How many knives do you have?

What's your knife count

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T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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Just curious what the average collection totals up to, my collection has been in play for well over 25 years.

In that time I've managed to collect over 300+ knives, mostly older slipjoints, but included are a nice collection of tactical knives(about 40), and customs(about 10), I have no real collection, more of an accumulation.

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So what kind of/ how big of a collection are you sportin?
 
I have 26 folding knives. Some are antique Spanish folders inherited from my grandfather, his brother and his father. I also have a folding bowie made in Germany that belonged to my great-grandfather and a mix of modern folders (Victorinox, a couple of Spydercos, Opinels, some Bökers, Bucks, etc.).
I have 11 hunting/outdoors fixed blades. From small skinners to big boar hunting knives.
I have 6 bayonets, two of them are really special because I dug them up myself at my uncle´s parents house in Pilsen (Czeck Republic). I only kept one and gave the other to my brother.
Around 6 "criollo" knives round out my collection.
Last year I did some cleaning up, and threw away all the crappy knives (not many, just a couple luckily).

The "theme" of my collection is something like "knives used by Francisco", I wasn't thinking about starting a collection I just kept buying more knives for my outdoors activities. Now I want to focus a bit more on general outdoor fixed blades (specially with stag handles, I'm a sucker for nice stag), I might get a couple more folders, just because I can't help myself.
I also want to have an independant traditional knife collection from my country, right now I only have half a dozen (all but one made by my dad), very similar ones.
My brother is starting to acumulate knives, too. I guess it runs in the blood!
Our most precious piece is a small bowie knife that has been the "first knife" in my family for three generations. It's my brother's now, because the youngest has to keep it until a new member of the family is born. When that happens he has to fix it and pass it on. Fixing it before there is a new member of the family is forbidden, it gives you time to remember all the god awful things you did to the poor blade. It was my grandad's first blade and it will be my son's first blade.
I've been collecting since I was a young boy, but only recently (I'm 22 now) I have achieved the financial independance to get my own knives and have added a lot of pieces in the last couple of years.
Sorry for the long post. :)
 
I have what I like to call mini collections, about 20 SAK's, 15 or so CRKT's, a dozen or so pen knives, and so on.

I need to focus and start a legitimate collection, like maybe just Trappers, or just trapperes with MOP scales. :cool:
 
Brands? AG Russell, Case, Schrade, Buck, Cold Steel, Spyderco, Benchmade, CRKT, Camillus, SOG, Kershaw, Victorinox, ... the list goes on and on.
 
35 and one more in the mail (doesn't include the various V'nox Classics lying around. About $6000 so far. In little over a year of "serious" collecting. All but 6 of these are autos or balisongs. Regular knives are just so...boring. :p
 
At the moment I have accumulated 115 knives. That includes my Victorinox Classic.
 
haven't counted for some time....but somewhere in the 3rd. catagory. Collected more in just the last year...than all combined in last decade.
My earliest that I still have is my Boy Scout knife from 41 years ago. My latest several are still enroute.
From this point...I forsee reducing my collection for higher quality, yet hanging onto those knives that have significant memories.
The one's that mean most to me, were ones passed down..or gifts to me.
 
"You cannot vote in this poll."

My vote won't be counted in the graphical representation above, but it's "150-300". 170-ish to be more precise. And it's a very broad range of knife brands and types, hunters, unusual mechanisms, vintage, bayonets, kuhkris, pocketknives...

Good poll. I've wondered about this for some time.
-Bob
 
I can't vote either, but my last count is around 160. I've actually sold a few lately trying consolidate my collection. My interest is also swinging to guns :rolleyes:
 
These aren't up to date, but here are some pics of my 'accumulation', fixed blades and folders. Need to take a bayonet photo.

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Note the Velveeta box of junkers in the top picture. Doesn't everyone have one of these?
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Obviously I need to spend more time at the Knife Photography forum... :(
-Bob
 
I've got right about 50, including SAKs (about 5) and multitools (another 5), but not kitchen stuff. That's down from a peak of about 80 early last year and it still seems like too many, but the ones I have left I either wouldn't get much for if I tried to sell them, or else I like them too much to get rid of. I think I'll stay at around 50 for the forseeable future.
 
A total of ...............8!!

Custom folders:
-Hinderer Firetac Extreme w/spearpoint
-RJ Martin Devastator
-Jeff Hall Phalanx

Production:
-Camillus CQB1
-Case large gunstock
-Case Trapper
-Case Seahorse Whittler
-BM 425

.....and 'DAT's ALL :eek: :D :D

Been doing some major paring down to get to a point where the knives I have are going to be used and/or carried. Guess I'm in one of those "less is better" phases!!
 
Never learned to count that high, but it is easily over 1000.
 
I've got around 40-50--a mix of folders and fixed, with a few straight razors, machetes, axes and multitools thrown in.

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I have about 35 knives....
Can anyone define "EDC" as it is used on this forum? Maybe "Emergency Defense Cutlery"
 
I'm in the 150+ range but have been getting ready to whittle it down soon. Mostly Spyders, then Benchmades, and a mix of Buck, Al Mar, MicroTech, Kershaw, Gerber, Boker, Fallkniven, BladeTech, and unbranded stuff.
 
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