How many knives ?

I hate this question, lol...
My standard answer is "I don't count them", but I'm among like-minded individuals so I'll guesstimate that between fixed and folders - I have approximately 150. That doesn't include machetes, swords, or axes/tomahawks. Combined, that group consists of probably another 50 pieces. Some are users, some are retired, some are here simply because I like them.

The oldest ones I can easily date are the Randalls - I've had those for about 15 yrs; but there are some that I've had longer.
 
I been collecting (hording) for around 30 years. I mainly collect Kershaw's but have knives from AG Russell to ZT, folders, fixed & auto's. I quit counting after 300.
Just a few of my horde.
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I think I have around 20 or so, mostly folders. I will have to round them up for a proper census.. Currently I have only 3 or so in the edc rotation , about 6 of them are collection queens and the rest lie in the junk drawer in the kitchen.
 
I honestly don't know. Probably less than 100. Maybe not. I've been buying and using knives for so many years, it's difficult to keep up with them all. They're sorta everywhere around here.
 
I'm newer to the knife scene than many on here. I have 12 - all production, and a custom by J Neilson on order that will bring my collection to 13.
 
I have a total of 4, the 5th will be given away in 17 days to my best man when I get married. I try to keep it manageable as they all get carried and used.

Strider SNG
Chris Reeves Umnumzaan Tanto
Chris Reeves Sebenza 25 (giving this piece to the best man)
Hinderer XM-18 3.5" Slicer
Hinderer XM-18 3.5" Wharncilffe
 
I've been collecting about two years now. I'm up to about 70.

Started with a Benchmade H&K Nitrous Blitz, got some Cold Steel fixed blades (SRK, Tanto), then SOG fixed blades (Seal Team Elite, Tsunami) and a couple of SOG folders, then started into Spydercos (about 12) Emersons (4) and then CRK; 25, 21 lg micarta LH, 21 lg micarta RH Insingo, LH new pivot Umnumzaan, RH old pivot no LBS Umnumzaan, RH new pivot Umnumzaan, a Wilson Combat RH Startac Umnumzaan and finally a micarta 25. All the CRKs bought in a 5-month period.

Then there's a Wilson Combat Eagle (my EDC), a Lionsteel M7 fixed blade, an ESEE 4 and lastly a Lionsteel PM 1 that arrived Tuesday. Also there are some Gerbers and CRKTs from my earliest collecting days.

Oh, and some ZTs; 560, 560BW, a 566 and a 0770cf.

And repurchases of my high-school knife, two Schrade Old Timer 125OT "Mustangs."

If I had a dollar for every time I said "this is my LAST knife" I'd probably buy a knife with the money!
 
I have a lot if you asked my knife, and not many at all compared to others here, haha.

9 good brand folders, plus some 'junk'.
 
VultureJ said:
I been collecting (hording) for around 30 years. I mainly collect Kershaw's but have knives from AG Russell to ZT, folders, fixed & auto's. I quit counting after 300.
Just a few of my horde.
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Somebodies a Kershawaholic. Get help! :D

I have between 40-60 i believe. There are more than a few that are out of sight out of mind so don't have an exact count but between those #'s. No more than 60 though. I'm hoping somebody will show their collection that's in the thousands.
 
Probably 150ish if I count everything that's not a kitchen knife. I have a few novelty ones that are cool but absolute crap, a few that I bought or was given in my early teens, and the inevitable assortment of hardware store knives. Others are spares of discontinued favorites (mostly Kershaws) or knives I've bought as gifts for family members, for donation to my wife's Army Reserve unit's holiday party auction or as raffle prizes for my sportsmen's club's fundraisers. Also, while I don't have any kids (yet) I do have a godson who someday will receive at least a couple of very nice knives.

Be that as it may, I've really slowed down on my purchases. Since getting a handful of nice USA Kershaws, ZTs and Benchmades earlier in the year, I've become far more picky. If I was forced to trim the "herd" down to half its current size, it wouldn't be terribly painful, and down to a third would be possible without depriving myself of true favorites. Beyond that . . . yikes.
 
Don't know exact, but around 50 production knives , and 67 of my own. So over 100.
 
You know in all the years here and all the time I've answered this question the answers haven't changed, 300+. Every year I get more and every year I give away, trade or sell but I'm stuck in that 300+ range. It was easier to notice a change in the early years when I had 20 or 30 in the collection, now the knives change but the #s pretty much stay the same. ;)
 
I'd guess around 50 knives other than kitchen knives. I really don't keep track of such things. The numbers don't make me feel good or bad (aka don't care). I buy what interests me and my interests have changed or evolved over the years. At one time, if I had two or three knives total, I felt I had plenty of knives. That has changed.
 
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