Being Ridicluous???

My best advice is, if you really love a certain knife, you must buy two. One will be the safe-queen, and the other will be the user, and you won't feel about using the user because you have the perfectly-new one back at home in the safe. Works for me... but this strategy can get expensive!! Hehe...
 
jaxxsun said:
My true Grail has only been a Direware Hyper 90. Well after over two years of wanting and waiting it is mine. Just the way the I wanted it. I had planed to EDC it. Retire most everything else and be done.

But to my surprise. After getting it. I am far too uneasy with flipping it or even taking it out of the house. I have yet to cut a single thing with it. It is just too beautiful. The fit and finish is truly Perfact. And the simple fact that you can NOT get these Everyday, makes me fully aware how unique it is. So it sits in the box. In my drawer. And so small sebenza stays as my Edc. With out worry. View attachment 512088
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I love it when people get things they've wanted for a long time.

Use it as you wish.

I have guns i've never fired; knives i've never used.

I enjoy them for what they are and they give me pleasure.

Isn't life great.

Enjoy.:thumbup:
 
rio said:
HAHAHAHhhahahahahahah! we all say that, let's get DI one!!, get rid of the rest , well is not going to happen , your quest started to now officially becoming a knife-nut, you won't use it , you will try but will be afraid the value will go down, decided now what you want to be a user, collector or both, remember to pay the bills first.:D, you sickos know exactly what i'm talking about lol...
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Amen brother! :D
 
I am leaning toward selling it and putting the money toward a new Motorcycle.
I woun't put that in a safe
 
Here is Bob Loveless describing folks that buy expensive knives with no intention of ever using them - just owning them to collect and impress:

"The kind of American who acquires a lot of expensive things so that he can show them off to his peer group and thereby acquire more status is the kind of American that makes me puke"
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In other words - use it or sell it. (sounds like you figured that out. Good on'Ya!)

Eric
 
First off, you're not being rediculous. It happens to a lot of people here.

I will say that it happened to me at first too, but then I just put the knife in my pocket, and it worked out from there. That first one was my Sebenza.

Now, I carry regularly my first true grail knife: Shirogorov 95T in M390 steel. Absolutely love carrying it, but I did still have to take that first step and go for it. To me, a true grail is a knife that you can carry and use, but that is perfect for you. The Shirogorov is as close to perfect as I've ever gotten, but I still love using it and carrying it, and I don't get overly concered about using it either (definitely no abuse though).

The shirogorov is very similar in situation to the Direware: hard to find (took me 2 years), expensive, but well-designed for my purposes and something I really enjoy. In my opinion if you're going after a grail knife, you have to make it soemthing usable, otherwise it's not a grail "knife", but a grail "show piece".

If you're considering selling the knife, then it was probably not a true grail for you. I wouldn't sell my Shirogorov except for a few VERY specific reasons, and all but one of those reasons involve an emergency. The only time I would sell it to get something else is to get one of my grails above it on the list (only 2 above it right now though), and I have hardly ever even seen either of those knives in existence, so I doubt that will happen.

I say mull it over as long as you can, because you might regret your decision one way or another if you make it hastily. You haven't had the knife long, so play with it, fiddle with it, and see what you really think deep down about it, then make your decision.
Like you said, it's not easy to find those, so you should keep that in mind before you swap it out for anything else.
 
GronK said:
Have to disagree here, "significantly" being the sticking point. Just carrying a knife and fondling it will put some sort of marks on a knife. To many, these are not acceptable, especially on limited edition/expensive pieces. They want perfect and will not settle for less. The tiniest thing may be enough to send them off to GB&U for a rant. Ironically, this is especially true when a "hard use" folder is involved.
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Oh no, I completely understand what you are saying. People get to be really picky when they are buying something. I don't know if they really want it to be perfect or if they are looking for a way to whittle down the price. If a person was contemplating selling the grail knife at some point in the future, then by all means leave it in the box and do limited handling. I was thinking that if a person bought the knife, wanted to keep it, and was willing to use it a little bit they could do that. A little bit of handling shouldn't reduce the knife all that much in their eyes and they get pleasure from it to offset the little bit of wear.

I buy folding knives to use so I don't care if the knife is new when I buy it or not. I don't need the box, I don't care if the knife has been used enough to get it dull, I don't care if it has been sharpened as long as the blade hasn't been scratched in the process or the edge angle has been reset to be too steep. Once I buy the knife and start using it, it becomes used anyway, so I don't care so much if it started that way. But occasionally I buy a knife and decide it isn't working out for me, so it is better for resale if I haven't used it much in the mean time.
 
IMO- if you are worried about the value or the price tag was too high for you to justify using it, either sell it now while it's still pristine, or keep it in the safe until you can look at it as more than a dollar figure. Dollar value only matters if you plan to sell it... if it is your grail knife, then you wouldn't be parting with it anyway and you can use it to your heart's content without fear of the cost... much like your user Sebenza.

I've had knives that I didn't want to mark up that were actually cheaper than other's I used regularly... inevitably that meant they would be sold or traded because I was more concerned with the investment aspect than the knife itself- which takes some of the fun out of the hobby for me. As a result, I now only buy things with the full intention of use. Example: The first thing I did when I got my grail Busse was walk outside and "trim" my tree with it.

As a side note- I have no issue with people collecting knives to display them like art- and if that's your intention, enjoy it!
 
I daily carried a $2200 Darrel Ralph one off... and used it... for everything. I only own one watch, a Rolex Deepsea that retails for $12,050... it never comes off and has its share of scratches/dings.

If I can't bring myself to use it, I sell it.
 
Charlie Mike said:
I daily carried a $2200 Darrel Ralph one off... and used it... for everything. I only own one watch, a Rolex Deepsea that retails for $12,050... it never comes off and has its share of scratches/dings.

If I can't bring myself to use it, I sell it.
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+1

No one said you can't collect and use them at the same time. Trophies are for displaying. I buy knives to use.
 
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