Have you ever come the point where you wonder what's next?

jill jackson

jill jackson

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I've bought so many different knives over the years. Many I've kept, some I've traded away, or sold to buy something else. But here lately I just can't find much to buy! I've either got it, had it or (if I do sort of want it) it's just way too high priced to invest in. You ever get to that point?
 
Thats kind of where im at right now... its sad. But im sure something will catch my eye eventually.
 
Been there for a while. But, there are a lot of new knives on the horizon with Blade a few months away.
 
One moment please!

*EDIT*

The "LIST"

Benchmade

470 emissary
530 Pardue
746 mini onslaught
940 Osborn
890 torrent
176 socp dagger
915 triage
13740 nagara
14102 conspiracy
14536 instigator
40001 swale
40003 trask
40022 landslide
40036 hunter
10705 vex
375 Adams fixed
275 Adams
915 triage
14055 enigma
550 mini grip
14850 epidemic
520 Presidio
140 nimravus
890 torrent
Axis snody
740 dajavoo
14055 enigma
13402 pika g10
635-60 mini skirmish
750 pinnacle
470-1 emissary
610 ruckus

Spyderco

Polliwog
Police
Tenacious
Dodo
Military
Native
Schempp Tuff
Lum
Superleaf
Military fluted titanium
Leaf storm
Para military od green
Vesuvius
cricket
Spin
native ss
Meerkat
Techno
PPT
Dragonfly
Titanium stealth
Szabo
Ulize
Southard
Starmate
Nilakka
Foundry
Rookie
Salsa titanium
Superhawk
Junior
Jester
Kiwi
Lion spy
Manix
Rescue
Barong
Bushcraft
Captan
Lum tanto
Sub-hilt
Dayhiker
Bob lum tanto
Rock lobster
Kukri
Air
Caly
Catcher man
Dragon fly
 
Buy a grinder and make your own.
 
Never!!!

"I could live 10000 lives,
And I still would want more knives.
Every time I get some cash,
I increase my knifely stash."
:)
 
Yeah, I wound up there a couple of years ago. Now I'm at the point of wondering what I'm going to sell next.
I'll still buy some, but plan to sell more than I buy, as I have been the past two years.
 
Do what I'm doing..... downsize the collection and use the money to get a (or a few) really awesome knives that you normally wouldn't get because of the crazy high price. It feels good man.
 
I've slowed down too. I find myself looking more at the trade forum. At some point I will gold up and start selling.

Buying too many knives is like eating too much pizza.

P.S. I did just buy a TL-29 on the bay a few minutes ago, but I promise I am slowing down.
 
I know you have a big spyderco collection, but what about fixed blades? Specifically customs - lot's of beautiful customs out there and there's something about being able to "feel" the time and effort the maker put into a quality custom that no production blade can reproduce.
 
remmmm said:
I know you have a big spyderco collection, but what about fixed blades? Specifically customs - lot's of beautiful customs out there and there's something about being able to "feel" the time and effort the maker put into a quality custom that no production blade can reproduce.
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I own a couple custom fixed blades and they are terrific. I think a lot of folks get caught up in "Knife of the minute" and while custom knives are truly special, they don't get the fanfare and chatter. You see it non stop here as one day it's someone's grail and the next it's on the trading block. The never-ending lust can be frustrating. I have slowed down quite a bit once I decided that I must use every knife I acquire in order to consider it a good knife. I've went from 2 dozen Spydies, a dozen BMs and a handful of Kershaws to about 8 modern folders because of this. I no longer see a scratch as a flaw but rather a result.
 
jill jackson said:
Been there and done that.
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It sounds like you need a new collecting theme. Something for the advanced collector, like "pre-European knives of Hawaii" or "grain harvesting knives of the world". After a while it gets hard to come up with something fresh.

When you first begin you work your way through the latest and greatest "tactical" knives, then all of the ingeneous locking mechanisms and steels. Then you move into an intermediate stage and explore the ever popular historical stuff like "Bowie knives", "Japanese swords", and "Civil War knives", until you realize that the well on those areas have long gone dry leaving nothing but a huge money pit lined with countless counterfits, misrepresentations, and grossly overpriced junk. Then you focus on more realistic pursuits, products of specific knife brands or custom makers until that to gets repetitive. By now you are fairly knowlegeable and perhaps ready to take on some original research.

Like trying to pull together examples of knives used by these guys.
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Scene from a 19th century Chicago slaughterhouse.


n2s
 
jill jackson said:
it's just way too high priced to invest in. You ever get to that point?
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No, I've already had my two XM-18's...and sold them right away. I'm now on my way back down to reality. It's not necessary to spend over $700 for a decent folder.
 
^^ ha, yeah. I think I just hit my point there also... I'm getting rid of a lot of my higher end productions and just sticking with cheaper stuff. Talk about a point of diminishing returns. I can appreciate the nicest knives for what they are. I love owning them and using them for a brief period of time. But if they don't grab me just right, I just can't see tying up 2/3/4/5 hundred dollars in single knives that I don't love :)

I know it's all relative, but what's Jill's "high-price?" How many customs have you been through already?
 
jill jackson said:
I've bought so many different knives over the years. Many I've kept, some I've traded away, or sold to buy something else. But here lately I just can't find much to buy! I've either got it, had it or (if I do sort of want it) it's just way too high priced to invest in. You ever get to that point?
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That's exactly where I'm at right now. Not much of what is out there right now appeals to me, and what production knives that have caught my eye are way overpriced.
 
I got to that point. My solution, start going after the ones that used to be untouchable due to their price. More for the reason of finding out why they're priced the way they are.
 
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