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<\/a><\/p>\nI’m not sure where the urge to buy this came from. But sitting here looking through it, I am filled with lust for many of these items. Some of them look like they’re right out of a fantasy novel. Some of them are so elegant it hurts, and some are so baroque it’s ridiculous. There are also some, it must be admitted, that look like a redneck’s wet dream. The engineer in me, it also must be admitted, is drawn to the blades forged from damascus steel<\/a>, in the same way (but to a greater extent than) I get a little excited about anything made from titanium.<\/p>\n Anyway, after drooling over some of these things for a while I thought “Hey, I’m in Boston, there must be a custom knife crafter or dealer around here. I have a reasonable disposable income, maybe I should pick up something while I’m here.”<\/p>\n A little Googling turned up Knife Legends<\/a>. I looked through their gallery of recent acquisitions<\/a> and saw quite a few things I liked.<\/p>\n For instance something about this ornate and vaguely steampunk blade really appeals to me:<\/p>\n “complex opening release”, “extensive fluting and machining throughout”, etc. Pushing my buttons.<\/p>\n Until I saw the price.<\/p>\n Damn. That thing costs more than 15 tricked-out swordcanes<\/a>! I have never owned a car that cost more than a fraction of what that costs.<\/p>\n I’ve just spent some time looking at lots of other custom knife sites, and while many of them are less than that example, they are all WAAAAY more money that I was thinking about. I guess these are not items that are collected whimsically. At least not by people who earn a salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have survived the day of endless meetings. As soon as the last evening meeting ended, I hauled ass down the road to the bookstore to unwind with some browsing before it closed. I made some weird purchases that I suspect I might not have made if I weren’t dazed and confused from the meeting marathon. Case in point: I’m… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[82,265,99],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-art","tag-economics","tag-things-to-buy","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-p7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jack](\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/09\/Levin_%20Supreme-w.jpg\" "\\"Jack")
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