anyone els get frustrated when...?

AntCaps said:
For the record I never poo poo there collections to them it's not worth arguing with them about how the 6 Canadian peso Home Depot special stacks up. I guess it's more the excitement of finding someone who might share this rare interest and then the dissapointment in seeing there "super dragon 6 blades wrist sword" lol
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Could be worse. You might meet a serious top level and dollar collector with all mutli-thousands of dollars rare customs who frowns on your high quality production and midtech folders and fixed blades. Its all relative.
 
jbmonkey said:
Could be worse. You might meet a serious top level and dollar collector with all mutli-thousands of dollars rare customs who frowns on your high quality production and midtech folders and fixed blades. Its all relative.
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The diffrence is that I could appreciate the knives he had, and I'm aware of the difference in the. if I could afford it is also have better more extravagant knives.
 
AntCaps said:
The diffrence is that I could appreciate the knives he had, and I'm aware of the difference in the. if I could afford it is also have better more extravagant knives.
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But if he said your knives were ridiculous crap and completely useless would your arguments to the contrary be any different than the ones an M-Tech or Frost Cutlery collector would make? "I like them" and, " they still cut stuff" seem like pretty fair arguments for a knife collection to me.

Not sure there's any sense in arguing the merit of one senseless waste of money vs. another.
 
As I said before, I think they're better off. Their collection would leave me with a lot more play money than I have with mine. Could go buy a new Hi-Point! Or maybe some 26" rims for my Pathfinder.
 
Oh, you must mean the guy that bought a hundred knives for a hundred bucks on the Web. Yeah, I know him.
 
jbmonkey said:
Could be worse. You might meet a serious top level and dollar collector with all mutli-thousands of dollars rare customs who frowns on your high quality production and midtech folders and fixed blades. Its all relative.
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"Ya your Reate is OK. But check out this super rare collaboration between Tom Mayo and Ken Onion. They only created three knives and vowed never to collaborate again on any knives, so these are ultra rare. Plus mine is the timascus version with mokuti bolsters and a zirconium clip. Check out this super rare steel that was forged on Jupiter during the dark eclipse of Io. It was so crazy cause I was searching for this knife for like 9 months and thought I'd never get it. Then finally I saw it at TKI and had to bid on it. I thought I'd never win but I got super lucky. Actually it wasn't really luck cause I paid like 12 grand for it"
 
Comeuppance said:
The secret here is to gift him a Leek or something of reasonable quality. Maybe a Cold Steel AUS8 number while they're still discontinued and cheap.
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This may constitute a "pearls before swine" situation, and the loss of a perfectly good Leek.
 
LOL and here I am, showing off my Mtechs. :p

I know what they are and it doesn't bother me. I have a couple of knives I carry most of the time, my SOG Flash II and my HK Turmoil. I think some of my Mtechs are better than the SOG and I carry some of them too. I don't have demands on the knives like for camping or surviving the woods. I'm just a city boy living in a concrete jungle.

The Mtechs worked for cutting minor things and are quite functional. There was nothing shoddy with their workmanship and quite well made. They served my purpose just fine and that's for admiring and light duty.

That's just the folders and now the full tang fixed blades. I have a nice collection and one of them is a hollow ground to a thin edge like a straight razor and scary sharp. In fact almost all of them are sharp out of the box, some more than other.

I sense some snobbery on this board and I don't care. I carry a Sig or an HK but I don't look down on you because you're carrying a HiPoint. Your HiPoint can kill as well as mine.
 
When I get an opportunity to talk knives with someone it's almost always someone who owns or collects cheap knives. I don't mind at all. In fact, I enjoy these conversations. They usually seem just as impressed with their gas station knives as I am with my knives and I enjoy seeing their enthusiasm. I complement their knives as best I can and I often end up walking away with one of them in my pocket so I can take it home and sharpen it for them.

I don't mention my knives unless they ask. The last thing I want to do is make them feel inferior and I can't figure out a way to mention my knives without risking that. So I just let the conversation be all about them. Rarely, if ever, do they ask about my knives and I'm OK with that.
 
LaneMeyer said:
"Ya your Reate is OK. But check out this super rare collaboration between Tom Mayo and Ken Onion. They only created three knives and vowed never to collaborate again on any knives, so these are ultra rare. Plus mine is the timascus version with mokuti bolsters and a zirconium clip. Check out this super rare steel that was forged on Jupiter during the dark eclipse of Io. It was so crazy cause I was searching for this knife for like 9 months and thought I'd never get it. Then finally I saw it at TKI and had to bid on it. I thought I'd never win but I got super lucky. Actually it wasn't really luck cause I paid like 12 grand for it"
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I immediately thought of Jim Skelton while reading this.
 
When I first started collecting knives, I had my brother convinced that my frost cutlery knives were much higher quality than his tax Force knives and he actually traded me 3 of them for 1 frost :D now that I know I wouldn't even sell him one, because I'm trying to convince him to get a better user knife.🔪💰
Now that I think about it the main problem with the cheapo's is the screws falling out, so maybe if I got him some loctite they might last.🔐
 
jbmonkey said:
Could be worse. You might meet a serious top level and dollar collector with all mutli-thousands of dollars rare customs who frowns on your high quality production and midtech folders and fixed blades. Its all relative.
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Twiki said:
LOL and here I am, showing off my Mtechs. :p

I know what they are and it doesn't bother me. I have a couple of knives I carry most of the time, my SOG Flash II and my HK Turmoil. I think some of my Mtechs are better than the SOG and I carry some of them too. I don't have demands on the knives like for camping or surviving the woods. I'm just a city boy living in a concrete jungle.

The Mtechs worked for cutting minor things and are quite functional. There was nothing shoddy with their workmanship and quite well made. They served my purpose just fine and that's for admiring and light duty.

That's just the folders and now the full tang fixed blades. I have a nice collection and one of them is a hollow ground to a thin edge like a straight razor and scary sharp. In fact almost all of them are sharp out of the box, some more than other.

I sense some snobbery on this board and I don't care. I carry a Sig or an HK but I don't look down on you because you're carrying a HiPoint. Your HiPoint can kill as well as mine.
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No hard feelings being pushed here. I've got no problem with someone else who holds interest in them, just not my preference. Like jbmonkey's quote I included, someone with thousands of dollars into various customs would probably despise what my collection consists of, which don't nearly measure up. It was when my cousin would try to convince me that there's no difference in functionality between his 440 MTech and my, say, CPM S30V Manix 2 I might be carrying that day. I would never knock someone's preference, or admiration of any knife. I've never knocked him for what he has. But i.e. one steel can/has been proven better than another steel when considering edge retention, Rockwell hardness, etc. Just responding to the question.
 
That's true about the steel. Better steel does make a better knife, I'm aware of that. My Turmoil is an example (D2 steel). Since most of my knives are 440 or 440C steel they're not bad. A couple I have are AUS-6 and that's pretty cheap I know. Some are just plain stainless steel so I don't know what that is.

I have an interesting Colt knife that is D2 steel and G10 handle for $15. Sharp as heck and I didn't hone it.

 
It does not bother me at all, I think it's the natural progression of collecting. I know I had plenty of flee market crap because it was all I could afford when I was a kid collecting. I generally tell them about good budget knives like the RAT 1, tenacious, or the like. If I have a spare I give them one. My hope is that it will keep them thirsty for the next better blade.
 
Twiki said:
That's true about the steel. Better steel does make a better knife, I'm aware of that. My Turmoil is an example (D2 steel). Since most of my knives are 440 or 440C steel they're not bad. A couple I have are AUS-6 and that's pretty cheap I know. Some are just plain stainless steel so I don't know what that is.

I have an interesting Colt knife that is D2 steel and G10 handle for $15. Sharp as heck and I didn't hone it.

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I mean that's a screaming deal when you look at knives with the same materials being used. Build quality is a whole other thing of it's own, but that differs depending on who you ask. Time is needed to really get an understanding how well an individual knife is built, as well as considering what work it was used for.
 
Again true. The Colt I have has a thinner blade than most good knives and I'm aware of its limitations but then I don't need anything heavy duty.
 
Twiki said:
LOL and here I am, showing off my Mtechs.[emoji14]
I know what they are and it doesn't bother me. I have a couple of knives I carry most of the time, my SOG Flash II and my HK Turmoil. I think some of my Mtechs are better than the SOG and I carry some of them too. I don't have demands on the knives like for camping or surviving the woods. I'm just a city boy living in a concrete jungle.

The Mtechs worked for cutting minor things and are quite functional. There was nothing shoddy with their workmanship and quite well made. They served my purpose just fine and that's for admiring and light duty.

That's just the folders and now the full tang fixed blades. I have a nice collection and one of them is a hollow ground to a thin edge like a straight razor and scary sharp. In fact almost all of them are sharp out of the box, some more than other.

I sense some snobbery on this board and I don't care. I carry a Sig or an HK but I don't look down on you because you're carrying a HiPoint. Your HiPoint can kill as well as mine.
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Basically. If someone has a limited budget, and looks at knives within their means, you will get some on this board who will only offer up gems like "Those are garbage. Just save up your money and buy a real knife like a Sebenza". May as well say to the guy who is looking for an American sports car "All those sports cars you are looking at are crap, just save your money, and buy a Bugatti Veyron"
 
I haven't seen a Mtech I'd carry.
I did carry a Colt folder for 3 years though; did everything with that knife, from cutting boxes to using it as a barbeque tool. :)
After I got better knives, I even threw it at trees; the damn thing never broke.
 
Comeuppance said:
I immediately thought of Jim Skelton while reading this.
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BlueSpartan007 said:
I just laughed so hard. I've watched a ton of his videos, and even before this comment, the voice in my head was narrated by none other than that man. Great comment.
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Ya it wasn't written with Jim specifically in mind. But when I go back and read it in Jim's voice it sounds pretty funny.
Nothing against Jim, I do like his videos.
 
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