How large is your collection?

Hundreds, I really need to take an inventory. I collect productions and customs, ALOT of hunters and bowies. A few I have overlapping. I also make my own(dont know if I should count them) and my uncle makes them and has given me many. I have been buying them since I was a kid. I am limiting buying now to productions that I REALLY want and customs on order. For folders I am all over the place but got on a real big titanium frame lock kick for a while and bought alot of sebbies and the like. Great stuff.
 
I have maybe 10 Spydies, a dozen or so fixed blades in the Ranger/BK-9 genre, and maybe 40 entry level knives like Case sodbusters, Buck 110s, Leeks etc. Probably a dozen SAKs and a dozen multitools. A couple of nice GL Drew fixed blades. No spendy customs, though thats where I'm headed. I liked that KR Johnson black sodbuster that just sold.

And a healthy arsenal of lights. :)
 
Rather meager collection right at the moment..but true to the name its definitely gonna be expanding

-Kershaw Leek
-CRKT M21
-Spyderco Waved Delica 4
-Spyderco Sage
-Spyderco Spyderfly w/ Ti-coat
-Ka-Bar Kukri
-Cold Steel Sure Flight Thrower (Love these throwers)
-Cold Steel Pro Flight Thrower (These bigger ones are even better..too bad my supplier doesn't carry them anymore)

and a few other random no name ones
 
This is a great subject. Basically, I just like knives. My collection is pretty much what you'd find in your top drawer or grandpa's desk. I have a bunch of new crap, but a CRKT M-16 just doesn't compare to an Uncle Henry stockman or a Camillus congress.
 
Wandering off-topic...
You guys that don't know the answer to the question might consider starting some sort of record book or catalog system. Minimally where/when you bought each knife with a photo and value. Not only will it be valuable in case of an insurance claim, but your descendants will want to know which knives are family heirlooms and which ones are from last week's flea market. :)
 
i have only about 20 or so most of them are knives that i bought when they went on clearance at work, most recent was the Gerber Prodigy. most of them are folders but i have my fair share of fixed ones.
 
I am not quite sure of the number, I best do a count, around 100 I would say. I have 11 Busses, 2 swamp rats, 5 Bark Rivers, 2 Chris Reeve, 1 Falkniven 2 fehrmans, 1 Tops, 2 Puma, 3 Buck, 4SAK's, 1 Cold steel, 1 Benchmade, 3 Schrade, with the rest bing older knives, easternknives and a few sords and bayonets.
 
Since I also have probably more than 300 knives, I guess I should get rid of some before people think I'm getting out of control.
 
To date,I have 21.Ranging from $15-$250 As far as folders go anyway

1.Boker subcom
2.CRKT VooDoo
3.ALMar SERE 2K
4.Spyderco Native
4.Spyderco D'Allara DP
5.Kershaw JYDII
6.Automat Kalashnikov Auto w/desert tan finish
7.Spyderco Chinook III
8.Spyderco Pacific Salt PE
9.SOG Vulcan
10.Kershaw Green Bump
11.ZeroTolerance0200PE
12.Spyderco Kris
13.Benchmade 710D2
14.Kershaw S30V/G10 Leek
15.Benchmade 635 mini skirmish
16.Browning Icestorm Burgundy handle,made by Mcusta
17.Bench made 930 Kulinga
18.SOG Trident
19.Spydero Jess Horn Burgundy handle w/ZDP-189 laminate
20.SOG Architech w/jigged bone handles (highest priced to date)
21.Last but not least,being a smoker,I always carry a firebyrd lighter(lowest priced & probably most used)

...I could be forgetting a few
 
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TheCollector said:
Rather meager collection right at the moment..but true to the name its definitely gonna be expanding

-Kershaw Leek
-CRKT M21
-Spyderco Waved Delica 4
-Spyderco Sage
-Spyderco Spyderfly w/ Ti-coat
-Ka-Bar Kukri
-Cold Steel Sure Flight Thrower (Love these throwers)
-Cold Steel Pro Flight Thrower (These bigger ones are even better..too bad my supplier doesn't carry them anymore)

and a few other random no name ones
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Don't ever trivialize your collection.After all we all have start somewhere:)
 
James Todd said:
Since this photo was taken, I have added another 30 to 40 to the display. Getting kinda crowded. Guess I should give some more away.:rolleyes:
James
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I'd be more than happy to take some off your hands:thumbup::D
 
I have probably 20-30 knives, knives that interest me are usually good solid (mostly traditional) working knives. The Ka-Bar is about as tactical/military as I get :D

Peter
 
1.cold steel riflemans hawk.
2.cold steel SRK
3.cold steel master hunter
4.cold steel kukri
5.ka-bar usmc
6.ka-bar usmc(old)
7.ka-bar D2 extreme
8.ka-bar warthog
9.ka-bar impact fighter
10.ka-barka-bar impact warthog
11.ka-bar impact spear point.
12.ka-bar short tanto
13.fallkniven F1
14.fallkniven S1
15.buck diamondback(short)
16.buck 889 (tan)
17.buck 889 (green)
18.ontario SP-8
19.old timer skinner
20.united short sword
21.united spec-ops
22.spyderco native 1
23.spyderco native 3
24.edge mark hunter
25.western hunter
26.tiger throwing knife
27.wenger backpacker
28.wenger backpacker
29.byrd pelican
30.mastercraft folding utility knife
31.boker ak-74
32.sturdi folding hunter
33.stable pochet knife(grampys)
34.tiny folder(grammys)
35.kukri
37.ak-47 bayonet
38.ak-74 bayonet
39.fairbian-sykes combat knife
40.tops tom brown tracker
41.red scorpion six predator
42.hand made tracker
43.leatherman kick multi-tool
44.kershaw storm1
45.kershaw speed bump
46.busse hell razor
47.master folding straight razor
48.coast multi-knife
49.china multi-tool
50.china police knife
51.china woodgrain folder
52.china stainless folder
53.china recurve
54.china christmas knife
55.china black knife
56.fundy national park knife
57.english pen knife
58.jaguar tallon
59.jaguar spear point
60.china woodgrain multi-tool
61.pakistani folding bowie
62.opinel#8
63.Camillus USMC Marine combat knife
64.rigid stainless pocket knife
65.Spanish bayonet
66.Coldsteel Vietnam tomahawk
67.Mouse hawk
68.Spyderco Pride
69.trackers knife
70.Cold steel trail hawk.
71.Kershaw Ace
72.Mora Bushcraft knife
73.Kershaw Cyclone.
74.Paratroopers knife
75.Ontario 81" machete
76.Coldsteel Frontier Hawk
77.Schrade apex
78.schrade X-timer
79.Gerber short axe
80.Gerger axe handle knife
81.Ontario RAT-5
82.Cold Steel Norse hawk
83.WW2 Kukri
84.Leatherman Surge multi-tool
85. schrade multi-tool
86.Kershaw junk Yard Dog
87.Fallkniven A1
88.Micro-knife
89.Buck outfitter
90.Buck 119
 
Bob W said:
Wandering off-topic...
You guys that don't know the answer to the question might consider starting some sort of record book or catalog system. Minimally where/when you bought each knife with a photo and value. Not only will it be valuable in case of an insurance claim, but your descendants will want to know which knives are family heirlooms and which ones are from last week's flea market. :)
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That's a good idea and I kind of made my own form. Right now, it just has my firearms...nice little Excel spread sheet that I've imbedded photo's in to include accessories and estimated prices. I'll start doing the same with my high-end knives pretty soon.

ROCK6
 
How large is my collection? Well, if we're talking navel lint, it's immense... rivals my wife's dryer lint collection. Now, knives... I have a few - probably too many for my 'uses' - but I like them. I need to say goodbye to some... but if I won't have them, who would?

Yeah, a new name for my collection - 'Stainz's Wayward Knife Rescue Emporium and Respite'...

The worst thing about 'collecting' is transference. Why, for what I spent on Bark River knives (I now have six!) in the last six months, I could have bought that new S&W PC-shop revolver I wanted... or taken my bride to the Coast for a vacation - last year. Keeping things in current perspective, I might be able to afford a full gas tank in my Jeep next week!

Stainz
 
The spreadsheet says 50 members in the family now with the FG CPMD2 Para-Millie that arrived Wednesday. I stick to medium-to-high end production folders. Don't have any interest in customs or even seriously expensive handmade knives. Strider and CRK are about as high as I'm willing to go. I limit my acquisitions to knives that I will carry and use, so that means a 2.75" - 4" blade length with VG10, 154CM, S30V, BG42, or D2 blade steel. No slippies, no multi-blade knives, all PE blades.

Half of the current 50 are Spydercos, six are Sebenzas, two are Striders, and the rest are scattered among Al Mar, Benchmade, Buck, Cold Steel, Gerber, and Sog. All get carried when new so we can bond, even if they won't ever make my regular EDC rotation.

Bob W made a good point about pix and records. I am in the process of rebuilding the "mug shots" of my knives. All the pix I had went south in a HD crash last October along with my original knife database. I decided to do a spreadsheet this time and just got that finished a couple of months ago. I'm still adding pix.
 
I think the most I had hovered around 30 at one time, but I'm now down to a dozen. Until something comes along that really strikes me, I'll probably stay around this number. Of this dozen, about half are used regularly.
 
Small, very small!:D Recently I've had to sale off some of my knives to generate some cash for a "situation" that has just arisen:(:grumpy:. What I have been left with though, are all edc's. I got away from getting knives for the sake of getting knives about a year or so ago. I concentrated on just knives I would edc and have tried to go for quality over quanity. I have also been finding myself going for doubles on certain knives, and those were the ones I sold. Now I have a crop of only 10 knives, but 10 very good knives! They are;

-Kershaw Tyrade
-Strider AR
-Strider AR Ghost
-BM Rukus 610
-BM Rukus 610BK
-ZT0200
-ZT0500
-Boker Wharcom
The last two are ordered but have not arrived yet
-Case Barlow
-Case Razor

Doing this from memory as I'm not at home at the moment, and I think that is all.
 
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