Pocketknives/Kitchen Knives/Fixed Blades
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Yeah, I just wanted a smaller knife, really dont own one. Maybe I'll wait for the Cryo II…
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Yessss.
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Scallion
Cryo
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Special thx to Eli. I found a 25oz worthy knive to carry around
Please don't take this as criticism, but I really don't understand the whole knife-carrying 'thing'.
I'm just a peace-loving dude who grew up in a peaceful place and time, so it baffles me why so many people take knives around with them. In any case, it's illegal here as well.
Help me understand the interest.
BTW, some awesome looking pics here lately.
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The problem is that you only see a knife as a weapon. It's not. It's a tool. It's man's oldest tool.
If you don't need a knife, don't carry one. But at least in my day to day life, I use it to open boxes, letters, cut tape, cut bindings, dig things out of hard to reach places (gravel out of my boot/splinter out of my hand), cut food (and I work in an office, not a blue collar job or anything particularly outdoorsy). I use mine all the time. I get particularly annoyed when another guy asks to borrow mine. For me, being a man means being prepared for what life throws at you. A knife is a good tool to make other improvisational tools as well.
Hell, even my wife keeps a small one in her purse, and I routinely have to sharpen it for her
There's a saying around here "If you're wearing pants, you've got a knife in your pocket"
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Doug, I'm the same way. I feel naked if I don't have a knife. It's as if I'm not ready for what life might toss my way.
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RnR, I really wasn't into carrying knifes like a year ago or so…looking back at that time and looking at the time now, carrying one, I really have to say that I don't want to miss my knife one single day anymore!
it really comes in just way too handy since it's the perfect tool to help you through the different situations a day has to offer (check Doug's post!)...so when i sometimes find myself without my knife, i have to say that i somehow feel "naked"...it's just a weird feeling to me! may sound a bit weird but yeah, that's the case -
Carrying a knife makes me want to stab people in the neck.
Have you told your therapist about this urge?
he hasn´t told him, he showed him iirc…
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Carrying a knife makes me want to stab people in the neck. Not carrying one would disable me from doing so.
And this is why Seul drinks so much- it dulls the urge to do impolite things like stab people…
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I'm just a peace-loving dude who grew up in a peaceful place and time, so it baffles me why so many people take knives around with them.
Looks like I'm living a sheltered life. :-\
Growing up and living in a sheltered, peaceful life is probably why you don't understand. That is a wonderful but rare thing.
A knife is a tool, arguably the earliest tool mankind invented for itself. From the chipped stone blade to the modern metallurgy we have today. It can be used as an offensive or defensive weapon. It is essential in every kitchen and construction site across the globe. Scalpels are busy at work in hospitals every day. To say a knife is a weapon is to be ignorant of the bigger picture. I find the people that ask, "Why do you have/need that?" are usually asking to borrow it to cut something later on.
Knives have as much of a culture around them as any other consumable. Crafting steel is an art that dates back centuries and is still rapidly developing. Design and production for pocket knives registers as highly on my nerd-meter as denim, guns, or beer. Functional art. Wouldn't be caught without one (or more…)
Whether they're 'for you' or not is up to you. I bet if you carried one you would use it more often than you think.
