Blades & Bourbon

I think anything over 10 years old is a very special bottle. Thats a long time for something...anything.

Saw a bottle of 18 year old crown royal . was like 😳
 
Chronovore said:
The curve of diminishing returns exists with alcohol and knives alike. That's not to say those wouldn't be wonderful to drink or fun to collect. It's just that they wouldn't make me that much happier than a neat glass of one of these more affordable bourbons pictured below. (It's an older picture but showcases all of the bourbons in my cabinet.) It's a little easier to drain my wallet with scotch but not by much. Once a bottle goes over a $100, I have to check myself and ask if I really care. The answer is almost always "no".

I often carry decent-quality budget knives for the same reason. I do have and carry some much more expensive knives but at least with those, I get to enjoy them fully and still have them years down the road. Hell, my kids will get to inherit most of them and they could go further than that.

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It's not about the MSRP price, but the secondary. I wouldn't pay over $500 for a bottle that retails for around $100.
 
unwisefool said:
Because that's the normal price for a knife. But paying 5 to 10x the price is silly, just like the people paying dumb money for instagram knives. Also you can use most knives and they still retain a decent value. If you open that bottle, all that perceived value is gone.

You can resell knives legally, much harder with alcohol. You would need to find someone who is licensed to buy collections and would not receive even half what "market" value was.
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What do you consider a normal price for a knife these days?

Whatever it is, it's not $500 nor $1.5-3k that some people are willing to pay for a G&G Deadlock (or other similarlly priced knives).

My guess is that very few people spend more than $100 for a knife and only we here on BF have such a distorted sense of value that we don't even hesitate to buy a knife that we want for $200-300.

I have paid $500 for only a few knives in my collection but most are in the $150-250 range. I have also paid up to around $300 for a few bottles of bourbon but most of the bottles that I've purchased are in the $40-70 range.

But, if some people are willing to pay up to $1.5-3k for a knife that they are extremely unlikely to use, why not bourbon too?

FWIW, I've got a lot of "useless" artwork on the wall that I can only "look at" that cost me as much or more. So, if I decide to spend $1-3k each for a few bottles of bourbon for "decoration", what difference does it make, as long as I can afford it and want to spend it?

As I said earlier, all that matters is whether I can afford it and whether I want to spend it. I have the $ but I haven't yet decided if I want to spend it or not.

LOL! :cool:
 
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sgt1372 said:
What do you consider a normal price for a knife these days?

Whatever it is, it's not $500 nor $1.5-3k that some people are willing to pay for a G&G Deadlock (or other similarlly priced knives).

My guess is that very few people spend more than $100 for a knife and only we here on BF have such a distorted sense of value that we don't even hesitate to buy a knife that we want for $200-300.

I have paid $500 for only a few knives in my collection but most are in the $150-250 range. I have also paid up to around $300 for a few bottles of bourbon but most of the bottles that I've purchased are in the $40-70 range.

But, if some people are willing to pay up to $1.5-3k for a knife that they are extremely unlikely to use, why not bourbon too?

FWIW, I've got a lot of "useless" artwork on the wall that I can only "look at" that cost me as much or more. So, if I decide to spend $1-3k each for a few bottles of bourbon for "decoration", what difference does it make, as long as I can afford it and want to spend it?

As I said earlier, all that matters is whether I can afford it and whether I want to spend it. I have the $ but I haven't yet decided if I want to spend it or not.

LOL! :cool:
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I think you are missing the point. I'm specifically talking about secondary pricing. If the MSRP of a knife is $500, then that's fine. I wouldn't pay 5x the asking price. That's dumb. Same for a $50 knife. I wouldn't pay $250 for it. Same applies to whisky, if not more so. I understand spending money on things, I spent a ton on whisky last year. But I didn't pay multiple times over the normal price for what I bought.
 
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Okay, it's been a couple of months since I started pairing experiments with this one. Cold temperatures and being sick for a few weeks had placed a damper on my outdoor enjoyment but I do what I can. You know, for science! 😜

This completes testing for the Cohiba Pequeno line. The Black wasn't bad here. The interplay was interesting. Overall, either the Blue or Nicaraguan was better. I'd have to go back and look and my posts because it has been a while. Now I'm nearing the end of this small bottle. I might try something else before the warm streak runs out.

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Chronovore said:
Okay, it's been a couple of months since I started pairing experiments with this one. Cold temperatures and being sick for a few weeks had placed a damper on my outdoor enjoyment but I do what I can. You know, for science! 😜

This completes testing for the Cohiba Pequeno line. The Black wasn't bad here. The interplay was interesting. Overall, either the Blue or Nicaraguan was better. I'd have to go back and look and my posts because it has been a while. Now I'm nearing the end of this small bottle. I might try something else before the warm streak runs out.

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You should try to get some of the Maker's Mark wood finishing series. They are really good.
 
unwisefool said:
You should try to get some of the Maker's Mark wood finishing series. They are really good.
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Thanks. I'll keep an eye out.

This was my first bottle of the French Oak. I used to drink a lot of the regular Maker's Mark but had drifted away. I got this on a whim and really enjoyed it.
 
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