I need help

[chaim]

Well, I've been getting into knives. I don't need anything special really. If it is functional, or looks good, cheap knives are fine (thank G-d or I'd go broke).

As recently as a few months ago I only owned two, three sort of (a really cheap gunshow knife, a cheap Swiss Army Knife, and a nice Kershaw Scallion). A few months ago I started picking up new knives- a Kershaw Vapor II, a Boker Bowie knife, and a nice W.R. Case knife with several removable blades).

Today I went to Walmart and picked up four knives and a multi-tool. The hunting/woods knives (woods knives for me since I'm not a hunter) I have are too nice to risk getting beat up so I bought a nice looking, but cheap, Winchester fixed blade hunting/woods knife with a nice looking wood handle (maybe a 4-4 1/2" blade?). I also picked up a cheap Gerber LST II lockback folder (very lightweight- it might not be the best, but I like it). When I paid the sporting goods dept clerk, knowing I'm now into knives (from this purchase, a previous purchase and previous discussions) let me know about a Winchester gift pack. It was the 2003 comemorative 3 knife pack (fake stag grips, small, medium and large pocket knives). Well, when looking I noticed another gift pack I liked better. The hunting pack with a 3-3 1/2" fixed blade hunting/woods knife, a ~2 1/2-3" blade folder with dual thumbstuds and wood inserts in the handle and a wood handled multi-tool all for just $20.

So for about $50-60 I bought four knives (all of which I like) and a multi-tool. I am happy, but I get the idea that this is just a start (I need some more nice knives now, and I really need a K-bar or two).

 

[JShirley]

and so, it begins.

 

[Bruz]

and so, it begins

Got that right John! Chaim, what you are developing is a sickness, a deadly, progressive disease that starts out innocent enough but eventually completely consumes your whole life! I too started out with a couple "cheap" knives, was I happy? I thought so until I saw another, more expensive knife, then another, and still another until your wife is asking why the house payment was not made and the baby does not have diapers.

Soon you will be buying knives for hundreds of dollars just to maintain, and even though all your other knives are just sitting in a drawer somewhere you will not be able to sell them to support your habit. Stop now while you still can, if you can...


BTW, you guys see the new Strider SMF? :banghead:

 

[chaim]

I think I have to be careful. I definately don't want to be buying the knives that are over $100 (with a few exceptions that I have my eye on). I don't want my budding knife habit to cut into (pun not intended) my gun buying funds.

 

[Tamara]

Oh, no! Stop now, while you still can!

 

[Harry Tuttle]

http://www.1sks.com/store/crkt-folding-knives.html#526

 

[hso]

"I definately don't want to be buying the knives that are over $100 (with a few exceptions that I have my eye on). " Yeah, that's what we all start off saying and then it's "I wonder if I can hold off on rent/mortgage long enough to get http://thehighroad.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=423939

Hey, Tam. Wanna come up and see the pretty little desert iron wood/ivory hand forged I picked up last weekend for a song?

 

[Tamara]

...and stay away from hso! He's like a crack dealer!



So, uh, about that knife you picked up last weekend, hso...

 

[Dr.Rob]

Call me to co-miserate when you really, really really seriously start eyeing a Spetznatz Shovel.

I used to be "into" knives. I had a bunch of cheap costume daggers and such. I bought my first 'real' knife 17+ years ago. Still use it every hunting season. (Cold Steel Tanto)

A K-Bar is a tool, and a good one. Maybe one of the most useful kinives made as far as a woods/hunting knife though its a bit long.

True confession: A Bagwell "plainsman" bowie is on my X-mas list.

http://store.knifecenter.com/pgi-ProductSpec?ONBB6

Now that's a knife!

 

[chaim]

Call me to co-miserate when you really, really really seriously start eyeing a Spetznatz Shovel.

Umm, yeah, I've been kind of thinking about that myself. The sharp, hatchet like, shovel should be perfect for digging a shallow fire pit when camping and the ground is hard. Nice little defensive tool when camping in the middle of nowhere too. Plus, I just kind of like it.

BTW, that is one nice looking Bowie there (need a drool icon).

 

[Dr.Rob]

The original shovel, and the way it was mounted to the gear supposedly provided additional protection to the soldier wearing it, could stop a 7.62 russian round. Forget where I read that, but it just goes to show you how smart those Russians are.