I started a thread a while back asking about your minimalist CRK collection if you had to sell most due to financial constraints. I've been doing pretty well at work lately and have been building up my CRK collection. Now, it's not a money thing, but I want to scale down a bit, and possibly use the proceeds towards some of the rarer knives like a mammoth annual.
So I ask, what's a good dream "medium" size CRK collection? Here's my idea:
Historical timeline purposes:
P-Sebenza ATS34
Regular Large BG42
Regular Small BG42
21 Large S30V or S35VN
21 Small S30V or S35VN
Favorite One Piece Knife - South African preferred but US okay
I don't think there was a small P-Sebenza, so those 5 seem to cover the main timeline. Please correct if I am wrong. There's an "original" sebenza, but it's so close to the P, that I'm not sure it's worth splitting out, anymore than pre and post Idaho 21s are worth having both.
User purposes:
Whatever your favorite EDC is. I like the shape and design of regulars, but I don't want to risk losing my BG42 regular, so I'm planning to add an S30V regular, which is cheaper than the BG42s, and EDCing that one.
Fun / extravagant purposes:
Mammoth Ivory - if funds allow, both the green/blue version and the white/brown version. I personally don't like the pure white as much, but am not mad at it!!
River of Fire would be amazing, but I don't care much for most of the damascus patterns other than it.
Here's my summary thoughts. With the 6 knives in the historical timeline, one or two mammoth ivory, and one user, you have a pretty solid medium size collection at under 10 knives that covers a lot of ground. Add in a Mnandi and Umfaan for a little extra niceities.
I envy a lot of the huge collections I see posted here, but I just don't have the room to store 100+ knives, and I need to fund my retirement account still for the year!! So I'm looking at sculpting a solid but respectful medium-size collection of about a dozen knives or so.
Who else has similar plans or ideas on what a good medium-size collection looks like?
So I ask, what's a good dream "medium" size CRK collection? Here's my idea:
Historical timeline purposes:
P-Sebenza ATS34
Regular Large BG42
Regular Small BG42
21 Large S30V or S35VN
21 Small S30V or S35VN
Favorite One Piece Knife - South African preferred but US okay
I don't think there was a small P-Sebenza, so those 5 seem to cover the main timeline. Please correct if I am wrong. There's an "original" sebenza, but it's so close to the P, that I'm not sure it's worth splitting out, anymore than pre and post Idaho 21s are worth having both.
User purposes:
Whatever your favorite EDC is. I like the shape and design of regulars, but I don't want to risk losing my BG42 regular, so I'm planning to add an S30V regular, which is cheaper than the BG42s, and EDCing that one.
Fun / extravagant purposes:
Mammoth Ivory - if funds allow, both the green/blue version and the white/brown version. I personally don't like the pure white as much, but am not mad at it!!
River of Fire would be amazing, but I don't care much for most of the damascus patterns other than it.
Here's my summary thoughts. With the 6 knives in the historical timeline, one or two mammoth ivory, and one user, you have a pretty solid medium size collection at under 10 knives that covers a lot of ground. Add in a Mnandi and Umfaan for a little extra niceities.
I envy a lot of the huge collections I see posted here, but I just don't have the room to store 100+ knives, and I need to fund my retirement account still for the year!! So I'm looking at sculpting a solid but respectful medium-size collection of about a dozen knives or so.
Who else has similar plans or ideas on what a good medium-size collection looks like?
