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A while ago I posted a thread where I no longer feel the urge to get any of the new knives since even those I already have are overkill.
I sold and gifted away most of what I had, and still when I watch knife video or see another new knife, it takes me very little to remember "I already have a knife that can do that" or something like "why would I baton a nail with a knife???"
Then, if you buy something really expensive, you might not even use it, so you paid for expensive knife just to keep using a cheap knife.
And if you have a lot of stuff you don't use - after a while you start schratching your head thinking "What am I going to do with them? Why did I buy this?"
Then realization that even after you sold something you never used, you still lost money in the process.
And price doesn't always guarantee performance either, or it at least isn't proportional. For example - Rockstead. I know it's more about the looks, but still.
There's huge variety of knives out there in huge variety of steels. After even trying "super steels" I kinda feel as if that's it. What drives knife sales is more often wishes than needs. And the more knives you have, the less that excitement about your newest knife lasts. It's very similar to an addiction. Especially if you start looking for excuses to get yet another knife you know you'll never use.
The more I use what I have, the less I feel I need something more, and the more I know what I like, and I know that 3V, D2, 1095, and AUS8 will always be in my inventory.
I sold and gifted away most of what I had, and still when I watch knife video or see another new knife, it takes me very little to remember "I already have a knife that can do that" or something like "why would I baton a nail with a knife???"
Then, if you buy something really expensive, you might not even use it, so you paid for expensive knife just to keep using a cheap knife.
And if you have a lot of stuff you don't use - after a while you start schratching your head thinking "What am I going to do with them? Why did I buy this?"
Then realization that even after you sold something you never used, you still lost money in the process.
And price doesn't always guarantee performance either, or it at least isn't proportional. For example - Rockstead. I know it's more about the looks, but still.
There's huge variety of knives out there in huge variety of steels. After even trying "super steels" I kinda feel as if that's it. What drives knife sales is more often wishes than needs. And the more knives you have, the less that excitement about your newest knife lasts. It's very similar to an addiction. Especially if you start looking for excuses to get yet another knife you know you'll never use.
The more I use what I have, the less I feel I need something more, and the more I know what I like, and I know that 3V, D2, 1095, and AUS8 will always be in my inventory.
