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Hey all,
So I was cleaning a knife up to ship and I got to thinking about my Pot plus, I never really have taken great pictures of it, haven't posted that much abut it, it was my first JK and I wasn't as forum addicted at the time
Anyway, I have thought a lot of things about this knife over the time I've owned it, not all of them good if I'm honest (about my choices, not it's quality fyi.)
I've worried I should have asked for the handle to be shorter, that I should have asked for no choil, that I should't have gone with the orange g10. As you may know this is a "super sized" version of the Potawatomi Slim Necker designed by fellow forumite and JK fan, Jeff Shroup. In fact it was his post in the EDC thread that got me looking at JK knives. If I remember right he said something like "if I need anything more, i'll take an axe!" which I liked, a lot. Heck I thought, that's the type of knife for me! That's the one I've been looking for!
I'd never even owned a custom knife or thought about owning one. That was for very rich people after all. But I looked them up, and Jk's name came up a lot, and not a bad word said. In fact people seemed to go out of there way to complement JK and his knives. Since the I've heard other knife makers admit to JK's being some of there first's before they were makers, and seen professional knife users post pictures of JK's so well used they look like they have had a black coating put on!
Talking with Jk for the first time was a great experience, and making my first few decisions on what I wanted in a knife was, as you might have guessed, addictive. I know why I didn't ask to get ride of the choil, or why I insisted on the orange g10 and not wood. It wasn't really that long ago, but in knife years, it feels like an age.
So I realized suddenly that after this time has passed and knives a plenty have come and gone or stayed, the Potawatomi Plus is, finally, the knife I had been looking for. Which is odd since it lives in a box in my bedroom.
We have some history together, it has it's scars, it changes with use as it's patina works. We have our quarrels, but at the end of the day, even when I haven't seen it in a while, it's my first, made for me by a good man I've come to think of as a friend.
The fact the knife works, will always work, is only limited by me, and rafted by a man who wouldn't know how to make a bad knife, these things could almost be icing on a very fine cake.
No, you never forget your first JK, but sometimes you do find it all over again.
If I needed anything more, I'd take my JK belt hawk with me.
If you guys have any pictures of your first Jk, I'd love to see them.
Thanks,
So I was cleaning a knife up to ship and I got to thinking about my Pot plus, I never really have taken great pictures of it, haven't posted that much abut it, it was my first JK and I wasn't as forum addicted at the time
Anyway, I have thought a lot of things about this knife over the time I've owned it, not all of them good if I'm honest (about my choices, not it's quality fyi.)
I've worried I should have asked for the handle to be shorter, that I should have asked for no choil, that I should't have gone with the orange g10. As you may know this is a "super sized" version of the Potawatomi Slim Necker designed by fellow forumite and JK fan, Jeff Shroup. In fact it was his post in the EDC thread that got me looking at JK knives. If I remember right he said something like "if I need anything more, i'll take an axe!" which I liked, a lot
. Heck I thought, that's the type of knife for me! That's the one I've been looking for!
I'd never even owned a custom knife or thought about owning one. That was for very rich people after all. But I looked them up, and Jk's name came up a lot, and not a bad word said. In fact people seemed to go out of there way to complement JK and his knives. Since the I've heard other knife makers admit to JK's being some of there first's before they were makers, and seen professional knife users post pictures of JK's so well used they look like they have had a black coating put on!
Talking with Jk for the first time was a great experience, and making my first few decisions on what I wanted in a knife was, as you might have guessed, addictive. I know why I didn't ask to get ride of the choil, or why I insisted on the orange g10 and not wood. It wasn't really that long ago, but in knife years, it feels like an age.
So I realized suddenly that after this time has passed and knives a plenty have come and gone or stayed, the Potawatomi Plus is, finally, the knife I had been looking for. Which is odd since it lives in a box in my bedroom.
We have some history together, it has it's scars, it changes with use as it's patina works. We have our quarrels, but at the end of the day, even when I haven't seen it in a while, it's my first, made for me by a good man I've come to think of as a friend.
The fact the knife works, will always work, is only limited by me, and rafted by a man who wouldn't know how to make a bad knife, these things could almost be icing on a very fine cake.
No, you never forget your first JK, but sometimes you do find it all over again.
If I needed anything more, I'd take my JK belt hawk with me.
If you guys have any pictures of your first Jk, I'd love to see them.
Thanks,
