I was curious how people ended up going from 'I'll get some nice knives and buy a shun/wusthof block' to... this.
TLDR - ordered custom knife for wife present, decided I wanted one, now have many more than one and seemingly no end in sight.
I'll start. My wife loves to cook but hasn't had much time the last, wow coming on 6+ years. I thought I'd upgrade her knife block as a gift. Did a bit of research and bought a wusthof block.
Soon after our 3rd child was arriving and it was her birthday. I had no idea what to get her and thought I'd get a custom chef to replace the one in the block. Made for her to feel 'joy' with when she did have time to get into the kitchen to cook for the (growing) family. Went down a rabbit hole, researching, found a maker, who when I called and told me although his books were closed (I had no idea because I found him via Google as I didn't use insta) he'd pop us to the back of his 2 year list.
After putting my wife in contact with him and realizing our kids were born weeks apart, and it was for a family he decided to put us to the front of the list. Bought, delivered, I had knife jealousy and decided I wanted one.
I bought one, then another, ordered a few more, found KKF and BST, suddenly had time on my hands for the first time in 15 years and an opening for a new hobby, realized I need 17 different types of knife each in multiple lengths from different makers and here we are.
TLDR - ordered custom knife for wife present, decided I wanted one, now have many more than one and seemingly no end in sight.
I'll start. My wife loves to cook but hasn't had much time the last, wow coming on 6+ years. I thought I'd upgrade her knife block as a gift. Did a bit of research and bought a wusthof block.
Soon after our 3rd child was arriving and it was her birthday. I had no idea what to get her and thought I'd get a custom chef to replace the one in the block. Made for her to feel 'joy' with when she did have time to get into the kitchen to cook for the (growing) family. Went down a rabbit hole, researching, found a maker, who when I called and told me although his books were closed (I had no idea because I found him via Google as I didn't use insta) he'd pop us to the back of his 2 year list.
After putting my wife in contact with him and realizing our kids were born weeks apart, and it was for a family he decided to put us to the front of the list. Bought, delivered, I had knife jealousy and decided I wanted one.
I bought one, then another, ordered a few more, found KKF and BST, suddenly had time on my hands for the first time in 15 years and an opening for a new hobby, realized I need 17 different types of knife each in multiple lengths from different makers and here we are.
