Anyone else not quite "feeling it" anymore?

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Back in the early 90s I had a revolving door of knives both custom and factory ~ I started collecting watches and used the knives to fund that since I never really had a use for knives beyond the machinery and love of it ~ Time was more important lol ~ Now yrs later I started up a little bit with just 4 new purchases but I am pretty much done already.
 
I feel comfortable with what I have, I will just keep maintaining and adjusting my middle of the road collection of cutting tools. Sometime it means selling a couple and sometimes it means buying a couple of items and sometimes it means just customizing and tinkering with them. It doesn't have to be always this high intensity hobby, but as long I need to cut things it will be part of my life. My photography gear is more out of control, Also, why do I own a microscope? Life is a mystery. :)
 
LostCause said:
It's been months since I bought my last knife and I made that purchase after selling more expensive knife.

That "magic" of wanting and getting something gas been gone for a while.

It's always something. It's either the price or the fact that I already have a knife for that which is about as good or even better for the task.

After getting S390 custom for 300€ and using it and knowing I can get the same in 3V, 4V or CruWear for about the same price (if I wanna wait for few months) - all expensive production knives now just don't look special anymore.

After using Mora Robust, I just sold Fallkniven F1. And it's hard to justify spending a lot on a knife of similar size.

Getting MagnaCut? - why would I?
I have 3 larger fixed blades in CPM-3V, S390 and SK5 and folders in VG10, S35VN and K390. What can MagnaCut do so much better than those in either fixed blade or folder?

I would want to get something, but nothing is special or exciting anymore... so I keep looking and I just don't want to get anything I see.
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Quite agree with you. The best, bester, bestest steel/knives trend, which the manufacturers push along, has ceased to be captivating for me.

However, as a true knifeknut, I have found a new rabbit hole to fall into, similar it appears to some others who have posted in this thread. I have been on a classic Cargill Cripple Creek binge for the last 2 years.
 
The accumulation phase of my knife passion has mostly past, which is good, as the accumulation phase of my life is about over also.

I have everything needed to spend the rest of my life with something interesting in my pocket, including a rotation that will keep it from getting boring. Goal achieved. Time to start enjoying what I have (knives and other things), while there’s still time to do it.

Most of what I look at these days is purpose specific, and more functional than fancy.
For example, I manage to buy, and subsequently loose, a few Spyderco Salts each year. Always while having fun though!

I used to spend lots of time on YouTube watching knife stuff, but the last few years it seems everyone releasing content is a shill of some sort. I’ll still watch Pete, from time to time, but that’s about it.

My interest here waxes and wanes, which is fine. Life is busy. I got stuff to do!

I guess I’m still “feeling it,” but definitely in a different way than I was a few years ago.
 
Swap meet season is getting spun up here, so I’m just getting started again. Last Saturday I bought a Buck 301 and a malfunctioning CRKT M21-10KSF, wouldn’t lock open. Fixed that and cleaned about a pound of grime out of it, then sharpened it.

Ordinarily I’m more of a traditional guy, but this one is growing on me. It’s a little too small for my grip, it’s got lots of hard corners, but it’s mechanically interesting. I’ll probably end up selling it, though.

Parker
 
Seems like I'm in the same boat as lots of people here.

I really like discussing knives and looking at what's happening, but I don't feel compelled to buy anything.

And yeah, my taste has refined over time and I now know what I do or don't like. And I have pretty much all that I like.

But using the knives that I have is what compelled me to sell things that I sold and keep what I kept. I mean, I enjoy using these knives. That's also how I know what works and what doesn't work for me. Sometimes I just like the concept behind some knives, and when I get them - I'm like "This is just terrible".

Latest prices are also great contributor.

And dissapointment is also caused by some overpriced knives I had.
Fallkniven F1 is such example. I really wanted that knife, it cost almost 170€ and what did I get? Terrible sheath, uncomfortable handle, terrible "guard" that's too small to actually guard and yet big enough to get in a way when I want to do some finer stuff, grind that's not particularly good at anything except carving (and even then Mora Robust does that better), edge retention was nothing special and neither was toughness as it chipped on me several times, before and after several sharpenings too.
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Cutting and carving alive wood and twigs - no problem. Doing the same to something dry... and it looks like I tried to feather stick a rock.
 
LostCause said:
It's been months since I bought my last knife and I made that purchase after selling more expensive knife.

That "magic" of wanting and getting something gas been gone for a while.

It's always something. It's either the price or the fact that I already have a knife for that which is about as good or even better for the task.

After getting S390 custom for 300€ and using it and knowing I can get the same in 3V, 4V or CruWear for about the same price (if I wanna wait for few months) - all expensive production knives now just don't look special anymore.

After using Mora Robust, I just sold Fallkniven F1. And it's hard to justify spending a lot on a knife of similar size.

Getting MagnaCut? - why would I?
I have 3 larger fixed blades in CPM-3V, S390 and SK5 and folders in VG10, S35VN and K390. What can MagnaCut do so much better than those in either fixed blade or folder?

I would want to get something, but nothing is special or exciting anymore... so I keep looking and I just don't want to get anything I see.
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This has happened to me, thinking what more could I get when I have a lot already. What I find is my desires / reasons for getting a knife have generally repeated themselves overtime, so rather than just buying for a similar if not the same reason, I go looking for my knives I already have but have put away for some time, so I basically rediscover the knives I already have, and I remember why I liked them. This satiates the desire to buy again, and also rekindles the joy to use them again.
 
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