TkoK83Spy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 7:53 pm
I dunno, this is a sad thread in my opinion...which I know doesn't mean much. But come on, do people really have that much free time in their lives to sit around flicking a knife around, or buying a knife mainly for that purpose?? Seems like a waste of $100+
I find myself using my knife most of the day, coming home and cleaning up the tape gunk and whatever residue is on the blade, setting it on the counter until it goes back in the pocket the next morning. Sitting around flicking it while watching tv... how are you paying attention to what your watching, communicating with your spouse or children?? Why do you need a knife while hanging out with your family..or even alone by yourself doing nothing?
Let alone if a spouse or kids are present and you lose control and the knife goes flying...I dont want to think of the possible consequences. The fidgeting thing just irritates me, especially if you dont even use your knife regularly...what's the point in taking chances?
Sorry everyone. End rant
Rick, that brings up interesting points (though in a bit harsh words...
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I personally like and value your posts especially cause I am aware of that you really know what you´re talking about when it comes to using knives and how they perform because you obviously, well, really USE knives constantly and frequently.
But it is a given that this is not the case for the majority of people on this forum. I myself use all of my Spydies (and in order to being able to really do so I limit my collection to ten at each point in time), and I try to do that as often as possible . But I don´t have a job that requires knife use as part of the job- luckily it is not an office job either, I am a lot "on the road" (bike, car, walking..) and in the outdoors, so there are still plenty occasions where I can and have to use my EDC folders. Might even be that during a work day I can start a small fire outdoors and prepare a makeshift lunch, and use my Spydie for both.
But the point here is: We all love knives, and love to carry an EDC folder, but let´s face it: The regular, urban office person might only come across one or two occasions per month where they really have use for the knife.. and if they happen not to have an outdoorsy lifestyle in their spare time, that might be it.
So I think it is only natural that people find other ways to enjoy and handle their knives. Might be excessive cutting tasks, might be arranging them nicely in a showcase, might be dressing them up with custom stuff, and might be fidgeting.
I think that´s all fine as long as it is safe and one enjoys the hobby in whatever way they like.
BUT, that being said: I still get what you, as a person that really has to use knives in the job, are saying and feeling:
It is probably much like when I watch people wearing a great trailrunning shoe in a shopping center, where that type of shoe makes no sense at all functionally speaking and the soft studs of the sole, made for mud and earth, are worn down without any sense on the hard shopping center floor...
Such things always puzzle me in the first moment, but then I think: Who am I to decide how to enjoy a trail running shoe... if a person likes to wear it down in a shopping center, enjoys doing so and does not harm anyone else: Just fine.