at what the price point do you start to baby your knife?

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my knife buying history started from $30 went all the way up to $800, now its coming back down to around 200. because i found out around 200 is the point i dont have to conscious/subconsciously baby the knife.

xm-18 is one of my all time fav, even tho i bought it for edc/hard use but when push come to shove it always make me cringe a little hard using the knife. so as much as i like the high end stuff the days of me edcing them 24/7 is over, not that i dont have the money to replace or fix them if they get lost/damaged but i just dont feel like worrying about it anymore.

do you guys have a price point that you just cant help but baby your knife?
 
It depends. Around 85% of my knives are pocket jewelry in the sense that I would never carry them and expect to use it hard (traditional folders). My knives that see "hard use" are fixed blades and I don't baby them at all.

To answer your question though I do lower my guard and I am more reckless when I'm using a cheaper knife.
 
I will wail on $150 knives. Just bought my first Sebenza last week. I like to think I will use it hard, but time will tell...
 
80$ and above. (For folders) I bought a few benchmades and while waiting for them bragged about how much shit I could put them through but when they got here it was the play with/admire phase then in the knife prison they went..Never put on to use but when it comes to fixed blade 120$ and up. I own a lot of beckers and beat the hell out of them a few dogs between 60-100$ but with a custom I baby them as much as my daughter (lol)
 
$150 - $200 is probably the point where I don't baby them, I agree with you that for me it's pointless owning a knife over that price because then I'm not really using for its intended purpose.
 
I find that regardless of the price I like using them.
In fact, I tend to feel silly if I DON'T use my expensive knives...what else would I have bought them for?

Yes I have a collection...a collection of used knives. :)
 
anything over $200 and I think before I even go for it. Over $300 and I am searching for other options even if its in my pocket. Over $400 and I probably dont even put it in my pocket.
 
stabman said:
I find that regardless of the price I like using them.
In fact, I tend to feel silly if I DON'T use my expensive knives...what else would I have bought them for?
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- Same here. I'm going to use the nicest things I can afford to. I can't take it with me when I'm gone. It's like buying a nice sports car and not driving it fast.
 
also i got alot non knife ppl friends that always want play with my knife for some reason. seeing them fumbling around with my xm-18 almost give me a heart attack.
 
Anything under $2200... only because that's the most I've spent on a knife.
 
When you carry a knife, you either use it...or you don't. If you don't use it...sell it.
I used my CRK Umnumzaan last year to pry open a cast-iron lid so I could turn off my main water supply...had water gushing all over my kitchen. I dinged up the edge a little bit...no problem at all to sharpen it out.
 
It would probably be $200 for me as well. I have a small sebenza on the way and i like to think it will be in my pocket all the time but when i get it it will probably go in the drawer with my other nicer knives and when i do carry it, it will be in addition to my mini grip that i dont care about as much.
 
The babying lasts till the end of the honeymoon phase or until the first big scratch, whichever comes first. Price isn't that much of a factor. I don't hammer rocks on my spine, scrape or pry with any of my knives unless there is absolutely no other option. Which has never happened.
 
There is no price point where I'll baby my knife. If I buy it I intend to use it.

There is however, a price point where I won't go over. $350 is the most I've spent so far on a single knife (Zaan). I don't want to go much over that at all. It'd have to be something really special.
 
The most I've spent on a knife is $385, and I haven't hesitated to use it.


...because I figured out along my journey that my snag isn't price. It's shiny finishes. Give me a $25 knife with a polished flat, I'll spend all day wiping it down to keep smudges off it. Give me stonewash or satin, I'll stab a petrified tree, regardless of the price.
 
It depends, I normally don't want to mark up every high end folder that I own. Must keep my Sunday BQ knife in top shape among with my Sunday handgun...lol
 
I don't even baby my babies......my kids are allowed to play rough, fall, make misstakes. I don't see why I should baby my knives. I'm not someone who spends thousands on knives (highest I've gone so far was $350) but everything I get I want to know how well it works just so that I can learn from that.
 
I guess that when I actually think about it, the price of a knife hasn't been a deciding factor when babying it or not. It's more a matter of whether I bought the knife because I like the design or to actually use. The two aren't mutually exclusive, of course, but I've more or less held true to that pattern for a long time. I might give some of the "cool" knives a little pocket time to see how I like them, but it rarely ends up with one going into my EDC rotation. That means that I have a lot of "potential users" in the safe or tool box.

Then again, I've never spent more than around $220 on a knife, so like I said, it all comes down to why I bought the knife to begin with.
 
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