Why do you have knives?

Keith Montgomery

Keith Montgomery

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What is the reason that you have knives? For me it is that I love the feel of a good, well balanced knife in the hand. It is wonderful to have something that will do whatever chore you ask of if it, and when well made, will go on doing it long after I am gone.

The other reason that I have knives is because of the personal relationships that I have developed with some of the wonderful people in the industry.

Some people collect knives for the sake of collecting. The same way you would collect coins or trading cards. There is nothing wrong with that, it is just not for me. If I did not love using, holding, looking at and sometimes fondling knives, they would be of no interest to me as something to put in a display case or in a drawer, never to be used for what they were intended.
 
I agree. The pleasure for me is in the carrying/using/handling. I love the ability to pick up and handle a finely-crafted piece, whether custom or manufactured.

We live in great times for this "addiction". I always look around antique shops when I'm "on the road" and I'm always amazed at the folders in the display cases with simple hammered pivot pins.

Our forefathers did not have even a fraction of the quality choices that we take for granted today.:cool:
 
Knives are essential tools for any number of purposes -- including utility and self-defense. You'd have to be some sort of tool-rejecting ape not to have any knives at home.
 
I carry a knife because they are a very useful tool. I use mine every day to open or cut stuff, and my co workers that don't carry always know I have a knife on me and will ask me to open/cut things for them. A knife is part of what I put on each morning when I get dressed. I don't feel fully dressed unless I have a blade in my pocket.

I gave my brother a Browning lockback a few years ago and he wore out the lock!! When he is setting and pondering something or talking on the phone, he will constantly open and close the knife (maybe he finds the walk and talk sounds soothing). At any rate, I gave him a Browning Presentation lockback last year to replace it and have another setting on shelf at home to give him when he wears that one out..

I also enjoy the sense of kinship that carrying a knife provides. When I see a clip on complete stranger's pocket I can go up to that person, talk and compare knives for a few minutes, and we both walk away with a smile on our faces from the brief interaction.
 
Hey Elvis, you need to re-bevel your mackarel!

Geobar - anybody ever tell you that you look a lot like Winston Churchill?


My carry knife has become like my watch...if I forget it, things just don't feel right. It's become an indispensable daily tool...
 
Originally posted by Elvislives
They're easier to cut things with than my mackerel...
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--have you tried storing your mackerel in a pyramid? Oh, I guess I should answer the question too. I have knives to cut things.
--Josh
 
I have knives 'cause my teeth are no-longer sharp enough to cut everything that I need to cut through-out my day.:).

...And I buy REKAT folders 'cause I like to "tinker" (to make them "right").:D.
 
I don't know.
I am sitting here with a Snody Karma Kozuka in my left hand and a Snody Bushido in my right hand and I am typing with a 7 1/2" Broadwell fighter gripped firmly between my teeth. I just received all 3 knives 4 hours ago. I have a $1500 custom on its way.
I don't know.
After only 8 months of starting this, I have more than $6300 in knives (a mere pittance compared to most, mind you), not including shipping, customs duty, and all the knick knacks required to keep my knives polished and sharp and continually ready to slice n dice.
I don't know.
I am thinking that with $6300+ I could have bought the new Honda 600, or an awesome 1meg server with all the bells and whistles. But then there are two other customs, I am arranging to have made so forget it.
I don't know, OK :mad: I just do, OK. So get off my back allready.
ps Does anyone know when Les Robertson is going to be receiving some new knives? And when is my number coming up for the new Ultratechs?
Rad
 
I own knives, because they are a tool for every day life. They are an essential for most work, and many other tasks around the office, farm, ranch, home, river, or wherever you can think of. I also like the way they look, feel, and cut. Good quality knives are one of my weaknesses. I love a good knife.
 
To SLAY my FOES in MORTAL COMBAT!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Sorry, Had to do that. In reality I am an avid whittler, knives are necessary to that endevour. I appreciate knives for the functional tools which they are. The endless variety of forms a knife can take is fascinating too.
 
I would like to say that I like nice knives because I can use them as a precision tool. But that's not completely true.

The real reason is: because I like them. I'm not even sure why.

I would like to say that I need to carry a good knife to take care of everyday chores. But the truth is that a few months ago I didn't even carry a knife and I didn't feel the need to carry one. I got along OK with my 1" Swiss Army blade.

Now I find so much need for a knife each day that I don't know how I used to get along w/o 1.

Isn't life strange?:confused:

PJC
 
Because, as the man said when I arrived in-country in Germany in '75, "Pick your poison. Everybody here does something: drink, drugs, stereos, cameras, travel, or women. We all have one thing we do as our major activity. So just pick what you're gonna do and go do it!" Over the years I've collected lots of different items. Right now it happens to be knives. At least they're legal & cheaper than exotic cars (sort of ;) ). As for practical reasons, I've found a knife to be the single most universally useful tool I can carry.
 
Because I'm "sick". Sick,sick,sick!
And you're sick too!
You're ALL SICK!!!

Somebody stop me before I buy again!!!
 
I don't really know why. I just buy sharp shiny objects that poke and cut good. Whoa, I'm getting a headache from all this thinking...

Andrew Limsk
 
Why do I have knives? My ancestors didn't crawl out of the ocean, build a civilization, have agricultural and industrial revolutions, cross the sea, build a nation, and land men on the moon so I could open a bag of doritos with my teeth :)
I consider it the civilized, prepared, intelligent thing to do.
 
After reading the replies posted so far I realize that there are other reasons that I have knives. The one that I find most appropriate is simply that I would not feel right without them. If I were not to have a knife on me I would feel naked.

I wonder how many of the members of Bladeforums collect knives just for the sake of collecting. IMO that number would be very small.
 
The same question occurred to me last Sunday . . . we were opening bags of cookies for the kids and one guy was tearing them while I was neatly slicing them open. I guess I have been fascinated by knives since I was about 8. My dad came home from a business trip and brought me a little knife from a souvenir shop. Now, about 25 years later, I have bought probably hundreds of knives and I still use them at EVERY remote opportunity and have been known to sit and just open and close them while sitting at work or home . . . it is indeed a sickness and is contagious through my modem!!!:D ;) :D
 
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