$400 for a knife!!!!

knarfeng said:
Guys and Gals,
I'm happy for you if you buy a $400 knife and it pleases you.

But you should be happy for me if I buy a $40 knife and it pleases me.
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And I am. Sometimes, you can find a gem in the ruff.

MPE
 
If you've got $400 dollars to spend on a knife, go for, nothing wrong with being able to afford the very best, I would love to myself. The great thing about this hobby is there are great pieces for alot of different budgets.

Alot of people outside the hobby will shake your head that you spent $50 on a knife, sometimes even $25, so there is no explaining it.
 
Yeah its all relative, and who cares anyway ? I'm sure there are some incredible jewelled 24 kt. custom jobs in some Saudi prince's or billionaires possession somewhere that would make a more typical $500-1000 custom look very plain. And there are lots of good production jobs nowadays that'll do a very good job - - "its all good". - - - There's pleasure in owning a higher end knife and in owning an economical knife that does a fantastic job way beyond what you'd expect for the money (such as the Mora at a little over $10 - gotta try one of those !) Enjoy 'em all - long as their made right, don't you think ? (Poorly made stuff is terrible, no matter what the price point.) Regards, - -
 
Pointshoot777 said:
Yeah its all relative, and who cares anyway ? I'm sure there are some incredible jewelled 24 kt. custom jobs in some Saudi prince's or billionaires possession somewhere that would make a more typical $500-1000 custom look very plain. And there are lots of good production jobs nowadays that'll do a very good job - - "its all good". - - - There's pleasure in owning a higher end knife and in owning an economical knife that does a fantastic job way beyond what you'd expect for the money (such as the Mora at a little over $10 - gotta try one of those !) Enjoy 'em all - long as their made right, don't you think ? (Poorly made stuff is terrible, no matter what the price point.) Regards, - -
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They are out there, such as the Buster Warenski Tut Dagger:

http://www.sanfranciscoknives.com/knives/kingtutpg.html

Almost two pounds of gold in that! Crazy! I am proud just to own a simpler knife by Buster.
 
FOR ME---dimishing returns: At which you get VERY little -if any-over the price paid.

Knives---$150

Firearms---$1000---Sometimes bought for trading fodder at discounts--I usually trade em for more than what I paid for em.

My car has no extra bling---but I bought it loaded.

Motorcycle is middle of the road---don't like paying the insurance man. Bought new off the showroom floor--a year old model at a deep discount.

Sunglasses--Serengeti on clearance for $49---I bought 2 pairs.

Shoes--boots mainly for me--all off the clearance rack at the local sports store for basically 1/3 of original retail price---luckily I have an uncommon foot size so I can always find something---mostly Vasque--Soloman--and Merrill.----I do have a lot of pairs of boots----never pay full retail.

Don't really drink anymore--I'm old and diabetic.

About choked paying $49 for a Surefire 6P.

So a $400 knife??---for me---NO WAY!!!
 
Steven Roos said:
Knives - Got that one covered 10 times over! :D
Shoes - Danner Ft. Lewis
Sunglasses - Prescription Maui Jim Titanium Elites
Scotch - Macallan 18 Y/O :D

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My dad goes to Scotland once a year and brings me back a different single malt each time. That 18 year old macallan is YUMMY! The mcilhenny 12 is my favorite so far(sherry casks). there should be a scotch room on this forum...
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Steven Roos, love those Fort Lewis "Go Devils" boots. Wore them on active duty and now that I'm retired, they're still going strong in the woods.

I have to draw the line at the Cold Steel Bushman when it comes to a good combat knife for military. It might make a good backup to keep in your "go" bag but I never minded spending the money I did on my Randall #14, Mad Dog ATAK Hunter, Chris Reeve Green Beret knife, or my Sebenza. The Bushman might be acceptable for camping but I gotta know the blade on my hip is more than dependable for military use.
 
tirod3 said:
So, how many of you use high dollar knives and get complaints from the guy/gal with a totally different ( and amazingly useless) obsession?

There are those of us who have spent that and more on a knife. Repeatedly, though I haven't. And there are those who absolutely refuse. Too much, no way they'd spend like that a pocket knife.

But do they have a cell phone? Yeah. How much a month? Thirty, forty? How much is that a year? Smoke cigarettes? How much is that a year? Eat out once a week with the wife/sig other? Bling rims on their ride? Cable/Satellite tv or radio?

You get my point - discretionary spending is very individual and certainly not the domain of someone else's priority list. Maybe it would help to point this out when the subject comes up.
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I don't know.... Nowadays, stores give cellphones away. Good ones too. Not how it was a few years ago when a free phone meant a brick relic from the 80's.

I say, if you have the money, buy what you want. Doesn't matter if a $4 El-cheapo will satisfy your particular needs. Get that $400.oo Custom piece if you really want it. But just make sure you know who you're dealing with.

I've gone the Custom knife route twice. I've ordered a K-4 from Bob Dozier that I'm happy with. And a custom-designed tactical folder that was made by Reese Wyland for, ironically, $400

(He said he could make any design, his or your's. So, I gave him my design). The knife he made was much smaller than it was supposed to be. Needless to say, I was less than happy. That bad experience is why I tend to go with High-end, Production knives. (Mostly from Spyderco, Benchmade, and Emerson's Production company).

From another point of view, if I lose the knife; I'll be out $60 - $150 instead of $400
 
$400? several of mine are plus $1200 (emerson CQC6 and '8) lol, i just enjoy collecting knives, i do carry some of them though, i have carried my emerson '8 quite a bit, edc for over a year.

i dont "lose" knives, or anything else very often.
 
MikeC said:
I myself to buy 400 knives as in my opinion if its not a Mission product its not worth having/carrying/owning etc. Their folders are 415 and 435 respectively and the fixed blades with the excdeption of a few models are all over 400 as well. My mission folders will be here long after I'm gone their made out of a virtually indestructable material and will never rust, EVER. I like knowing I've bought something that with teh exception of an of GOD or an atomic/nuclear event is going to be around for a long time and I'm willing to pay for that kinda quality/durability.
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I've had the opportunity to use a mission knife before, and I hated it, I was cutting up boxes and hit a staple and it chewed the edge up horribly. That IMO negates any extra time they'd last simply because you'll have ground it into dust trying to get the dings out of the edge all the time. In contrast my EDC beater a gerber gator that my dad gave me, I cut up about 6 linear feet of 16 guage metal the other day and while the knife was dull as a butter knife afterwards, there were no chips and it only took a few swipes on a red dmt to get it back how it was. Try doing that with one of your mission knives! and that was a very cheap knife, on some of the really nice high vanadium steels I may not have even really needed to sharpen it afterwards.
 
SIFU1A said:
$400? several of mine are plus $1200 (emerson CQC6 and '8) lol, i just enjoy collecting knives, i do carry some of them though, i have carried my emerson '8 quite a bit, edc for over a year.

i dont "lose" knives, or anything else very often.
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Fair enough. I'll admit that I normally don't lose knives either. But suppose one day an Officer sees the carry-clip of one of your Emerson's, and stops you.

He's either a cop who thinks your knife isn't street-legal, or he knows better but recognizes that you're carrying an Emerson; and wants it for himself.

You didn't lose the knife it got stolen.... oops, I mean "confiscated," by an LEO. (Had the same thing happen to me. Never did get back my Benchmade AFCK or the Spyderco Delica I was carrying, despite not actually being arrested for anything. I take a bit of comfort in knowing that by now, the edge on the AFCK is so dull that the Officer probably tossed it in a drawer after trying to resharpen the ATS-34 blade with a common benchstone; then had to go out and buy his own duty-knife).
 
Monocrom said:
Fair enough. I'll admit that I normally don't lose knives either. But suppose one day an Officer sees the carry-clip of one of your Emerson's, and stops you.

He's either a cop who thinks your knife isn't street-legal, or he knows better but recognizes that you're carrying an Emerson; and wants it for himself.

You didn't lose the knife it got stolen.... oops, I mean "confiscated," by an LEO. (Had the same thing happen to me. Never did get back my Benchmade AFCK or the Spyderco Delica I was carrying, despite not actually being arrested for anything. I take a bit of comfort in knowing that by now, the edge on the AFCK is so dull that the Officer probably tossed it in a drawer after trying to resharpen the ATS-34 blade with a common benchstone; then had to go out and buy his own duty-knife).
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That is when you demand that you are either cited and given receipts for your items. If you know the letter of the law you can fight it and win.
 
Same reason why I own Browning Rifles. I can get the job done with a good second hand Remington or Savage, but I want the best I can afford, and concluded long ago that the Browning A-Bolt Stainless was all I would ever need. Yeah, I can spend more, but it doesn't get me anything I value.
 
I have had a crappy gerber folding knife now for a couple years and it cost me not a lot and it has gotten me through a lot... mind you it has gone through a lot too, tip cracked off(hurt me deep down when i saw that happen) blade rolled but i have repaired to to the best of my ablility and it is still sitting in my back pocket after all these years:P feels awakard if its not there now haha. investing in a new knife soon tho... yippie!
 
I have a bad impulsive motivation, if I have expendible cash in my rocket it's as good as spent.

As for useless or what looks from your p.o.v as a useless obsession, l don't believe it's any different from a woman spending $400 on a handbag, to be worn 10 times, then another is bought because the other one is "out of season" or whatever excuse works, however, a knife regardless of cost, if it attracts you and you love the design, feeling, colour, SMELL for that matter !! even taste (i know some of you have tasted the metal lol no?), you will continue to admire and cherish that piece, unlike the last season burberry handbag collecting closet dust.
 
Monocrom said:
Fair enough. I'll admit that I normally don't lose knives either. But suppose one day an Officer sees the carry-clip of one of your Emerson's, and stops you.

He's either a cop who thinks your knife isn't street-legal, or he knows better but recognizes that you're carrying an Emerson; and wants it for himself.

You didn't lose the knife it got stolen.... oops, I mean "confiscated," by an LEO. (Had the same thing happen to me. Never did get back my Benchmade AFCK or the Spyderco Delica I was carrying, despite not actually being arrested for anything. I take a bit of comfort in knowing that by now, the edge on the AFCK is so dull that the Officer probably tossed it in a drawer after trying to resharpen the ATS-34 blade with a common benchstone; then had to go out and buy his own duty-knife).
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never been a prob for me, i live in TX and my edc knives are perfectly legal, so if that did happen i would call my cousin (an atty) and we would get it straightened out.

i dont think many LEO's are gonna risk there career for a knife.
 
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