collecting knives

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klug932000

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before i start please know i love knives, ones i own and ones i do not.

that being said, do knives ever go up in value? i know this is a real loose topic, considering most knives are made to be used but over the years do you ever find the collection being worth more than when you started? i started thinking about this after going to a coin show with my father. his collection is increasing in value every year, where some of my knifes get used and take on wear, and other stay in a case and just get older.


any thoughts ?
 
Some go up a great deal, and some don't. You have to be carefull with what you buy if its for investment, and even then unexpected changes in the market may come along.
 
Some knives go up in value. Even still, I wouldn't collect expecting the value to maintain or increase. To every example like coin collecting, there's another like sports cards. Throw on top the industry is constantly innovating (new steels, designs, handle material, etc.), which makes production knives in particular very risky in the long term, I expect.
 
Collecting knives for profitability is not easy or inexpensive. It can very rarely be done by a casual "dabbler". In essence, you would need to become part of the industry in one form or another. You'd have to be honest and forthright. You would also have to have enough cash to go to knife shows across the country (or world in some cases) and be able to drop about $100K, and know exactly what you are buying. This is how you make real money.

As a casual collector, you can make $10 here, $50 there. You run the risk of being labeled a knife flipper and someone that is simply in it for the money and not necessarily for the love of the hobby itself. This is nnot always the case, but it happens when folks least expect it. This is just an opinion though, based on reading many experiences of folks that have actually attempted to do it.

knife2Agunfight said:
Any sprint-run knives almost always go up in value.
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Until the modern value variant or second run is released, then the overall value goes South.
 
Most knives that go up in value are usually determined to be rare or hard to come by (i.e. limited numbers, dicountinued, or hard to get customs). Some brands do go up in value due to popularity, but sometimes the market for such can go flat. I believe most who collect do so for the simple love of knives.
 
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