2018 knife resolutions

I have a bunch of decent knives, but I am looking for improvements and bargains. Better steel (edge holding), better ergos, better locks, faster deployment, more corrosion resistance, better fit and finish, better aesthetics, lighter weight, closer tolerances, better prices, on and on. I don’t mind buying extra knives. I can usually make out better on knife investments than on CD’s. I know more about knives than I do about derivatives. I am all over industrial sculpture. Like to buy knives I wore out as a kid (nostalgia factor).
I need to spend a little time on sharpening my kitchen knives. They sport lesser steels than my folders.
 
T.L.E. Sharp said:
When you start dating a person often times you overlook major flaws or little annoyances because it's a new relationship. Rose colored glasses and whatnot. Over time those little things, molehills, become mountains and ultimately the relationship ends. A failure.

When I met my wife I new she would be my wife because I couldn't locate any of those things. Not only was there nothing about her that really annoyed me then, but I couldn't even find anything that would annoy me later. No parallels between her and things that ultimately drove me away from partners past.

I'm going to try to apply the same search tactic in knife purchases this year. Hopefully reducing the amount of reselling and trading I end up doing.

If a knife has a feature that caused me to get rid of a previous knife I'll avoid it. Regardless of whatever new feature it may have.
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We're a month in now, nearly and so far I'm sticking to this philosophy. I didn't buy that Klingon warship that WE produced; I bought a ZDP-189 Endura and a set of scales for it. Won't need to flip that one.
 
"A man can spend his whole life fishing, eventually realizing it is not the fish he is after"
Wonder.....if the same applies to trying to hunt for blades?
 
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