You know you are a REAL knife guy when....

When a line item in your budget is "X dollars for knives" :eek: (and you rarely stay within it) ;)
 
When you have less invested in your entire wardrobe than you do in just one of your EDC knives.
 
jonnieb27 said:
you cringe every time you see someone post a pic of his/her knife with the blade touching rock or metal....
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Along those same lines, I cringe when I'm watching a movie and someone is using a fixed-blade, and when they stop using it for a moment they plunge the blade into the ground. Sacrilege.

Here's a few-

You know you're a knife guy when...

...you look upon arm hair as a medium for testing the sharpness of a knife.

...you have favorite/preferred areas of hair for testing.

...you use different patches of hair to test different levels of sharpness (thick stiff hairs are easier to "pop" than fine thin hairs. If I can make the fine hairs "pop" then I know my knife is REALLY sharp).


After sharpening a knife recently I thought to myself- "What would knife enthusiasts do if we didn't have arm hair?". It's like a sharpness-tester that we carry with us all the time, and it replenishes it's self for free. :D
 
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When you can leave your phone at home but feel totally naked if you leave your knife at home...

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Ta2ude said:
and when this happens it is about the only time you feel anxiety.
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Totally agree with you... Two sources of anxiety, being without a knife and having your wife near your phone... A nightmare!!..

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When you "need" features that are like 2 years old because you think knives are crap without them. (Hints: lock bar stabilizers, particle metallurgy steel, voidless carbon fiber.)
 
When you give up on ever having arm hair and the hair on your calves starts to look like a chess board...and, when the wifey knows what kind of knife you got just by looking at the bank statement
 
Your getting ready in the morning and can't decide which clothes match the blade you've decided to carry.
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You're headed out of town, you're 20 miles down the road and realized you didn't grab your knife. You immediately U-turn, go back home and get your knife knowing you probably weren't going to use it anyway.
 
when you look at your edc rotation on the counter and realize you can carry a different one every day for 2-3 weeks...
when your pile of users are worth more than your car...
 
When you watch Robin Williams' movies and think how many knives you could test on his forearms.
 
You get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom in the dark, but then turn on your bedside light to look over one or more of your knives before you go back to sleep.

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You use ridiculous (to the uninitiated) excuses to buy knives: "...but honey, we need one in the kitchen junk drawer. And my tool box. And the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. And my fishing box. And my tool shed in the yard. And in the garage. And on my tractor. And on my nightstand. And..."

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~Chris
 
evancamp13 said:
When CPM154, S30V and S35VN become "cheap" steel options
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Haha, you know you're a knife guy when you know the names of the steels you just mentioned.

-Reading threads on a knife forum more than once a month.
 
You cringe every time your non-knife friends flip open your knife as hard as they can because they think it looks cool.
 
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