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Therom

Therom

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Hello
Have already experienced some revolution in the orientation of your collection?

After carrying SAK for years I got into knives with the “built like a tank” 0350 ZT
After this first quality folder in started my collection with some heavily built folders
After a while my collection has evolved toward more EDC blades
And then I got into CRK and it was again a shift in accepting to increase my price limit
i started reducing my collection from 50 to 10
Again as time goes, I changed the orientation of my collection and increasing the number of knives

I this procès I have built an EDC set
I also included more slipjoint into my collection, but at the end SAKs have bee reintroduced

it is amazing to look at the evolution of one collection

after a lot of ZT and BM, I am now more onCRK, spyderco and Hinderer, some WE and Emerson piping from time to time into my main “trio”

what about your evolution?
 
It's been a cycle of CRK, RHK , ZT and Spydero for many years now. But bang for buck seems to land on ZT and Spyderco lately.
 
Kershaw, then Spyderco Endura for 14 years, added a SAK farmer with it now ether BM or Emerson with a SAK hiker
 
I am always refining my collection criteria.

I have been through a few phases, but now mostly gravitate towards high quality/high end production stuff (CRK, CKF, Cheburkov, Reate) and full customs. I also have added a few lockbacks and a slipjoint which I had never even considered a few years ago. A large consideration for me is does the price line up - are the materials, F+F, blade grind, etc. worth what I am paying? For a while I drank a lot of Kool Aid and bought knives that cost far too much for what they were. Not bad knives, they were just overpriced for what they were/are. A knife does not need to be expensive for me to buy it, but whatever it costs needs to make sense to me as far as what went into making the knife. This applies to productions and customs.

I do not buy a lot of knives anymore, but I never feel played by a purchase anymore.
 
not2sharp said:
About collecting: don’t over think it, enjoy it. We can all easily get by with a handful of knives, and anything else is entertainment. So kick back, relax and enjoy the ride.

n2s
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I’ve got a lot of entertainment going on... It really does become distracting at times. Thinking a purge is due.
 
Interests change and collections change (or at least the interest in a brand or style of knife). I think most of us know what kinds of knives we use or likely to use, so everything else is generally just "collection". I however do not have a collection; I have a knife accumulation.

My knife purge will likely be to the landfill and that's depressing. Why? Because I'm very lazy about selling and it gives me little gratification to see a knife I purchased for $150 sell for half that.....
 
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My knife purge will likely be to the landfill and that's depressing. Why? Because I'm very lazy about selling and it gives me little gratification to see a knife I purchased for $150 sell for half that.....
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50% is still pretty good for entertainment. What is the residual for money spent on wine, fine dinning and loose women? :)

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
50% is still pretty good for entertainment. What is the residual for money spent on wine, fine dinning and loose women? :)
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Very little money spent for stuff like that. After I developed a red meat allergy (Alpha Gal), our fine dining decreased significantly as did our outdoor grilling. Hobbies garner the largest share of my disposable income.
 
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