Custom Knife Price

Pick a Price category of the most spent on ONE Custom Knife

  • Less than $100

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $100 and less than $200

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $200 and less than $300

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $300 and less than $400

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $400 and less than $500

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $500 and less than $750

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $750 and less than $1,000

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $1,000 and less than $2,000

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $2,000 and less than $3,000

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • More than $3,000 etc etc etc....

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  • Total voters
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Gary W. Graley

Gary W. Graley

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Take a pic from the list as to what is The Most you've spent on
<center>One Custom knife,
folder/fixed either one....;)</center>

G2
 
Originally posted by SammyB
Or trying to justify one of your own...LOL

-Sam.
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Yes...

ask two questions get one answer...do that to my kids all the time!
G2 :D

well actually just trying to see where I fit in, am I normal or like the rest of you! :)
 
If I had the resources I could easily see myself spending ungodly amounts of money on knives. As it is when I tell people that I have spent over $1000.00 on a knife they look at me strangely. As far as I am concerned it is them that are missing out.
 
I'm feeling almost normal, the range is a little higher than I thought, though with over 400 views and only 80 or so inputs to the poll makes you wonder, but right now the $1,000 to $2,000 is pulling slightly ahead of the $500 to $750 range....Now I can rationalize my next purchase and say...well the other guys spent this much...why can't I? :D

G2
 
Gary, I have come back to this thread four times now, but can only vote once. If others are doing the same then that might be the reason that there are so many views with so few responses (votes). Just a thought.
 
I guess I better answer :D. Prices run the board in my collection. The best thing is that you really to not have to spend a bunch of bucks to own a heck of a knife.
 
It's not the purchases that hurt me...it's those damn trades! ;)

-Michael
 
Originally posted by Chefget
It's not the purchases that hurt me...it's those damn trades! ;)

-Michael
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Uh Oh, never factored that in! and I can't change my vote now...:(

Michael, you are the Trade King!
and that would make me the Prince of Trades?

Thanks again sir and Merry Christmas to you
and your Sword...I mean your Family! :D
G2
 
Looks like a good 40% of you turkeys have spent more than $1000 on a knife. Do you realize how sick that is? I mean, that is sick, sick, SICK...

Have to go, now. Time for my meds...

-w
 
Originally posted by WILL YORK
Looks like a good 40% of you turkeys have spent more than $1000 on a knife. Do you realize how sick that is? I mean, that is sick, sick, SICK... -w
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I sure hope it's a communicable disease... :D
 
I am surpised that so many have listed their most expensive purchase as being in the $1000-$2000 range. It makes even my most expensive purchases appear very frugal. I'm curious, are most of these really expensive knives the art type of knives? Generally speaking, when I cruise the custom knife cites, most of the $1000+ knives lean more the art variety as opposed to working knives. Although some multiblade folders and forged bowies can creep over $1000.
 
Originally posted by anthony cheeseboro
I am surpised that so many have listed their most expensive purchase as being in the $1000-$2000 range. It makes even my most expensive purchases appear very frugal. I'm curious, are most of these really expensive knives the art type of knives? Generally speaking, when I cruise the custom knife cites, most of the $1000+ knives lean more the art variety as opposed to working knives. Although some multiblade folders and forged bowies can creep over $1000.
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I've climbed up a little since finding BladeForums, what an eyeopener for the various Customs that are out there!
But as far as $1,000+ knives, I see a lot of Autos bring that price pretty darn easy!, one reason I'm not into autos?

So it may be some are Selecting their WISH I SPENT this much value but out of the thousands that visit this forum, over 20 people could easily have spent that and more, I know one fellow that sent me a knife for sheath work and I had to insure it for a bit over that amount....couldn't wait to get that knife back into his hands and out of my house! So there are some with that dollar value out there, my whole collection is right up there now, but individual knife value is less than $1,000...to date :)
G2

PS
Keith, yep, I figure that people will drop back in to check the Poll, over a 100 have taken it so far, interesting numbers!
 
So far, I have not crossed the $1000 barrier. I have traded for knives that were worth that much, but have not spent that much yet. Note the word YET.
 
I honestly have not seen many $1000 knives that I want. My tastes are pretty plain: I like working style tacticals and traditional lockbaks and slipjoints. I don't care for damascus. Pearl and MOP are okay but I only like it on small gents pieces. I don't mess with autos because even simple possesion of autos in Illinois is illegal. The most expensive knives that currently want are the Knifeart Mayo TNT ($550)
and a Terzoula Starfighter ($550+). I guess I wouldn't mind having a fine, forged bowie, but that is just not a priority for me.
 
As it turns out, my two most expensive single knives are a pair of Sebenzas, not custom at all. My single most expensive custom is a Busse ($200+), and I voted based on that knife. If Busse doesn't count as a custom any more, then all my other customs, all fixed, are in the $100-$200 range because they are all I really need in a working knife, and I don't really buy them to collect them.

Custom folders? Would indeed like to own a few, and perhaps some day I will, but they aren't going to be any more rugged than the Sebenzas I already have, so thus far I've resisted the temptation because I don't have that kind of change every year.

Although I can't take a fixed blade to my office job (when I'm working), I live in a rural community and carrying a fixed blade around here (all day long when I'm not working like now) is no problem. I can experiment with custom fixed blade configurations much less expensively than I could in the folder arena.
 
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