When waiting for new knife.....WHAT do you do?

David1967

David1967

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I recently ordered new neck knife. It will be my second custom NK but this time it will be the ultimate one. It will have some modifications (a little bit of my own design)which I am very proud of.

Now I just cannot wait to get the knife and I find myself opening the maker´s web site several times a day to take a look at similar model. It must be some form of masochism or so. Am I just torturing myself??

What do you do waiting for new knife??

David

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You're not alone, Dave.
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I'm currently waiting for a package from Discountknives. Unfortunately, I have to move out of this place by Sunday, and for sure I won't be getting it anymore (I did inform my neighbors about it though).

But since yesterday, I find myself peering out of the window more often than not, hoping that the postman arrives with my package on time.
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Oh well, I guess I'll just have to sit, wait, and do some digital oil paintings while waiting.. hehe..

Dan
 
The post comes at about 1:30-2:00. I start checking the mail box at 12:00.
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There are only two types of people; those who understand this, and those who think they do.
 
I usually re-read everything I found about the knife plus anything new I can locate. I will also handle all my other knives to satisfy the addiction.
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I also start researching my next possible purchase.


Before the knife, man got eaten....
 
What you do when waiting for a knife determines how far the disease has progressed.
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This is how I see it.

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[*]First, you tell yourself that if you start buying customs, you will end up buying less knives overall and be happier with the ones you have.
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[*]Then, you order your first custom. The wait is several months. No problem, you think, I can wait.</li>


[*]After the first month of nail-biting you begin going through knifeart.com, Arizona Custom Knives, Robertson Custom Cutlery, Levine Fine Knives, etc. on a daily basis, "just looking."</li>


[*]After a month of "just looking," you click on the button you've been waiting for a month to click on, and another custom knife is on its way to you. No wait!</li>


[*]Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the knife you ordered in step 2 arrives. When new knife arrives, go to step 6.</li>


[*]Repeat steps 2 through 5.</li>


[*]In an effort to break this vicious circle, you tell yourself that you'll begin making knives so that you won't spend money on other people's knives, so you'll spend less money in the long run. You start hanging out on the Shop Forum and buying equipment. Now you're really in trouble. You'd better have a very understanding wife.
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I'm deep into step 7 myself, there's no hope for me. Fortuneately, I have the understanding wife.
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Ryan

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Simple. Go F***ING CRAZY! Been 6 months already. Almost there. Just 2 more months. AAAAAHHHHHHHH!
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I always find a pic of it, download it into my hard drive in the windows directory, and save it as a bmp file, so I can make it a wallpaper on my pc. THEN, I CAN STARE AT IT ALL DAY TILL THE KNIFE ARRIVES!

That's what I do!

Mark
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Order a few more knives. The trick is to space the deliveries so you always have something on the way. Every time one arrives its time to order another. The wait will seem to go faster this way - unfortunately, the other half may decide to do you in.
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Obsess!!!

Not only do I download every decent picture I can find and store it on my hard drive, but I find every bit of info from refiews to manufacturer's hype, copy and paste it onto a Word doccument, and then insert the nicest pictures onto that same doccument so that I can have it all in one neat file.

I also sit with a ruler in my hand, trying to guess by the dimensions just how handy it will be for the given task.

Sick, truly sick
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play with knives
read blade forums
check the mail
tell everybody about the cool knife i am getting
figure out the dimensions on a ruler
dream about using it
repeat the above multiple times daily


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I suffer from all six steps of custom blade disease progression as outlined by Ryan Myering. I have been doing research on step seven, but have not actually begun to make knives.

Paracelsus, whose wife Understands that he has a few problems. Knife Addiction is just a small, annoying, and occasionally expensive, quirk.
 
Have you ever seen an addict during withdrawal?
That would be me waiting for the next knife to come to town.

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I've tried everything. Unfortunately, if the wait is long enough you have time to do or at least consider doing everything, including go crazy, buy another knife for some relief of the pain. The intensity of the pain depends on how long you think you should expect to wait. For a custom knife being made for you especially with a long lead time predicted fairly in advance, OK, can wait. For that knife that's supposed to be ready or in transit for which you've paid, every hour is a pin in your heart.
 
The wait is what I think drives me to collect knives. The sheer anticipation that dissopates once the piece is in my hand and I make the first cut. Sometimes the anticipation is overwhelming, and I find myself dancing to mambo music in high heels in a ritualistic effort to make the UPS man deliver my goods faster. Professor.
 
Whatever you do, don't worry. The knife will arrive as soon as the maker can finish it and chuck it in the mail
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If you're waiting on a custom knife, you might want to check out the custom forum and look for an oldish thread like this one. There are many great ideas.

Also remember not to pester the knife maker. Excessive e-mails, IMs, and/or phone calls are a no no.

Have fun waiting! lol

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