Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: Endeavour Morse]
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02/04/16 10:59 PM
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'Merica, that's why!
Realistically, I'm a hunter / outdoorsman. I never go anywhere without blade...and I prefer smaller, thinner blades than Busse / SYKCO offer for processing animals. I look at Busse family blades as survival blades...great quality tools intended to survive harsh environments and treatment.
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: Endeavour Morse]
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02/05/16 12:36 PM
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I always say, I could get by just fine with a Mora, an Laplander saw, and an Axe,,,, just don't tell my wife I said that!
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: Endeavour Morse]
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02/05/16 09:08 PM
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I asked the question because it's a nebulous issue for me. I still have my first knife...it was given to me by my father 34 years ago. I too have an addictive personality and amass things. Knives? I'm just "drawn" to them.
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I am now a fictional British television police officer (currently a Detective Sgt) at Thames Valley Station. My governor is Detective Inspector Fred Thursday and it’s 1969.
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: Endeavour Morse]
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02/05/16 09:29 PM
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I like to bling out my operater pack with them.
In all seriousness, I previously bought some thinking they would have certain uses but then most just end up sitting there. I have thinned the heard and now only have 4 fixed blades left with one on the way and they all get used or serve a purpose. Same with folders. I rotate between two sak's. That is all I really need.
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: Endeavour Morse]
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02/12/16 08:04 PM
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: Endeavour Morse]
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02/13/16 04:12 AM
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BALLAST! I don't know about you, but I carry around enough natural ballast for two or three people! But I'm working on it.
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: Endeavour Morse]
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02/13/16 07:45 AM
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It may seem like an inane question, but I'm genuinely curious as to why we're here.
I think many (myself included) could simply answer "addicted".
JYD #123 The great one formerly known as Architect.
I am now a fictional British television police officer (currently a Detective Sgt) at Thames Valley Station. My governor is Detective Inspector Fred Thursday and it’s 1969.
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: Endeavour Morse]
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02/13/16 07:59 AM
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What the ROMRLSPGE above said. It's a sickness. BUT one that won't get you killed, unless you make a rude commend about the Fox across the room in front of her husband. THAT will get you killed, or at least messed up pretty bad. 
Last edited by SkunkHunter; 02/13/16 07:59 AM.
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
[Re: SkunkHunter]
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02/13/16 01:06 PM
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Addicted.......no question about it!
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
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02/22/16 08:18 AM
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Take my ASH for instance. I really like my ASH, but I think that it it a little to fat. I kind of like a skinnier ASH. I think that my ASH is to big and I wish that it was Skinnier. BUT we work with that we got. I guess it's better to have a Big ASH than a skinny one that you maybe can't work as hard.  But I would trade my Fat Ash for a Skinny one in a heart beat. So many directions to go with that.... Suffice it to say that your big shapely ASH is better than us freaks without any ASH at all...
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
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02/22/16 08:19 AM
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JYD #126 Super JYD #13
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
"A free people ought to be armed."
- George Washington
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Re: Knives - Why do you buy them?
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02/22/16 05:03 PM
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Well D/T, you COULD get a TRASHY ASH!
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