You Carry a Knife Because?

I grew up on a farm and have had a knife in my pocket since I was a young child. It just seems to be something that has remained a staple for me. My tastes in knives have changed over the years but the knife has remained all the same.
 
Dekz said:
Am I the only person that finds all of these "because I can/none of your business/I KNOW MY RIGHTS!" posts to be obnoxious? :rolleyes:

This is a knife forum, nobody here is challenging your rights. This was just a fellow enthusiast asking an innocent question.
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I agree. Sometimes I wonder whether knife carrying gets a bad name partially because so many anti-social dudes are doing it.
 
To be honest I have no idea, I've just always had a thing for knives for as long as I can remember. I must just have got the knife gene from one of the folks something. :p

That and the fact that I'm a materials junkie to the max. There isn't really much else out there that is so simple yet provides such a wide choice.

We have all sorts of nice steels, carbon and stainless as well as damascus. We have things to play with like Aluminium, Titanium, Micarta, G-10, Carbonfiber. Then there are the natural products like stone, woods, bone, horn, teeth.

It's a dream I tell you, a dream......:D:thumbup:
 
Same answer as last time I answered a post like this one; Because I need a knife most days to cut a variety of items, and because I can.:thumbup::)
 
jab said:
so i'd have a reason to post in this thread.:p
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Funny... made me LOL...


there's maybe one day a month I run off somewhere without a knife and without fail find myself needing one, but I have my keys which technically means I have a knife because there's a vic cla on it..

I normally carry a hest daily, unless I'm going to be roofing then its my kershaw skyline which I've literally beat to death and I'm currently waiting for the tip to break or something but its still going, the other day I had it at work and was cutting lead roof jacks with it as I didn't want to come off ladder to get the right tool..
 
Been carrying mine since my father bought me one for my scout expedition way back like 20 years ago.

Now, i carry one for opening boxes, cut cables, prying old PBX open and other useful stuff in my line of work.

I find that a good knife is an essential tools for a self-respecting man.

So +1 for be prepared.
 
I can manage just fine without a knife but it's nice to have when a cutting situation arises. The main reason I carry is because I think knives are cool.
 
I've carried knives on & off since I was a young child. My dad who was a hillbilly from Arkansas, and quite an outdoorsman, taught us early in life to respect and properly use firearms and knives. I remember seeing him use his pen knife to do everything from peel apples to clean animals. Strip electric cords to incises and drain abscesses (sterilized with a flame of course :-) ).
I've followed in his footsteps, and always had a knife close at hand for everything from the daily mundane chores to the chance emergency.
My most common uses are to open mail and packages or to trim photographs.
 
I EDC a Leatherman Wave & a Victorinox Cybertool - that is 4 blades between them. I carry them because my job as a computer tech causes me to need some of the tools I have, quite often I just need the small blade on the Cybertool to open packaging and no one around me freaks out at the sight of a small blade on a SAK. I also have a Leatherman K502x in my jacket pocket just in case I need a bigger stronger blade - I generally don't need it, but I carry it anyway. I also carry 3 flashlights & a lighter - I like gadgets & I like being prepared for whatever the day may throw at me.

Of course all the blades I have on me are 'scary sharp' - it is amazing how little time on a loaded strop it takes to get a SAK blade beyond 'shaving sharp'. I have a habit of testing a blade by shaving some arm hair and then saying to myself "well, it does shave arm hair - but it isn't quite as sharp as I like".

Generally I try to use the small SAK blade most of the time, so most of my maintenance work is using rubbing alcohol for cleaning the sticky tape stuff from the blade and then a minute on the strop to get that blade as sharp as I like it to be. Meanwhile the other blades I carry remain super sharp and ready to handle any task that may come up - they are clean, sharp & ready to cut!

The real question that should be asked is: "You don't carry a knife because?"
I wonder if the answers would be:
"So I can annoy someone else by asking to borrow theirs"
"I lack the foresight to realise that I may need to open a package and need a knife"
"I prefer to hope that I can get by rather than be prepared"

With the idiots that would borrow and damage your knife because they never carry their own I can't help but think there should be a law that everyone should be required to carry a SAK as a MINIMUM requirement. It would make life easier when someone encounters a bottle that requires a bottle opener or a package or . . .
 
Dekz said:
Am I the only person that finds all of these "because I can/none of your business/I KNOW MY RIGHTS!" posts to be obnoxious? :rolleyes:

This is a knife forum, nobody here is challenging your rights. This was just a fellow enthusiast asking an innocent question.
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Says the Canadian.:rolleyes:
 
Gadgetaholic said:
The real question that should be asked is: "You don't carry a knife because?"
I wonder if the answers would be:
"So I can annoy someone else by asking to borrow theirs"
"I lack the foresight to realise that I may need to open a package and need a knife"
"I prefer to hope that I can get by rather than be prepared"

With the idiots that would borrow and damage your knife because they never carry their own I can't help but think there should be a law that everyone should be required to carry a SAK as a MINIMUM requirement. It would make life easier when someone encounters a bottle that requires a bottle opener or a package or . . .
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:thumbup:
 
stabman said:
Real mature.:thumbdn:
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Exactly what is immature about finding it hilarious that a Canadian is lecturing Americans about being too guarded about their rights? You gentlemen are so very sophisticated.
 
B Hess said:
Says the Canadian.:rolleyes:
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Your previous answer on this thread was "because I can". If NKP get scared or annoyed enough by punks flipping and brandishing one-hand opening knives, they can vote to ban it as dangerous items. Or, at least require concealed carry permit for it. It HAS happened for autos and balisongs federally and in many states. It can happen again, and in New York it HAS happened.

You can be a good ambassador of knife carrying crowd and convince NKP that knife carrying is OK, or you can be a jerk, flip them off, and make them vote to ban knife carry.
 
B Hess said:
Exactly what is immature about finding it hilarious that a Canadian is lecturing Americans about being too guarded about their rights? You gentlemen are so very sophisticated.
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Being condescending for no good reason is never cool.
Especially when this thread has nothing to do with rights at all.
It is about personal reasons we chose to carry knives, not an intrusive government thing making you justify what you purchase, like, or carry.
I'm beginning to get sick of those who get all riled up before the hat is even dropped.
This is a knife discussion board.
Discussion, not enforcement or anything even close to it.
Some of you are awfully sensitive for no good reason, and it gets old.
 
stabman said:
Some of you are awfully sensitive for no good reason, and it gets old.
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agreed, I could whine about someone who responded so boldly as to say "cuz I can" or "its my rights", but I take it for what its worth and move on, I've followed this whole thread so far and there are very interesting statements so far. We don't all agree that's what makes opinions, every FORUM has them..

It brings me back to my first knife which I believe was a Case pen or something similar, just a whittler I think my grandpa gave me, being from Los Angeles I'd visit my grandparents and other relatives in Ohio for a good part of the summer, man I loved that time, I thought I was a county boy, carried my grandpas knife, shot .22's, burned trash:eek: picked corn, snapped green beans (could have used my knife).. then back to LA where you were considered Dangerous if you had a knife.. even at 7:D

I think everyman should have and carry a knife, it truly has merit.
 
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