Steven Tyler bought thousands of dollars worth of Vegas knives?

“He likes knives a lot, and he’s been in my store quite a few times,” Bonds told me Friday.

Bonds works seven days a week at her place, Bonds House of Cutlery, 3540 W. Sahara Ave., one of the nation’s most prominent knife houses.

Tyler is an aficionado of cool knives, and he was in Vegas for promotions.

So on Tuesday, he returned to Bonds’ Vegas knife haunt for a three-hour private showing of her kitchen and sporting blades.

In 2012, Tyler visited the store, leading to a sighting in Norm Clarke’s column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

That sighting had a real effect on business and Bonds.

“Everybody was telling me I was a celebrity after the last time,” Bonds said.

“He buys a lot of knives and he gives them away as gifts,” she said.

In 2011, Tyler, a judge on “American Idol,” wore a knife on his hip to “Idol” auditions, causing the Daily Mail of London to publish photos of Tyler’s knife with the concerned judgment: “no doubt Simon Cowell will be glad he is not still on the show after seeing these pictures.”

But Bonds said Tyler is the sweetest.

“He welcomed signing autographs from my customers,” she said.

“Some of our customers who came into the store were on their way to the children’s hospital, to cheer up the kids, and he joined them, and went with them!

“He is such a nice person. You wouldn’t think that from the way he dresses or his past” drug use, she joked.

Bonds, in her 70s, likes Tyler a lot, but she isn’t overly familiar with his oeuvre.

“I’m from the Fifties, as far as music goes.”

Her daughter, Barbara Bonds, is a big fan but missed meeting Tyler, because she was babysitting.

“She was mad,” Bonds said.

Her store has previously worked with movie sets, Penn & Teller, and with Las Vegas resident Nicolas Cage.

“He was nice,” Bonds said of Cage. “I apologized for not recognizing him.”

Who buys knives and gets them sharpened there? A lot of cooks and chefs, for starters.

I asked Bonds if she could give me insights into the psychology of knife people, but she didn’t provide me with the kind of answer my therapist might have ventured:

“They like custom work,” she explained.