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(Photo credit: AlexS for his wonderful photoshop skills, who helped composite three separate shots by the WanderingPurist) It's funny - sometimes, one feels loneliest in a room full of people. As much as the internet tears down barriers and brings the wor...

....was to spend ten minutes googling the Kershaw Zing knife. If my time here has taught me anything, it is that honestly held passion is worth listening to, if only for a brief time, even if I fully believe I have absolutely no interest in the subject at...

A field of study, if pursued for academic and then emotional reasons, will almost certainly become a passion, sometimes just a hobby, occasionally a career or profession, if it is found to contain something compelling, that resonates on a deeply human lev...

We normally speak in positive terms about collectors who have a "passion" for whatever it is they collect. Hobbyist websites like this one tend to bring together people who reinforce one another's need to believe that there is something noble about spendi...

Thanks a lot for this thought provoking post. I appreciate that someone has the standing to touch such a topic in this forum. Your reference to the world of Tolkien’s novels made me recognize the tightrope walk between a passion for beautiful things...

not a harangue or accusatory. It also touches on issues that I have wrestled with all my life. "material objects" vs "experiences" One's good fortune vis a vis other's "lesser fortunes" But first a clarification - I've always tried to encourage, even embe...

But I couldn't live without the 7027/BA/11/9V6 I posted on today's WristScan thread! A

“… had no soul … emotion in the design … soul soothing ... eyeball and hand test … ignite something in me … the passion that makes this hobby go … buy what you love … don't lock (them) away in the safe ̷...

That the bulk of his collection is production knives. As someone for whom knife collecting came first, i'd say it is a very different, but compatible hobby. When I first started collecting watches I was constantly annoyed at the lack of transparency (ok, ...

Hi Aaron. Please define Production piece vs custom. Please share what the practical differences are (besides consistency of fit and finish) Is there a middle ground, say, "tuned" production pieces that gives one 98% of custom at 1/3 the price (using a ben...

Custom="the name on the knife is the maker (ground, fitted, polished, etc..." with other participants usually named (engraver, smith, HT) or at least acknowledged (I buy my sheaths, etc). Usually this has everything made unique for that knife(excluding sc...