Have you bought a knife for dumb reason

Oh hell yes. I even bought a Busse Custom Shop AK. I love it, but I doubt I'll ever be sword fighting zombies.
 
I have always felt buying a knife for self defense was a dumb reason for a knife. I CCW so that covers true self defense. If a person is good with a knife in combat then that person probably spent more time training than any knife can make up for and they likely don't even need the knife for hand to hand combat at that point anyway.
 
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all of my knives were purchased for legitimate reasons.

in my mind.


though i did once buy a firesteel and a cut piece of a hacksaw blade as a starter because the girl working the table was cute.
 
I have a reason dumber than "It looked cool"

Here it is: "Because it was cheap."

doh...got a few of those sitting in the bottom of the knife box.
 
Bought a new SAK simply because I forgot to put a knife in my pocket. I was 60 miles from home and felt like I was walking around naked! Oh well my old SAK Hunter was 20 years old.
 
YDNAR88030 said:
Bought a new SAK simply because I forgot to put a knife in my pocket. I was 60 miles from home and felt like I was walking around naked! Oh well my old SAK Hunter was 20 years old.
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I've bought inexpensive knives because I flew out of province.
Then stuck the knife in my checked baggage to go home.
The last two trips resulted in a new bryd crossbill and a gerber evo jr
 
I once spent $70 on a multi-tool to keep in the glove box of my truck. I was not making a ton of money at the time and was trying to get out of debt and fund a wedding. Something clicked and I realized: "I already have a few Swiss Army knives. Any one of those plus a pair of pliers (which I also had multiples of) and I'm set. Same functionality - if not better - and it didn't cost me a dime."

I sold off the MT that week.
 
in my lifetime i've bought 1 knife purely for utility,and that was 20 years ago.
when i buy knives my decision is based on looks and construction,and because i like knives.
 
I bought a Scrapyard Regulator... on a whim. Turned out to be sufficiently large and unwieldy for my small hands that it'll never get used.
 
defuse kit said:
I've bought crappy knives simply because I didn't have one on me at the time but I didn't want to spend money at the moment. Does that count?
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Naw, that doesn't count. Buying a cheap knife because you don't have one on you and can't stand being without one is a good reason.
 
I have bougth a knife for a dumb reason. Like that knife looks bitching, and I bet I could chop a car in half (it just so happens that that knife is a Busse FBMLE, and I can chop a car in half, and it is bitching).

I have one or two knives that are a bit more tactical than usefull. Oh, sure I could use them, but I have more versatile designs that are nicer. Really, only one knife like that, and it was only $30 or so. It is not useless, and has been used in the past, but mostly just gets drawer time now. (nothing like Darkopps or anything).

But I have a smaller Tanto that does not get too much use.
 
I cannot tell a lie. I once bought a Tom Brown Tracker. As all reasons for doing so are dumb, I have bought a knife for a dumb reason.
 
Considering what a typical person actually NEEDS in the way of a pocket knife, I am not sure many of us can really come up with a not-dumb reason to spend what many of us willingly spend on a knife.

At some point you buy what you like for little reason beyond it pleases you somehow. I refuse to attempt to justify it beyond that. But if you say that to a non-knife person, it sounds pretty dumb....now compound the whole matter by attempting to justify as many knives as I own...wow! I can imagine it looks pretty dumb depending on where you stand on knife collecting.
 
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