How many knives do you need to be considered a 'collector'?

As an edc'er and the occasional hiker/camper, 4 just covers my min requirements. Alternate 2 for edc, say a sheeple friendly Boker Subcom and my reg EDC Spyderco Delica. 2 for hiking. JD Drew 4" general purpose knife and the Becker BK7 for the larger jobs. A fisherman would have a fillet knife (assuming you eat what you catch) and a hunter might have a skinning knife, etc. Depending on your hobbies, you could easily hit 10 imo.

I'd say 15+ myself.
 
I have amassed an amalgamation, not a collection.

IMO, it isn't how many as much as whether it has a focus and organization.

Somebody might have 10 variants of Case trappers, and might be considered "a collector".
Someone like me might have 30 or 40 knives, and just be someone who has a lot of knives.
 
Only 1, if it isn't being used.
 
jbmonkey said:
Only 1, if it isn't being used.
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I was thinking of something similar but more general. If you have two more knives than you need, you're a collector, the rationale being it is reasonable to have a knife for every use and a backup in case something happens, but once you have a backup for your backup--meaning two more knives than your needs dictate--you have more than necessary, which puts you into collector territory.


Someone here once posted, "Once you have more knives than pockets, you're a collector." That's probably a good rule of thumb, too :p
 
I would say one is considered a collector when they buy knives and their first thought is something other than using it to cut something.
 
One knife that you do not plan to use, that is all that brands you a collector. Usually it does not stop at only one.
 
knarfeng said:
I have amassed an amalgamation, not a collection.

IMO, it isn't how many as much as whether it has a focus and organization.

Somebody might have 10 variants of Case trappers, and might be considered "a collector".
Someone like me might have 30 or 40 knives, and just be someone who has a lot of knives.
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I'm with Frank one this one.

It seems like a "collector" should have some sort of underpinning theme to his hoard, or at least a plan to make profit.

What I do is accumulate knives.
 
The number I don't know, but when you are ordering another one before the last one you bought arrives, you may be a collector. Three inbound at once means you have the sickness.
 
It depends on the individual...I have friends and family who are sportsmen..They fish, hunt, hike, camp and on average have seven or eight knives to cover all their needs...I know this because they like to harass me,I have 4-5 times that many knives...One of my co-workers has no outdoor hobbies,,he also has 7-8 knives and I would consider him a colector more than the others...
 
Wait, 3 inbound? Um... Ive got uh... lets see... ummmm... 10 inbound... if 3 is a sickness, Im too far gone. :D
 
Could well be just one. Depending on semantics, one could differentiate between being a collector and having a collection.
 
Unless you consider all of them to be tools, then I'd say it becomes a collection/collector situation.
 
I think I have become a collector, as soon as I started to understand the quality of the knives and started to buy some custom models.
I can not say the exact number, but as soon as you start to sell, which ones you do not seem interesting, and keep the rest, this is to be collectors, even if you only have 6/7 pieces.
 
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