Which of these 10 Knife people are you
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I'm the knife guy who gets the very outdated Hans Blix reference that also drinks too much on the weekend and impulse buys a knife that I definitely don't need and probably can't afford.... i am *the* quintessential knife guy.
But he wasn't wrong! Tell a Patriot the knife is USA made and they will commence an investigation - nothing short of a UN inspection report will satisfy them.
Omg me too. I will never forget that name and how all the leaders of the free world completely ignored him and invaded anyway.
I'm the drunk impulse buyer as well
Don't start perusing antique sword websites...
You know I thought... "Hans Blix? Oh, you mean HAAANS BRIIIIX!"
This was gold, and anxiety-producing as I seem to fit in at least 8 out 10 categories. I'd add two more: "traditionals" guys, who seemingly collect old Boy Scouts knives and consider every other type of knife guy illegitimate, and Japanese kitchen knife guys, who have more words for knife than an Eskimo has for snow. "I recently picked up this Gyoto Shanzo San Mai from the Hirokiro District, made by a retired Ninja whose family has been hand forging blades for 1,037 generations...."
🤣🤣absolutely right about the Japanese kitchen knife guy.
🤣🤣🤣
Retired Ninja 🤣
Traditional = Uncle Randy!!!
Japanese kitchen knife guy here!
Utility guy: each knife has to have a purpose to justify the purchase
I started off trying to be that guy 😂
This was f*ing GOLD!!!!! But you forgot the “Use Your Shit” crowd - we are hard core, annoying, and everywhere!😂❤
This!👆
According to them, if you are not batoning through logs you are not using your knives.
@@oweng.3102 Owen it was nice seeing your mom last night. Took her to dinner. What ever that means💀
I've said it before, but ya never see the 'use your shit folk use the hashtag with their handkerchiefs. Probably for the best.
If you cain't easily resharpen it on a river stone, there ain't no reason to own it!
I think a special nod needs to be made for the GEC collector and the Uncle Randy collector. The GEC collector is a knife collector that, despite the name doesn't just collect GEC's, but they collect incredibly hard to find knives that are usually made in batches, and spend hours of their lives reading forums about when new exclusives or patterns will drop so they can scoop them up in approximately .46 seconds before they are sold out. I am not at all using this as a platform to share my frustration as a GEC fan trying to buy their knives....
The Uncle Randy is a lover of traditional knives, who goes on and on about how the modern knife community is far too obsessed with materials, and "all you need is a handy X knife in your hand to get the job done."
@@aldee666 oh I should have explained my bad! GEC means Great Eastern Cutlery. They are a knife maker here in the US! They make mostly traditional slip joint knives with the occasional locking knife too but all in traditional patterns. The problem is they only make certain patterns in certain materials in specific batches. This makes them extremely collectible because if one month they make a Barlow in stag antler they might not make that combination again for years and years. So people buy up batches in minutes, and some jerks will flip them on eBay for double or triple their original price. I'm a big GEC fan for the record, it's just frustrating trying to buy their knives lol.
@@aldee666 its better for you not to know trust me.
@@aldee666 no problem. Its too late for me but you can still save yourself and your wallet.
Uncle Randy has a buck in his pocket...
Missed the multi tool people that wish they could get fancy steels into their leatherman/victorinox and just watch knife videos to understand the inadequacies of their 420HC
*enter uncle randy*
Until our needs are met we'll be carrying a multitool plus a separate knife... Although I think leatherman put a 154CM blade in was it a version of the skeletool?
There’s plenty of room for everyone in this hobby. Thanks for continuing to spread positivity, Pete
Except Case knife collectors....
The "Case Monster" part was gold lol.
I’m digging these daily uploads, Pete. Welcome back, sir. Hope you had a great holiday season.
I think you missed a category: The guy who spends a lifetime looking for the perfect knife, never quite finds it and as a result ends up with a huge collection.
Good stuff Pete! Never trusted Case knife guys. Now I know why 😱
I was unaware of these "exclusive" Case-knifers... in this documentary, he explains that they do live in their own warrens.
After this video, i started looking into CASE knives, and now i want one. Thanks Pete!
I am a trad-futurist. My grail is an opinel in powder steel with an ebony or other exotic wood handle. The jigged bone Tre Kronor lock back… jigs my bone.
Spyderco apparently had my number when they released the Spyopera in M390.
My favorite thing about the case guys is they act like their knives are gonna be worth a fortune one but there's millions of case knives. Every pawn shop is full of old nice ones that never sell. 🤣🤣
As a Pennsylvanian I love Case, Zippo and GEC. But I don’t fool myself that the ones I have at least aren’t worth much cause I use all of the Case I have.
The collector market is one thing but to bank on it is another thing. Feels like silver or gold collecting, how many people do it but never sell it?
I don't collect anything with the intent of selling it or it growing in value. The futility of selling off these knives for profit will be my childrens burden, bwa-haha
Funny thing my wife thought all slip joint pocket knives was called case knives. So I guess they have a significant impact on the knife world lmao 🤣
@@czed7515 Case wishes they were, I'm sure lol
Such a beautiful list. This is gold. Well done, Pete.
Thank you, C&A, for giving me the idea about live wasp mailing. Unfortunately I'm too lazy to gather live wasps. Can you, or one of your viewers who reads the comments, provide an Amazon link to a box of live wasps for sale?
With the right credentials, you might be able to get wasps for free according to Tom Scott: ua-cam.com/video/vIfC4Aj05Ps/v-deo.html
@@RobBernhard I don't think those wasps are are angry enough for my purposes but now I've watched a dozen videos of Tom Scott's so thanks for that.
@@starkparker16 his videos are great aren't they? True about the wasps, but maybe if you showed them photos of stink bugs it might work them into a rage? 😆
you missed two important ones: Bushcraft guys and makers
I'm sort of glad that apparently it's common enough that it gets it's own category, but also a little weirded out how mostly accurate you've described me as a Compulsive Collector. I have over 200 knives because I can't bring myself to let any go, as well as having some anxiety over the actual process of trying to sell any of them. Most of it is Boker/Kizer/Cold Steel kind of stuff; not super premium, but not totally cheap either. Still haven't spent more than $200 on any one knife even though I've spent several thousand in total, I don't see the point in buying one high end knife when I could get 5 good ones instead.
I think this is the best place to be. Maybe once in a while three or 400
If you actually feel like you have a problem with buying knives, saving for a while and getting a 400 dollar knife will really make you lust after sub 200 dollar knives way less.
I own around 215 knives and multitools (fixed and folding) and just hit over $10,000 in knives (I finally listed all my knives in an Excel spreadsheet). I am attempting to go cold turkey and not buy any more knives ....
@@leksasdf I wish this was true. Saved for some $200-400 knives. Beautiful and cool and all but eh. Was gifted a $2k knife by someone special. It’s BEAUTIFUL. But that son of a bitch is a work of art. I could never imagine using it. And the $200-400 knives? Same deal. I can’t justify actually using them and damaging them because what separates a $400 knife from a $150 knife are the fine details. And if it gets all beat up then those fine details can no longer be properly appreciated
@@happykt put me on your will sounds like a lot of fun to go through and randomly pull an edc for the day out
As you went through your list I noticed bits of each in me, but then you got to the compulsive collector and it almost perfectly describes me lol!
A possible subtype: the BigBrownBear wannabe - these are the folk who try to see how fast they can regrind a knife without ruining the temper, and/or if they can get an edge that will whittle freestanding hummingbird pubes...
I am a compulsive collector that does have 99.72% of every knife I ever bought since 1985.
Now that my sickness has a name, maybe I can get some help
...adding more knives to my 600 plus piece collection 😍
Great vid as usual Pete. Love the humor you inject
same boat fuck me!
Jeez dude 600+ damn!
@@MichaelB2L when you add 3to 8 a month it ads up I was down over the holidays but I think I got 7 fixed and 3 or 4 folders. And it's the first week of Jan:(
@@markw7303 Hahaa! F-ing hell!
@@MichaelB2L do you even knife bro?!?!?!? gotta keep knifing ,,,,, the quickest way to success is eliminate all china from your knife thoughts that way lies long term disappointment, next is any life or spending outside of knives, i have trouble with this one but girlfriends come and go and your friends arnt really your friends there just trying to get at your knives, after that steal steal every knife left unattended borrow them then lose them before giving them back this is a pro tip immoral but good gains to be had here, then horde never trade never sell only take this one gets easier, soon in 4 or 5 years everyone you know will call you that knife psycho guy, with distain(this means your winning),, pro tip 2 never NEVER use you knives get creative with your environment find relatively sharp things the mind set is use any thing but the factory edge (if you even carry them around (you fucking loser ) break things that make jagged edges nails teeth (re above steal other ppls) just don't use the knife i have like 3 users out of 600 and i regret each one, then lastly don't stop anyone who tells you you need a house you need a shower you need anything thing but knives is lying to you just keep going , ill see you on the other side signed Edge lord.... ahem..... factory edge lord
The juxtaposition of the very serious and respectful verbal descriptions with the hilarious, insulting bullet points was noticed and appreciated.
He was insulting alright..
The:
Bushcrafter (gotta kill all the wood)
MultiTooler (tool that happens to also have a blade)
BoxCutter (disposable blades)
This was fun! And quite accurate. I definitely felt the sting of being identified and outed in 2 or three of the groups. All in good fun though. Loved the case guy illustrations. Hilarious. Glad to see your warped humour on display
k .. so I lost my SHIT at 4:32 over that Hans Blix bit. Gold star to C for keeping a sharp wit and remembering the old head of IAEA and UNMOVIC. Great F-ing joke there!
I was expecting a colorful description of the dedicated Buck knife only collectors. The people who have one of each handle inlay type of the 110 in both nickel and brass. Everyone should know that it only takes one Buck knife to rule them all.
You forgot the Pure Flippers who are logged in on three devices with six accounts to snag as many of the current Spyderco FOMO, dealer exclusive, limited edition, sprint run models with super-duper steel and a new color G10 scale! They are also prone to posting factory photos of said models on eBay for double the price ahead of the actual drop or receipt of the knives.
Ayyyyyyy cheers for mentioning my group! All the other pod peeps and I will put your video on during our next breeding game. Well wishes from the warren uuhhhhhnnnnnn
i am definitely a social flatlayer. knife always accompanied by a pocke slip for the knife, multiple fidget toys (one of which may also double as a knuck) and pouches/slips for the fidgets. glad to be represented in your review of different types of knife enthusiast!
The banker: keeps all his knives locked up in the vault so they don't get damaged.
This is great! I’d say you nailed the vast majority of knife people types.
Happy New Year Pete!
This was a lot of fun to watch.
This was awesome! Perfect. Thank you
ABSOLUTE GOLDEN Pete Video. 🏆🏆
The case knife bit was hilarious 🤣 well done Pete
😂 this was hilarious. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and the ending was hysterical. The second ending even better! 😅
I identify as knife-fluid
This was funny & well thought out as usual. 👍
The "perfectionist" always searching for that next best thing to upgrade to (despite the fact that what they already have is perfectly usable for the tasks they have). I fall into this where I am always looking for that incremental upgrade and often the thing I buy is not better than what I already carry. Haha.
I've just started buying kit knives, like Helle and Brisa. Makes the joy of the purchase last longer.
The Nordic fixed blade hikers, fishermen, and tongue sharpeners!
Bargain hunter here. I've spent on Ganzos in 10 years what some spend on one knife, so maybe I'm not the most valuable consumer, but I'd like to think there are a lot of us that add up. The inexpensive knife market has improved so much in quality since I got into knives like 15 years ago, buying cheap knives has only gotten more attractive the longer I've been in this hobby. It went from being a necessary alternative to satisfy myself while having little money, to thinking it is the better value purchase even if I can afford more expensive knives I just don't want to.
I used to be a terrible hoarder. I have a box with about 200 "budget" to midrange knives that I've barely looked at since a couple of weeks after I bought them. I always justified the purchase as "some day I might need this specific knife in some obscure scenario". That was the fantasy. The reality is that in the end I've pretty much boiled down my rotation to three Spyderco knives that I actually carry and use every day.
And I really, really need to get motivated enough to pack up and list a bunch of those neglected knives for sale. New Years resolution?
A couple of years back, I got a Spyderco Knife Roll and set that as the limit for my collection. As it gets harder to get rid of knives, I put more and more thought into the purchase and buy less knives.
@@etherealicer sounds way too reasonable !
@@tombrown4683 Yes and no... 34 knives is kinda ludicrous. Not crazy but certainly more than needed.
@@etherealicer are you fucking kidding me, more than needed, are you insane? What happens when the first 33 break and you’re down to # 34, then we will see if you still have this poor attitude
@@TheBootyWrangler I have a cheat-code... fixed blades and Swiss Army Knives are not included in the 34😂
That said, I'm not a "one is none, two is one", but more a "take good care of your gear and it will be there for you forever" kinda guy.
Simply Gold!
Awesome Stuff🤣!! “Knife Addict” here✊🏼
"Compulsive Collector" here. Apparently, I have a problem. lol. Great video! Keep up the great content!
I see myself in a lot of these. I’m no tinkerer because I’m not dipping my toes into aftermarket’s for pocket knives, but I want to make my own thing because no one has quite made a knife that satisfies me. I’m a lot like a backyard scientist because I know a lot about steels and angles and polished and how that effects edges, I’m a lot like the custom guys because I have several entirely custom knives from others that I’ve designed (still didn’t come out entirely right but they’re fantastic blades), and I’m like the warrior because I do self defense and bushcrafting with my knives
The description of the Case Collectors group of people can also apply to "Steel Flame Collectors", hopefully they can find some help. I'm unapologetically a Patriot, determined to banish M3 Tactical and Hoback knives to the shadow realm.
Definitely a compulsive collector....😮💨😮💨
I just can't get rid of my knives, I love them all and cannot stop.... Please get me help
And Happy New year to you and your loved ones mate! Cheers!
I think you made one mistake with this mate. Spyderco don't just make knives for the backyard scientists. They now predominantly make sprint runs for the ebay scalpers and their bots.
Hah!!! Those people we don't speak of. Always nice to see something other than a knife review. Have a little of all of them, so I suppose All Rounder..Thanks again for the content.
Well thanks Pete, for making us all feel self conscious !
Thanks Pete for all the great content lately. As one would expect, there is no category for people who only buy knives they have an actual use for. Because that would mean about 3 knives (all boring but practical), which is not very interesting. Keep up the wonderful work!
I just realized what that sound track was. Very good taste, brings back a lot of good memories 👍👍
Hilarious! I’m definitely part all arounder and part lazy backyard scientist. A few additional points for the warrior: tragically overweight yet was soooo close to joining some special forces group, has a “come and take it” sticker on his truck, thinks Greg Medford is the ultimate badass, calls people who don’t agree with him cucks, is unable to do a single push-up
@jooky5 nailed it !!
LOL great! I find myself in five of those categories: all-rounder, backyard scientist, tinkerer, bargain hunter and compulsive collector. :)
And then there are the Advanced Knife Bros 😂
I recently thought “I need a knife if I plan on camping this spring”. 4 knives later in a month and half and its still winter😂😂😂
There’s also the GEC pod people, and while you’re watching the Case people these ones will sneak up and get you.
I will have to study some of them
in the wild and make some diagrams
This is well done 👏 as a fellow adhd'r there's something about knives that calms it down for some reason. I also just bought the value series spyderco tenacious literally a day before yours was put up for adoption out the garage, looks like I got a ways to go. Thanks for the vid and channel keep up the great work!
I always wondered why the people around the Case booth at blade show gave me the heebie jeebies. Now I know.
I think there is a #11, the regretter which I am. It encompasses a little of all other 10 personalities except we have a large tendency to sell off our knives after fidgeting for a few weeks to a few months at best. Never even using them enough to sharpen. And looking for the next shiny thing and repeating the cycle of hopelessness and regret. 😅
This is a brilliant video!
I'm a carbon steel knife guy, green river, dexter, mora, opinel but I also like Victorinox and Fdick, just easier to sharpen and I'm lazy but I also like the durability and meditation keeping the blades oiled.
Let me start with that was probably the best sound check I have ever head in my life. Also apart from the art collector and case collector, I have at least one or two traits from all the other categories. I just need to launder some money so I can dabble in a bit of art knife collecting.
I'm between an All Arounder and Compulsive Collector. I own over 200 knives now .... I have my first knife that my dad gave me when I was 5. I only started really collecting (to my detriment) during the pandemic. I also get very excited and semi feral when I hold one of my huge Cold Steel knives. I do own several Cases (6 or 7 of them.)
You’re correct on the Case crowd lolol
Brilliant stuff
The fucking case knives bit 🤣
Compulsive Art Warrior checking in!
Budget knife guy here. My odd knife collection could fit in a shoe box, barely. Used to love browsing the flea market for useful knives that didn't resemble any models I currently had. I'm the sentimental type also. When I see a shiny new traditional folder I only need to remember the mini 3 blade Sabre handed down from my grandfather to stop the purchase. The two smallest blades were resharpened by him so many times they are practically awls. I guess the sentimentality is hereditary. I only bought a Cold Steel SRK to give temporary relief to my genuine WWII Ka-Bar that I found at age 8. For 50 years the Ka-Bar has been my boy scout knife, hunting and camping companion. I can almost sense it whimper like an old dog when I leave it at home for the SRK. Thanks for the update on the Caseprechauns and pointing out they are capable of a grand sense of humor.
We’ll done sir, I enjoy your quirky humor! 👍🏻😬 I’m at least 5 of these 10….
Get yourself some of the knipex xs Pete! I recently got some and they're absolutely awesome. Cannot bring myself to regularly carry a leatherman, but these are so small, light & are so much better at being pliers than a leatherman. Do it! You know you want to!!
One thing you didn't mention about tinkerers is the pleasure of "fixing" a knife when you get it. I like to get a slightly imperfect knife that I can optimize. Maybe some corners need to be rounded, maybe further polish the satin finish, maybe break in the lock mechanism. Good quality budget production knives scratch that itch for me!
Also, buying blades without handles.
Love this video
Brilliant Pete 😂😂😂👏👏👏👏...weren't those monsters called Morloks 🤣
Steel snob could probably fit into one of those categories like backyard scientist but to the extreme. If it’s not x7y84 variant B particle steel heat treated in the fires of Mordor on a Tuesday for exactly 1.3 hrs then it’s crap on a cracker
Other than number 10 (though I do have a few Case knives), I think I’m in parts all of the other categories! Over all though, I’m the compulsive collector. I could tell you exactly where at least 95 percent of all the knives I’ve ever owned are… even if I’ve sold them on. I keep a record of all of them.
Great video as always. I’m definitely a combination of all the different types of knife collector except for the custom knife guy. I have kids and not that kind of money. I have a decent collection of Case knifes, but fortunately I have not evolved into the mouth inside a mouth guy.
Knife Patriots make me think of another good american, William S. Burroughs, who once wrote "...and as an old heroin dealer once told me, be careful whose money you pick up."
Pete created a whole category just for himself😁👍
i f-ing died at number 10!🤣
Very good… I see myself in several of these categories 😅
Had to google Case knives… you’re right 😉
I'm a noob and will fit into one of these groups for sure one day. At the moment I know nothing and just doing lots of research to find the one and only best knive to rule them all.
Ha, I can definitely fit in a few of these.
New knives temporarily plug that sad hole in our soul, through which our real true happiness drips, drop by drop on the mortuary room floor
Lol yes! Pretty spot on.
Id say I'm definitely primarily an all arounder thru and thru with a little bit of the compulsive collector in my blood, having amassed a small collection with which I occasionally dabble in backyard (or kitchen table) science experiments, with an unspoken sentiment that if SHTF me and my knife become one as a mo'fuckin warrior.
Edit to include: Btw your flatlyer description is 💯. Tbh I always have found it kinda funny how litterally the only single thing relating myself with THOSE guys isnt even the knives themselves it's just the concept of a knife -the fact that we both like knives. But that's absolutely it. Usually even the brands/models of knives are light-years away from what I would personally want/get but then like you said with the jewelry and tops and spinners and gaudy huge heavy imho ugly pocket clips with punisher skulls and diamonds and exotic whatever and how their whole get up is matching theme designer blinged EDC gear most of which if not all of which is either unusable and just for looks or just isn't used due to fear of dirt or scratches, not too unlike how chicks having purses that match their wallets or how chicks make sure that the accents on their shoes matches their earrings and bellybutton piercing. To me it's dudes that are kinda feminine at heart which nothing wrong with you do you but it's like so they try to pick something mainly and badass as a vehicle to express their yearning desires to match and look fabulous and Uber clean and since it's knives and tools or even guns it's cool and no one is none the wiser... Except me 😶 that's my theory but as I was saying it's just funny to think about cuz technically I'm part of the same community -social media groups/pages, online forums etc. To where you actually start becoming pretty well aquinted with many of other community members but really have nothing in common other than the fact we both are interested in knives even if it's very different knives for very different reasons with very different views on what is good. So I guess in a way it's kinda a cool thing how knives can unite people even if they are people I would probably never hang out with IRL...
I'm something of a Scientist myself. Love getting to know composition, heat treatment, blade electron microscopy, stone microscopy. Science of Sharp and Knife Steel Nerds are such great resources. I'm also bargain hunter. Sometimes I get a stone I don't even need because it's such a good price.
came for the knife memes, stayed for the ff9 music
You forgot the collectors that buy a bunch of knives, saturate themselves with a potential style and then settle with “ I’ll just have like 2 perfect knives”. Then they get bored and start buying more and more knives again, maybe different style now… and round round we go.
The functionalist:
Regards knives as tools, something you buy when you need to get something done
Only buys 1 knife (in each functional category)
Invents functional categories when needed to justify a knife purchase
I'm "backyard scientist" too, though not so far on the spectrum as to risk carpal tunnel syndrome for an internet audience. I have spreadsheets merging Dr. Larrin Thomas's Charpy and CATRA test ratings with Pete's rope cutting results, with notes on steel history. I like to see just how acute an edge my knives will take before becoming chippy, and have overstepped the line a few times. I'd have a much harder time justifying any knife purchase that isn't in a well heat treated LC200N, MagnaCut, K390, or S90V, so yes, I'm a Spyderco fanboy.
Some crossover with tinkerer. Everything is cleaned and oiled, and I've polished blades, dyed scales and replaced clips to correct aesthetic deficiencies.
Subcolectors…the lanyard bro that can’t take a knife out of their pocket without a lanyard. Also the extremely dull knife guy, he has like 15 knives but they are all duller than a butter knife but you can see they tried to sharpen it because all the scratches on the blade and multiple bevels.
I’m a pocket candy, US made only, EDC kit, collector. No pliers though but I do have the matching torch, pen, and Prybar
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 So THIS was the video that led to the funny apology video. 🤣 Good stuff. I have yet to buy a case knife. I'm STILL looking at the White Handled Bowie by Case on my Amazon wish list. This is after 5 years. STILL. So I guess it's safe to say, I don't fit into that last category, so I guess I'll be the barrel roller, or cement mixer.
At least for me making hand made knives in mostly the culinary spectrum there's probably 3 or so types of people who buy my knives
1: Serious Home Hackers, these ladies and gents are pretty keen on getting a very good knife or two for their kitchen that will work really well or just fit in with the overall aesthetic of what their kitchen needs to feel complete. Its sort of a run on effect of celebrity chefs on telly in so much that they're not interested in the big box store 420 SS beater or cheap pots and pans, they go in for really nice gear that will last a lifetime. To also be fair, they will work their stuff a bit harder than the average person in the kitchen and will attend cooking classes.
2.Professional knife user, they still exist! Butchers, chefs, process workers and the like are out there doing their day in, day out trade for hours at a time either breaking down a beef carcass or filleting a fish and this is a really hard job. So if their off the shelf knife has a handle that's a bit long, short, wide, thick or just generally pisses them off they'll want something that suits them. It doesn't have to be fancy, but its got to work hard and stand up to a lot of use for 8-10hr days. This is sort of also where I can up-sell them on a really quality knife steel that they won't have to sharpen very often or get a really good fit in the hand for that particular user.
I would also lump a bit of the Home Hackers into this category as well for butchers knives, out here in the rural backwaters of Australia, still plenty of people who will kill and break up their own livestock or something they've hunted and not interested in the cheap, lightweight-tier stuff off the shelf which they would probably destroy trying to blast through a beef bone.
3: Gifts and keepsakes, sometimes people just want a little bit of Australia to take home with them or know someone who would like a particular handmade knife or appreciate it for what its worth. So if their friend is a keen hunter, fisherman or cook they tend to be something like a 21st birthday, retirement or I love you present and makes someone out there feel special.
Personally, I'm the 'Knife Anachronism'
If its old, historic and sometimes just plain crazy I like to make weird shit from the past like 14-15th century Germanic farmers knives, Italian Renaissance kitchen knives, Argentinian cowboy combat cutlery and various Anglo-Saxon-Celtic implements of murder. All that stuff I find really interesting, course I can't afford actual examples so I have to make my my own and the mileage there varies quite a lot in terms of the end result
lmfao case collectors! I think I'm a lazy backyard scientist! I love the nerdy stuff but I'm too lazy to do any of the testing and you do it much better than I would! Which is why I watch your channel! I basically learn from you and people like you and then enjoy the fruits of your labor :) Combine this with this weird obsession with having the perfect knife for a niche purpose and once I find the perfect fit, I have no use for the previous attempts and sell off the inferior knives to focus on my next category. My perfect work knife is the Spyderco Shaman in dlc M4 with the green micarta: beautiful, big, thiccc, beefy; I tried many other Spyderco working man's models and found them too thin or the blade didn't feel like I could twist and smash with them and I have since sold them off since I found the one! I am currently looking for the perfect 5th pocket knife for boxes and tape to keep my Shaman extra sharp when I need it for actual working tasks. I would like to get a Spyderco Waterway which would be a great kitchen knife and when I get an itch to carry a fixed, I would use it for that as well; plus you and others like you have made me appreciate LC200N (I have a few imperfect LC200N knives that will be sold once I find my perfect fit! I like to have them for side-by-side comparison of my new purchases). So I guess I am more of a "perfect" niche fit utilitarian nerd category who is admittedly overly loyal to Spyderco (thumb studs are inferior, and I definitely do fidget with my knives). Once I find the grail knife for a specific niche, it is the ultimate achievement! I always feel like the next knife is going to be it.... right now the McBee for the 5th pocket (current winner in the 5th pocket is the Benchmade mini bugout) and the Waterway (some of the salts and the Spydiechef were great , but I want a longer blade for use in the kitchen and I think I have to go fixed to get that after trying the folding options...has to be in LC200N). Enjoyed the video!
Check out the Caribbean Sheepsfoot for a larger LC200N blade
@@arrowheadguys7637 I want one !
@@tombrown4683 I love mine. Its the best designed Spyderco (no choil!!!) imo but the downside is that if you don't like the scales there's not much you can do about it, no aftermarket support. Its the only knife I actually wish they'd do sprint runs of
@@arrowheadguys7637 ha ha, I actually like the look of the handle scales but haven't handled one. I wish the sprint run thing would go away. They call it a sprint cause the knives are gone so fast !
@@tombrown4683 Yeah I like the scales as well, but that doesn't mean I would ALSO like one with a Cruwear blade and micarta scales lol
There's a group you didn't mention. Those of us who buy a whole bunch of knives, but end up with maybe 10 practical pocket knives total because practicality is king, but having choices each day is nice as well.