Have you ever stopped liking knives?

But, back to the original topic....

I have lots of "hobbies". At one time or another I've had periods of waning interest in all of them. I've never lost my interest in knives but I've gone through periods in which I stopped keeping up with the new stuff coming available.
 
i never stopped liking knives

got my first swiss army knife at 5, first 3" switchblade at 6, first good fixed blade at 8, first balisong at 9...

but i did stop buying knives for some years - and only bought one every 3-4 years or so

but even during these time i have constantly been checking out what is on the market and what i would like

and then last year i joined BF and i started to buy again - my "collection" goal is to get very few - but rare and special models i always wanted...

i think i only got about 8-10 knives at the moment
 
yeah all the time. When some new releases come out that excite me I get into the hobby again. But like right now there hasnt been a whole lot for me to be excited about so I have been pursuing other hobbies. But someone somewhere will make the knife that gets me going again. I however have stopped collecting high cost production and custom knives so things in the affordable range with my requirements are few and far between. But it means I save money and only get knives I really like.
 
I started "collecting anything nice" for a while. It was getting out of hand, so I began my program of giving them away to "primarily" male relatives who could use a good pocket-knife. The "girls" generally received SAKs. I have enjoyed it tremendously; have reconnected with relatives whom I haven't seen in twenty yrs. Lots of deployed military and good friends also have received nice blades.
I have a few knives remaining; will hold on to my favorites, at least for a while.
 
My love and obsession with knives has decreased a lot over the years.

When I was young, I was a hung ho collector of all things with blades. I even got into Randall's for a while, as well as other customs. I had a pretty bg collection. Then things changed. I got married, then had three kids to raise, and a job. I still loved knives, and would never leave the house without one or two in my pocket. But as I aged, I came to realize that there are other things in life beside the inanimate objects we obsess over. I tried to get all three of my kids to be knife people, and I was successful in 2 of the three cases and then it's limited.

Now as a retired social security old fart, I actually need a knife more than ever with fishing and hiking and camping whenever the better half and I feel like it, instead of having to wait for a weekend where we both have off and the kids are all over sleep overs at someone else's house. But my love of knives still never came back to the one the top place it was when I was young. I have a small collection of small traditional pocket knives that I use in rotation, but now I just accumulate what I can actually use. No big bowies or military type stuff. I still like to look, but I keep it in mind I'm a retired old guy, and my knife needs are quite different from when I was a young army guy on the move. I also keep my knife collection dan to a size that I can hold them all in one hand. I did a giant downsize many years ago, and sold off the customs and other stuff, and had a month long trip around the country with the better half with the money. Camped out in all the big national parks, had a ball we'll remember till our dying day.

But I still like to look, just for yuks.
 
Nope. This has been a life long obsession started by my Grandfather with the gift of a Cub Scout knife.
I go through phases where I don't buy any knives for a while and others where I buy quite a few knives.
I'm in a more selective phase right now... I look at tons of knives, and buy only a very few.
 
I never stopped liking, using, or carrying knives, but I went through a phase where I sold off a lot of blades when I was getting my basic user guns dialed. I was going to a lot of shooting schools, reloading a lot, and shooting matches. I was on the gun boards a lot, but I wasn't on Bladeforums for months at a time.

Now that I've moved overseas for work, all the guns are in storage and I have reverted to focusing more on knives again.
 
No, i havent stopped liking knives. I only have a few but the more i see and handle, the more I like them more.
 
I think like any hobby or passion, it goes in phases.

For me, way back I went thru buying as many "cool" looking cheap knives as my meager pay would allow. As well, it was the same for firearms.

Then, when I started having to carry/use knives and firearms for real, my hobby changed. Now it wasn't how many, what they cost, etc., it was how they performed. That came exceedingly more important. Especially when I was in the position to carry what I chose.

Unfortunately, that led to me seeing knives, firearms, gear, etc. more as just tools. I needed to care for them, just as my carpenter grandfather had his. Yet that was the extent.

I left the work I was doing, and picked up firearms as a hobby again. Knives still didn't gain the "hobby" level. That is, until about two years ago, my young daughter got me a pocket knife for Father's Day. Not an expensive one mind you. Just a blister packed, okay manufacturer knife.

That got me to pull out all the few "real working" knives I had. That led to "hey, lets see what's out there now." Now, I am buying, modifying, and even making my own.

Oh, but the one I carry almost daily is the one my daughter got me. It does what I need it to, and I believe in not carrying different things unless needed. So thank you my little girl.
 
I haven't been into "good" knives all that long, but like many others here I find that my hobbies tend to go in cycles. I am interested in and collect several different things, and there's not always money for everything I want all at once, but I try to stay connected to the things I like through communities like this, magazines, etc even if I'm not actively adding to collections. Usually even when a certain hobby is in a lull, I still at least check the Classifieds sections of the forums because you never know when that deal you can't turn down will pop up and draw you back in.
 
No, I've never stopped liking knives.

However, for a while I had other hobbies that took precedence and knives too a back seat.
 
Sorta. Still carried a pocket knife, but quit caring about buying, collecting, tinkering, and even.... Bladeforums!
Bi Polar symptoms had, and still do a bit, made me stop caring about my hobbies and passions. The STUFF that made life interesting. Mostly shelved the knives and just quit caring. For 3 years.
Forced myself back here recently to try and respark the fire. So far so good. More old hobbies to go, or new ones to discover.
Getting back to me, whoever that now is, is quite a bit of work, but worth it. Lost too many years...
 
I guess I've lost a little interest in blades recently sold almost all my autos just kept the one that didn't seem worth the hassle of shipping. And my ken onion worksharp only used twice now sits in its box in my closet
Don't post much here anymore went from hours daily to a few minutes a day if that reading here.
With my wife sick they don't seem all that important anymore my guns are the same I've sold most of my collection
I have 7 left out of 30 something. When things are better I'll probably start buying again. I guess its a on and off hobby.:-):)
 
My interests have changed from having a few that I used frequently to a lot more that I use infrequently. I have always liked knives and have carried a pocket knife since I was in my early elementary school years. In grade school, I saw little need for my knives, but it was common to have a pocket knife after you matured a bit physically.
 
In love with knives since I was about 8. Many hobbies have come and go along with tens of thousands of $$$$, but knives have been a relative "constant" in my life. As I pass 40 years old, still going strong.
 
Always been obsessed with steel. So was my grandfather and my father.

We would all three, when I was a boy, sit around on the porch on Sunday afternoons and sharpen our knives. They would both sample mine to make sure it would shave hair.

It may be a genetic thing ... I dunno.

I still just sit around sharpening steel ... it's therapy. But I know if you sharpen enough steel ... you learn the difference between good and bad steel. Sharpening is the tell-all.

I've still got my Grandfather's knives, save one Case trapper I lost on a jump years ago. My Dad, now in his late 70s, has passed-down quite a few of his ... to go with the good ones I've acquired. I'm 55 ... my 15 yr old Son is still learning the finer points of putting a proper edge on a blade, but he's getting there.
 
Heck I think everyone has had times in their life where their passions took a back seat for a bit!! I am a master pistolsmith and I quit doing it for about a year I got so fed up with people and guns it made me sick literally! I have been into knives very avidly since I was a kid I can thank my dad for that!! He always told me there is only one thing better than a great knife and thats a great pistol!! I had a period of all loss in any kind of interest in anything while I stopped smithing man that was a dark dark time in my life. I made it through thanks to my family!! My wife and parents gave me a DDC SMF for Christmas and it seemed to be the kick in the pants I needed to come back and jump in the fire again lol.
 
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