How expensive is too expensive to carry??

Thanks for all the great responses so far, they really help. I always wondered if there were hundreds of high dollar knives stuffed in underwear drawers all over the world or if people really broke those babies out. Time for some serious shopping.;)
 
I have knives I paid what I consider a large amount for. ($300 + or - range) I carry and use them as hard as I need to. I'm not gentle on my knives, but I don't abuse them either. The cost doesn't make much difference.

I have done things with more expensive knives I wouldn't do with some cheaper ones. The more expensive ones will usually stand up to more punishment than the cheap ones!

Eric - I just have to say, that Biohazard is one BAD ASS MUTHA!!!

DAMN! If I had one, you couldn't get it out of my pocket with a crowbar! :D
 
Heck life is too short to deprive yourself of using great knives (even if they costs a bomb). I may get run down by an 18-wheeler tomorrow but my favourite will be in my pocket as well ;)

Originally posted by thevon
I carry every knife I buy, including my MT Nemmie. I know the knife will outlast me, and someone else will enjoy it at my expense, so I'm going to make sure that I enjoy all of my knives while I have them.
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I have no “too expensive” limitation regarding the knives I carry/use because this would be in my sight a reduction of the pleasure to own a decent knife.
 
I have no "stinkin" expensive knives, but I have some nice ones. I would draw the line between collector's knives (something being kept for either retaining it's value or sentimental purposes) and user's knives. Once I make the determination to use it, I don't think there is an upper limit for me.
 
stjames;

Do you even HAVE a knife thats under $500??? I saw your collection of Sebenzas on the forums and it looks hard pressed to find one worth much less then $500.00....very impressive collecion. I just got my 1st. Sebenza this week. A large Classic MM with polished blade...I be luuuvvvenn it!:rolleyes: :cool:
 
My dress knife, that I love dearly and happily carry whenever I have occasion, would take about $1200 and 3-4 years to replace. If I'm going to gut a fish, though, I use an appropriate tool, like my very excellent filet knife from Custom Cutlery - about $65. Overkill does exist.
 
My dress knife is #2 Millenum Apogee, Damascus Blade, Illusion opening. About $1400 and 6 months wait. I carry it every chance I get.
 
WOW!! The prices listed here are ,pardon me, insane. Never in my wildest dreams would I be able
to AFFORD a knife that cost so much let alone use one!!!!! But then again this thread isn't about
economy..........
 
When I get my Black Wallnut small Sebi with a Spiral Damascus blade I will carry that for light work and look after it! I will also have the BG-42 blade for camping etc!:cool:

I will also carry my numbered Mnandi as my new EDC knife!

Otherwise the LCC D/A is at the momnent my most expensive EDC!
 
I carry my Gerber L.S.T. Microlight EVERYDAY! I love my Microlight.
It's not the most expensive knife in my collection, damn close though.
I feel safe and secure with my Microlight in my pocket.
 
For me it's the function of the knife, not the cost. Every knife I've bought to date has been purchased with the idea of carrying it. I'd guess that 80% of my knives are in the $500 plus range, and they are all used pretty regularly. I think I've desensitized myself to this issue because of my weakness for watches, where considerably more money is involved for something you might wear every day.
 
I also draw a distinction between Cost and Useability. I do not think expense should define 'useability'.

I collect small to medium fixed blade knives and have more than I could ever use. On the other hand, I have purchased some 'expensive' folding knives specifically to carry and use. My daily carry is either (or both) a PJ Tomes single blade lockback in 420V with pearl scales, or a Tomes two-bladed double lockback with 52100 blades and stag scales. They were each +/- $600.

I think this 'price' estimate for using will vary from person to person, depending on their relative amount of 'spendable' cash. But I think it is a mistake to think that beyond a certain price a knife can not be used.

I still hang on to the idea that a knife should be used, and don't own any knives that I would be completely unwilling to carry and use. But there are some that will probably never get used, or sold. Some of my knives are more art, or examples of extraordinary hand craftsmanship than useable tools. Some of those knives were not terribly expensive.

I carried a gerber LST for years while I bought a number of fixed blades costing several hundred dollars each. Shamed by my brother by admitting this, I purchased, carried, and used production pieces in the $100 to $150 range. But now all I am really interested in buying, carrying, and using are custom knives.

I know a couple of collectors of Expensive knives who admit to never actually carrying anything but inexpensive production knives. I can not understand that. Carrying and using a high quality knife should provide happiness that is well worth the cost and potential risk. Once the money is gone, I have the knife. And whether I use it or not has less to do with its cost, and more to do with why I bought the knife in the first place.

Para
 
I used to live by the thought that customs were not meant for EDC, and I stuck to that till recently. I recently purchased this from Bladeart.com. It was $425.00

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I carry it everywhere now. It was made to be used. I can see how it could be thought as a collectors knife, but Allen designed this knife to be used. If I mess it up I will send it back to Allen to be tweaked. It's a custom so the skies the limit. I can redesign it if I want. New handles Etc.. Just buy one and enjoy it!
 
Well USAFSP and Paracelsus! Your points are as true as I can possibly imagine! I also saw the top end folders and customs as collector pieces to be locked away with a lot of lube and Marine Sentry Tuf Cloth, to be seen on special days and by fellow KnifeKnuts! I was wrong, way wrong, sure I don't often use my better knives to scrape, pry or give to sheeple, but I now use my 2nd gen LCC D/A as a real knife and not a baby! The otherday I cut a toothpaste tube in half to get the last few drops! It was one of those hard plastic square shaped ones and I needed to get to work, so I pulled out my Spyderco Military and pushed it tip first into the thick plastic and rocked it back and fourth to cut that sucker! And cut it did! No damage to the tip, just very slight dulling of the first half of the blade edge, it no longer shaves and struggles through paper a bit. This is hardly surprising. 6 months ago I would have never done this! I know it is a $150 knife and not some super custom, but my $250 LCC D/A gets some use as well! When I get my Mnandi and my Small wood Damascus Sebi, I will use them as well! Perhaps not for that task, but I now see that I will never sell any of my blades and will likely never get what I paid for them anyway! What the hell, its only money and the makers can usually fix them up to 99% new for a fair price!

I say what the hell, just use it! You don't get pockets in a coffin! I for one know if I was to use all my knives as rotational EDC in a hard manner for every possible cutting job I would be dead before 1/4 of them wore out. Might as well get some fun before I die. My luck would have some idiot sheeple throwing my prized possesions into the bonnet of a car and opening paint cans:barf: :barf: :barf: ...
 
mines my carson.
all day every day.
in the neighborhood of 400.

i would rather have the knife than the dinero.
 
I like to go by one rule...will my carrying this knife be worth say $1.00 a day to me....

Let's just say....I carried my MOST expensive piece for 5 years!!! You do the math...


-Steve in CT
 
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