Have you ever stopped liking knives?

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Have you ever lost enthusiasm in liking knives and gotten back into them? Here's my story.

I was only about 11 years old. I had a Buck Bantam and a Gerber Paraframe. I thought they were awesome, but in reality, they suck, though they're good beaters. Anyways, that was all I had. I got a Kershaw Piston and a Leek, then couldn't afford anything else. I constantly looked at Nutnfancy's channel, and was jealous of all the knives he had. I ended up stopping my browsing altogether as the hobby was just too expensive at the time. A few years later and here I am. I picked up two Kershaw Blurs, a Spyderco PM2, and here's my hobby again. I asked myself," Why did I put this down?"

Let's hear your story.
 
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I've never stopped liking knives, but I did sell off 90% of my collection a while back. I was buying pretty expensive knives every few weeks and never carrying or using them. I probably spent $3000-$4000 in a few months. It was getting to be a problem, so I sold most of them off. Now, I limit my purchases and only own 8 knives.
 
I should've been more careful in my wording. I couldn't afford the knives, so I stopped looking at them. They completely slipped my mind for a long while while I had other hobbies until I saw a Para 2 in stock one day. It was all downhill after that.
 
I fell out of the hobby for about three years when work just consumed my life. What little free time I had was dedicated to the essentials (seeing friends, family, etc). The less time I spent on the forums, the less I fussed over what to carry for the day if anything at all, and my interest waned significantly. My Sebenza saw decent pocket time but I completely neglected the rest of my collection. A good 20 plus knives that were handled maybe once or twice during that whole period.

Since then I have much more free time and the interest is back in full force. Three years was enough to see a lot of changes with new makers, models, trends, etc in the industry.
 
It goes in spurts I think. When the fish are biting and its like national geographic out there, I am into fishing gear. When camping, hiking, etc.. I am into different gear. Knives always play a role in my life and I love them, but I definitely research them more at some times than others. Still, I consider myself an addict. Congrats on the PM2! It has achieved cult-like status for a reason. Just make sure you have money in the bank before looking at the carbon fiber scaled s90v version ;)
 
I dropped the hobby for about a month or two when I was in my "archery phase".

I was too busy researching what arrows to buy!!! :eek: If you've ever done it, you'll know what I mean. There are WAY too many variables, and the archery community isn't quite as helpful to newcomers as the people here on BF....
So the distraction of a new hobby and the cost of all those arrows made knives take a back seat for a while.


But I'm back to knives now.
I still like archery, but it's just not the same. I keep coming back to my spydies, zt's and BM's:thumbup:
 
I go in phases. For several months in a row I'll be really into knives (e.g. sharpening, comparing, reviewing, etc.) then I'll get bored because everything starts looking the same to me.

Fast forward a few weeks, and I come right on back.

I seem to shift my focus each time, and right now I'm on a Japanese kitchen knife kick after being into high end production knives for a few years.
 
Never really stopped liking knives but I've been known to takes months off from my knife obsession and focus on other obsessions like watches, hehe.
 
I was raised a guy that needed to be close with a buck, pragmatic, practical, and not a glutton on any issue. When I realized that I had many, many more knives than I could wear out, much less find pocket time for, I quit buying.

I still love to see what is out there and enjoy the chit chat here on BF. But with about 100 knives of which 10 I routinely carry, I just decided I was spending too much time, effort and dedication to a hobby I couldn't justify. To me a knife is a tool and is made to be used. Leaving them at home in a box made me sick to think I had bought something I would probably never use, so I stopped buying. I might at a knife or two a year, but also have started giving away knives, so the collection isn't getting any larger.

Robert
 
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Lost enthusiasm, but never all interest.
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Yep. Most of my interests are a bit cyclical with extreme points of activity & inactivity. Sometimes I think it causes concern for my wife as to whether or not I'll do the same with her but she should know better...I'm sticking with her. The knives, flashlights, watches, etc...those can vary. :)
 
There are two things for which I've never lost desire. The oldest is for knives.
 
I had a pretty serious collection of spydercos and benchmade a when I got my first job and wasn't paying any bills. $250 or $300 a week was normal. Then I got a motorcycle and still had to finish high school so knives got put on the back burner. I made probably twice my money back selling discontinued, rare knives here. I had probably 5 or 6 left. A little over 2 years later I'm comfortable again and have begun buying moderately priced knives that I can use, sparingly of course.
 
Knives are like women. Both can get very expensive, both can be dolled up, but knives don't get jealous when I get multiple in my pants :foot:
 
Careful, Dave. Being reckless with both knives and women can cause a world o' hurt inside your pants.
 
I got into knives by borrowing my uncle's knives when I was a young teen. Then I sort of forgot about then until a couple of years after high school when I bought my first Spyderco. You can guess what happened afterwards. Now I'm into Benchmade, Microtech, Spyderco, ZT etc.
 
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