Are you a knife collector, or user.

User. My delica was drenched in grease yesterday from cutting dirty rubber seals to drain grease out of an old jack. Spray it off with Hose and put in pocket
 
I'm a hardcore collector. No really. I'm serious.

Na, I'm an accumulator/user bordering on hoarding. I buy what I like, but have only sold a few (and they were doubles). Still just keep being attracted to new models, weird/unique models, some with a historical past, others may just have a story behind the thought process of the designer.

Nothing I have will increase in value....in fact most will lose value the second it hits my front porch. Some I like to keep pristine and clean for display, but all go in the pocket at some time or another. Maybe for just the first week of ownership so I can know it's ability, others may ride my pockets for months. I'm now to the point that I have multiples that compete with others for quality/features/ability/specific function etc, making it difficult to choose some mornings. And now often I'm totin' 2-3-4 just because. One is the "pretty girl" to show off, another heavy user, maybe a junker as loaner/beater.
 
User. I won't buy a knife I am reluctant to use.

I am the same with watches. I have a small collection but only ones I'll actually wear.
 
Now that i think about it, i am not a collector, i just happen to have tested a lot of knives... i should not brag about having a collection of rejected knives
 
I am AGNOSTIC so I will not try and quote the Holy Book, just say there is something in it about Judging, and Not Judging. If you collect Knives, Guns, Fly Rods, Cars, etc. and your family has a nice home, your kids are treated well, not abused, have good clothing, and your family has food, and your hobby does not interfere with family, or deprive family of anything. Go for your hobby, and be happy.

If you put you hobby before your kids, wife, family, shame on you. You need to look at yourself in the mirror and ask why is a hobby, collecting, or other avocation is more important than family?

If you are a single person, you need answer to no one but yourself.

I am lucky I have the money to buy just about anything I want, I have a place to live, a vehicle and they ar paid for.

I understand there are thing that are very important that MONEY CAN NOT BUY.

HEALTH

TIME

LOVE

HAPPINESS

If one has these thing they are more wealthy than Bill Gates in many ways.
 
I'm much like you Cutlover..light use.
String, paper, tape, boxes.

I do carry my rescue knife on a daily basis which will slice through seatbelts and shatter glass if need be.
 
I am a user, collector and accumulator.

About 20 specific knives are the ones I use 95% of the time. I can do what I need to do with them and I am happy with them as my EDCs and frequent users. I have about 40 throwing knives that are my daily throwers.

I collect a variety of sharp, pointy things because I like them. Most will never be used - I mean, just how often will I NEED to use any of the 200+ WW1/WW2-issue knives, 165+ bayonets or 30+ swords/sabers that I have?:D I have another 40-50 "vintage" throwers that I have just to show how commercial throwing knives have changed over the years. And then I just like certain brands and/or types and have tried to "accumulate" a "collection" of 1 of as many different fixed blades made by Western and Kabar and Remington, among others.

I have also "accumulated" extras of my EDCs/users that are already discontinued so that if I ever loose, break, wear out or have stolen my EDCs/users, I have spares on hand.

Since I have only 2 cattle dogs dependent on me, I can afford to indulge my "hobby" of collecting knives. As I tell people - I don't smoke, drink or use drugs, so I can spend my spare change as I see fit.
 
I am not a user, or a collector. I am a tester. With one major exception, most of the use I ever found for my knives is to test them...

A knife I really like I will test, have re-finished, re-sharpened, and then I don't use it. I'm always confounded by thirty years collectors that are factory pristine dull, and never sharpened. Why collect dull junk? It could be collected just as well sharp...

Knives I don't like I use, mostly by testing... With the exception of Randalls, which are hollow ground and have a vertical reserve of edge wear, and so can wear up indefinitely without the edge growing thicker, most other fixed blade knives, if not re-ground a LOT thinner, have no wear reserve, which means they grow thicker as they wear, and growing thicker means the knife's cutting ability is gradually destroyed.

I'll do that to knives I don't particularly care for, which are always around, so there is never any need to destroy knives I do care about.

Gaston
 
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