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Would anybody pay this much for a knife? I mean a Rockstead, Shirogorov, Todd Begg etc. is one thing but this seems a little ridiculous. At some point it's just a jewelry showpiece! Idk what do you think
 
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Falls into the same category as other items that are less about their utility than scarcity or "fanciness." Think uber-luxury watches. Is a Richard Mille watch worth $825K?
 
I can appreciate the work that goes into something like this, but it's not something I'd ever buy.
I'm just not one to pay for unnecessary frills in a knife, if it cost substantially more without making the knife cut / function better it's generally not for me.
 
"Blade is hand-crafted from forged stainless Damascus steel by Chad Nichols"

Pft, they don't even include the damascus specs in the description. Nothing like demanding you go digging for information on your $75,000 dollar knife
 
I'd buy it! ...If I had a few billion burning a hole in my pocket!:p
Then I'd get tired of it and donate it to a charity.:cool:
 
You don't believe in buying jewelry or you don't believe in buying expensive things?
 
Would I pay that much? If I wanted it and had the disposable cash, sure. Right now, no, both because I don't have that kind of disposable money but mainly because I don't want that knife. :oops:
 
If you are buying this for the knife, you're nuts.

If you are buying this for the art, then maybe it's a worthwhile investment. All depends on the artist and those who collect and appreciate this kind of stuff, and you're nuts too. As such, the fact that it's a knife is secondary. Hey recently a Picasso sold for $45 million. According to CNN bidding on this was fierce. There's a lot of rich nuts out there. Here's a screen grab...that's $45 million folks.

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Mako109 said:
If you are buying this for the knife, you're nuts.

If you are buying this for the art, then maybe it's a worthwhile investment. All depends on the artist and those who collect and appreciate this kind of stuff, and you're nuts too. As such, the fact that it's a knife is secondary. Hey recently a Picasso sold for $45 million. According to CNN bidding on this was fierce. There's a lot of rich nuts out there. Here's a screen grab...that's $45 million folks.
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They are buying it for resale/investment as well as status symbol, not because it's appealing to the eye. Art has been consistently going up. Same as buying classic cars, you don't even have to go that far back. They buy rare cars, put them in climate controlled garages, let them sit, sell them 5 years later for profit. That knife isn't an investment.
 
b00n said:
That knife isn't an investment.
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Perhaps. But ever hear of an artist name VanGough? He never sold a painting in his life time. The art institutes of the time called his work as "childish", "cartoonish", "undisclipined", and critics literally made fun of his work.

Now I'm not saying the knife in question is or is not "art" or a worthwhile investment, just that there are people out there with the money and nuts enough to buy it.
 
Mako109 said:
Perhaps. But ever hear of an artist name VanGough? He never sold a painting in his life time. The art institutes of the time called his work as "childish", "cartoonish", "undisclipined", and critics literally made fun of his work.

Now I'm not saying the knife in question is or is not "art" or a worthwhile investment, just that there are people out there with the money and nuts enough to buy it.
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I'm gonna refrain from saying something like "I haven't heard of VanGough, but I have heard of Van Gogh" :p , just teasing. I get what you're saying, who knows if artsy/custom knives ever become a worthwhile investment, it might be just too niche. I can certainly see a fair number of knives holding their value or even going incrementally up, take the 0392 Series from ZT for example, you don't see them for retail anymore and have gone up, customs seem to either slightly go up or sell for at least what you bought them for but as you said, you need the right (knife) nut to pay that price. Although I guess that's true with everything just that the pool of enthusiasts is smaller when it comes to high money knives compared to Art, Cars and even Watches.
 
It will probably end up selling. But more importantly, this is one of those things that you do to show off that you can do it. That knife isn't just a show piece for the person that buys it, it's also a show piece for the brand.

Out of curiosity I looked up if people were talking about it, and sure enough it's in Forbes, The Robb Report, etc.... That's good publicity. And even if someone doesn't buy your $75,000 model, you could hook them on your others.
 
If I had $75k to burn I’m pretty sure I’d knock out my student loans and then just stock up on all the Sebenza and Hinderer variants I currently deny myself.

And I’d definitely own every color of Vic Alox Cadet ever produced, that’s for damn sure.

But yeah, pass on the William Henry. Easy call there.
 
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