hey guys, i was reading an interesting thread on the aussie knife forums about how many knife makers/colectors are white collar vs blue collar, it was interesting to see what everyone does for a 9 to 5.
im sure it has prob been asked before but im asking now.

What do you do when your not making knives, and in the case of full timers what did you do. also im taking a blue collar white collar poll, there are of course some jobs that dont fit neatly in to either but im sure you can figure it out. for example a rifleman wouldnt be either but i would say blue because its a physical job.

Also, do you carry a knife at work??

brett

I'll kick it off with one vote for white collar.
Im a small aircraft pilot, hopeing to make it large aircraft one day.

in the plane we carry 2 knives because we drop parachutes and may need a knife if someone gets tangled, also i sometimes carry a SAK in my pocket
brett

Blue collar here. Oilfield trash and dam proud of it. I'm a construction foreman in the patch. We install pipelines and facilities for natural gas processing. It has its benifits.

Blue collar as well full time carpenter part time hospital maint. And yes always cary a knife and use it daily.
Bob

I have always ALSO worked with my hands.

I spend my days fixing and maintaining boats and rowing shells for a rowing organization, and spend hours every day on the river coaching. Mostly high-school youth.

I'm lucky. :D

Coop

Technically I'm blue collar as I'm union for the phone company, but I spend my days working through a computer to test and trouble shoot corporate level phones and digital services.

Jim

I have always ALSO worked with my hands.

I spend my days fixing and maintaining boats and rowing shells for a rowing organization, and spend hours every day on the river coaching. Mostly high-school youth.

I'm lucky. :D

Coop

Wha...??!! I thought you were purely a photo-bug Coop, good for you! I often wondered if a full timer could make a good living taking pictures of knives. I investigated into it once, I believe it took a couple of hours, and I figured out I'd make more money being one of Dwayne's guys (and #### proud of it!).

I didn't realize you were into something else, pretty cool to!

I don't know if woodworking is blue or white, but I'll opt for blue, cause I sure come home all dusty every evening:p

I get to wear blue, but technically I guess I'm white collar as I'm salaried. I work at a rather infamous plastics plant on the Houston Ship Channel.

Well,

I don't have a day job so to speak... never have been formaly employed.... But I do odd jobs, mostly hands on work. I spent the summer doing construction, but I've put in a lot of desk time as a computer tech. So I'm about 60/40 (ugly striped shirt? :P )

My carreer of choice, I'm going to take training,and aply for in the next year, is law enforcement. I'm not sure where that falls in.....

I picked blue.....

G.

I guess I am in between. I am a geologist and have spent most of my life working outdoors. Some of it has been as a professional, but before that I was oilfield trash, working as a roughneck, driller, then as a mud engineer and finally as a geologist.

My job now is mostly office work, but I still try to keep doing manual things-like knife making-to keep my head together.

Edited to add:

I carry a small utility knife I made as EDC-modified Sharpfinger style in S30V with Desert Ironwood scales. I am too cheap to buy other people's customs. I only carry ones I have made.

I would be a solid white collar (although I try and not wear collars). I went to college for way to many years, and am now stuck in a cube small enough that it is considered in-humane if given to a prisoner.

Anyway, I design ASICs for a living. On my person now I have 4 knives, counting the leatherman (nothing over 4" in length by corporate rules).

--Carl

I voted blue because I'm not management. I'm a Quality Auditor/Inspector for a company that manufactures circuit boards for all kinds of applications. I inspect the parts coming in to insure they are correct, I audit the processes and systems to make sure everybody is doing their job, and I perform final audits on the parts before they go out the door. We also do some complete turnkey units for customers.

Knives...I usually have a Spyderco Salsa clipped to my pocket and a Spyderco Ladybug on my keyring. During the winter months I have another Ladybug sized knife attached to my Mini-mag flashlight in my jacket pocket.

In His Service,
Reid Allen

Unless I 'go out' my main shirt is a Tshirt now,being retired.But in the past mainly bushman,soldier,rigger,trucky so I put down Blue.
Cheers,Clive.

I lead a double life. I go to work every day in silk ties and wool suits but if you look close you'll see calouses & I'm usually hiding some bandaged wounds. Once in a while I might walk with a slight limp for a few days, and there's usually something in my trunk I wouldn't want my coworkers to see. There've been times when people in the office keep asking "Do you smell something burning?" I just play dumb. :spy:

-Ben M.

White. I work as a consultant in radiation safety and litigation support for claims involving radiation. I'm hoping to get more into the radioactive waste brokering and plan management for customers. I'm hoping to eventually get back into radiobiology research...if the govt decides to actually start funding it again!

I don't typically carry a knife at work unless I'm in the field somewhere in BFE taking measurements.


P.S. I typically wear shorts, sneakers and a t-shirt to work, though.:101

im actually quite suprised so far we have more white than blue, i assumed it would go the other way. I guess we must all be a bit like Ben M hiding who we really are. I know a few months ago when i was still learning to fly tey made us wear the white shirts and ties and the whole nine yards and i think i was the only one to regularly turn up with cuts and scrapes on my hands, also my hands often had black stains from the steel and brown ones from the sheaths.
lucky for me the job im working now has a strict dress code similar to don halters, shorts t shirt and sneakers, and on a real hot day thongs.(flip flops)

brett

Well
Pure white collar here. Been a bean counter for 25 years and do it now to pay for the priveledge of taking off skin with the 60 grit on the grinder.
More white collar doesn't surprise me. You blue collar types get to work with your hands while us white collars just get to sit behind a desk. The thrill of actually making something is unusual for us.


Steve

Left off the knife: Yes, I carry a Darrel Ralph designed Camillus Heat at work. Gotta be able to open a package of crackers at a moments notice!

I missed that, too.

Yes, even here in urban yuppie liberal blueneck Connecticut, I carry two knives everywhere. First is a small sheath knife. Generally it's a GL Drew 3" utility or my RW Clark version of the same. Sheeple tolerant. Then I also carry a Spyderco large Calypso with a fully serrated blade for those cardboard tasks.

My ninth graders look at me with BIG eyes and say "Is that a KNIFE you are carrying?" Then I educate them on the tool and non-weapon aspect.

Robert: He he he! I spend a LOT of time on my photo work, but I have been putting in 50+ hour weeks in my other job too, this Fall. No rest for the weary.....!

Coop

Is there a black collar, I am a full time metal banger and horse hoof smoker. I generally shoe 4 or 5 horses a day, use to shoe 25 but the wife said if I did not cut back I would be looking for a different place to live so we cut down :yield: . I have read that some of you have calluses so lets see them. I will take a pic of my 36 grit hands tomorrow.:p

When I am working I usually have 4 knives on me :lie: OK 3 of them are hoof knives.

Well since I can't find the black collar button as my collars are usually black when I get home put me in for the blue. Blue collar :rockon: .

Blue collar for me. I'm an electrical contractor and also do most all other types of construction during the course of stringin wire. I try to stay away from plumbing and concrete though 2 of my least favorite things.

I usually carry either ddr button lock kit knife or a reverse tanto recurve(1095) I made just for electrical work. I regularly abuse both in all the ways we frequently advise people not to:o :o but neither one has ever let me down.

Max

I do neither. Not sure what color "Job Hunting" would be in so I did not vote.

I did White collar for 18 years in Telecommunications management, the rest of my life, before and after was blue collar. I did everything from mow lawns to manage 44 engineers (High paid babies).

Now, not worth squat to anyone apparently. Overqualified for blue collar and no degree for white collar (working up to high levels in white collar does not count).

Last job was Facilities Tech (Mall maintenance man basically) but lost that when a guy decided to run me down.

So I am preparing to live under a bridge at this time.

Sorry, no knife carrying.

how about "Professional" :fencing:

I'm a full-time firefighter, been doing it for almost 22 years. But, then again I'm a "Fire Officer" so I most likely fall some where in between "Blue collar" and "White collar". As for my EDC I carry a Benchmade AFCK.

Blue uniform, so I guess I'll say blue.:D

Oh, yea. Several knives on me right now and one or two in my patrol bag.

I guess if I had to pick I'd say blue. Most of my previous jobs have been technician type positions for high tech companies. But currently I work part time (in my opinion) with a merchant services company that provides credit card processing and all the related stuff with that. They have a pretty neat wireless terminal people use in trade shows that we as knifemakers could use. I also own an e-commerce business where we help people develop secondary income outside of their jobs. Got to have that freedom to do what we want to do. So maybe a little white as well huh.

I have carried a Pat Crawford Kasper for about 7 years now. Havent been able to make one better than his yet.

Bill

I'm a blue,, Diesel mechanic, retired, and i don't carry a knife but i have a drawer full of em.. now I'm in my air conditioned shop ( Phoenix,Arizona) all day and loving life.

Blue Collar Here, I sling old Dodge truck parts by day, out of an upscale specialized automotive resource recycling and reconditioning facility, ( Junk Yard ). I carry 2 knives at work one of those crappy folding knives with the changeable razor blade that I abuse the hell out of , cutting cardboard, scraping paint, rust & grease as well as cutting cosmoline packages, also used for cutting drywall, marking lumber, cutting insulation... in my ongoing (never ending) house renovation project ( the major drawback to marrying an Arichtect ) I also carry a Benchmade Osborne BM940S it was a gift from my best friend, This knife has been my daily companion for the last 4 years, unless I'm flying somewhere then it stays home , don't want one of those TSA baggage checkers "confiscating" my favorite knife :spy:

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Blue to the core. General Machinist With the moniker of "Project Manager " behind it, which only means I get the $%^$#%Y^% when the thing doesn't work.
Paul
www.savageknives.ca
savageknives@golden.net

Three jobs: Hospital security officer (tan collar), Tattoo artist (black t-shirt), Substitute school teacher (that's white isn't it?) I'll refrain from voting since I'm not easily cubby-holed.

I'm very interested in Don Halter's job! My military training loosely fits that type of work. I'd like to hear more about it!

I carry my Yellow Bird EDC everywhere and my New York Special (from Drac) when I'm out cruisin' on my bike on the weekends.

White Collar here, I'm a system administrator. Computers is all I've done since I got out of the teenage odd-job market. I always carry a cheap pocket knife with me in case any of the servers get out of line... or if I run into one of those infamous "box" beasts and I need to even the score.

White. I am a development project manager at a digital publishing aggregator. I supervise application development and requirements engineering for proprietary applications we use internally.

Pretty much the opposite of knifemaking.

white but blue collar at heart i think. i am a district guy for a large retail outfit. just like Steve said, it's a privilege for us white collar guys to make something we can hold, touch and look at...

My day job is as a machinery builder.I do all the precision and electrical panel assembly.Also welding and machining. I carry a Leatherman and one of my utility knives and usually a small friction folder of mine.Dave:)

White collar here. Office/IT manager. I've switched back and forth in my career but mainly white collar. Since I got out of the Navy I've been mainly working with computers in almost every aspect except Data Bases which are for really crazy people like subriders in the Navy.

I do have to agree that one of the reasons I like knifemaking is that you have a finished product in front of you when you are done. You have actually made something.

Jayson,

What did you do in the Navy? I did 6 years has a pit snipe MM on the Detroit and took a 7 year break and now am an ET in the reserves.

Jim

Jayson,

What did you do in the Navy? I did 6 years has a pit snipe MM on the Detroit and took a 7 year break and now am an ET in the reserves.

Jim
I was a CTO for COMSECONDFLT. Not much at see time and no duties during GQ as we were mission critical and couln't leave our space. I did get to do the DC/Firefighting school in Norfolk which was a blast. Wish I would have stayed in now but at the time my ex-wife was making me choose the Navy or her. But all things being the same my life has turned out well and I wouldn't have met the greatest woman in the world.

I am now white collar. Started out in the foundry though. We bang hot metal but it really gets hot when you melt it!! Then went to engineering school and wound up in the construction industry. Too much pressure as a contractor so I scaled back and now am a salesman for a door and lock company. It is somewhat of a technical field as doors and locks have really gone high tech with electrinics. I carry a small Old Timer 3 blade.

Blue here...........Telcom tech for a small local telphone co. My company is small enough that I get to do a wide variety of work, dirt work and pc programming all in the same day!
Right now I carry a Benchmade mini Griptillian.

Blue coller alll the way. One more in the list of oilfield trash. Im a company man.
the company i work for has a policy saying you cant carry a knife. I carry a case trapper

Brown collar here. ;)

I'm an archaeologist for the Tennessee Department of Transportation, which means I sit at a desk most of the time, but also travel the roads of 25 counties to make sure we don't bulldoze something we shouldn't...:lol

I always have a Swiss Army knife on my belt no matter what, sometimes an old Boker penknife in one pocket, and when in the field I have a 26" machete to clear brush with that rides behind the seat of the truck.:spy:

White collar here. I'm a Clinical Laboratory Scientist. And yes I carry a knife to work.

Blue here. Full time law enforcement for the past 20 years.

At least 1 knife at all time.

I guess I'm white collar, officially, though I never wear one. I'm a wildlife biologist. I carry a Swiss Buck in my pocket, a Leatherman at my belt, and there is a 4 inch drop point in my desk drawer (a little big to carry around full time). I plan to make a small EDC for myself one of these days. . .

Blue collar. Tool and Die Maker, I keep a small folder in my tool box.

Alan

Blue collor guy and steel and oil has been my bread and butter, except for 10 seasons commercial fishing in Alaska. My Gerber multi tool is a part of my daily wear.

I'm a wood cuttin, game huntin, beer drinkin, truck drivin Aussie who wears Levis & a blue T but puts on a white shirt to impress the inlaws.

I am a white collar working, workin in the fields of management accounting as well as in the it field.

Knife making is just a hobby at this point in time.

I am a white collar buttoned down management consultant by day and a rough and ready Rugby playing knifemaking fool by evening and night. I spent 23 years taking the relms coin (US Army) and its kind of nice to be clean and smell pretty.

Im a blue colar steel fabricator blacksmith. I just quit my day job, now I work out of my garage. I do mostly high end railings.

David Jacobson

http://www.santacruziron.com

I do glorified carpentry, (orthopaedic surgeon) my scrubs are green but usually come home red at the end of the day.

White collar - messaging (email) and database administrator for a Bank. Occassionally I feel a little guilty when the grime can't be shifted from my hands, but overall love the 'double-life' - IT by day; tools and makin' stuff by night.

I am getting my kids involved when the opportunity arises - doing basic carpentry and weapon making from old fence palings (you know, swords, spears, bow and arrow), plus helped my nine year old son make a knife from a file (I did most of finishing, but he did a chunk of the grinding and shaping up).

I'm a electrical contractor. Owner/Operator...so to speak. I've done a few other "Jobs" over the years but, retired to just the current one.

I've carried some type of pocket knife since I was 9 years old. My Dad had a old 2 blade case. The larger blade snaped, so he ground it down too a 2 small blades knife.
I carried that knife for a few years until I had enough money to buy a Boy Scout pocket/utility knife.

At work, I carry some kind of medium blade, assisted opening pocket/clip knife. Usually a Kershaw. I use my knife many times a day untill somone says..."Thats a great looking knife you have there. Then, I give it to them and get a new knife out of the truck. I enjoy passing the luv!!!

Cheersd...Kilt Lad

White collar, I'm afraid.

Retired from the USAF 5 years ago. I'm now an engineer/scientist for an aerospace firm working for the government in Northern Virginia. Lots of projects and lots of issues to address.

No knives at work. Neither at company locations nor, definitely, at the government compounds where I have offices. :banghead

Blue collar here. I work for a gas pipeline company at a compressor station. Shift work with 12 hour shifts. Gives me a fair amount of days off during the week, home alone, to work on those knife projects.
I keep a Case Russlock in my pocket. Have had it for about 6 years now and you know after opening it about a 1000 times you can open it with one hand.

Blue here , Tool & Die for about 24 yrs. , currently full time in a factory and part time in my home shop . Hope to be full time in my shop soon and have more time to make knives .

Self-employed. My best friend and I own a company that specializes in ultra high-end home theater, A/V, security, and whole-house integrated electronics/automation systems, and also high-end mobile electronics and security. I am also a part-time self-defense/tactical instructor.

I carry a double-edged, 6" blade primary knife and 4" blade neck knife for defensive use, a good folder and multi-tool for utility use, and a couple of handguns as well nearly all the time.

Blue collar for me. I'm one of these gov't workers everyone jokes about, three guys leaning on a shovel and one in the ditch! But I'm the one in the ditch. For the last 18 years I have worked for a city in western washington doing grounds and building maint. irrigation repair, elec, concrete carpentry. this last year I transfered to the street dept as the traffic tech and now take care of all the road signs road markings and traffic signals. I have a lot of schooling ahead of me for a 50 year old student with short term memory:banghead

Somewhere between blue and white. 15 years in the fire service now in and admin/investiagtor job. Carry a Camillius Heat. Merry X-mas BeeBee

Blue collar all the way. 11 years with the Sheriffs Dept. and the last 7 with Dept. of Corrections. 13 more to go. Before that it was heavy construction. A knife at work is out of the question but I am never without 1 at home and I don't have a favorite so it allows me to choose from several different knives but mostly folders.

white,,,, I am a retired high school teacher.....But i taught auto tech...... Blue it is....Living in the country i carry a knife daily and use it.....carl

Hey There,
I will go with blue collar. I am a cable splicer/cable repairman for the local telephone company. I also am a journeyman electrician. So I have worked in construction and the out doors most all my life. I grew up on a farm and pretty much always carried a knife. Now I make them in my spare time. I just bought a new SOG kilowatt knife that I am quit pleased with. I have been switching back and forth between it and my puma damascus folder.
This is my first reply/post on this sight, Thanks Shane--S.P.A.Knives

Went from blue to white - kinda.
Did the auto mechanic thing from 15-30 and have since moved on to the technonlogy sector. Servers,communication, and LANs for the school district.
Avid hunter fisherman, all around outdoors person.

Its all starts with the knife.

dont have any collars retired used knife to cut them off

Firefighter/emt, definitely blue. One day at the station and two days building knives. I guess that's two full time jobs. Brad

Im kind of both! I sit at a desk half a day and the other im on the floor. Mostly blue coller. But I wouldnt call myself a knifemaker just yet either.
I have made a couple things that kinda look like knifes.

White collar now, from research biochemist to network systems administator to college professor to hopeful knifemaker. I have worked as a Vet's assistant, pathology lab tech, and several years on a pulpwood yard. Carry a Kershaw (1530, I think) everywhere I go.

Hey Guys, this is an interesting post! Well, my "day" job, I build custom trucks, the big ones! I cut trucks in half, and stretch them or shrink them down to make them into grain haulers for the farm economy. As an example, the longest truck I have cut down was 28'-6" from the back of the cab to the end of the frame! Yes, this was a straight truck! I'm standing between the front and the back of this truck I'm working on. A friend that I welded with 30 years ago asked me, "So what do you use to weld the trucks back together with? I told him, 7018 stick weld. He said, "We can put a man on the moon, but we still use 7018 stick welding!" How true!! --- Yes, I carry a "folder" daily. ---Jon
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Somma both for me. I am a professional project manager for telecomunications companies like ATT and MetroPCS. Currently at Metro managing a projecr swapping out the old equipment in the field on their sites for new ones. I spend a Lot of time on the computer and phone working out details and then a lot of time out on site making sure it gets done right and on time.
In the past I have been on both sides of the fence, hard hat and steel toes then other jobs suit and tie.

White for me. I'm a UNIX/IT engineer, sometimes manage departments, sometimes being managed (though just barely :) ). Currently unemployed, so I guess I'm not wearing any collars at the moment. It does give me freedom to be a full time pipe maker and knife maker though.

In the spirit of Halloween...

Here's a shot of me at work taken about 4 or 5 years ago. I guess I'm a tan collar.

I'm on the right.

The cat on the left is one of the maintenance guys at the hospital who dressed up as me for Halloween! The funny part is that he has really pale red hair--very Irish dude.

NO ONE recognized him!
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I'm a mine maintenance superintendent by day. By night a knife maker when she lets me.

Retired law enforcement officer, 30 years. Blue collar all the way.
Now run a 43 foot charter fish boat on the Chesapeake Bay. Somebody has to do it.

Blue collar here, Retired Air Force as a radio repairman and now I spend my days as a elecronis technician for a local company.

I put on my white collar in the morning and go to work as a telecommunications engineer.

When I get home I change into my blue collar and go out to feed the cows and do chores.
Most of my life was spent in blue collar jobs, mechanic, carpenter, heavy equipment operator and oiler.

I can’t hardly live without doing something with my hands besides punching computer keys!!

I carry a Ka-Bar folder that I’ve had for 10 years.

Joe

I suppose I'm a grey collar. I still have to get out and do grunt work every now and then.

Drove trucks and ran heavy equipment for 30 years. I guess they felt sorry for me where I work now and gave me a job where all I do now is ride around in a pick-up and keep an eye on contractor crews and make sure they're doing what they're supposed to be doing in the manner in which they agreed to do it.

Sounds simple. The easiest part has been gaining 50 lbs in the 5 years I've been bouncing around in my pee-cup truck.

I get along with most of 'em pretty good. Got 2 crews from south of the border that call me EENSPECTOR OJETE ( Inpsector A$$hole)because I make 'em tow the line. I speak the lingo too. THAT upsets 'em more than anything. ;)

I carry a very well worn old SWISSTOOL, and a big ol MOORE MAKER trapper made by Camillus on my belt. What I've got in my pocket varies from day to day. Here lately it's been a MOORE MAKER 3 spring whittler by Queen, that I traded for. I'm partial to I*XL and older Solingen pocket knives.
Willie

im a bible scholar and pastor intraining.
britt

im a bible scholar and pastor intraining.
britt

That's a noble calling...

Blue collar here, refrigeration mechanic by day, father/husband and struggling knife maker by night.

Other hobbies include dominoes, reloading ammunition, shooting, and IDPA competitions.

Dreams of being a private pilot and owning a small airplane. (And being able to play the harmonica!)

JLaw

White collar. I'm a fastener engineer. Yep; I get to invent better ways to screw (fastener eng. humor). I spend my days working on the global Torx standards and messing with aircraft bolts.
I always have my little Swiss army knife unless I'm flying (I've given TSA about 5 of them already when I forgot to leave it at home). Around the house I wear a Wave tool the Leatherman gave me after I did the pivot screws for that tool.

Very blue. I have been in the cabinet making business for about 15 years(all my life.) Got into my fathers shop right out of high school. I get upset at people with they call me a carpenter. I make chipboard boxes! The art work is what I like to do. Kinfes offer me a way to use the really good scraps of really cool wood I would just throw away. I also make small box for familly. Made my wifes greatgrandma a recipe box that she cryed over for an hour. That was the best! Love the outdoors, fishing, hunting, camping, and the like.

white collar. I am a senior programmer for Wells Fargo. Bladesmithing is my relaxation.

When I was still working, I was most definitely blue collar. I was drafted twice into management, but was returned to the "worker bee" status after they realized I was a poor fit. The other time, I quit before they had to fire me. Like an elevator in an outhouse...some things just aren't right!
Since retiring, most days fine me in my shop either trying to improve it or working on making knives. I read, study, watch DVD's, talk to everyone I can, and try to uphold the standards of the ABS, even though I'm only an aspiring maker. I hope to qualify for the JS, but I know I've still got a lot to learn. I do carry a pocket knife at all times, and it is my wish to make folders so that I can carry something I've made, although I'm firmly entrenched in the fixed blade category for now.
So far I've made about forty knives. The knives are getting better, I'm getting better, and the shop seems friendlier, but I've still got a long way to go. One thing I'm kinda proud of though...people are beginning to ask me "how to" questions, so there are some who think I've got answers.

My "adult job" was as a credit manager in the financial departments of distressed companies. My specialty was saving struggling corporations from bankruptcy or take-overs. It was problematic. I was good at it, but hated the stress and most of the people and their behavior.

I was still young when I told my wife I was "retiring." She jokingly remarked that I was 'semi-retired' because we still needed the money.

I am not a cutler or custom maker as many of you are, however, I sharpen locally with Japanese waterstones, and sell high-end kitchen knives. No one else offers a knife with a perfectly uniform mirror finished bevel, and it provides me an income with plenty of time to ride my Harleys.

After leaving server building and PC repair, I'm more of a general artisan-I'll make anything I care to try (which means anything the better half will let me get away with) since I have nothing but time. Was disabled last year, and they tell me to sit still and be quiet but I can't stop making something. Hopefully I'll get good enough at this to make a bit of coin. Never ask for more than a bit, though. Too much money is too much hassle.

Besides, I have a brand new son that needs to learn about the woods and his heritage (I'm half Seminole, and proud of it) and you just have to have a knife out there. I EDC a Gerber multitool and have a decent collection of folders and swords, but no real fixed blade knives, so I ordered up some damascus and I'm gonna make myself a good patch/skinning knife. Food has to come from somewhere...

Not sure what I am- I run a home daycare. Before that well over a decade as a teacher in daycare centers. Farm kid upbringing. Also done roofing, handyman work, and social service caseworker jobs, so I'm all over the map.

EDC is a Gerber a/o or an old benchmade I've had for years.

Im a knifemaker , first, last and always

I don't have a day job, I'm retired military, retired from the Dept. of Defense, and if I knew how much I would enjoy being retired I'd have retired right out of high school, like most of my brother in laws. I still set my alarm every night, and when it goes off I shut it off laugh and go back to sleep if I want. Then when I get up, polish off all the coffee in the pot I head to my shop and make knives. Life is good!!!

Administration manager at a Feedmill for the largest agricultural company in South Africa