Why do you love your knifes?

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Hiddensalamander

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Hey guys, I just want to read some of your stories as to how you found your passion for knifes. Mine started the day my dad gave me my very first knife when I was 9.
 
Well I'd have to say it was a (joyful) accident I was looking at zippos on youtube and I found cutlerylover who, while doing a vid on zippo tricks showed a spyderco police......but I couldent really afford anything but (luckily) my dad gave me his kershaw skyline.....and here I am!

-niner
 
Pardon me for repeating what I have said before, but for many of us (me), if we own more than a few knives its quite possible that the hunt, the looking, the purchasing, the unboxing, the fondling and the using of knives is really just a means of distracting ourselves from our inner turmoil. The talking we do here about blade steels and grinds and scale materials is just the cover story. Some folks anesthetize themselves with drugs or booze or shoe shopping, but we do it with knives.
 
I tried the former (sans the shoe shopping) and now I much prefer the latter to the former. ;)
 
powernoodle said:
Pardon me for repeating what I have said before, but for many of us (me), if we own more than a few knives its quite possible that the hunt, the looking, the purchasing, the unboxing, the fondling and the using of knives is really just a means of distracting ourselves from our inner turmoil. The talking we do here about blade steels and grinds and scale materials is just the cover story. Some folks anesthetize themselves with drugs or booze or shoe shopping, but we do it with knives.
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While I agree with quite a bit of your post and the ways in which much of it applies to me there is a bit more to it than this, at least for me personally.

I guess my love of knives came from my childhood. I don't really want to discuss why my childhood was pretty much wrought with mortal danger but lets just say that dad worked for the Government in an unconventional position.

In any case I was, as a young kid, a fan of the Mad Max movies and all the knives and crossbows really made an impression on me. Yes, Dad would let me hold, study and disassemble/reassemble his gun (naturally it wasn't loaded when he would let me hold/study it) but that wasn't all that exciting really. First, Dad carried a gun just about every day of his life, still does. So I grew up around guns of all sorts and they were common place. Also the fact that I was a child meant that I couldn't have a gun of my own.

However, my dad did buy me a knife or two and explained everything relating to those knives. Starting with basic safety practices to maintenance to sharpening (natural piece of slate stone which works great by the way) as well as other types of stones and methods.

So it was the perfect storm of circumstances. I loved the Mad Max movies, I was too young to own a firearm, and didn't really want one at the time anyway and as long as I could demonstrate responsibility to my dad he was fine with me owning knives.

I remember lying in bed and just slightly turning the knife back and forth so that the little bit of light would gleam off the blade. I could lie there for hours on end just looking at my knives.

As an adult, I own several pistols and rifles but the truth is that the knife remains my first and true love.

Reminding myself that the knife is probably one of the most important inventions man has ever created and that the knife is responsible for the development of villages followed by towns followed by clans followed by kingdoms followed by the industrial revolution and then the information age really increases my fascination with this very basic, simple and essential tool.

It boils down to this, if it wasn't for the knife in one form or another civilization could be a dream of a distant future while we sleep in our caves and mud huts. The knife is one of the first tools and definitely the most important of multitasking tools that man has ever known.
 
I had my first experience with knives as a cub scout, but I was never really interested in knives. I earned my Eagle just before I turned 18. After I turned 18 I began to get really interested in guns. I had shot a few times before with my grandpa and he got me a Ruger 10/22 for my 16th birthday. I began watching a bunch of Youtube videos on guns and eventually found my way to Nutnfancy. I started watching his videos and got hooked. After a couple weeks I began expanding into other knife reviewers and after I got a job I bought my first decent knife, a Kershaw Skyline. That began my addiction. Yes, addiction. For the past year or so, I have bought about 30 knives, learning about everything there is to know (still learning). Some of you are probably gonna criticize me for liking Nutnfancy. Sure he has his flaws, but he is definitely a good source. Anyway that's how I started. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I have to cut back on my purchases because I'm moving away from California. *Que abrupt ending to post
 
powernoodle said:
Pardon me for repeating what I have said before, but for many of us (me), if we own more than a few knives its quite possible that the hunt, the looking, the purchasing, the unboxing, the fondling and the using of knives is really just a means of distracting ourselves from our inner turmoil. The talking we do here about blade steels and grinds and scale materials is just the cover story. Some folks anesthetize themselves with drugs or booze or shoe shopping, but we do it with knives.
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What he said.....

Welcome to BFC Hiddensallamander, if ya like readin' 'bout knifes do a quick search and start readin', there are quite a few threads about this subject already out there, read the FAQs, just read.

Even though we all love knives, we love to talk about and show our collections sometimes and I speak only for myself although I'm sure many feel the same way, your thread is less likely get the responses or attention you want because this question has asked a million times.

I believe there's an introduction thread somewhere if not go to general or any other sub forum an do an introduction thread, " Hello, my name is____ and I like knives..." this a friendly place people will say hello, ask what kind knives you like and generally talk a about nearly anything.

I apologize, I'm not tryin' to hijack your thread but offerin' a little advice to a new member of our community, everyone wants their threads read and replied to and the best way to do that is to phrase the title so as to accurately reflect what your post is about and then do a search to see if your post has been done to death already.

In answer to your op, I grew up in a family where we hunted, farmed spent a lot of time outdoors, also I grew up the son of a mechanic and have been in the trades as a mechanic and all the related fields associated with that type work for 50+ years so it's no stretch that I love knives.

I use 'em in play, I use 'em at work, as a machinist, I can appreciate the precision necessary in order to make a good one, the art form and functionality that a knife represents, I love the way a super sharp knife just easily goes though a piece of meat, the way a perfectly made handle nestles in my hand becomin' an extension of my hand.

I love way the contours, curves, sharp edges and lines all come together to make a tool that's not only functional but purty to look at too.


That's why I love knives, I hope that answered your question, now you tell me, why do you love knives a little more passion than just, "...cause my dad gave me one at 9" , ya gotta give a passion to get it, again, welcome to the forums.
 
Due to some medical problems and a 3 month stay in the hospital/rehab, I sold off a LOT of my knives in order to have a zero balance on what I owed. So in starting over I decided to take my time and to buy only the knives that really appealed to me, that really fit the requirements I set, and that is what I have done. So far I have purchased a total of 8 knives, all folders, to go with the 4 knive's I kept. The reason I love the knive's I have is that they all fit the two standards I mentioned above, and many are repeats of the knives I sold, of the knives I really, really liked. Not all the knives I previously had fit the standards I have now set, so if for no other reason than that I'm pleased with all the knives in my small, but growing, collection.
 
When I was four or five years old I didn't comprehend what sharp meant. I very clearly remember the serrated steak knives my dad used thinking that the bumps(serrations) were what cut(tore) stuff. I picked up a knife with a long wavy blade(bread knife) and ran it along my thumb. I thought, no way can this cut anything, the bumps are too round. Well I cut myself and I instantly understood what sharp meant. I've been fascinated with knives ever since. I remember not understanding why my parents wouldn't let me take my knife collection to show and tell in second grade. At 41 years old, I now understand. I still have a few of the knives I had when I was 7. I literally got "bit" by the bug very early.
 
I'm taking up History, now on my sophomore college year and I figured learning the fighting arts of the past is a very cool thing. I'm done with the Arnis and now learning how to properly wield a bowie knife and tomahawk, how to throw shurikens, and hopefully wield various swords.

But I really love meh bowies. They're fast, stable and lethal. I have no problems ranging them because I have longer arms than most.
 
A good knife is like a beautiful woman: elegant, sexy, you long to touch all it's curves...and it cuts shit.
 
I started on my own.
No one got me started.
I always liked pocket knives.
Little did I know that would bring me to where I am now lol.
What I love about them is the simple usefulness. On top of that, I love learning about them. The materials, steels, etc. Feeling all sorts of quality, trying different locks, etc.
I've refined my likes a lot and have a few over a dozen now.
I still have a few that aren't exactly what I want so I'm working on moving them for something different.
I just love knives and everything about them. But I do have my preferences. =]
 
Let me first apologize for making my first post on this forum a bit of a necro-post, thread's more a couple months out now... I've always loved knives, particularly folding knives. Even at a very young age(2-3). I'm sure I couldn't possibly have articulated why as a child, I just did. They were cool. As mentioned... "they cut shit." Now though, as I dive head-on into adulthood, I get it. I like knives for the same reasons I like most things that I'm passionate about. They fall into the area where engineering meets art. Where form blends seamlessly into function. A knife is just a knife. A wedge formed in such a way as to be able to split or cut. A tool to be used everyday. But finding that perfect knife, like that perfect pen or the perfect car can make the mundane task for which it was created... special. That's why I'm here.
 
As a child I always liked knives, my father says our lineage included warriors, mostly farmers.

so we all have worker\tools using hands.

anyways, im became a sushi chef and was pleased to find out id be using about the sharpest knife (12" single bevel blade) there is.

literally you cannot put any amount of pressure on my polished yanagi ;)
 
It's not the knives but the people you meet along the way and the endless knifelore we get to share. Knives have been with us for a very long time and they have been an important part of every culture at every period for nearly everything we have ever done, and will continue as one of our most important tools until our species is extinct. Even in the most knife-phobic places there are knives all around you everywhere that you go, if it is not the pocket knives and fixed blades that we like to collect, then it is the blade that cuts the paper on your adding machine or tape dispenser, your scissors , your letter or can opener,...the list is nearly endless.

n2s
 
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My dad bought me a Case canoe for my 8th birthday, all over from there, it's still my go to whittler. There's just something primal about a sharpened piece of steel, I love the balance of elegance and power in a good knife.
 
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