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

When you find a knife on the ground at a Boy Scout Camporee, and wonder if you should mention it to any of the other scout leaders who are hanging around the camp you happen to be walking by. I did mention it... grudgingly. It had rust spots, so was not likely lost this weekend, but more likely in the Fall camporee back in October.

But, if a scout came looking for it, I really would have given it back. :o

It was an 8 year old serrated Kershaw Leek, btw. Score! :D
 
K.O.D. said:
I'd never heard of Budk until I joined the forums, and have been buying knives a long time. Then randomly, I get a BudK catalog in the mail. At work! WTF?
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How had you never heard of budk? Them and United Cutlery were two of the first knife companies I heard of, had I not found these forum found Cold Steel while perusing Amazon I'd probably have sunk a fair bit of cash into them. They entrap quite a few newbies.
 
When The high point of your week is to find that a thread you started on Blade Forums is still going after 5 days and 7 pages. 😃 (I think I need to reevaluate my life decisions) :D
 
When you get up at 7am so you can make it to the post office before they send the drivers out, so you don't have to wait an extra 2-3 hours.

When you drain the majority of your money market and brokerage accounts to buy high end custom. You justify it by telling yourself they hold their value just as well, and you can recoup your money just as fast.
 
When you realize you need to have a knife not because of the good things you have heard about it, but because it has a steel that you have yet to test for yourself.:D
 
syco1138 said:
How had you never heard of budk? Them and United Cutlery were two of the first knife companies I heard of, had I not found these forum found Cold Steel while perusing Amazon I'd probably have sunk a fair bit of cash into them. They entrap quite a few newbies.
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I guess it wasn't really around when I was growing up. I never bought the cheapo knives. I got my first "nice" knife (that I purchased with money from my job) when I was 18. It was a SOG Pentagon Elite, the old liner lock version. I unfortunately lost that knife around 2005. For my 19th birthday I got a SOG mini X-Ray Vision. Still have it, its beat to hell.

After getting the SOG, I didn't really get into knives all that much. Between then (1998) and 2013, I had other things preoccupying me. Mostly spending my money modifying my car, learning guitar, guns, and on home audio stuff. I'd bought knives here and there, but up to 2013 my collection was sparse:

CRKT M16-12Z POS knife
SOG Mini X-Ray Vision
SOG Trident Tanto TiNi (that's a mouthful) which I gave away here on BF.
SOG Flash 1 (sold)
SOG Seal Pup

In Nov 2004 I sold my heavily modified 1992 Camaro RS V8 (400~hp), replaced it with a 2001 Ford Escape V6 4wd which I again modified, and it was totaled in 2011 by a drunk driver. I bought a brand new car, and since I didn't want to void the warranty, I've had funds available for other things.

I know I'm a knife knut because in the last 18 months I've dropped probably $4000 in knives. If not more. Granted, I've sold most of them, but still. I drained my savings in short order.
 
When you and your best friend make a promise not to buy a Lionspy before one another because its both of your grails. You debate your budget for this years Christmas knife exchange and its a very stressful endeavor. You say "hey when are we going to preorder the new 808" and texts like this are regular
 
syco1138 said:
How had you never heard of budk? Them and United Cutlery were two of the first knife companies I heard of, had I not found these forum found Cold Steel while perusing Amazon I'd probably have sunk a fair bit of cash into them. They entrap quite a few newbies.
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Sounds more like Gerber. Although Gerber at least has made an effort recently to sell some USA stuff in okay steel.

  • You know your a knife knut when your co-worker tells you he's going to order a Gerber and you have to act interested.
  • You know your a knife knut when a relative buys you a Frost Cutlery-esque flea-market knife and you quietly hide it with the intent to throw it away.
 
EDCanAdamas said:
Sounds more like Gerber.Although Gerber at least has made an effort recently to sell some USA stuff in okay steel.

  • You know your a knife knut when your co-worker tells you he's going to order a Gerber and you have to act interested.
  • You know your a knife knut when a relative buys you a Frost Cutlery-esque flea-market knife and you quietly hide it with the intent to throw it away.
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the difference being, Gerber is a manufacturer, Bud K is a retailer.

When your willing to eat nothing but hot dogs for two weeks so you can get a new knife. :D
 
When you hear that new email ring and hoping that its an email from the busse crew and that you scored something from the ganza!
 
ebidis said:
the difference being, Gerber is a manufacturer, Bud K is a retailer.

When your willing to eat nothing but hot dogs for two weeks so you can get a new knife. :D
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Hot dogs and Ramen for two months got me my Strider and now my first CRK! :thumbup:

You know you're a knife knut when a friend asks you how much your knife costs and you just say "Alot" to avoid any awkward conversations.

Or when you find yourself looking at desktop CNC routers because," It'd pay for itself in no time with all the custom scales I could make."
 
EricV said:
Hot dogs and Ramen for two months got me my Strider and now my first CRK! :thumbup:

You know you're a knife knut when a friend asks you how much your knife costs and you just say "Alot" to avoid any awkward conversations.

Or when you find yourself looking at desktop CNC routers because," It'd pay for itself in no time with all the custom scales I could make."
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Haha. Usually I just sort of grunt/groan and they get the message:highly_amused:
 
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