How Many Knives Do You Own? Best Experience?

I've bought and sold probably 30 knives. I guess I started low and worked my way up to more quality blades with time. I maybe have 7 or 8 fixed blades and about a dozen folders...mostly titanium framelocks. For fixed blades, I've really like Busse, Swamp Rat, and ESEE. For folding knives, Spyderco ParaMilitary 2, Benchmade Griptilian, Zero Tolerance, and Strider SnG have been some of my favorite. Spyderco Para2 for me has a useful blade shape and profile. Strider SnG is very ergonomic for me and tough...plus, I just dig the way it looks. I think Zero Tolerance builds a great knife for the money...tough as they get, great warranty, and usually half the price of comparable knives.
 
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I have lots of knives never really counted them all but my best experience is with my two most current knives, my Leatherman Charge Ti and my Victorinox SAK one handed trekker.
 
I've got about 30 knives, most of them in the $40-$100 range. I've noticed that there's a lot of guys that have bought a lot of knives, only to sell them off when they get older and only keep a couple they really really trust and use
 
As a kid/teenager I had nearly 100, all bud-k and SMKW works specials, around 20 I sold gave away or through away all of them. Now I ha e under 10 but they are growing and they are all quality like benchmade, ZT, esee, and I have a blackjack halo attack 14 on the mail. Getting more into collecting them again now because I have all the guns I want and the price of guns is stupid now.
 
i am still on quantity but i pick my knives carefully. i am still in search of what kind of folder would suit me well. before i threw good cash for quality customs on that. as for fixed blade, i already own myself my style of blade.
 
AntiqueBlades said:
I am a noob at knives and have a mere 11 knives. I am sure everyone on this site has twice as many as me.
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Twice that is just about what I have at 64 YO after a lifetime of buying, selling, and trading knives. I used to be up around 50 or 60, but I've found that I really only want knives that I'll actually carry and use, and 20 to 22 is about all I can realistically do that with. Used to be mostly folders, but I've switched to carrying a small FB for EDC now and the ratio is changing some.

Nowadays, I don't add anything to the group unless something goes to make room for it. That's slowed my acquisitions somewhat, but it's also forced me to be sure I really want the one I'm thinking abut adding.
 
I had more but sold off those I did not carry or want. Am now down to 10, but am shooting for 12 total, all high quality knives I want to carry and fondle.
 
zImsKee said:
Quality over Quantity, the sooner you realize this the better.
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This is some of the best advice out there...I think though it would be a tie between kershaw and spyderco, I think they offer the best quality for the best price. Also they have some of the best customer service.

-niner
 
I usually have about 5 higher end knives not including multi tools. Currently I have 13 but most of those will go soon. My knives need to fill a useful role and I'm constantly weighing them against each other for their/my intended purpose. I consider myself more of an aficionado than a collector. In my experience, Chris Reeve Knives offers the best product and the best customer service.
 
zImsKee said:
Quality over Quantity, the sooner you realize this the better.
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^ This is good advice.
I'm relatively new to this too. I have 13 knives, 12 of them folders. 1 thing I have learned so far - quality is worth saving longer for.
Best experience? 3 things, all just my own opinion.
1 - First time I opened my new Barrage 581. Still brings a smile every time.
2 - The growing realization of why the Paramilitary 2 is so popular, that occurred more and more as i carried and used it.
3 - Being able to really sharpen them, even though I spent a lot on a Wicked Edge to enable me to do so.
 
i only buy what i'm going to use. i own four. leatherman, buck501, case peanut, and buck vantage select.
i don't plan on buying anything soon but my next knife will be a fixed blade.
 
I've swapped, examined, borrowed, and handled a lot more knives than I have actually owned. Not sure on the precise number of knives that I have owned (probably hovers around 30ish) but I currently own 15 knives. I use maybe eight of them regularly, and only two or three of them [CRK Sebenza 21, BM 940, BM 710] almost ever day.
 
zImsKee said:
Quality over Quantity, the sooner you realize this the better.
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Definitely. I had this mentality that if I owned more, it was better. I had like 20 cheap Kershaws, a bunch of CRKTs, a few cheap Spydercos, and a few Cold Steels. I got rid of all of these and bought better knives. It was so dumb to buy so many cheap $20 knives because I thought I couldn't afford a good $100 Spyderco/Benchmade knife.

I just got my first Strider, and I'm now considering selling off my Benchmades to buy more midtechs... but I can't bring myself to do it.

I think I have around 30 or so knives, and 3 of my favorites are out for warranty repair right now; my Strider SNG, Spyderco Southard, and my Microtech Select Fire.
 
I have around 20. Never sold or traded any of them. I have given a few away. I try to use all of them, but of course have a few favorites. I have taken some that I don't use and put them in cars, or tool boxes for a just in case to justify keeping them. My Sage 3 has seen the most dirty outdoor work. Obviously when you have more than one or two it is hard to carry all of them a lot, but I really enjoy buying unique knives whether it be a less common steel, unique shape, or unusual lock.
 
I have 53 knives and love them all lol.

I still purchase production knives that I like, but tend to buy more Customs than anything else.

Best experience would probably when I purchased my first Sebenza, had wanted one for awhile and was elated when I finally picked one up.

I have a few knives on order and constantly love adding more to my collection.

ALL of my knives get carried and used, from a $30 Tenacious to a $600 Mikkel Willumsen.

I guess you can say.......I LOVE KNIVES!

:D

Knife2gunfight if you don't mind me asking, what was wrong with your SnG and Southard???
 
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I have alot of knives, but over half of them were crap knives that were gifted to me.
I have..... probably 20 or 30 of them worth talking about, most of which being old slip-joints.
I like having crappy knives sitting around, because sometimes, even your user would get wrecked.
But hey, "All skis are rock skis".

My best experience would probably be my Victorinox Pioneer.
$45 got me 7 months of hard, dependable use.
 
No idea how many, and I don't want to know. If I did take an inventory of what I actually own, id have to admit that I have a problem...;)

While I have a cabinet and several drawers full of knives, I have to keep most of mine in 28/30 gallon storage bins.
 
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