Anybody have too many knives?

Originally posted by solidsoldier
I have around 40 knives. I've done the trading up thing but it's hard to have what someone else wants or vice versa. When I decide to cull the herd, I usually end up giving (or selling very cheap) knives to my non-knife and knife-curious friends. I figure it will give them a quality tool
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I hear you, Solid.
On a number of occasions I've had to trade down because my knives are no longer considered the newest and the greatest. My advise to you and most people is don't buy a knife model right away. Wait around 6 months and you should find some up for sale second hand, but still new or almost new.
 
Originally posted by collecter

I never counted but I must still have near 1,000.
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1,000 knives huh? You're right, that is too many.
I probably own around 50 knives and at the rate I'm buying I probably won't live long enough to get to 100 knives. My goal has always been to buy the best knife I could afford. I've got a thread on the Custom forum of my last two knives. One by ABS Master Smith P. J. Tomes and the other by a master in his own right J. W. Smith. IMO these guys are as good as they get.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=274220

So, I don't personally own too many knives, but I am getting entirely too much sex. :D
 
Let's see now...

Too many knives...Is that anything like too handsome/beautiful
or too rich or too lucky?

Sounds like like mission impossible to me!

Chris
 
I have a knife for loaning to my mother, a knife for cutting rope, a knife for carrying in my dress shirt pocket, a knife for cutting my toenails, a knife for popping keys off of a keyboard, a knife to carry on the weekends, a knife for punching holes in leather, a knife to twirl in my fingers while watching television...

So long as it must be cut, it's my sworn duty as a crazy person obsessed with sharp things to find the best knife I can afford for the purpose. :D
 
Why yes I do have too many knives, would you like some?
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Originally posted by T. Erdelyi
My last two collections were motorcycles, and cars, at one point I had 30 cars, the problem was where to keep them.
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30 CARS???? Are you Jay Leno? :eek: How does one go from collecting cars to Swiss Army Knives?
 
I'm not sure if there is such a thing as having too many knives or not.

I do think that we've all, during our amassing, thought of that question at one time or another. But, the addiction is such that it prevents us from saying no. . .especially when a piece of eye-candy tickles our fancy. :)

I currently have 80+ in my gathering and have several inbound and several on order. I've also sold at least 100 in the past several years. At least half of what I currently possess is behind glass and the other half are EDC's. These days. . .I try very hard to concentrate on purchasing knives that I will carry and use. I can't imagine having 1000 knives ! It must play hell with your mind. . . trying to determine what will rest in the pocket that day ! :)

I'll tell you this. . .of all of my current and previous hobbies. . .there are only 2 that really gets the heart racin'. . .knives and motorcycles !

Is there such a thing as too many knives ?

Hell. . .I honestly don't know.

What I do know. . .life is good. . .where I'm at ! ;) :D
 
Originally posted by knifedaddy84
30 CARS???? Are you Jay Leno? :eek: How does one go from collecting cars to Swiss Army Knives?
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I was going to sealed bid auctions for the Insurance Co. you ever hear the stories of $50 surplus Jeeps, DEA auctions and such, 20 years ago only a handful of people knew about them, I bought a Datsun B210 Station wagon off a friend for $49, I fixed it, and put 200,000 miles on it.

The rear went bad, and I happened to be at one of these closed auctions with my Mothers Boyfriend, hell you needed special picture ID just so they would let you through the gate, anyway there were 2 210 wagons on the list of about 150 cars.

I placed my bid in the envelope,$25 each(there was nothing wrong with either of these cars, 1 was a theft recovery, and the other was some kind of insurance claim).

Before I knew it I had 8 of them.

Than I started on Conrail Trucks,(you know the kind that look like a Stepvan and a Pickup had sex, and it even had the wheels to go on the tracks. half a dozen of those, than came the luxury cars no one could afford to fill in the 70s, the Imperials, the Toranados, the and the Lincolns, people were loosing these cares to banks, they couldn't afford to keep them filled with gas, much less make the payments on them.

I was picking up top of the line Luxury cars for under $1000.

Add to that a Dealer plate, and a nice income from the yard and a job, I was drivin' something new every other day.

Sorry for the long reply, but that's how it got to be 30 cars.

The Salvage yard's been gone for 5 years now and I can still count 14 vehicles in my yard.
 
I have too many knives, but I will qualify the statement by adding that the excess ones are mediocre knives I bought before I knew how to pick good ones. My problem is that I started buying knives faster than I learned about them. So I have several that I would not buy today because my standards are higher.

So it is possible to have too many knives, but only if you have some crappy ones. It is not possible to have too many good knives.
 
I think up to ten quality knives of various types should be enough.

I'm still not pefectly saticfied but I do have some favorites that I will most likely keep for a long time.

I'll always keep looking for that perfect knife but the rest will be traded or sold on ebay.

Collecter
 
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