Do you ever buy a knife with the sole purpose of it being a safe queen?

I don’t buy with the INTENTION of a knife becoming a safe queen... it just happens. I might get a really nice knife, open it a few times, clip it to my pocket, and I say to myself: “This isn’t something I’ll carry, but I also don’t want to sell it”.
 
fatBatman said:
I don’t buy with the INTENTION of a knife becoming a safe queen... it just happens. I might get a really nice knife, open it a few times, clip it to my pocket, and I say to myself: “This isn’t something I’ll carry, but I also don’t want to sell it”.
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This is the way I end up with knives too expensive for me to carry. I have 5 knives that I get out and look at once and a while, then put back away. LNIB.
 
I've never bought a knife intending for it to be a drawer queen, though a number have fallen into that category after they came to me. A very few are fairly expensive knives that I just can't bear to mark up as they're so pretty perfect, but that's also true for some of moderate-to-low cost pieces, as well as some older, discontinued models. As my tastes have morphed a bit over the years and I've reached what seems to me a numerical saturation point, I've thinned out and sold off a number of moderate to expensive queens to fund others that I'll carry and use. I kinda miss some of those that are gone, but figure I enjoyed having them for a couple years or so and it's time to move on.

I have a few models that I collect and keep nice, but not for any thought toward realizing a profit, but because I enjoy having them. Their lack of use may have nothing to do with their cost or re-sale value as I have Shiro's, CRKs, and others of comparable value that are work users, but also a half-dozen Tenacious' and all the Sage models, for example, most of which are unused. The BMK 710 is an all-time favorite. I've owned a half-dozen of those and have two in regular rotation. I keep one BNIB just to have a perfect specimen that I'll never use, but my Russian Dr Death is in my pocket once week. Go figure.

I'm with our friend @Quiet --it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else. It's a hobby and they're your knives to enjoy as you see fit.
 
I have one knife that does not get used. It is a duplicate to the one currently in my pocket. Redundancy, more than purposefully being a safe queen.
 
All the time, I do collect knives and vintage SAKs, and it would suck to ruin a collection piece that is more than a century old.

It is your money sand your hobby, it really doesn't need justification from others, just do what makes you happy.
 
Absolutely, I have bought knives with the intent never to be used. I've got safe queens and users of the same brand.
Safe Queens, probably will never be used.

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Lots of times I have, but I eventually break and just HAVE to see how it cuts. :D
Once I realize it cuts like most other knives I use every day, I'm disappointed in myself :oops:
Part of me is envious of people that have the self-control NOT to use a "safe queen"

I have quite a few that I save up like nice jewlery, but they still get used on "special occasions" like nice jewlery :p
Or sort of like most people don't daily drive an expensive sports car, but they definitely take 'er for a spin every now and again for
a little "pick me up" or just for fun.

Sometimes I have a Fun Day Friday! :p I live in Alabama, work mostly alone, and carry a back-pack filled with HVAC tools all day.
That being the case, on my Fun Day Fridays, I'll think to myself "piss on it..." I'm rolling with a Tendick Kraiken or a Busse MOFO for the day.
I normally try to keep it practical, but some days a big piece of expensive friggin steal, razor sharp, with pretty fittings is just what I need to brighten things up. :thumbsup::cool:

I'm betting it won't change, but I like "Enshrined Implement" better than "safe queen" :cool::D:D
 
I bought 2 custom Buck 110's way back when----one I use the other one is still in the box for over 10 years.

Have a few Benchmade's that haven't been used----sooner or later I'll take them out
 
I buy knives that interest me in one way or another.

Some get used and there are also many that don't, but it's not something that I really planned.

Buy what you interests you and you'll figure out which ones are users.
 
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All my 50is Spyderco, Benchmade, Hinderer modern folders are users except for a few Spyderco Sprints. I’ve got around 100 GEC traditional “safe queen” knives that will never be used and 25 GEC users.
 
Ajack60 said:
Absolutely, I have bought knives with the intent never to be used. I've got safe queens and users of the same brand.
Safe Queens, probably will never be used.
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I had to remind myself to breath when I saw those 4 Halloween safe queen beauties! I’m on the elusive hunt for one now even if it means big bucks!
 
I bought knives to carry and use... but that always turned into modify, regrind and stick on a wall magnet... until I sell or trade it away. The exceptions are the ones I still carry and use, which are usually my modded Spyderco Resiliences.

Kiteman72 said:
It's hard to do this hobby wrong as long as you are enjoying it.
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And not bleeding out... ;)

not2sharp said:
I have one EDC (the same knife for 23 years)
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!!! What one knife have you been using since 1997??? And can you share a pic? :D
 
Usually I think of a "safe-queen" as a knife that is too fancy to use.
I probably don't have any of those.

I do have a fair number of knives which I have purchased in spite of the fact that I have no specific need or use for them. The design appealed to me or triggered my curiosity, so I bought it, carried it a bit to get a feel for it, then put it in the drawer. Yeah. Got a fair number of those.
 
David Mary said:
…..!!! What one knife have you been using since 1997??? And can you share a pic? :D
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It's the one at the bottom :)

It is a Camillus made Remington stockman (very simple and traditional). The other two are a Miller Bros T1 and a Singleton (Sheffield) knife from the 1880s with British military markings. Neither is office friendly and both are safe queens.

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If you think before buying a kniew that you aren't going to use it, then why do you buy it? To get covered in dust? Knives are bought to be used. Everytime when I buy a new knife, I can't wait to get back home and use it as much as possible.
 
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