I think I'm addicted to knives

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Just what the title of the thread says. For EDC folders, I've got a Buck, a CRKT, and a Kershaw. For fixed blades I have a Mora and a Kershaw. I only own one Swiss Army knife (Victorinox) only because my other one to my nephew. I own eight different throwing knives in two different sizes.

And I want to buy more. Several more. Buck has a build your own knife thing on their site, and using it is like holding a bag of meth in front of a meth-head. I'm really itching to buy a locking Victorinox, probably a Trailmaster. I've also been itching to buy a bigger fixed blade, even though I tend to use a saw to process wood, so I don't actually need the big knife.

Please tell me I'm not the only knife addict here...
 
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Hi...My name is Larry and I'm addicted to knives. People ask me why I carry knives, I tell them "you never know when you'll need to make a sandwich", but in all reality I would never use one of my knives to make a sandwich, but I will stab the first hand that tries to grab my sandwich. I like to train with knives, anything from a EDC folder to a Karambit, even a short sword. Knives are a true thing of beauty. What's more sexy than a woman? A woman with a knife...well, maybe a naked woman with a knife! Any how! I like knives and the sound that they make on the stone when being sharpened, the audible click of a liner lock and the aroma of honing oil is my Viagra. Michael...thanks for starting this thread, it's long over due. Knife lovers stand up and be counted don't be ashamed, we were born this way. If you sometimes feel like a Samurai trapped in a man's body, now's the time to come out of the knife case and be heard! We should start a knife pride parade and every year we can gather together and clean and sharpen our knives. I"M NOT ASHAMED!
 
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Oh shoot, now you got me started. Just when I hike I have a gerber folder in my right pocket,a fix bladed gerber on my left hip,a gerber multi tool in my pack, and a cheapo walmart knife on my shoulder strap. Then I keep one fix bladed knife in the door of each of my vehicals,a multi tool also in each. Thats just the ones in constant use. Then in my house, dang I cant even begin to remember them all. Lets see I got a matching pair of pocket knifes, one for left had one for right. My old bayonet, my marine corps k bar,several folders,several mutli tools,one knife with a 12 and half inch blade,another large survival knife,um what else....gil hibben throwing knifes,boot knifes...one of those pocket knifes that take a razor blade. I am sure I am forgeting some. But yes I love knifes. Cheap, name brand,no name I dont care. These are my knifes I can remeber, I have even given some away. But I still want more.
 
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You're a freak and the only knife addict here. I would never waste money buy purchasing frivolous knives. I ONLY have a Leatherman Skeletool, a Buck folder, Cold Steel SRK fixed blade, and Nepalese khukuri, and a hand-made skinning knife. I'm probably not even going to buy more than one or two more... this year.
 
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I wouldn't say I'm addicted but I have so many knives I'd have to go count them to be certain of the number. But, I only carry three of them at all times. I don't fly on commercial aircraft anymore because I can't carry them onboard. When I'm a little stressed, I sharpen knives. It has a soothing affect for me. There is nothing quite like a good piece of cold steel but I just finished making a bone knife. I have made a number of steel knives and reground others that didn't suit my particular purpose.

But addiction is a pretty strong word. I just have a bad habit.
 
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Newanderthal said:
You're a freak and the only knife addict here. I would never waste money buy purchasing frivolous knives. I ONLY have a Leatherman Skeletool, a Buck folder, Cold Steel SRK fixed blade, and Nepalese khukuri, and a hand-made skinning knife. I'm probably not even going to buy more than one or two more... this year.
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I wouldnt say a waste of money. Both my rides have a couple of knifes,I carry one on a daily basis.I needed my k-bar and bayonette when I was in the Marines. I have found a few knifes that people have lost,people have given me knifes as gifts. Some I bought when I was a kid. So over the year I have spent liittle money on knifes. My gerber pocket knife I bought 8 years ago,my gerber fix bladed knife about 5-6 years ago. My knifes for the marines 7 years ago. and so on.
 
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freedommachine said:
I wouldnt say a waste of money. Both my rides have a couple of knifes,I carry one on a daily basis.I needed my k-bar and bayonette when I was in the Marines. I have found a few knifes that people have lost,people have given me knifes as gifts. Some I bought when I was a kid. So over the year I have spent liittle money on knifes. My gerber pocket knife I bought 8 years ago,my gerber fix bladed knife about 5-6 years ago. My knifes for the marines 7 years ago. and so on.
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I really don't spend much on knives either, but throughout the years I have acquired quite a few. Would have many more but a bunch got stolen while I was in the Army. Like Newanderthal I have a select group I specifically purchased and have an intended use for. But like Freedommachine I too have several I purchased or acquired during my military duty. I passed my K-bar on to my son, I have my fathers knife from WWII as well as my Uncles from the same war. An old friend who was a Viet Nam vet, passed his knife on to me prior to my leaving for military service. Before you know it you end up with quite a collection of really great functional knives, not a bunch of Frost cutlery fantasy blades out of some movie. Being "addicted" I think is just being comical for the sake of this thread. I think it's more of a deep seated interest in knives as a tool or respected as a weapon!
 
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oldsarge said:
Being "addicted" I think is just being comical for the sake of this thread. I think it's more of a deep seated interest in knives as a tool or respected as a weapon!
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Yeah, I was being silly.

Knives are just crazy-useful. There are also some really cool designs out there. This creates a perfect intersection between useful tool and cool gadget that appeals to multiple facets of my personality.

So, while addiction isn't applicable, I do have something of a compulsion to continue to acquire new blades. I find a hole in functionality in what I have or I find a neat knife, and I feel a compulsion to fill the hole or pick up the toy. Calling it an addiction is a silly way to talk about this phenomenon.
 
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Michael said:
So, while addiction isn't applicable, I do have something of a compulsion to continue to acquire new blades. I find a hole in functionality in what I have or I find a neat knife, and I feel a compulsion to fill the hole or pick up the toy. Calling it an addiction is a silly way to talk about this phenomenon.
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Yeah, I can stop anytime I want to. That's the ticket
 
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We all have to collect something! My issue is hats, I have all types and an area in a spare room that is large enough for five people to each have a few hats of their own. Knives are not bad though, at least you know you will always have one if the need comes up. What would I do with a bunch of hats?
 
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Not addicted here, I just like to have a few fixed blades and pocket knives for when I go out exploring. I have a Wenger Ranger 78 that's usually always on me, a S&W Survival Urban Camo which has a funny name, but is quite a good knife and SOG Seal Knife S37, plus a lot of noname pocket knives that people seem to give me for my birthday.
 
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Knives are fascinating and I have loved them my whole life. They don't cost that much and the good ones go up in value. I would say none of you have any serious problems and I encourage you to buy good ones, especially older antique good knives that will go up in value more than 10 percent a year. We all need some indulgence.

My Dad collects antique firearms and knives. It probably comes from growing up poor and living through the Great Depression. (Much different than the current one, see the Grapes of Wrath if you are confused about the difference). Dad has probably 200 knives especially Marble's, but some good old Case, K-bar, Western, and lots of others. He has about 500 guns. We are all releived. He used to collect cars.
 
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My first real knife was a Western buffalo skinner, too big for my hands but I took it everywhere (I guess that kinda dates me, huh?). Now I have the Western knife-hatchet combo that my dad used to carry on all our camping trips.

Here also is a small ceremonial knife that I made after he died and used it to open the bag containing his ashes. My sister and I spread them on the beach just south of the Ninilchik river mouth in AK, where he had spent many happy days fishing and rock collecting.

Addicted? Well okay, if you want to call it that. Sorry about the lousy pics.

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I have tons of knives, but am I addicted? Possibly at one point I was. Each knife was going to be better than the last and I truly believed it. Then one day I woke up and realized that knives are tools and it's the skill level that matters the most. Don't get me wrong I still love knives and buy them all the time but just don't get as giddy about them. A $10 Mora will do me just as well as a $400 custom (and I've got plenty of both).

When I leave the house though I usually have a Benchmade Griptilian for EDC.
 
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