The Knife of Man's Desiring

[Hovannes]

Mora steel is near legendary for holding an edge!

[arank87]

Finally got an Opinel


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[SlowToke]

Recently purchased this Hogue X5:


Most I've ever spent on a knife but man is it a well made work of art.

[JimVH]

Finally got an Opinel


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Win. Congratulations.

[Tatanka]

My old Buck has always given me satisfaction when needing it. But the knives pictured here are beautiful.

[Hovannes]

Finally got an Opinel


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Win. Congratulations.

Yes. Congratulations!

[Hovannes]

My old Buck has always given me satisfaction when needing it. But the knives pictured here are beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with an old, well loved Buck!

[Tatanka]

My old Buck has always given me satisfaction when needing it. But the knives pictured here are beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with an old, well loved Buck!

I've come so close to ordering a smaller but Bowie-knife style, with sheath....frequently advertized like in my NRA magazine, etc. But realized I would probably never wear it. Outdoor camping days are over. So I just admire the gorgeous knives...but still come close to gifting them to a grandson or two.

But your comment above, which is appreciated, makes me stop and think about the psychological factor involved in me - and I assume many, if not most humans, after years of owning specific "things" - even tools, like my old Buck knife, I have an old grey sweater that has holes developing - - fall into this category of where I (we?) develop an affection for them. I actually feel this every time I slip my Buck knife (and the sweater almost each morning now)...this affection. This warmth. It's a good feeling. But it pulls on my questioning consciousness to ponder this affection for inanimate objects (?). What say you? Any comments?

[Tatanka]

And this also goes with a pipe or pipes!

[Hovannes]

My old Buck has always given me satisfaction when needing it. But the knives pictured here are beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with an old, well loved Buck!

I've come so close to ordering a smaller but Bowie-knife style, with sheath....frequently advertized like in my NRA magazine, etc. But realized I would probably never wear it. Outdoor camping days are over. So I just admire the gorgeous knives...but still come close to gifting them to a grandson or two.

But your comment above, which is appreciated, makes me stop and think about the psychological factor involved in me - and I assume many, if not most humans, after years of owning specific "things" - even tools, like my old Buck knife, I have an old grey sweater that has holes developing - - fall into this category of where I (we?) develop an affection for them. I actually feel this every time I slip my Buck knife (and the sweater almost each morning now)...this affection. This warmth. It's a good feeling. But it pulls on my questioning consciousness to ponder this affection for inanimate objects (?). What say you? Any comments?

There is nothing wrong I see in appreciating things, as long as we remember they are just things
There's nothing like a favorite old sweater

[Hovannes]

When we write the stories of our lives, things become like line illustrations.
A pocket knife tells a story, especially one that's passed down through generations.
I have an Opinel No.8 sort of like that.
Not a hand me down, but purchased new in France over three decades ago. It lives in our picnic basket which was assembled when I first started dating the future Mrs Hov and has sliced fruit and cheese and salami and made countless sandwiches in maybe a hundred scenic and not so scenic places.
I am unapologetically grateful for those times, illustrated to a minor degree by that picnic basket, and that old knife.
The Opinel belongs in that picnic basket.
That ordinary and cheap Opinel no.8 is nothing more than an ordinary and cheap Opinel No.8, but then it is nothing less, either!
If I lost it tomorrow, the line illustration of it remains in my story.

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BTW I picked up a spare Opinel No.8 with the improved lock awhile back just in case