Anyone ever lost a knife due to too little funds?

Not due to lack of funds, but I am constantly in the 'For sale by individual's' forum, and constantly faced with

CONUS ONLY!!!

Now, given that the knifes I want most are made there, i'm kinda struggling..
 
2sparky said:
I would never ever start a project that I couldnt pay for. Thats why I got a quote and told him to hold off on the build/design till I get funds. We had just begun talking about a build.
-Barry-
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Barry,

I wish that more people went about it this way. :thumbup: If I don't have the money in hand, I won't order a knife either. It seems to me that this is a pretty big problem in the custom knife world.

I missed out on a Dozier Classic that I had been waiting to come up for sale for over a year when I checked my bank account just to be certain I had the funds available, even though I was 99% sure I could cover the expense.

This summer, I had enough for a Dozier folder put away. After getting tired of waiting for one to pop up I bought a couple of SAKs. Sure enough, two days later a great folder popped up and I couldn't pull the trigger because I was twenty bucks short. :(

Shane
 
One year I went to our local custom knife show, and fell in love with a smallish folder that did my heart in. Exhibition grade jasper scales, bronze titanium integral bolster/liners, file work, blue titanium lock, hippo tooth on the pivot screw, coloured damascus blade, it was just beautiful, and smooth as soft butter to open and close.

The maker had recently died and I knew there would never be another chance, but it was just too much money. I went back to the table a couple of times but since I'd bought a couple of expensive knives already that year, I just had to let it go.

Well, I thought about that knife for a whole year, kicking myself for being stupid and calling myself a number of 'less than complimentary' names.

I went to the show again the next year--and the knife was there again, and I was still hooked and even more broke!

Apparently the maker's widow had meant to take it to South Africa and donate it to the knife association there for display, because that was where he had learned his trade, and won his prizes. But she didn't get there, and the knife sat in the safe for a whole year until a friend offered to take it to the show and try and sell it for her.

He did.
I bought it.
Never again will I let money come between me and my heart.

Greg

ps--here's a pic. Drool all you want.:D
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:grumpy:I was at he Northeast Knife Collectors Club show about 8 years ago. I was at a dealers table, and a guy came up and asked if anybody wanted to buy his Chris Reeves Serbenza. The dealer asked how much. He said $250 for the knife. It was a nice inlayed wood model, worth about $500-$550 at the time. The dealer said he wasn't interested, and asked me if I wanted it. I didn't have the dough at the time, and said I wish I could buy it but didn't have that much. The dealer said to the guy, that he had to sell knives and not buy them and all he could give him was $150 cash. The guy said yes, and sold it for $150! Well I could have kicked myself for being short of funds. I could have bought that knife for a song.:grumpy:
 
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