I'm *almost* as utilitarian about buying knives as I am about buying camera equipment. ;-)
My favorite knife for the past 28 years has been a custom-made boot utility knife I commissioned from a local master when I lived in Santa Cruz. It's been my constant companion whenever I travel and does about 80% of what I need in the kitchen since then. I did a pro bono job photographing ten of his knives for a knife show back then, so he offered me the pick of anything in his catalog. If I bought anything for the kitchen these days, I'd buy a ceramic. :-) On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:56 AM, eckinator <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone else here suffer from Knife Buying Addiction as well? And do > you feel some of the below? > > I have a fine collection of Japanese kitchen knives (Azai, Bunmei, > Global, Hayashi, Hirotomo, Masatsune and Yoshisada Seiryu) that are a > true pleasure to use. And yet these days I'm hardly tempted any more > when I see a blade that looks as though it could fill another > imaginary niche in my knife park. Instead my taste leans more and more > towards doing more things with a smaller number of shapes or even just > one. In a nutshell, knives hardly get my wanna-have light flashing any > more. I am saturated. I am even thinking of selling some knives to > free up some money for lenses... > > My camera comes back on Friday. I'll go back to thinking about lenses > I don't have then. Can you tell I am missing it? And it is just a K10D > with no metering or AF worth bragging about... =) > > Cheers > Ecke > > ----------------------------------------- > Cameras don’t shoot people. > Photographers shoot people. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
