A knife's journey

[mromeo23]

I traded for a limited edition 940bk-1101 maybe 8 or 9 months ago. I think it came from Massachusetts, but I'm not sure. I'd have to check my records at home.

Anyway, it was hard to do, but I eventually traded it to a guy in Wisconsin maybe 6 months ago. The exact knife is being auctioned on the bay from a guy in California. I asked him about it, and he said he got it from a guy in Canada.

So...from what I know...Massachusetts(?) to NJ to Wisconsin to canada to California. Who knows how many other stops this knife made.

I don't know, this may not seem overly exciting to most people, but to me it's kinda cool to come across my exact knife several months later being auctioned and to see how it's traveled to so many locations. When I got it, I thought I'd have it for the rest of my life being that it was a limited edition and one of my favorite knives ever. But I decided I wanted to trade it for a knife I'd actually use. I couldn't stand watching it collect dust and I just couldn't bring myself to use it...so off it went. I guess everyone else feels the same way about it...no one wants to use it or keep it locked away.

 

[RevDevil]

It will continue until the one person drops it on the concrete sidewalk outside, freaks out, and just starts using it. As it stands, once a knife is bought from a store and resold privately, it ceases to be "NIB" and becomes "LNIB".

 

[Cypress]

That's pretty neat! Has the price gone up a lot? Why does nobody want to keep the dang thing?

 

[Professor]

Perhaps it's haunted like the Annabelle doll in The Conjuring?

 

[Neuron604]

I think you'd be surprised with how often this happens with a lot of the knives on the forum and eBay.

 

[mromeo23]

I just checked in on the auction and it did not sell. I don't get it because i thought it was pretty reasonably priced and with the popularity of the 940 series and the fact that it's a limited edition, I assumed it would sell easily. Ehh what do I know? Hahaha