Anyone else feeling "satiated"?

Not exactly satisfied with my collection, but not in a hurry to add to it, either. It's an odd, between-space where I should be more focused on my own work, trying to make it into a business instead of something I putz about with for an hour or two, but finding the motivation is it's own seperate uphill battle.
 
TRfromMT said:
I'm pretty much there. I do want one more that I could carry for a few decades I have left that I could open and use with arthritis. I watched my dad mess around with a frame lock I lent him the other day and he wasn't able to disengage the lock. He carries a buck slipjoint for this reason.

I think about my dad or my grandpa who carried one knife their whole life. I am not quite there, and I'm not quite sure what that knife is (some ideas) but I'm getting closer.
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You just described my Mnandi. Its the modern version of our grandfathers slippy. I carried mine for 19 months as my only knife with no worries. Ill get back to just that again very soon but am enjoying the Zaan so much….
 
I read a lot of "I have enough" threads and I can't say I feel the same way. The only thing stopping me from buying more is a lack of money. I have collected knives since I was 5 and my enthusiasm hasn't waned. I guess it's my passion. I still have most of them. I never got into selling so I can buy different ones. I carry every day and often at home I'll take out a bunch of different ones and sharpen, examine, compare...I just love owning , using, and carrying knives. I am fascinated by them.
 
Honestly, I probably have all the knives I could ever need. I've given most people in my life decent gift knives. I suppose I could "want" more knives but which ones? Not much really grabs me. There were a couple of Cheburkov knives that had me interested but that's a whole thing now. I'm looking forward to the MagnaCut Deka and an upcoming sheepsfoot from Civivi but those are in the future. So I want to want but don't have much to want. 😮‍💨

Here is an example. I recently tried to justify buying an Enzo Birk. It's a pretty knife. It looks functional and I don't have any "fancy" thumb stud knives that run on washers. I noticed that they had a flat-ground version in S30V and that gets close to satisfying my criteria for the price. The Desert Ironwood version looks really nice but it's like $180 plus tax at Knife Center. Tempting but not tempting enough... Then I noticed that Lamnia has a green Micarta version listed at $150.

So I start looking for something else to reach the $170 free shipping threshold at Lamnia. Nothing came to mind so I just clicked through the catalog. I sorted their catalog by steels I might remotely care about and spent the time to scroll through. After pages upon pages, I hit the end of the road. There was no other knife in the entire catalog that satisfied me. At the end of the day, that's fine. I don't really need an Enzo Birk either...
 
EatingSarma said:
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.
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Sarma, I congratulate you on discovering what it took me much longer and later in life to discover; That it all gets a bit silly after a certain point. I did the knife nut buying and collecting, but it took me until middle age to realize that they were all just things. Not near as important as the people in your life, or maybe even taking that knife money and putting it toward life. Living a better life in your older age by socking it away for retirement, your kids, grandkids.

After selling off most my collection, the wife and I had a great second honeymoon doing a round the country trip to all the national parks and camping out. Yelowstone, Bryce, Conyon lands, Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Arches. And that was just the sale of the Randall's to the Randall fan boys. I gave away the rest to the kids grandkids, nephews, nieces, cousins.

Now I'm just happy with whatever pocket knife I have on me that day. Living in modern 21st century suburbia, I have little real world use of a knife, and a moderate pocket knife handles it fine. An Opinel number 5 or 6, a Christy knife, a small SAK. All open packages and cut string fine. If Chinese paratroopers drop out of the sky, I don't think what knife I have on me will matter much. Even in my backpacking days, I never needed more than a pocket knife. I think the most rigorous use my Randall 14 was put to was, stirring a pot of chili.

I made it a point stay away from knife forums for a while, and it made a huge difference. It was like a drunk staying away from the bar. Now I visit the knife and gun forums, and its like a reformed drunk on the wagon, going to the neighborhood bar and ordering a club soda with a twist of line, and watching the drunks and thinking; "I used to be like that."

I still take carrying a knife as very important. Every man with pants on should have a nice sharp pocket knife in one of the pockets. You never know what can happen. In January of 1991, I witnessed a car wreck in front of me and the driver was hanging from the jammed seat belt in an upside down old Datsun B210. I crawled in and had to cut the seat belt. Knife used was an 20 year old well used Buck stockman. I used the sheep foot blade because I didn't want to stab the driver when she dropped free of the seat, and the sheep foot blade had a blunt point. All 1 3/4 inches of semi sharp blade cut right through the seat belt with no trouble. A SAK classic would have done the deed if need be.

But it wasn't until I was like 50, that I reached where you are now. At 50 I sort of woke up from what seemed like a temporary insanity and looked at all the s--t I had collected in knives, guns, prepper crap, and asked myself "What the hell are you doing???" Had the big sell off and give aways, and never regretted it. I felt liberated. It had just gotten ridiculous after a certain point. I found the eject handle and bailed. Now I just keep a few knives on hand. Same with the guns.

Good for you, EatingSarma! :thumbsup:
 
It's sometimes difficult to muster enthusiasm when so many look the same. I do take note of anything different and there's a few I'd like to find that fit that niche, but as to carbon fiber or aluminum handled modern/tactical folders in whatever steel, I've got enough of those. Same with titanium, got enough of those. You look at enough modern knives and they start to look a lot alike, I guess. Maybe it's just me. When I get like that I generally pursue one of my other interests (firearms, airguns, fishing, etc) and sure enough, eventually, there will pop up the "knife I've got to get" and it all starts all over.
 
jackknife said:
Sarma, I congratulate you on discovering what it took me much longer and later in life to discover; That it all gets a bit silly after a certain point. I did the knife nut buying and collecting, but it took me until middle age to realize that they were all just things. Not near as important as the people in your life, or maybe even taking that knife money and putting it toward life. Living a better life in your older age by socking it away for retirement, your kids, grandkids.

After selling off most my collection, the wife and I had a great second honeymoon doing a round the country trip to all the national parks and camping out. Yelowstone, Bryce, Conyon lands, Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Arches. And that was just the sale of the Randall's to the Randall fan boys. I gave away the rest to the kids grandkids, nephews, nieces, cousins.

Now I'm just happy with whatever pocket knife I have on me that day. Living in modern 21st century suburbia, I have little real world use of a knife, and a moderate pocket knife handles it fine. An Opinel number 5 or 6, a Christy knife, a small SAK. All open packages and cut string fine. If Chinese paratroopers drop out of the sky, I don't think what knife I have on me will matter much. Even in my backpacking days, I never needed more than a pocket knife. I think the most rigorous use my Randall 14 was put to was, stirring a pot of chili.

I made it a point stay away from knife forums for a while, and it made a huge difference. It was like a drunk staying away from the bar. Now I visit the knife and gun forums, and its like a reformed drunk on the wagon, going to the neighborhood bar and ordering a club soda with a twist of line, and watching the drunks and thinking; "I used to be like that."

I still take carrying a knife as very important. Every man with pants on should have a nice sharp pocket knife in one of the pockets. You never know what can happen. In January of 1991, I witnessed a car wreck in front of me and the driver was hanging from the jammed seat belt in an upside down old Datsun B210. I crawled in and had to cut the seat belt. Knife used was an 20 year old well used Buck stockman. I used the sheep foot blade because I didn't want to stab the driver when she dropped free of the seat, and the sheep foot blade had a blunt point. All 1 3/4 inches of semi sharp blade cut right through the seat belt with no trouble. A SAK classic would have done the deed if need be.

But it wasn't until I was like 50, that I reached where you are now. At 50 I sort of woke up from what seemed like a temporary insanity and looked at all the s--t I had collected in knives, guns, prepper crap, and asked myself "What the hell are you doing???" Had the big sell off and give aways, and never regretted it. I felt liberated. It had just gotten ridiculous after a certain point. I found the eject handle and bailed. Now I just keep a few knives on hand. Same with the guns.

Good for you, EatingSarma! :thumbsup:
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This 100%. We sold a bunch of stuff and went to Europe on the money. Crap can be replaced but you can enjoy memories forever.
 
SimplyMinded said:
It's sometimes difficult to muster enthusiasm when so many look the same. I do take note of anything different and there's a few I'd like to find that fit that niche, but as to carbon fiber or aluminum handled modern/tactical folders in whatever steel, I've got enough of those. Same with titanium, got enough of those. You look at enough modern knives and they start to look a lot alike, I guess. Maybe it's just me. When I get like that I generally pursue one of my other interests (firearms, airguns, fishing, etc) and sure enough, eventually, there will pop up the "knife I've got to get" and it all starts all over.
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I guess thats why I away went for the more traditional patterns. lots to choose form wit stockman, trapper, muskrat, jacks, pen, and then the whole other field of friction folders like Sardinian resolza, Japanese Higonokami, French Opinels, and others. Its fun getting the job done with a pattern that some European working guy 150 years ago would recognize.

All the modern stuff looks the same.
 
SimplyMinded said:
This 100%. We sold a bunch of stuff and went to Europe on the money. Crap can be replaced but you can enjoy memories forever.
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This a thousand percent!!!

Memories are priceless. Like making camp in Dead horse point state park right in between Canyonlands and Arches National parks and renting a jeep in Moab and exploring off road. Or sitting on the veranda at the Yellowstone Lodge with nice cocktail in hand, watching Old faithful do its thing. Ot watching a park ranger at Mesa Verde do a demonstration of how effective the stone tools of the pre-Columbian Indians were by using a single flake of obsidian to skin and slice up the rear haunch of a road killed deer. Watching that little stone flake cut through hide and meat, made me really rethink my views on knives.
 
I can honestly say that I am pretty much satisfied with the knives that I have. I have pretty much stopped buying knives but if I see something that I REALLY like I will probably spring for it but I do and have not seen much of anything that makes me want to reach for my wallet.
 
I tend to look at knives when I'm bored because it's always fun to see what's out there and go through the mental gymnastics of seeing what suits me.
For the most part I don't scratch the itch, but sometimes if I'm particularly bored, or work has been dragging on me and I need something to look forward to... I pull the trigger.
Other than that? I'm satiated with what I have.
 
Satiation is temporary. It can last weeks, months or years but is often still temporary.

It's human nature to always WANT....
 
There is at least one knife on my radar screen for when the maker eventually makes them available in the next year or so.

Other than that, I've got way more than I need, and very few that I want.

If I needed to raise money I'd sell some, but since I don't, I can't really be bothered.

I guess that's a "holding pattern".
 
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