You might be a knifeaholic if....

When you stayed up late on weekdays to check the latest posts and woke up 4 hours later to check Himalayan Imports Dotd (i'm living off the other zone)...
When you started asking your mold maker what's their best shot at steel good enough to make knives and why....and furiously defended your own favorites...
When you joined bladeforums, Torablades forums, IKHRS, britishblades, ramanon, knifeforums, Australian bladeforums, Malaysian knife forum,Nihontomessageboard....just to keep up with the pace...

When you have to rely on your colleague so that your shipments go to their house and not yours...that your mum/wife won't use it to kill you later...
When you have a direct account with the maker/smith/shop and that's auto-deduction from your paycheck...
When you start collecting Millie just because they just released a mega-steel despite the same colors had already filled up your cupboards....
When alphanumerics on car number plates gave you illusions about 5160, 1095, 4140c, CPM154CM, S30V, VG10,REX121.....
When it took you a minute to think where you stashed your necker and then found your folders instead...
When you rather use your Higonokami to slice your work samples rather than penknife....
When a fellow stranger (knife-nut) winked at you after you uttered Spydie, ZT, Sebbie in the crowd..
When your boss asked you to hand him the 2010 folder; you waved yours already before he finished : .....2010 expenses folder
When you have different sharpening stones for different knives...
 
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When I dreamed that I saw an orange anodized Titanium Bump? Shortly before a vampire that strangely resembled my brother chewed a nice round hole in my chest:thumbup:?
 
1: You have knife catalogs placed in strategic locations. You have knives that you OWN and knives you WANT clearly marked out with an ingenious Red light/Green light color system. You have "forgotten" them in the restroom, in your wife/girlfriends car, at bedside, by the remote, & at your parents house. This is, of course, maximizing results and lessening the probability of confusion when your Birthday/Christmas rolls around.

2: You update the "OWN" knives quite frequently ...
 
Knifeaholic , this term is insulting , just because i have lost count of the number of knives i own does not mean that i am a knifeaholic , much.
 
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...If you sit at your computer reentering your D.C number on the U.S.P.S site every five seconds.
 
When you plan entire road trips so you can go to places and check out knives you've only ever read about.


When you only truly fear growing old because it means less time with your collection.

When you wonder if your grandkids or even great grandkids will appreciate your knives the same way you did. Knowing that most of your collection is built well enough to barely age much at all by then.
 
here are three more
-you debate whether your car REALLY needs a new battery and how the $80 is going to break you...but you have no problem dropping $400+ on a 20 year old Randall 8-4.

-you buy knives that you really didnt want because they were "good deals" and you can use em in the future to trade for that XM-18 you've been drooling over.

-you know what a Randall 8-4 and a XM-18 even are
 
You might be, if..

you buy a new knife, and realize when you get it home, that you already owned one.

Then decide to keep it anyways.

Moose
 
Manix07 said:
When you wonder if your grandkids or even great grandkids will appreciate your knives the same way you did. Knowing that most of your collection is built well enough to barely age much at all by then.
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even though thats very far away for me I've actually considered that...

you might be a knifeaholic if your friends and or family are shocked and stunned when you dont have a knife on you!
 
when the person over the outdoors section at walmart is waiting for you at the knife counter when he sees you walk in the door.
 
I can't do it by smell...


I prefer to use my tastebuds...

Then no one else wants to buy it out from under me. LOL
 
... you have used a small child as an excuse to buy a new knife. "when he gets older he this will be his/her knife" only to use it yourself....
 
you use a different knife every time you use a knife in hopes that someone will say something about one of the many blades
 
When you consider learning sword swallowing, because you've exhausted all other blade related hobbies.

I met someone that's good at it. I hope to start training soon.
 
...when u get closed outside ur house finding that the awesome microbevel u put on ur key (for the highly probable event that the other 4 EDC blades u carry would not be enough) doesn't match the Yale lock of ur front door anymore...

...when u have trained ur parrot to yell "Sebenza, sebenza!"...

...when u realize that the only reason u buy newspaper for is to use it to test ur sharpening skills...

:cool:
 
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