You know you are a knife enthusiast, when...

bladeninja said:
...When every time you watch a show, you specifically look for a knife and miss what the show was even about. Wife asks, "What did you think about the movie"? Response,"Huh"?
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Or when you saw the movie the Revenant, and you could name the makers of some of the knives when they appear on screen.
 
cbach8tw said:
When you have to justify why a new knife will meet your needs when you have lots and lots of others that will do the same thing.

When you show your child one of your favorite knives and she says "Dad, they are all your favorites."

When you have a knife but you want the same knife in a different handle material, steel, grind or blade thickness. Or when you want the same type of knife but from different makers to see their versions of the same style.
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Yes, yes and yes. Also, I carry the back up in my bag just in case I change my mind throughout the day. hahaha
 
Blues Bender said:
...when you know the difference between Bob Dozier and Don Lozier.

...when you take more pics of your knives than of your family/wife/gf etc.

...when you recognize celebrity faces but don't know their names and you recognize knife-makers names but don't know their faces.

...when you can justify a $500 knife purchase, but you'll drive 5 miles out of your way to save 2 cents per gallon of gas.

...when you carry a $500 knife in $12 clearance jeans.
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Right on, brother - I'm right there with ya'!

I was going to add, when you always notice another guy's pocket clip, and you instantly know what knife he is carrying.
 
115Italian said:
You talk to your knives.
You try to figure out the best way to carry a folder while showering.
Leave the house with two knives but then go back because you need to carry one more.
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Make like Charlie Mike, ditch the folder and keep a carbon fiber shiv taped to the inside of your shower.
 
onojoe said:
When you type any letter into google and the first suggestions are always knives.

These are acutual results
5 non knife suggestions... and I have no idea what quizlet is.
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Cracked me up, but oh so true.
 
Blues Bender said:
...when you know the difference between Bob Dozier and Don Lozier.

...when you take more pics of your knives than of your family/wife/gf etc.

...when you recognize celebrity faces but don't know their names and you recognize knife-makers names but don't know their faces.

...when you can justify a $500 knife purchase, but you'll drive 5 miles out of your way to save 2 cents per gallon of gas.

...when you carry a $500 knife in $12 clearance jeans.
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Phydeaux said:
You get more upset with yourself if you forgot to take a knife with you that if you for got your smart phone.

When you show your son 3 knives and ask him which one you should EDC.

Your co workers no longer give you funny looks or get paranoid when they see you with a knife.
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I can relate to every one of these. LOL!


When your on a cross country road trip, and you plan your rout according to the cool knife stores on the way.

When you grab one of your mom's kitchen knives to cut something and its dull, so you break out the Lanky, and spend the next 4 hours re-profiling all of her cooking knives.

Both are true stories.
 
When someone asks you why you would spend that much on a pocket knife, and at the end of the conversation it makes sense to them.
 
When you have a knife for every possible purpose under the sun... and can still think of reasons to buy more.
 
When, during the last movie I watched, simultaneously I held a bedlam in one hand and an adamas in the other, periodically opening and closing them, and my wife didn't even comment :)
 
...you have a "special folder" in your email with nothing but links to good prices on knives you want and grail knives you'll never be able to afford and a text document with a list as well.

...at work, you have a collapsed window of the BladeForum "Exchange" page which you check every so often to see if anything interesting has posted...
 
When you start looking at every surface you see based upon its suitability as a sharpening medium. Concrete park bench = good sharpener. Wooden park bench = pffft...worthless. "Hmmm...the tops of those plate glass end tables next to my mom's/girlfriend's/buddy's/whoever's couch would make great lapping plates for my water stones." Like that. :D
 
The point when you're afraid to talk about your knives when you meet other "knife people" because you're tired of being disappointed in the resulting conversation.

Now I start with.." You like knives, huh?.. You on the forums?"
 
Oh also, when your wife gets pissed because she keeps finding knives in the bed when she changes the sheets.
 
Well from reading the above I can see I have some serious flaws in my knife dudeness but here's one :

When you are done with a cracker box because you just ate the last of the crackers so you whip out which ever totally awesome, multi hundred dollar, hair whittlingly sharp, brutally strong blade lock equipped, multi heat treated, highly corrosion resistant, split second deployable scary to be hold by "normal" people sharp thing, that you are carrying today, that you wouldn't be caught without even though you are sitting there in your jim jams . . .

just to cut the bottom of the box so you can fold it flat so it doesn't take up as much room in the trash or recycle bin and don't care that out of the corner of your eye you can see, as you always do, that your significant other is shaking their head and thinking : "I could have just pulled the flap open with my fingers and folded the box flat in half the time, with out going through all of THAT".

But some how, you know that she knows, that you know, that she knows . . . that you would feel . . .

. . . that life would be incomplete and some how less satisfying without all of "THAT".
 
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True stories:
When you drop a drink and knife the same time on the carpet and its gushing out the can, but pick up the knife first.
When co workers were showing each other their phone backgrounds of their families and children, but mine is of my knife collection.
 
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