well if i saw someone walking around in public wielding a knife, you can bet i'll make a call to law enforcement stat. maybe a guy with a gun would mess with someone weilding a knife.
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Collect or use?
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well if i saw someone walking around in public wielding a knife, you can bet i'll make a call to law enforcement stat. maybe a guy with a gun would mess with someone weilding a knife.
Like others have mentioned, it doesn't necessarily have to be an "either/or" proposition.
>I throw my 40+ users in an open box. Their value was assessed on a price-to-performance basis, so I'm not concerned about keeping them pristine.
>I keep my half-dozen expensive and/or rare "collectibles" wrapped in chinchilla fur, sealed in vacuum tubes, and buried in a locked safe deep underground inside a small mountain. Their value was assessed monetarily and aesthetically.
It's not impossible to keep knives for different reasons.
>I throw my 40+ users in an open box. Their value was assessed on a price-to-performance basis, so I'm not concerned about keeping them pristine.
>I keep my half-dozen expensive and/or rare "collectibles" wrapped in chinchilla fur, sealed in vacuum tubes, and buried in a locked safe deep underground inside a small mountain. Their value was assessed monetarily and aesthetically.
It's not impossible to keep knives for different reasons.
:thumbup:Why can't I do both?
Here are some of my more modern medium knives.
And I thought I was the only one interested in David Boye.....
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The old prophets are very hard to come by and still I use mine all the time, fantastic slicer...
basically, if one buys and buys and buys
without usage;
it is an indulgence driven a deep fascination.
purely an addiction which serves no true purpose other than gratification.
the good news is that your dilemma is not uncommon.
you still have common sense and a valid reason for preserving your worldly possessions.
why damage a perfectly mint object,
if it was bought primarily for the simple pleasure of owning a thing of beauty?
once you decide otherwise,
it gets easy to junk stuff...
without usage;
it is an indulgence driven a deep fascination.
purely an addiction which serves no true purpose other than gratification.
the good news is that your dilemma is not uncommon.
you still have common sense and a valid reason for preserving your worldly possessions.
why damage a perfectly mint object,
if it was bought primarily for the simple pleasure of owning a thing of beauty?
once you decide otherwise,
it gets easy to junk stuff...
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Step 1. Find old car hood/door
Step 2. Apply force to busse, through said car part.
Step 3. Feel like a manly man, and not worry about your knives anymore!
Step 2. Apply force to busse, through said car part.
Step 3. Feel like a manly man, and not worry about your knives anymore!
I used to have this problem, particularly with my RMJ tomahawks. After spending $400+ on something like that it's tuff to bring one's self to flaw it up with use. One day I had an argument with myself in my head and the most sensible thought that came out of it was that I buy RMJ's because they are supposed to be indestructible but, how indestructible can they really be if not proven to be. When I choose a blade I choose it based on how I think it would benefit me if I where stranded somewhere and needed it to survive. That being said and as some others have eluded to previously; if it's going to fail at what it has been made to do I want to find out long before I find myself in a situation that cannot afford failure. When we buy quality blades we buy them based on the materials and workmanship that go into them that proposes that they are capable of some degree of performance. Unless they have some deep sentimental value why not allow them to fulfill the role they were made for and show you what they can do? If it breaks then it wasn't worth coveting in the first place, move on. IMHO, If ones primary interest is the aesthetic qualities of a tool such as ours they could save themselves a lot of money and buy a POS Chinese ornamental monstrosity with a dragon head handle and put that in a glass case for display. One way I got over this dilemma was by doing exactly what you just said RW... buy lightly used second handers so you don't have to be the one to take that painful leap.
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I'd say work your way up, I had trouble in the beginning even using a 25$ new Cold steel Tuff lite while at the time I had several high end production folders (Strider, BBR1, Emerson etc). My trouble was using the folders for fear of not being able to resharpen them to the fullest extent. Work your way up from using the Yojimbo daily to a TSF to etc. For me a large motivator was finally calculating how much I had spent on knives...and knowing that majority of them were just sitting pristine and pretty in their boxes.
