You Might be a Knifemaker if

Every time you go to a restaurant you go into the kitchen and tell the chef he needs a real knife. Even McDonalds...

Your idea of fun is posting a video of you shaving with your lawnmower blade after you spheroidize, regrind, heat-treat, and sharpen it.

Your 105 year old mother in law tells you that the 50 hunting knives you have already made for her are probably enough, and maybe you could just get her some flowers for her next birthday...

You always carry a skinning knife with you in your truck, because it's the perfect bribe for getting out of traffic tickets.

You don't own a table saw because "A real man can make cabinets with a sheet of plywood and a sharp paring knife."

When a boy wants to date your daughter, you take him out to your forge and have him make a 15" bowie knife out of 01 steel, and then you send him off into the woods, telling him, "Come back with a bear skin, or date someone else's daughter."

hahaa some of these apply to me lol

Isn't that a fact!

you look at your razer and think that you're latest project could do a better job.

you spend far to long in the store trying to find a butter knife that is properly balanced.

you gave your wife a knife for an anniversary presant for three years running.

you look at road kill and wonder if it is fresh enough to grab for handle and sheath material.

you hunt for the hide not the meat.

the only thing your computer knows how to do is go to IFI website

the only tools you own is a sander, a hammer, pliers, and tongs.

#14 Great idea! Just gave in and got my first stick welder a few months ago and hadn't thought of that yet!

#004 ... well, I got fingerprinted for a job once... twice... thrice... still came back "unclasifiable"... They gave up.

On 1/30/2011 at 1:25 AM, David Ab said:

When a boy wants to date your daughter, you take him out to your forge and have him make a 15" bowie knife out of 01 steel, and then you send him off into the woods, telling him, "Come back with a bear skin, or date someone else's daughter."

boy David sure am glad I don't know your daughter

If your family and friends keep bringing you springs and car parts- asking is this hardenable?

If you keep scraps of wood and metal for twenty years, pushing it around the shop until you finally get to make that one blade for yourself.

20 years?  I have a chunk of oak from when I was under 20 that I plan to get around to using when I retire sometime in the next 2 years...been air drying going on about 100 years per inch now...

In one dresser drawer, I have underwear over 20 years old, never know when ya might need them in an emergency.

If the backs of your thumbnails are all nicked up.

Frosty The Lucky.

If you go to thrift stores with your wife and you both spend all the time there, looking through all the containers for old carbon steel knives and butchers steel's.

Or you buy out all the *real* mother of pearl handled silverware with sterling mounts. (Salvation Army thrift store, Columbus Ohio, back in the 1990's; a quarter a piece as I remember...)

If everybody at the party wanders away when you and a friend start discussing: mosaic pins, micarta vs. maple, hamons vs pattern welds, etc. 

Frosty The Lucky.