A knife you don't use, but just can't bring yourself to sell?

Well.. I think it's time for me to liquidate some of my fixed blades that don't see any use. It's shame to let good knives rot in a drawer. Maybe after Thanksgiving I'll put em up in the exchange forum.

I sense that I have a new favorite on it's way to me in December. I just got in on Stomper's Kephart Kombo.
 
rksoon said:
I've gotten into this trip of acquiring representative "samples" (to my taste) of each company or maker. It might be just the beginning phase of my recently maturing knife interest, a chance to explore and discover what I really like in a knife; I don't know. So far i've started off with the major production companies, but I'll make my way to custom makers soon.
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Yes.. exactly.

Big 'ol massive blade: I got a HI khuk
Chopper: I got a Ranger RD9
Nessmuk: Got a Koster
Bushcraft: Got a Ranger Shiv
Scandi: Got a Mora 2000

I didn't really think about it, but that's just what I'm doing. It's worked too. I've decided that the big 'ol choppers are not for me. So now I have an HI khuk and a Ranger RD9 that just sit. I don't dig the scandi stuff, so my Mora 2000 sits.

It would make sense to me to sell these off because I probably will not use them again. But they're used, and I don't really want to take a loss on them. That's kinda why I'm afraid to try out my Chopweiler. I don't want to find out I don't like the knife I worked SO hard to get :)

LOL... I think I need therapy :D
 
Noshtero said:
Yes.. exactly.
It would make sense to me to sell these off because I probably will not use them again. But they're used, and I don't really want to take a loss on them. That's kinda why I'm afraid to try out my Chopweiler. I don't want to find out I don't like the knife I worked SO hard to get :)

LOL... I think I need therapy :D
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I have the same combo, I use the crap out of my swamp warden, but haven't touched the chopweiler. I too have come to the conclusion that I don't need a giant huge chopper and in fact the CW is on the trading forum right now. I think the fear is depreciating the knife via use. It also took me about 1 year and a dozen trades to acquire it.

I do have a nice Helle that was sort of gifted to me that I can't bring myself to use even though is stares at me from my knife shelf.

One knife that I recently one in a raffle will not be a user either, its a custom Fowler. I didn't ever consider myself a collector, but it's definitely heading that way and the Fowler may have a display box in it's future. I can't wait to hold it in my hot little hands. Before winning the raffle blade, I drew up a design to have Fowler make it for me and I should get them both pretty soon.

Since pics rule, here is the fowler I won.
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Here is the one I had Stephan make for me based off my drawing. It's hard to see in the pic, but I wanted a 1/4 inch or so of hardened exposed steel left in the butt (that doesn't sound quite right) for flint and steel fire starting. It should become my primary user.
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Can't really tell you the brand, but it has an Ivory handle and it was a gift I got for XMas a while back. It is a lockback and has sort of a desert looking picture etched on the handle.

My brother gave it to me. One of my most prized possessions, and I will never use it..
 
Noshtero said:
LOL... I think I need therapy :D
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Haha, we all do :D I'm with you on the big choppers Noshtero, I don't really need them with the activities I do now...I just keep telling myself "I might need it one day, and if so, this one will be the one I'd want to have" :o:D



IH8U, both Fowlers are great looking, but that second Fowler in particular is a beauty!:thumbup::)
 
That Fowler you had made is a belter, I may have to ask for a very, very similar one.

Here's the only knife i'm keeping that I don't use:

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As for the big Fowler, you got to get that blade out into the woods. I felt the same about a J.Neilson I got but after I went to the woods and made my first couple of chops then I didn't look back. Go on use it you know you want to.
 

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Nosh,

It is funny you mention it - It is obvious that I am not a super huge knife guy. I want what I want - I sell what I don't need.

However, I AM a paintball marker junkie. I have about 5 markers that I cannot sell - they are worth jack shit, and only mean something to me - but there they are - on the peg board.

When I get my 3rd generation Kosters Bushcraft and the Spyderco - TWO knives will have to go (I have a 1st generation Kosters).

I love knives - but if they don't get used - they get sold.

TF
 
I am completely a king of the hill guy, not a collector of anything and never will be.

I have a bunch of moras, but only because they're cheap and I tuck them in lots of different spots. One in my tool box, one in my tool bag, one in my tackle box, one in the kitchen, etc, etc.

Other than that, I have a few sentimental knives - one old, beat up pocketknife from a great grand-uncle who carried it during WW1, one folding Kabar hunter that belonged to my grandfather, one 15th century Kris from my sister who lived in Indonesia after I helped her out with some problems.

Now it's down to the stuff I use:

SAK soldier
Kershaw Liner Action
Gene Ingram Lacer
Bark River Aurora
Scrapyard Guard
Tramontina Bolo machete
Wetterlings Large Hunter
Agdor Bruks 3/4 axe
Iltis Oxhead felling axe


Everything else has been given away. I am at the point where I would buy multiples, because I like redunancy is something I like, and I also like redundancy. But I don't collect.

I will probably just start making more knives. I have a few that I've made that I never think about. But I only have them because I felt like making something.
 
siguy said:
i have several, i have been slowly trading off and giving away the ones i haven't thought about in a while...some of them have been my favorite knives, and some of them are really great knives, but they don't do me any good sitting around in a box.

i have a tough time selling blades that were gifted to me, so if i don't use those i typically regift them.

i'm trying to whittle down my collection, but there are a couple that are rarely used that will always stay with me. even if i never use them, i can loan them to a buddy on a camping trip, and they are always there in case my go-to knife fails.
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I'm with you. I have also been trading away the ones that don't get much use. I'm no collector - I'm more of an accumulator looking for a very small number of ideal knives. I've been paring down quite a bit lately. Right now my fixed blades are:

BRK&T Northstar
Helle Futura
BRK&T Mini Canadian

The Northstar, great as it is, is at the bottom of the totem pole lately, and will probably get traded.

The knives that I would never give up are those that I got as gifts and my trusty SAK Huntsman that I got when I was twelve. I don't use it much anymore, but it was my constant edc for nearly 20 years. Too much sentimentality.
 
I think i'll evolve to be like some of you more experienced knife guys; once I really start to figure out what size, steel, shape, heat treat, geometry/edge, handle etc. I like the best, I'll probably start pruning the knives i've accumulated by that point. Like misanthropist, I do like redundancy if the knife is just THAT good, so i'd consider selling off non-users for a spare of my better users :)
 
I have two fine blades I will neither use nor sell.
They are traditional Japanese swords inherited from my ancestors.

no photos, sorry.
 
My Craig Barr hawk. Its to pretty to use so I want to sell it, but its the only blade my SO demands I don't sell...though I think I may go behind her back lol
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And I have thought about selling mt ML Knives woods and bush, but I am torn.
 
I think I had 20 year pent up demand for knives caused by my ex-wife's fear of anything larger than a SAK. The collection started innocently enough with an inexpensive S&W tactical folder bought at a gun show 12 years ago. Then I read about different knife alloys and carried a Junglee venom in ATS-34; then a Benchmade AFCK (small) in 154CM; then bought a Spyderco Calypso in ZDP 189 which I EDC'ed for several years. Then I started collecting just to try different alloys: VG-10, S30V, and N690CO. And finally I ended up with four Kershaw Leeks, because I kept losing them and soon as I'd buy a new one I'd find the old one. So I've got two Leeks in S30V, one ZDP 189 and the latest is the composite with the D2 edge.
I've also collected a few fixed blades in different alloys the latest two being Busse blades.
But the ones that stay in the top drawer of my dresser is a bowie knife a friend gave me for Christmas, a Buck special, and a horn handled Camillus talonite talon numbered 12 of 25. But I have another talon with micarta handles which I use all the time.

I guess if I needed the money I would sell some, but my thinking now is that my daughter can have fun selling them off after I'm gone.
 
I have a jerzee devil knife I've only cut paper with so far. It is gorgeous! I'm thinking of selling it, but having a REALLY HARD TIME parting with it. Here's a picture:

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Have about 20 fixed blades when I include the ones I've given to my sons. I've traded for some good knives and thinning the herd BIG time. I have a bunch of awesome knives and just don't use them, so off they must go. My wish list has been run down to a couple and I'm done. :grumpy:

I am keeping most of my customs and selling the rest, except for the tried and true bushcrafter I got off ebay and have pounded to death. :D
 
I guess I rotate a bit depending on where I am going. I have a couple I don't use much, that I will never sell. The one that most comes to mind is an original Buck master that my father gave me when I was 12. It's seen some use, but not any more and it's a sentimental piece. My most used is one I made. :D
 
The only blade I still have that I don't use is my Ranger RD-9. It was a gift, and I just cant bring myself to go out and beat on it....... but it looks pretty... :/ The only other one is my Victorinox Woodsman. I had Scibeer make a copy which I use and carry, but the orginal stays in its little box.

Otherwise my blades get the heck beat out of them every chance I get. Even my Gossman blades. Of course Scott is likely to be insulted if you buy but never use one of his knives :D
 
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