Do you think you could

dialton said:
Be content with 3 knives? If not, less, more or what’s your number? When I look back at all the activities that I have done with a knife, from childhood to senior citizen, it seems to me that I could choose one high quality blade in each of 3 task categories and take care of most if not all my needs. I’m in my mid 60’s. Here are my personal ideas. Tell me yours.
1. Chopper. 9-10” blade. Could serve as a tool to replace a machete, cut and limb small trees, baton fire wood cause I do like a campfire and add in any task that one might feel a need for a big blade. Probably mostly unnecessary for my tasks today but what the heck.

2. Smallish-medium 3.5-5.5” fixed blade to do most any task from food prep/camp chores to cutting string and throw in game processing should you want to.

3. Pocket carry knife. For me, something with a locking blade, thumb stud to open and a good all around design including your choice of blade shape. My companion for the last several months has been a small Sebenza. Small and light enough to make for very comfortable carry and the blade shape serves me well for everything from cleaning my fingernails, opening packages and up to about any task you want to tackle before you move up to one your other blades.
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I could probably settle with just 50 knives, as long as you don't count multi-tools. It would be a bit of an adjustment though...

 
Alan Davis custom, Biryukov #12, Warpath Strategies camp kitchen knife (custom).
 
I could, but I won’t. And it’s a beautiful thing that none of us have to.

If I was forced into choosing to fulfill some pact with the devil, I’d take my battle mistress, M6, and either bugout or Adamas.
 
At the moment, after having moved my Prevail XL along to a friend (🥺) I now EDC a Resilience and Tenacious I modded in S35VN, and a neck knife I made in 15N20. I am content...

...for now...
 
dialton said:
If not, less, more or what’s your number?
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I just re-read your original post and realized I’d missed this bit the first time.

Content? Probably around 32.

(Kitchen: 5, folders: 4, razor: 1, outdoor/survival fixed: 4, tactical fixed😜:1, fighter/sd fixed: 3, multi tool:1, additional knives stashed in every room in the house/vehicles: 13)
 
Yes, under certain circumstances I could be content with 3 knives.....for a while.

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Content, nah. I have way too many specialized uses (both real and imaginary) that require different tools and blades.

Now from an honest practicality (and barring obvious things like kitchen/cooking/flatware knives), I don't NEED anything more than a good multi tool. Even as a contractor, I rarely need to reach for more than my Leatherman to complete a cutting task.

I don't hunt. I don't fish. I don't really have much yardwork that more than a lawnmower is needed to complete. My stepdad sold the cabin, so I have no need to clear out brush around the property. When I do venture into the wilds it is for a reflective and contemplative walk. I'm not looking to bend nature to my will, so chopping and hacking is not needed.
 
Well,
This thread has given me a great opportunity for other enthusiasts feedback and a deeper look at my own knife junkie hobby if you will. I do not intentionally buy any knife to “add to my collection”. I don’t consider myself a collector but on further review of my stash I can easily count 40+ not counting kitchen knives, multi tools or anything outside of folders and fixed blades. I’m not sure what box that puts me in nor do I care but if it was cars or watches or any number of other things, I would say they were a collection. As I previously stated, I have knives with “intended” purposes all over the place, atv, autos, tacklebox, bags of various kinds for various purposes, by my favorite tv watching place, well you get it. Nothing I have is a duplicate of the same model, they are not laying out in a row for display but there sure seems to be a gaggle of em! I live in the country and at most times I have at least 2 on me that tend to take care of whatever I need (hence the idea of 3 or a limited number) The leftovers reside in a rollaway toolbox purchased for the sole purpose of knife and related items storage. Sharpeners, cordage, Yada yada. Many in that storage are previous purchases from close to 50 years of buying, carrying and using knives and have been replaced in the pecking order but not gotten rid of. That along with literally several dozen that I have bought and sold and given away over the years led me to today.
I don’t intend to go down to 3 or anywhere near that number but thinking about what I normally use and adding in a little buffer for occasional tasks needs, I believe a handful of well chosen blades would actually meet all my needs. Being Content is the issue for many of us, regardless of what we have.
 
Not yet content with only 3 knives.

I can be content, today, with 3 knives.

I am content having many knives and rotating the use of each as it suits me - daily, weekly.

I've thought to myself sometimes, about the romance of carrying only a single knife for years...like my rancher grandfather, but I know I am too intrigued by knives to be content with just 3, let alone 1 knife.
 
dialton said:
I have yet to try the manga cut. I have M390 and s45vn that I’m currently using but I am curious. I just don’t really know how much better any of them are for the uses I give ‘em.
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Don't get a new knife because you feel compelled to try a new steel, there's no obsoleting the knives you already have, get a new knife in a new steel because it's neat!
 
Sure.
Full size Tom Brown tracker style of outdoor activities other hunting and fishing. A 3.5 to 5 inch fixed blade, buck 105 style for hunting and fishing duties and 3 blade large stockman.
 
Hurrul said:
Not yet content with only 3 knives.

I can be content, today, with 3 knives.

I am content having many knives and rotating the use of each as it suits me - daily, weekly.

I've thought to myself sometimes, about the romance of carrying only a single knife for years...like my rancher grandfather, but I know I am too intrigued by knives to be content with just 3, let alone 1 knife.
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That’s more of a reality for me too but I mirror the way you think of the nostalgic 1.
They say, “ beware of the man that only has 1 gun”, who ever “they” are : )
 
I don't think I've made it more than a week carrying the same knife in probably 9 years.

However, I have three favorite folders, with a close 4th. I could "live" with 2 folders and a fixed, but I wouldn't like it.
 
I've made it there. Almost.

The knife thing faded for me as I got older, and going through my 50's, I did a really major downsize. These days, I can hold my entire collection/accumulation in one hand. For my everyday walking around in suburbia, my SAK classic is on my keyring in a leather pouch sheath I made for it. That way I can just slide it out and use it while not being attached to the keyring. The classic is my everyday, all the time, no matter what pocket knife. On occasion I may have a Boker 240 penknife, a Case peanut, my SAK cadet, or my Buck 303 cadet, or a Christy knife. For heavy duty my old Wenger SI might ride along.

For a larget folder, an Opinel number 8 is available. The Opinel cuts whatever I need to that the SAK classic is too small for. The Victorinox florist is also around if I'm doing work on the garden out back.

For fixed blade use, my old Buck 102 woodsman is there. I don't hunt anymore, but I fish almost every other day. The Buck is my bait knife, cleaning knife, and outdoor food processing knife. We've been together a very long time and I know the feel of the woodsman well. Its my second Buck 102 since 1969.

If I need a chopper, the 12 inch Ontario machete is there. It cuts tree limbs and brush with ease. There is a lot of brush in this part to Texas.

Thats it. For 99% of the time, I'm walking around with just the SAK classic, and maybe another small slip joint pocket knife. I still think a knife is a very important item for a man to have in his pocket, but in modern suburbia not much knife is really needed.

If I had to limit myself to jus three knives, the SAK classic, Opinel number 8, and Ontario 12 inch machete would do me.
 
Yeah, many times I look around my place and think, “just how much crap does one little man need”.
If I had to pick 3 from what I have they would be:
Busse basic 9 chopper
Busse radioactive meaner
Small Sebenza.
Those would realistically accomplish any task I can think of but I would hate to let go of a handful of others I have.
 
I wouldn't be content, no. Variety is the spice of life, after all! And 3 is hardly variety. For me, at least. My collection is probably close to 100 knives at this point and I'm still not content, so take that as you will.
 
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