing stephen tyler of aerosmith with a folder on his belt in a jungle on the way to a beach on the yucatan peninsula or reba mcintyre ( i have no idea how to spell her last name) and her husband in one of my exam rooms with her having some sort of swiss army knife on her key chain and him having a buck 110 style knife on his belt in a leather sheath or johnny cash with a fixed blade on his belt in the elevator of the hospital where i used to see patients in nashville or randy travis showing my office landlord in nashville a display case full of case knives in his dental office with me just "barging"in on them unannounced....feverdoc
 
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