Biggest custom knife regret?

Joss

Joss

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This was meant for the custom forum all along: Tell us about those that got away, and those that you bought and wished you had not...
 
Last year Bub Worrell called and wanted to send me one of his tricked out autos in trade for ivory.It looked beautiful in the photos.The knife was not sent and I heard soon after he had passed away.I had not met him in person but we had spent a lot of the on the phone talking knives and ivory.
Chuck
 
Regret: my first Lum Custom. It's became an obsession ever since with over 50 of his knives. ;)
 
In 2000' I sold a NIB CQC-6 for $575 to a dealer.
I had never been on the net before and had no clue they were selling for almost two grand at the time :eek:
 
Akivory, yours will be a hard one to top. :( I miss Bub, and I hadn't even had a chance to pick up any of his knives yet either.

I have serious regrets anytime I sell or trade one of my custom bowies, but the one that haunts me the most is the Jerry Fisk camp knife. 11" of forged 1084, nickel silver guard and collar and some of the prettiest stabilized Claro walnut ever! I saw it posted here about a year later, and somebody was selling it for 3 times what I paid for it.
 
I bought a nice Ti handled ATCF with bronze anodized accents and sold it because I couldn't bring myself to use it. Now I don't have the cash and wish I still had that one. You live and you learn.

Leo G.
 
In 1978 I bought a Randall Model 12 Confederate Bowie from a local gun shop. I paid $200 for it new. I had seen it and saved up for it for a month from my first job. I loved this knife, even tho in retrospect in was not balanced correctly, but it looked devine!

Years later I sent it back to Randall to polish it up and have the original leather washer handle replaced with black micarta and a slim brass butt cap. It only set me back, as I reacall, about $120. This was around 1984. Boy did it look nice when it came back!!:eek:

Here's the sad part...my second wife didn't know or understand about saving money. She used our rent money to do her hair..that's right here hair!!:mad: Funny how when things like that happen us guys have to sell OUR stuff to make it right!!!:grumpy: :mad:

Well, I ended up not really having anything else to sell except that knife that would bring the amount that I needed.(Unfortunately she'd placed me in this position before!) So I sold it to a friend and Randall dealer at a gun show for $780. It was the first offer and I took it, I probably could have held out for more... Oh, well.

I've kicked myself in the ass ever since!!! (BTW got rid of that wife!!)
 
I wish I still had one my first Loveless knives. It was a little dropped hunter with stag handles. It was a 3 inch blade. I sold it for $800. in l979. It's now worth $4,000. Its not the money I just Liked the knife. I've sold thousands of knives and thats the one I wish I had back. Paul
 
Thanks all - this is a good thread! So it seems that the vast majority of us regret selling or not buying a knife, but few regret buying one.
 
Buying: First Custom in '95 - Carson Mod.16 - skeletonized handles (pre-Mayo - holes are even! :D :D :D ) - led me to my current addiction & poverty.

Selling: Onion Boa at 2001 Blade - still trying to replace unsucessfully so far! :mad: :confused: :(

Bill
 
I never even got to see the price on an Elishewitz Spector that still has pictures up at bladegallery.com, long after it was sold.
Blue titanium bolsters, jigged bone handles, satin blade.
I wish they would take the pictures down so I could stop sighing when I look at it.
 
<- - - - - No regrets here.

I've really enjoyed each and every one. . .past and present.

Besides, I have a saying. . ."Never regret what you've done. You can never change nor reverse the past. Worrying about it only causes heart ache and suffering. Past mistakes and errors should be used to guide you in the future." :)
 
I've sold some nice ones, that's for sure. I wish I still had a small Seb to carry, and a large Carson M4 to keep me company. But I'm pretty happy with what I've currently got. (blasphemy, I know, but I'm currently in the knife-collecting 12-step program. Repeat after me: "Kit Carson IS NOT my higher power...")
 
Not buying a Moran when it was still difficult but not virtually impossible.
 
1) missing this Strider :mad:

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2) not entering the Emerson lottery at the NY Custom knife show
 
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