4 Years Later - A Completist Is Done

[FuriousPace]

4 Years ago I bought my first Schatt & Morgan peanut knife, which was an amber bone peanut. I liked the knife so much I decided to see what other handle materials they hade. I discovered that S&M made 4 different bone handled peanuts, so I set out to collect them all. Within the first year I was able to pick up the golden root bone and crimson bone variations, but after that I hit a wall. I checked everywhere and searched on the internet for many hours, days, months, and no sign of the mahogany bone peanut. I even contacted the nice gentleman who had the knives made to see if he possibly held any back, no luck, but he did let me know of some other S&M peanuts he had, which I gladly bought from him. He said other than the bone peanuts, a MOP variation, a stag variation, and the set he sold me, there were no other modern S&M peanuts made.

So I was down to the mahogany bone peanut. I continued searching over the next couple years always coming up empty, but managed to pick up many other nice knives, and even broadened my prefferences into other patterns. It was now going on 4 years and one day out of the blue there it was. Finnaly, I was able to complete my collection.

Do any of you get into that completist mode, where you have to collect them all, and you find yourself looking in places and talking to people you never imagined, all in the name of completing the set? I wonder what the next set will be for me, right now I am feeling like I accomplished something so I'll worry about that another day.

 

[Gevonovich]

Each one ...one of one hundred. No wonder it took so long. But I'm sure the journey was worth every jewel you picked up along the way. Great story and thanks for sharing.

 

[jackknife]

That's quite a nice collection of 'nuts!:thumbup:

It's really impossible to have just one, isn't it?

If you're wondering what next, go for the Case damascus. There's the amber bone, stag, pearl...

Carl.

 

[FuriousPace]

That's quite a nice collection of 'nuts!:thumbup:

It's really impossible to have just one, isn't it?

If you're wondering what next, go for the Case damascus. There's the amber bone, stag, pearl...

Carl.

I try to stay away from Case because they make so many handle variations each year I would drive myself nuts, not to mention broke. I do collect the Case Select knives and I am couple short of that set. I have been wanting a damascas Case peanut. Case makes some of the prettiest damascus.

 

[dalee100]

Hi,

A wonderful set! I know the feeling of deciding to hunt down a "set" of something. I have a couple of simple sets, the hunt for that one piece you need can be long and arduous. But the moment of truth is so worth it.

Dale

 

[knarfeng]

That's a very nice set.

Do any of you get into that completist mode, where you have to collect them all

Not a drum whose beat I hear. But I do like to admire the collections of those who do.

 

[quattromori]

I do feel the same as Frank.
Those sirens never sang to me their song, or at least I never listened to them I'm no collector.
But, if I was, I'd like to be like you. Many people think that collecting knives is the same as accumulating them. To me it's not. Collecting is having an idea behind the acquisition of new knives, and you had a very clear idea of what you were searching for.
And yes, of course now you can move forward, open another 'drawer' or cathegory (Case damascus Peanuts maybe?) and start again.
Good luck for your next step (and congrats for completing this path).

Fausto