I'm also really happy to know that I'm not a complete weirdo. Or at least not the only one, ha!
The key word in that sentence is "complete". Right? I feel the same way.
It is hard to explain to people that are not "obsessed' or "infected" with knife making just how crazy it is to try and master this art form. I have looked at thousands upon thousands of pages of knife pictures and related material. I try and glean "how-to" make that handle, "how-to" shape that guard, "why" did they make it with that material, "what" steel is best, "who" made that knife, "where" do you get that material, etc., etc., ect. Perhaps everybody does the "who", "what", "where", "when" and "how" questioning.
It is an obsession and I have proven to my wife that I am truly nuts, over and over and over again. There are times when I wish I could devote all of my time to knife making and then there are times when I wish I had taken up rock climbing.
Knife making is an evil mistress!!!
Here is the one that gets to me the most . . . when Mr. Bump, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Caffrey, Mr. Nielsen or one of the other masters posts a new knife and I just sit there in a puddle of drool in front of my computer and mumble "WOW!" over and over to myself. It gets me suckered in deeper, every time.
Hello, my name is DeMo and I'm a knife addict.
DeMo