At What Price Point does a Knife become a Safe Queen?

[eveled]

Price has nothing to do with it.

For me it’s about rarity, history, sentimentality, or if it was bought for an investment.

 

[Cobalt]

Any horse that is too fancy to ride is too fancy to own.

Does that include women Not ride though, "be with". Trying not to be crude.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

Does that include women Not ride though, "be with". Trying not to be crude.

Yep...... Goes for Both.......If you have to ask if you can afford them, ya can't!

 

[Danke42]

$4

 

[Chowser]

Is there a price point you stay away from that could conceivably be considered the safequeen level?

I'm sure there is. I'm eyeing a Rask, and dunno how much I would actually 'use' a knife that costs as much as a mortgage payment.

 

[rexromic]

I got knives from 100 to over 4000 and use them all.

 

[Maroco]

I got knives from 100 to over 4000 and use them all.

Love seeing this.

 

[calm]

No minimum price. It depends on how I feel about using the knife. It may be history, or I just do not want to use that knife.

 

[JRRsix7]

I'm sure there is. I'm eyeing a Rask, and dunno how much I would actually 'use' a knife that costs as much as a mortgage payment.

The Rask is one of the best knife designs around. Find one one the secondary for $650-$700 and throw it in your pocket

 

[jeffbird]

Yep...... Goes for Both.......If you have to ask if you can afford them, ya can't!

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet....

 

[BJE]

I tend to carry and use knives on the lower end of the price scale. I have one sebenza that has been carried and used, not babied, but I definitely am more aware of what I use it for when I carry it.
Many of my upper end users used to had for $100-$150 when I bought them, but they tend to go for $200-$250 now.

I don’t buy fancy, or exotic and definitely have a price ceiling, it takes a lot for me to even consider spending over $300 on a knife. But I wouldn’t buy any knife to be a safe queen, mostly interested in knives I can use, just not into the art stuff.

 

[scorpnsnake]

None. If I can't use it, then I can't afford it. I try to carry relative to the days tasks though.

 

[mauser9]

Quality knife prices sure have changed since I was a kid. My 66 Puma Skinner resides in my gun cabinet and been a queen since then. Guess I have a under $30 safe queen.

 

[not2sharp]

There is also the notion that we are custodians of these artifacts and should protect them for future generations.

Then there are those who abide by a waste not want not philosophy. Just because you have a dozen clean spoons in your kitchen, it doesn’t mean that you have to use all of them to eat a cup of ice cream.


N2s

 

[Therom]

Actually I don’t have safe queens….
I have limited editions, or discontinued models that I use less or more gently but no real safe queens

 

[1911bphil]

I have one knife that I don't carry. It has been retired due to sentimental reasons. I carried and used it when I was in the US Navy from 1983-1987. My most expensive knife cost about $150 USD brand new. I use it quite frequently.

 

[Alone]

This thread has intrigued me.


I am very blessed (*beyond what I deserve) to own a buttload of "hard use" fixies, some of them VERY expensive and desirable/collectible. With that, I'm not sure that I've reached my "safe queen" point.

I liken my knives to some of the "high dollar"/"exceptional quality"/"franchise"/"trade" tools out there. For me, my expensive knives are still just simple "tools". They are meant to be used...and sometimes abused. In other words, I purchased them to USE 'em. Many of my fixies are the "Cornwell"/"Matco"/"Snap-on"/"Mac" tools of knives. I have absolutely nothing against "Collectors". However, in my reality, I'll be damned if I'm going to spend that much hard-earned money on any knife, and then not use it.


Just my $0.02. Carry on...

 

[Bob Denman]

NEVER!!! If it's not used to cut stuff: it's just a sharp paperweight.
I took my most expensive knife to the gun range, and batoned it to split firewood.

 

[Hackenslash]

$4

I’ll send you a fine Ozark Trail with genuine surgical steel.

$3.88

Use the heck out of if!

 

[Will Power]

The IDEAL situation is 2 of each: backup in the safe, user in the pocket or hanging around the house. This is what I aspire to...but my aspirations are often far from feasible