You know you're a knifenut when

elkins45 said:
When the thing you hate most about flying is being separated from your knives for three hours.
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Or when you refuse to fly because you believe you should "never go anywhere without a knife."

I'll drive -- it's only 34 hours!

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You have paper slivers and slices balled up everywhere and when you hear your first and middle named yelled by your wife you know whats up.
 
link2derek said:
Or you take your sharpening kit to your family's Thanksgiving to properly sharpen their kitchen knives . . . and they expect it . . . every year.
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I had better take my sharpening kit at Christmas - Mum's knives are probably due for another sharpen. I don't know about 'properly' - I don't think that the knives get sharpened at all unless I do it. I only sharpened them last year because they are horrible to use - It's hard to find a knife that it actually sharp at mum's place.
 
You know way more about knives than the knife dealers in your area.

You know your favorite blade length for a folder down to the tenth of an inch.

You've stopped showing your friends and co workers all your latest additions for fear that they will think you're wierd.

Your significant other still knows nothing about the last 4 knives you've bought.

You know the USPS shipping schedule and tendancies by heart and buy and sell knives in accordance with that schedule.

You sometimes discovery quality knives boxed up in your closet that you forgot you owned.

You search out new activities and sports to give you an excuse to buy new knives tailored to said activity.

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When getting a new knife in the mail, and sneaking it into the man room resembles a covert-op in making sure the wife doesn't see it, because this time gentleman she will kill you!!
 
elkins45 said:
Two related ones:

When the thing you hate most about flying is being separated from your knives for three hours.

When you don't really NEED to check a bag, but you do anyway so you'll have a knife waiting for you when you get off the plane.
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This, totally. When you justify driving 1000 miles instead of flying, just so you can keep your knives in your pockets.
 
Gadgetaholic said:
In all fairness you would have to agree that no knife = partially dress at most. Seriously, no knife at all? Not even a SAK? Surely it is not decent to leave the house in such a state!

While reading this I was eating a nice T-Bone steak, before that while the steak was cooking I was sharpening the knife on a strop - but that's hardly unusual is it? I mean the knife was sharpened a whole week ago and since then it has cut some food and been through the dishwasher. This was just a kitchen knife, some sort of paring knife - I have steak knives but I prefer plain edge to serrated. I don't know if this qualifies as a knifenut trait - surely everyone likes to ensure their knife is 'shaving sharp' before they eat a steak?

What about looking forward to being home alone so I can get some quality sharpening in? I don't know why the other members of the household roll their eyes anyway - there is nothing unusual about a person getting in a couple of hours of good sharpening time, surely?
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Ah, I got one more:
When you cut your steak with a plain edged knife. Non knife nuts cut steak with a serrated edge.
 
Sep said:
Non knife nuts cut steak with a serrated edge.
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You have to wonder why the barbarians don't just tear it with their teeth! A really sharp plain edge will slice the steak so much better than any serrated blade will. The hardest thing for the budding knife nut is deciding which knife to play with when you go to eat that steak - I quite like my Opinel knives, they are fantastic slicers.

Of course the non knife nuts often lack a sharp knife and a serrated edge beats a blunt plain edge.

You know you are a knife nut when you possess a number of knives that are actually properly sharp and you keep them that way.
 
Gadgetaholic said:
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You know you are a knife nut when you possess a number of knives that are actually properly sharp and you keep them that way.
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Pft, that's nothing.

You know you are a knife nut when the dullest knife you own can whittle hair.
 
YKYAKN when you see a person across the room/mall with an exposed knife clip and you have this undeniable urge to acost them and say "I'll show you mine if you show me yours"

YKYAKN when you have a cutting task come upon you at work and you have to pause to think about which knife you have on you will perform said task the best.
 
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