Why do u like carrying a knife.

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Dr sharp

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For me it represents a few things. I use my knife when im fishing or in the outdoors. So for me just carrying it makes me feel a little closer to those things when im not doing them. second in a weird way it kinda brings me back to my youth, because my first recolections of a knife were from cub scouts, where i had a swiss army type knife. To tell you the truth 99 percent of the time i never cut anything with it, but its nice just knowing its there. which i guess goes back to boyscouts where i took the oath to be prepaired.
 
I am man, blunt of tooth and claw yet master of the World. Our Minds and Hands and the Tools they create are what allow that.

Why would anyone not carry a knife?
 
Because I like them and on occasion I have need to cut things. Why else would you carry a knife?:)
 
Slide you missed the point here...well yeah to cut things, thats the obvious thing , but this question wanted you to delve a little deeper. If we all carried them just to cut things im sure we could find a knife in a drawer somewhere. No this question was to see what stired the blade passion. So if i fallowed your reply, its like saying i bought a ferrari to get to the camp grounds why else would i buy a ferrari.. you missed the point but its ok.
 
I can't explain it. I started begging Dad for a pocket knife when I was 5 years old. Been carrying one since. I can't imagine being without one.

Paul
 
Hmm, well I don't have drawers with knives in them always handy so I really do carry mine mostly to cut things. I can't imagine not having a knife on me, how do people do it??? But I can't really explain why I like knives so much. Maybe there is some deeply imbedded phsychological reason why I like them, I don't know. All I know is that I've been into them since I was about 10 years old and I've always liked to have the best I could afford. Now some specific knives I like more then others because of when or how I got them. A couple were gifts from my wife and those are my favorites (especially since they consist of my small wood inlay Sebenza and my Dozier straight personal) So carrying those helps me to feel like I have just a little part of her with me all the time. Others I got while on a trip and they hold significance for that reason.
 
One reason for me is I like to think it's a personal, tangible manifestion of quality.
 
I always carry a knife because my family, friends, and co-workers expect it now. If I were ever without one, that's when someone would say, "Hey Bruce, can I borrow your knife?" or "would you cut this thing for me." I would be laughed out of my mind if I ever declined because I didn't have one on me. My wife doesn't carry a knife, she carries "me".
 
I carry a knife because whenever I need to cut something, I'm not near a drawer. It's nice to have one handy. It's even nicer to have a nice one handy!
 
Sometimes my knives almost equal a woman's jewelry, as regards how I dress: My EDC is my Sebenza, with dressier occasions leading me to the Stars and Stripes. Even though one knife should be adequate, I will often add a necker and/or a fixed blade. The Swiss Army Knife goes without saying. Each of them has distinctively different features that I appreciate, and each are better suited for whatever different tasks may confront me during my day.

Do I need to have all these blades with me? Perhaps not, but then how many women wear more than one ring, necklace, and/or bracelet? Why? Why leave at home something you enjoy so much? I'm not going to get to the end of my life and tell my kids to enjoy those things that were so valuable to me, yet I left them in a drawer for years, only taking them out to gaze at them. How many women leave their "best China" locked up in a cabinet all their lives, never to be used? I'm carrying 'em! ;) geegee
 
This thread should be moved to Blade Discussion Forum.
 
This thread was originally posted on our Chris Reeve Knives forum but I think the content is interesting for all knife people and there are probably many who would like to contribute to the discussion. It is gret that the passion we all have for knives creates such a bond among so many fine people!

Anne Reeve
 
I carry knifes because I sometimes need them to cut somehing. Besides it`s tradition in Norway to wear a knife, even if some lame leftist women/men try to convince us otherwise.

Knivlaus mann er livlaus mann (Knfeless man is lifeless man).
 
Well, in my daily duties as a Mall Ninja, a good sharp knife sure comes in handy. You never know when you might be jumped by a mall surveyor or something. :D
 
For many reasons besides the obvious - to cut things whether it be in the shop, on the farm, fishing, in the bush etc.

I have always carried a knife - as a kid in the scouts we were allowed to carry a sheath knife even to school if you had your uniform on. In the bush when I started work it was expected of you to carry a knife - everyone did.

Now being a knifemaker and owning a knife shop it is expected of me to carry a knife and I still need it for the same reasons I did when I was younger - to cut things.

Looking at it philosophically there is something primitive about the knife - it must be in our genes (and jeans)- its hidden in our memory somewhere. As a knife seller it is obvious that knives spark something in certain types of people, whether they be male, female, the poor or the rich, the roadworker or the accountant. These people just like knives and like to carry knives. 90% of them don't mention self-defence or survivalism - they say they just like knives and many of 'em can't tell you why. Maybe it goes back our genetic inherentance or makeup. Maybe it is about taking the elements of earth (ore), fire, water and air and creating that most beautiful of objects - THE KNIFE.
 
I have carried a knife for as long as I can remember and I feel more comfortable with one in my pocket. Not to say that it gives me a weapon against someone that might try and attack me but knives are very handy tools and I always try and have one on me at all times. I have gotten so I carry a knife IWB on my shorts and windpants when I am running or working out, you never know when it might come in handy.

I also like carrying a knife because I am the only one of all my friends that does so. They have all asked me at one time or another why I carry a knife but when they need something cut or pryed open, I am the one they look to.
 
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