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A knife forum is a great idea. I currently see knife threads on several different fora ranging from Guns to Hobbies (general) to SS&P to Gardening to Food.. Bringing them together would be a real convenience. I think many people have trouble figuring out where to start knife threads.
Gee, I don't know. We've been discussing knives in this forum, ever since it's creation. You have started several threads about knives, and now you are asking????
Gee, I don't know. We've been discussing knives in this forum, ever since it's creation. You have started several threads about knives, and now you are asking????
Well sure we can talk about knives here, but its not like knives are really a subset of guns. Related as hobby sure but so is macrame in that they are both hobbies. I talk about Hot Springs Ar. on the Little rock forum but I would like a Hot Springs category. Not being a knife enthusiast anywhere near as much as a gun nut, I can live with the way it is. But it would make it easier to have category's that would be easier to search to find threads that deal in specific areas. Its not a big deal for me, there are a lot of knife forums dedicated to knives, but then there are gun forums dedicated to guns also. I like them all.
Well sure we can talk about knives here, but its not like knives are really a subset of guns. Related as hobby sure but so is macrame in that they are both hobbies. I talk about Hot Springs Ar. on the Little rock forum but I would like a Hot Springs category. Not being a knife enthusiast anywhere near as much as a gun nut, I can live with the way it is. But it would make it easier to have category's that would be easier to search to find threads that deal in specific areas. Its not a big deal for me, there are a lot of knife forums dedicated to knives, but then there are gun forums dedicated to guns also. I like them all.
The name of this forum is Guns and Hunting. That doesn't mean that our hands are tied and we can only discuss a Remington Shotgun, because it relates to Hunting, and we can not discuss an M16 because it doesn't.
Admin is the one that decides what sub forums are added and he bases that on traffic. Believe me, the traffic has to really be up there for it to even be considered. I've seen forums that had about 40 % of their threads dealing with a particular topic and yet, that didn't rate a forum or subforum of it's own.
Do a seach on here and see how many threads are about knives and then try and justify it in your own mind that there is enough traffic to warrent it's own forum. I think you'll come up short, by a bunch.
What is wrong with discussing knives here? New users, find City Data by doing a search on the internet and if it points at CD, it's going to point at a post whether it's in a forum about it, or if it's in Wide Spot Wyomings post. So a new user to the system is going to find a post on a particular knife, no matter where we put it on City data, no matter what. Google will still point at it. For long time users, they'll know that knives are part of Guns and Hunting and come here anyhow. Before posting a thread asking about something, we encourage people to use the search function first so they are not duplicating threads, so they'll still find a thread about a particular knife.
Granted, there are forums out there about knives. That's not what City Data was all about, however, as ideas and traffic grow, admin trys to grow the system with them. There just has to be significant traffic. And then, it still takes time because they don't add just to add, but instead, wait until they have a list of things to modify and then add them all at the same time.
Well...when I visit many dedicated gun forums, which of course are always broken up into subset forums (rifles, gun laws, accessories), they seem to always have a subset forum devoted to blades. So the precedent is there.
I won't expect a separate knife forum - I'm still waiting for a musicians forum however...not a music forum where the level of discussion is about lady gaga's latest release and such drivel. But a form for MUSICIANS.
there have been a thread or two on knives, and they tend to die after a couple of pages.
Anyway, I used to be quite a knife knut, even went to the Blade Show in Atlanta a few years back. My EDC is a knife I bought from Darrel Ralph. I saw him at the Chicago knife show, told him exactly what I wanted, and a few months later he shipped it to me. It's his 'trigger' model w/ ti frame lock, S30V blade, all-DLC coated, tip up carry, and manual open w/ Darrel's sealed pivot bearing system.
I also have an old William Henry liner lock (no longer made) that has about a 3.25 inch blade, but weighs under 1.5 ounces. That is clipped to my running shorts when I go running. I've run several marathons with that knife. I later replaced it with one of their button lock versions w/ ZDP-189 blade, but it didn't carry nearly as well, so I went back to the liner-lock model.
I have several dozen knives that I bought over the years, but those are the two that I use. I kind of lost the bug when I realized that I was spending thousands, to no apparent end.
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I don't think I have any of those. ....But knives, I have several nice ones,lol.
