How many of you gun nuts are knife nuts too?

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guerilla1138

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so how many of you are like me and have a real serious thing about knives?
being not old enough to legaly carry a handgun and not being stupid enough to do it illegaly, i am limited to a knife for protection, ok well and ASP baton too but..., and i take my knives seriously, as seriously as my guns.
and i started making knives earlyer this year too.
so anyone else out there like me?

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"while u are burying your head in the sand i will be out doing something about the problem, excuse me if i tramp upon your skull." Guerilla1138

"you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door" pink floyd.
 
While I don't consider myself a knife nut, I recently acquired two Applegate fighting knives, both of which are serial numbered and mounted on a plaque. Applegate is one man whom I respected very much.

I also have a USN fighting knife which was made in memory of Pearl Harbor. It has a gold battleship on it along with the names of all the battleships present on that infamous day.

Not to forget all the bayonets and the genuine Civil War calvary saber... Wish I had the K-bar made in honor of Hathcock.
 
...made the mistake of lurking to long over at bladeforums, specifically in the Chris Reeve section. I'm now the proud owner of a small decorated sebenza- this knife thing is gonna be expensive ;)
 
While I never considered myself a "knife nut", a little mental tallying says: 3 differewnt leatheman tools, 1 smallsword, 1 smaller sword1 cold steel trailmaster bowie, 1 cold steel SRK, 1cold steel culloden dagger, 2 homemade work knives ( made looong ago.Knife nut? I guess it comes up a definite "maybe".
crankshaft
paranoia is the only logical reaction to the way "our" government is expanding into our lives!
 
Knives????? Bah! I'm into real weapons, swords, axes, spears, glaives :)

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i was a Knife nut for a long time but now i'am only a Sword and Gun nut. i love Swords more then i love Guns i have ben Fencing for the age of 6 and i still love it :D

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US NAVY SEALs HOOYAH!!!!!!!!
 
I was a gun nut, became a certifiable Knife-knut and Microholic, and then came back to guns when I realized just how much I was spending on knives! Microtech autos, Sebenzas, and customs...oh my! $400-500 a blade was becoming commonplace (x2 per month) These things are more expensive than firearms
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What do you consider a nut? I have 18 knives now. I don't think that's nuts. I need as many knives as guns. Then maybe you can consider me a nut :P
 
ah yes. guilty
I have spent $500 and more for a blade. I'm really only interested in customs these days, both folders and fixed blades. carried a Gene Osborn (CenterCross) last night. gonna drop a Larry Chew mini spitfire in my pocket today.
I can't afford custom one-of firearms but I get a real kick discussing details, materials, design etc with a maker then months (or years) later having that concept materialize in my hand.
guerilla1138,
good luck on your knife making.
I made one once. I keep it in the back of a drawer in my workshop so nobody will see that ugly thing.
 
Kingcreek- and all others- got a question-- actually several--
1- what are some ( good, or interesting, ) web addresses for knife/blade topics?
2- what kind of market is there for selling custom knives? I ask this because I have thought about ( trying ) to support myself as a custom knifemaker. I live about 2 blocks away from a man ( Roger A. Parsons, AKA RAP ) who was a fairly-renowned ( at least in the South ) knifemaker. He dropped out about 13 years ago, bad health, and is now severely disabled ( hemiplegic ).
However, as one of his oldest & closest friends, I may have access to his shop & patterns. FWIW, he taught me some of what he knew, enough to pronounce, "well, you have the one thing for it I can't teach- the "eye..."
 
Yup. I've got half a dozen nice knives, including a Mad Dog ATAK, and one that I made myself. There's another one at home waiting to be finished.

I've also got my eye on a Tinkerblades broadsword. Maybe for Christmas....

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Good topic!
To expound on it a bit:
Certain knives seem to go well with certain guns.

Firestar 9mm and CRKT Stiff Kiss.
CZ75B and CRKT Stiff Kiss.

Colt Custom Carry Commander-Darrel Ralph Krait.

Winchester 94 and a Buck 110.

Browning Hi Power-Microtech SOCOMM.

johnr: www.bladeforums.com <--best site for blades

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Am starting to acquire a few more, mostly all fixed blade custom stuff. I carry a Dave Kauffman and am always looking out for D'Holders and others that catch my eye.
 
Golly. A nut? Maybe. I don't collect them so much as accumulate them. Couldn't even begin to figure how many I've got. A.G.Russell Sting IA is my jogging knife. Have a SOG Seal Pup I carried while doing boardings in the Gulf. K-Bars, Wengers, Victoronix, SOG-Tool, Leathermans, Spyderco, A.G.Russell, Case, Lord knows what else scattered all over the house. Not many of them are what you'd call "fighting" knives. Most are "working" knives of some type, and with few exceptions I've carried them all on a regular basis at one time or another (at least until the next "gotta have" caught my eye).

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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
"Power corrupts. Absolute power - is kinda cool!"
Fred Reed
 
Here's one for sure. I probably have accumulated about 50 blades, mostly production stuff, but I have a few really nice ones. 3 Randalls, 2 Reeves Sebenzas, Bob Dozier, Busse, and 3 very early Al Mars.
I also have a Sean McWilliams Ranger that cost me an arm and a leg, but what a blade!
 
Knife Nut??

Naww I don't think so course, it could be like alcoholism if you deny it enough then maybe you are. My knives are strictly work.

Have an early Gerber Boot knife that I got from a friend,It goes with me whenever the uniform goes on.Just got a Paragon auto that I'm very pleased with. The edge it took was to be comended.

Have a Leatherman and a couple of Old timer pocket knives. I also have a Chigago Cutlery folder with belt sheath that has seen a ton of use,at least till I found out they don't make em anymore. Have some fixed blades that go with back pack,bug out pack and deer pack.

Well that sums up the whole inventory cept for a couple of Bayonets. Guess maybe I am a knife nut of sorts but hey sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you don't!! :D(sorry bad pun)

Best wishes Best luck Poacher.
 
Before I became a serious gun nut I was a semi-serious knife nut. (Semi-serious meaning mostly mass and semi-mass produced knives.) Mostly in the survival and tacticl areas along with pocket knive/combo-tools.

Most serious collectors I have are a couple Randalls (1 & 14) and a Chris Reeves Jereboam (South African manufactured). Then you got your regular Gerbers, SOGs, Cold Steels, SAKs, etc. Then you got your dirt cheep throw around cheapy Aitors, Furys, no-names, etc.



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I am not a Gun NUT!;-) I am Gun Person,I am also a Knife person but not as much.
I do Hav a couple of combat knives and a survival knife, a sword and a Kukri(Nepali Machete).
SO I dontknow if his qualifies me as a Knife nut.
Anand
 
I've always had a fascination with things that kill and fighting knives are no different......I like Randalls and I prefer Brends.......Ive never tried one of maddogs offering's but will some time in the future....fubsy.
 
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