Off Topic Feeding The Need : Your Strategy !

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:) Hypothetical situation : Clean slate . Your current knives are no longer with you . You have a $600 knife budget that is for one year .

This is NOT about what particular knife or knives you would buy , but rather how you would plan your timing and spending pattern .

E.g. : 1) Blow the whole $600 on day one , for one expensive knife . But you then must settle for just that one for the year .

2) Buy one $50 knife each month , X12=$600 . Or buy all 12 on day one .

3) Buy a $100 knife every 2 months .

4) Or any other particular way of spending the budget . But no selling or trading , just to keep it simple . No trying and returning a knife , etc.

Personally , I believe I'd budget $50 a month throughout the year . So if I wanted a $100 knife I'd have to wait till the 2nd month . Or "save up " 4 months for a $200 . Or if I couldn't stand to wait even a month , just get a $50 , at least to start . I would be comfortable with this strategy because that's similar to the one I already follow in principle .

What would you do ? I'm just curious . o_O

;) No cheating ! No making your own , or stealing knives , or suicide to escape the scenario . :eek:
 
I would try to figure out what needs I have that year and purchase knives according to that. I would rank my needs for that year and decide based on the top 5.

Maybe it would look a little something like this:

  1. EDC for the office
  2. camping/travel
  3. Whittling
  4. Food prep
  5. General bushcrafing
I would find a way to buy a set of quality knives/tools that would best fill those needs. I would take some time to do some research and buy the set in one go. Any cash left over could later be spent on frivolities.
 
I'd spend it on 3 knives. A $300, $200 and $100. The $300 would be worth more than any in my collection, so that'd be cool. The $200 would be as nice as my current nicest knives and the $100 would be what'sefy and heck, I still think a $100 knife is nothing to scoff at. Now, when does the giveaway happen and how will the winner be picked?
 
I’d spend half the budget immediately on the two knives I currently carry. The rest I’d just leave in my bank account most probably, unless I wanted to spend a little bit more of it on a fixed blade down the line.
 
Serious answer: I would spend the budget right away. I would spend most of the budget on the cheapest full-size (4 inch blade) Olamic Wayfarer I could find. This would serve me as mine do now, as an EDC knife, but it's also stout enough to be pressed into service as a defensive knife, and it's also a large enough blade that I could get food preparation done with it if I needed to*. Then, I'd buy a decent SAK, maybe a Tinker, although if I could find an ALOX Farmer or Pioneer for sale here on BF for cheapish, that would be my other go-to move. Lastly, since there's not much left in the bank at that point, I'd get a couple of Moras, probably a Stainless Pro or two, and then I'd call it good.

Then I'd get back to work making loot to start rebuilding my actual collection.


*This is what kept me from saying a number of other folders, most of which have 3.5 inch blades in my collection.
 
If there are only the choices you presented and you get the money each months, bimonthly etc. I'd go for 50$ each month, buy a cheap knife right at the start to have something and spend the rest on 100$ knives over the year :D
 
This time if year? First, I’d spend $60 right away on an Alox Vic and something cheep but decent, like a Rat or buget Kirshaw. That way I’d have something to rotate through my pocket that’d get most jobs done.

Then I would wait a few weeks for October/November year-end discontinuation sales and Black Friday deals and get whatever appealed to me. If there was anything left over, I’d stalk the exchange. No rationing of funds. If something spoke to me and I had the money for it, I’d buy it.
 
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All at once. I have multiple needs that would need to be met so I think I would have to go all in all at once.

9 inch Gyuto something decent in the $175 range.
3 inch Dexter Russell Connoisseur Paring knife $20.
Spyderco Military $175
Spyderco Delica $75
Becker BK16 $80
Victorinox Fieldmaster $35
Mora Companion $15
Rapala fillet knife $25
 
50 buck knife each month is pretty much how I've always done it, so yeah, I'd go for that. There's a lot of joy in cheap Kershaws and CRKTs.
 
Interesting question. I would probably get the most expensive traditional folder that I could FORCE myself to carry, then piddle away the rest on SAKs, Opinels and Morakins. The traditional would most likely be someone else's user, so I there would probably be money left for some other blades.

My biggest problem now is having too many knives, and being too lazy to sell them. Starting over with my elevated knowledge level (thanks BF), I would concentrate on "usable"* quality and less on quantity. *totally subjective
 
I'd split the cost, $300 on a folder, $300 on a fixed. Whatever I have left over from those purchases I'd spread around for other knife buys. I'd have to do some serious research into what I'd want before I made the purchase since whatever I chose would be the one I'd be stuck with. As long as it's the right knife I could easily carry it for a year.
 
I pretty much have my $600 already. I'd probably just re-buy my 3 main blades and call it good.

Custom 4 inch flat ground fixed blade for general knife work, Benchmade 20CV/G10 mini-grip for EDC, and a Busse Pork Chop for chopping and wood processing on campouts.
 
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