How do you get your good lady wife to become interested in all things bushcraft? Easy. Pink Mora companion.
Bushcraft blade for the ladies.
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No, no, no, no, no ........trust me, buy her a knife you want yourself 
and hope she'll let you play with it 
That way she'll know you value her enough to buy her really good tools, and that they will be the object of admiration and covetousness; not Barbie Pink, "Aw, isn't that cute ?", and a patronising pat on the head.
On t'other hand, no thieving wee cretin's going to try and nick that one
Moras are good knives though.
Cheers,
Mary
and hope she'll let you play with it That way she'll know you value her enough to buy her really good tools, and that they will be the object of admiration and covetousness; not Barbie Pink, "Aw, isn't that cute ?", and a patronising pat on the head.
On t'other hand, no thieving wee cretin's going to try and nick that one
Moras are good knives though.
Cheers,
Mary
Ive always got Hot pink G10 and Kydex in stock as well as purple haze
plenty of ladies like the pink kit and happy to buy it themselves
plenty of ladies like the pink kit and happy to buy it themselves
I gave the wife a Cold Steel SRK (original with Carbon V), and Mora HighQ Robust Knife Carbon Steel, to carry in her get-home-bag.
I've wondered the same thing but then they do it to guns too: www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/21_801 Probably even a worse idea.
No worse than painting a gun mall ninja black or whatever.
I see colour as a matter of taste and beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder. I put a green handled tool down amongst leaf litter and wood chip today and nearly lost it (and before anyone bleats about it, try supporting a 10' long very thorny length of blackthorn one handed whilst folding a saw and putting it in a pocket). Green, brown and black are, for practical reasons, damn silly colours for tool handles.
Really - who cares. Its not as stupid as a baseball cap after all!
I see colour as a matter of taste and beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder. I put a green handled tool down amongst leaf litter and wood chip today and nearly lost it (and before anyone bleats about it, try supporting a 10' long very thorny length of blackthorn one handed whilst folding a saw and putting it in a pocket). Green, brown and black are, for practical reasons, damn silly colours for tool handles.
Really - who cares. Its not as stupid as a baseball cap after all!
Agreed. It's just difficult to imagine someone with tastes that overlap guns and/or knives with Barbie pink. They seem to sell though so they must be out there.
How about a pink baseball jersey? The local minor league team, the Blue Wahoos, are wearing pink as their home game color this year to support breast cancer research. Tradititionally the home team wears white while the visitors wear either a darker color or a pinstripe.
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gotta be man enough to wear pinkI wouldn't admit to that in public Duncan
.after all traditionally up to 100ish yrs ago it was a boys colour seen as part of the red spectrum traditionally a Warrior's colour for Blood
where as blue was girls due to assosiation to the Virgin Mary always in pale blue
I said it before when we were all winding up Mr Fenna, we started selling pink ladies hillwalking boots which a lot of traditionalist staff and customers were horrified at, but they sold like hot cakes (even with the fake fur ankle trim and the diamanté in the sole) and as quite a few Dads put it - "If it gets my daughter wearing proper boots and out on the hill I don't care what they look like."
Also pink has been used in a lot of uniforms over the years and can look pretty dashing I think.
Also pink has been used in a lot of uniforms over the years and can look pretty dashing I think.
Whilst I'm fairly relaxed about what a knife looks like as long as it does the job for which it's intended - if we're talking pure aesthetics, then that knife is flaming horrible
I get really annoyed at this culture that says all you have to do to interest a woman in something is to colour it pink and she'll suddenly want it. It's patronising and embarrassing.
So strongly do some women feel about this that there's actually a campaign about it - http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/
Charlotte
[SUB](who, for the avoidance of doubt, is both the owner of an OG Mora and a yew-handled, 01 bushy blade)[/SUB]
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Also pink has been used in a lot of uniforms over the years and can look pretty dashing I think.
and you can wear it on Bisley ranges carrying an AR
Whilst I'm fairly relaxed about what a knife looks like as long as it does the job for which it's intended - if we're talking pure aesthetics, then that knife is flaming horrible
I get really annoyed at this culture that says all you have to do to interest a woman in something is to colour it pink and she'll suddenly want it. It's patronising and embarrassing.
So strongly do some women feel about this that there's actually a campaign about it - http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/
Charlotte
[SUB](who, for the avoidance of doubt, is both the owner of an OG Mora and a yew-handled, 01 bushy blade)[/SUB]
I didn't buy it because it's pink and 'all girls love pink'. I bought it because my wife likes pink. Simple as that. I appreciate it's not everyone's cup of tea. I wouldn't carry it, but the wife will and she'll enjoy using it because it's in a colour and style that she likes. Doesn't every knife user choose a knife that they find aesthetically pleasing?
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and you can wear it on Bisley ranges carrying an AR
And in rather hard old school landies!
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