Have any of you ever?

In one?? :confused:
 
If theres anyone that did loose it, than they most likely wouldnt stick around here (forum) and couldn't reply in this thread lol
 
No, but my collection has changed more than once over the past few years. I buy, use, then sell/trade quite often. The only knives that make the cut long term were either gifts from my wife or kids, or a few that I personalized with my logo on the blade.
The rest are subject to go at any time whenever I'm ready to try something new.
I've been down to 8-10 knives at one time and up to over 100, but I never sold all of them off.

My addiction grows and wains. I slow down on buying them and rotate my edc daily. Suddenly my cousin will buy a new one or make a comment about my modern folder collection looking "thin", and next thing you know, I have a half dozen new knives.

Once you've gotten here to BF, you've become somewhat of a knife knut to a degree. I'm not sure how anyone who has gotten this far in the hobby, addiction, education, could ever be without a knife.
 
I have sold off most of my collection (save for my edc at the time) when times got tough. Building back up was fun though after having good knowledge of what I like and don't like.
 
I've never gotten rid of knives (given a few away, now and then, and occasionally lost one); but never a concerted effort to make them go away. I have, however, set most of them aside for a few years, and all but forgotten about them. Then my interest is rekindled, and I may buy a few...or simply go through what I have & enjoy those. After a while, the cycle repeats. I'm about due, I think; but this place makes it difficult between the makers and the Exchange.
I was out with a few co-workers earlier this week, and one asked "How many knives do you have...and how many do you need?" I said I don't know, and I'm not sure....but <dropping my hand to my pocket> I have this one, and its the only one I need at this moment
Truth is, I probably should sell a few - I've got knives I haven't used in over 15 yrs.
 
I did, when I was much younger. I kept one to carry daily and that was it for a couple of years, but then I bought a Kershaw Tyrade and now I have more than I ever did before.
 
Never sold them all. I have "changed directions" several times. I have had a collection of one type or another since I was about 15. I'm 45 now. I guess that qualifies me as "hooked".

I go on runs for a while where I'm all over a certain kind of knife, or theme. Then I move on. Sometimes I sell some, many times I trade for other.

The problem is, after a while, production knives give way to mid techs, then mt's give way to customs. &#128516; That's when things get expensive.
 
I have certainly never lost the addiction ever since I was 9 :D

I have sold most of my collection once in the last year, and that was the first time I had a large-scale purge of the herd. Before that, I was in excess of 100 knives easily, but after the purge, I have about 5 very sentimental knives that will never leave my collection no matter what, and 9 knives that are in my official EDC rotation.
Most of the knives I sold off actually went to local knife nuts in my area, and the high-dollar or rare pieces (LOTS of Shirogorovs, several customs, a few Sebenzas, a Hinderer, and my Striders) I didn't carry got sold to very close friends (at prices I think some people here would kill for, but hey, I'll lose some money to make sure they go to people who will love them forever ;) ), and I still see those being babied, carried, and admired all the time in my friend's circle. There are definitely times I wish I hadn't sold a couple of them off, but my friends being able to enjoy the hobby with me is much more worth it...probably going to get another SNG pretty soon though...

And that's not to say I don't still go after knives like a very bad habit...in fact, got a Diskin flipper to add to my collection a few weeks ago (great larger EDC blade btw), and already looking at getting a second Shirogorov for EDC...it never really goes away.
 
knives_in_nature said:
Have you ever sold close to, or your entire collection? Have you ever lost the knife addiction?
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Yep, and more than once over the years.

I am currently down to a lot less knives than I used to have due to my current situation, sold off a very big chunk of my collection in the past 2 years or so.
 
losing the addiction? no...
but I have sold off a majority of my collection and then rebuilt after a change in tastes.

as I build the collection I get to a point when I start having similar knives from different manufacturers and then I sell/trade off those first followed by the one's that don't quite make it into the rotation often enough.
 
I made knives regularly from 1987 till about 2009 and my interest in making them dried up. It did not provide the satisfaction as it once did. Age and pain has something to do with it, but also adapting to a slower life in retirement. I got tired of hearing 'When will it be ready, is it done yet? etc. I got tired of the constant dirt and dust rising from the shop and circulating through the house despite dust collection. Having slowed down it takes most of my effort to get the winter wood supply in, and keep up with the yard work and trail maintenance. Other interests have crept in taking up time otherwise used in the shop. However, I do visit the shop and put in some time when the biting flies are bad, and I always have one of my own on my belt. My interest has faded but it will never die.
 
I believe that lost my knife addiction.
I am not going nuts anymore, if I didn't buy couple or more knives every month. I sold about a half of what I used to have and keeping only ones, which I really like or love. Of course I still carry my Spydercos, reading Forums and love to talk about knives. But anxiety is gone.
 
I gave all but a handful away to family, grand kids, sons, and daughters. A few have gone to friends too, now that I think about it. I probably gave away close to 100 knives over the years.
 
Believe it or not, I don't really think I have a knife addiction. I like knives about the same way I like guns, I keep the ones that are special to me and the ones I tend to use the most. I make knives for the fun of the design and seeing the final product come to life, then I give them away or sell them. All that being said, I really don't have a "collection," at least what I would call a collection. I have about 5 knives that I really like and that pretty much goes for the guns too. I guess in many ways I'm a minimalist compared to others.
 
I've never sold a knife, and doubt that I ever will. There's no reason other than that it is more trouble than it's worth to me. I'd rather just leave them all to my son.
 
I sold off all my customs and Randall collection, as well as gave away most of my knives to friends and family. Kept only a small cigar box of knives. I didn't loose my knife addiction, but it went down a great deal. I still like knives, but while they still have a draw to me, it's nothing like what they used be. There's other factors in life that came to be first in interest to me as I got older. Family, and the time I spend with them.

I have a simple rule to keep things in perspective, one comes in, one has to go out. This keeps it at a level that they all fit in the small wooden cigar box I mentioned.

Also, my interest has changed focus in my older years. I know my bushwacking and backpacking days are over, and I'm not going to be tramping the wilderness again in this lifetime, unless on a senior citizen bus trip in Yosemite. But, the better half and I are spending our kids inheritance taking trips for our enjoyment. This means flying to strange places, touring museums and historical sites, sight seeing tours. This means a more reasonable size folder in my pocket, like the traditional pocket knives I like anyways,or a SAK that if it ends up missing from my luggage, I can replace at the next big box store I run across.

So, no more big fixed blades, nomore large folder, I simply don't have a need for them. But I'm too addicted to having something sharp in my pocket, so my taste has changed that way. I still come to a knife based forum to look, and see what's going on in the knife world, but I almost never buy a new knife anymore. If I get gifted one, then my one in-one out rule takes effect.
 
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