Found Money: User or Display???

Megalobyte

Megalobyte

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Let's say you find $750 in the pocket of your jeans, your wife doesn't know about it, you decide you WILL get a knife with it. Do you get a top of the line user, whether tactical, utility or other, OR, do you buy yourself a full blown, "pretty boy" custom for display? Me, i go with a decked out custom display folder all the way, probably a Mel Pardue to my specs, and it goes right into a glass display case never to be used, only lovingly fondled and admired for years to come. To me, theres nothing particularly special about a nice, but common user, theyre a dime a dozen, whereas a true, one of a kind, beautifully crafted piece of cuttlery art is special and far rarer. Just my opinion, worth what you paid for it. Id be interested to hear other's opinions.
 
I'm stealing someone else's quote here, don't remember whose, to the effect that having a beautiful knife and not using it is like having a beautiful girlfriend and not touching her. Doesn't make much sense to me.
 
This one is EASY. I would place an order with Terry Primos or John Fitch for a 10", forged Camp Bowie with a green canvas Micarta handle and Rowe leather sheath. Awesome. Heck, if it gets to banged up I would just ship her back for a refurb and it would look like new.
 
I'd add $25 and get this Mel Pardue folder (picture borrowed from True North Knives):
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Rados Ladder pattern blade and bolsters, fluted walrus ivory scales, damascus steel, vine fileworked backstrap.

And I would use it.
 
First off...there's no way I could have money in my pocket and my wife not know about it. ;)

If I had $750 mysteriously show up out of thin air and it could not possibly belong to someone else, then I would probably march right over to Uncle Bill's HI forum and blow it all on a Kothimoda, a YCS, an M-43, and whatever ever else I could get my hands on. :D:D

The Kothimoda: a collector's piece.
The YCS & M-43: collectors, but users too.

I partially agree with Nathan S. I don't like having knives that I don't use. However, a Kothimoda is not merely a knife...it is a work of pure art.
 
Pendentive's reply took the words right out of my mouth. The most money I ever found was a $20.00 bill. It was on the pavement and not in an old article of clothing.
 
We have a fund at my house out of which some bills are paid. We call it the 'GTHP fund.'

It stands for 'going through husband's pants.' My wife learned it from her mom.

Besides, if I had so much as a 20 dollar bill that she didn't know about I'd be accused of gambling or selling a 500 dollar gun and blowing the 480.

It ain't worth it. I don't even know if I've ever seen 750 bucks in one place at one time except on 'Miami Vice.'
 
If I suddenly 'found' $750.I would go to my local gun shop and order a para-ordnance double clip 45 acp that holds 12 rounds!
 
Okay, people, it's just an exercise in willing suspension of disbelief, in a hypothetical situation.

Assuming it HAS to be spent on knives, and not bills, I would have to put it towards a Harkin's D/A out the front knife, The Triton. It would probably end up in a safe, but I would be tempted to bring it out to carry on occasion, and any time there was someone to show it off to.

DD
 
I'd buy a Glock (19, 23 or 36) and use the rest for a to buy a carbon steel camp/utility user.

:o Oops . . . READ THEN TYPE. If it has to be spent on knives, I'd get a Rinaldi TTKK in D2, a Benchmade 710HS and a Benchmade 806D2 (if I had $750 in "found money" I wouldn't have to decide). All would be users. I'd spend anything left over to have the benchmades recoated in Boron Carbide by bodycote and maybe on some sheaths for the Benchmades from Normark.
 
WELL, Megalobyte, I personally do not care for "pretty-boy" blades at all. (NOTE: PLEASE, I AM NOT TRYING TO START A WAR HERE, THESE ARE JUST MY OPINIONS!)

While I CAN appreciate and understand some people's appreciation of certain blades as "art" only, I personally don't really "get it" at the same time. Why would someone want to posess a tool such as a knife, that has no real practical use? Obviously, a knife made of gold, jewels, ivory, etc. will not stand up to any hard use at all. That is not what it was designed for. But why? I'd rather have a blade that I could use as a tool. Someone once said here that part of the genuine satisfaction of owning a knife is feeling it slice through something. (Other than just paper, of course!)

For example; I was boating on the river with my family yesterday. My sister was driving, and suddenly the engine made some odd noises, and she cut the throttle. We were trying to figure out what had happened; perhaps something got caught in the prop. Either way, I felt a lot more comfortable in the situation with my Strider BT strapped to my leg, waiting to free us from whatever might be wrapped on our prop! :D Wouldn't you? Or would you have felt better with your "pretty-boy" sitting at home, useless, behind glass? :p ;) (BTW, nothing was wrong with our boat. Guess the engine just felt like talking.)

If the money was to be spent, not saved or put towards bills, I would probably get that Beretta 92/96 I've been eyeing, or if I HAD to spend it on a blade, I'd get a Strider SEAL 2001. :D

P.S.: That's an AWFUL lot of money to find in one's "pant pockets!" You sure you didn't find that in the back of an armored car, or something? ;)

Drjones
 
I'd have to say that I'd spend the money on a Peter Marzitelli custom Pizzazz Padouk, Spend the rest on a Busse Groove Master, and then take my wife out to eat before they arrived as a distraction! :D
 
I like the looks of the art knives, BUT if I can't use it why own it? My 750 goes for a Strider MT AND AR, or AR and a Sebenza, or an Ultratech and a sebenza, or a BattleMistress, or... Hey I'm gonna need a lot more than $750:) :p :D
 
Wow, find $750.00 huh? That sure would be great.

I'd put it away until one or two of the knives I have on order were ready. I have five knives on order right now and could sure use that $750.00.

I have never really cared for art knives. Nor have I really liked engraved or scrimshawed knives and I usually don't care for filework. I do however like some of the damascus blades I have seen. Even though I do not consider damascus blades as users, I do own one damascus Dunkerley fixed blade and would own more. At one time I was one of those that thought that I would never own a knife I did not use. That is no longer the case. If I had the money to buy a Scagel or Moran knife I would do so in a minute. There is not a chance in hell that I would ever use it to cut anything.
 
I'd get users, definitely. :)

I would start out by FINALLY getting a Sebenza and maybe a one or two from MoD like the Dieter CQD and CQD Mark II. :D :D
 
Dr. Jones. Certainly i do not interpret your opinion as neccessitating a war, and in that same spirit, i will respectfully disagree with you when you say that you dont "get" owning a knife youll never use. The first thing that comes to mind is that you do not have the mindset of a collector. One who is a collector possesses and admires rare and beautiful objects in themselves, and not in what they can use them for. You have seen, no doubt, beautifully crafted and engraved antique pistols, some of them sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and by the way, can be a very good investment, surely you would never fire them, and yet, many people, myself squarely included admire them as works of art that speak to a level of craftsmanship and beauty rarely found in our mass produced world of flimsy and unimpressive objects. If you own a painting, can you not admire its beauty without feeling the need to use it to wallpaper your bathroom? Do not objects of art offer an aesthetic value in themselves and not only when it can serve some sort of mundane, material function? There are certainly many knives well suited for various tasks, is not there room for serving the functions of beauty, aesthetics, investment, and the desire to appreciate all too rare exceptional craftsmanship? Well, you get my point. No wars, just friendly sparring.
 
I would want a battle rat to accompany the camp tramp.
I would want a sebenza.
Gee, I guess I would have money left.
 
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