Do you plan to pass down your knife/collection?

DShiflet said:
If I have kids, sure. Not like I'm gonna do a viking burial and take them with me when I'm gone...
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Meanwhile, that's exactly what I intend to do with mine. :D

I don't have kids, but if I do have any, they can buy their own friggin' knives. :p
 
Can't have children and my nieces moms are too over protective to ever let them have one knife much less 20 balis and a bunch of folders and fixed blades, no when I go my knives will likely go to the highest bidder.
 
Jesus this thread is depressing. Just thinking about mortality is uncomfortable.

I think the best way to go would be to sell the collection. This way someone who appreciates knives will be able to enjoy them and the family will be able to use the money.
 
I will pass down some, but I have no idea what knives I will still own by them. Like many other knife enthusiasts I do a lot of buying, selling and trading. I will likely sell most of my knives before that time but I will have some that will get handed down.
 
When I go, I want everyone that I'm close to, to pick a knife of mine to remember me by. Perhaps it'll be something they saw me use and carry a lot. Maybe they'll know that the one they picked was a favorite of mine. It will likely be something they like the looks of and want to keep forever because it has my memory.
My kids(or close family/Partner, depends on if I have kids at that point, etc.) will have the first choice of course. If I have a friend or two that I want to have a knife, they'll get next pick of one knife each.
Once everyone has their one knife, my family can choose to either sell the rest off or just keep them around.

This would give my family whatever is left and their one knife, but I'd like them to have one specific knife to carry/use(hopefully, or display, whatever) that every time they look at it, or hold it, they think "Wow this was mom's(Jessie's) and she really loved and cared for her knives".

Sounds like a good plan to me.
 
When I go, I will leave behind a significant collection, which has always been a great joy. The family will viewed the collection as clutter, and I will be cursed for it. They will sell them ASAP for pennies on the dollar to be rid of them, and they will be happy, and a great many collectors will rejoice. You can clamor about values all that you please, but unless someone takes interest, the collection is just a burden, which is so much harder to be rid of then an account balance or major property. Oh, if only I had left them a bucket of cash.....It is a good thing that I will be beyond caring and just plain dead. We may wish otherwise, but such is the cycle for most collections.

n2s
 
Mine will probably either go directly to a landfill or will be sold at an estate sale for $2.50 a pop.

No worries here - work hard and enjoy your monetary expenditures - you can't take it with ya :D
 
Seeing is how I buy way more than one knife a year, I will give my son a knife every birthday after 5. He's 1 now, and when he graduates and is 18, way more than half will be all his. By that time ill only REALLY need 1 or 2 knives to suffice me. Then when I die the rest will go on to him as will my guns.
 
My knives will either go to my S.O., my sister, or her kids. My sister doesn't like guns, but appreciates knives enough that she can have them.
 
My son is constantly drooling over my knife collection. Most of them aren't worth mentioning, but he really likes the khukuris and my Wenger Swiss Army Knife. He'll probably get those at least.
 
I don't have any kids or even younger family members to act as surrogates. I expect my wife will sell them. I just hope she doesn't sell them for what I told her they cost!
 
I plan on it, but thats a long way down the road. I would have passed down my first knife, a Vic Hunstman, but I lost that. Ill probaly just pass on a few of my favorites (only when I die though :D)
 
I'll pass it on if someone enjoys them as much as I do. If whoever I plan to pass them on to likes knives, but isn't crazy like I am... I will just give them my most used knives and possibly sell the others or give them to friends.

I don't have any kids, and I don't plan on having any for awhile. But if I had to pass a knife or two down, it'd be my Strider SNG and my Becker BK7.
 
My Boy is 1 and Girl is 4
Boy Scouts and Girl scouts will be in the near future as will multiple Camping trips, and when they are old enough, knives will be gifted, hopefully most before I die! I want to experience the joy of them getting Dads cherished pocket knife. Gifting is more fun than buying, and I have a buying problem. :)
Its strange to stumble across this thread as we were discussing mortality and family health around the table this very evening. I also just stumbled across a post about a knife maker's son who died recently, just shy of 40. It's scary, it's sad, and a reminder that tomorrow is never promised and today should always be cherished as if it's your last. I have spent a lot less time online cruising the forums and Reddit the more I think about this.... new baby had a bit to contribute to these absences. ;)
It's true, you can hope things go where they belong after you die, but you will never know.
My grandfather was to pass along to our family some land, his box of war stuff and some really cool harmonicas (he was really good!) and I would have cherished the harmonicas and war relics more than anything....well, his absentee wife had other plans.
Could care less about the land, but I really wish I had one of his harmonicas.

My point? Whatever you wish to have gifted, make sure you document it, notarize it and make it well known. Engrave the blade if you have to.
Hopefully you have an amazing wife like I do or significant other who have you and your families' best interests at heart.

As of now, a few EDC will be kept for my children, a few on the sale list to do as she pleases if she needs cash or decides to keep, and a few will be kept for family or friends.

Now to go hug my family...
 
At this stage my nephew will inherit all of my gear. He is great and it pleases me as I like him so much..

He has no idea the extent of my collection though :)
 
yes! i want to make my kids knife guy/girl.
no kids yet, but next year I gonna marry my girlfriend sooo I am already thinking about knives I gotta buy for them. i really like mr Walkabout ideas!
 
We recently found out my Wife is pregnant with our first child. I have since bought a knife just for the purpose of passing it on. I bought a Case Russlock in red jig bone and will have the initials and DOB engraved on the bolsters. I plan to carry it everyday and around the time our child leaves home they will do so with "Dad's" old knife.
 
BearMGCHafter said:
We recently found out my Wife is pregnant with our first child. I have since bought a knife just for the purpose of passing it on. I bought a Case Russlock in red jig bone and will have the initials and DOB engraved on the bolsters. I plan to carry it everyday and around the time our child leaves home they will do so with "Dad's" old knife.
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Wow! Congratulates brother!

I just had a baby girl 4 months ago. It's a wonderful thing. Truly.

Thanks everyone for your replies. Very good, and heartwarming stuff. ;)
 
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