How many USER'S in your collection ..

[A.P.F.]

If they are worth buying, they are worth using.

 

[Barman1]

If they are worth buying, they are worth using.

Agreed if there is opportunity to hold them to see if they're worthy.
There is one knife shop around here with an inventory of 3 FRN Spydercos and I own them already.
Hmmm, business opportunity in my future maybe??

 

[Rare blade]

I bought a bunch when i first started "collecting" knives and have since paired down to 4 or 5 that I carry the most.

 

[matthew krissak]

Safe queen....WTF is a safe queen? I buy my knives for a purpose, thats to cut things.

 

[Greyhulk]

I guess if you buy to many all at the same time, like I did. I never got a chance to try them all out .
But what worries me is if I use 1 of them once, I'll lose at least 30% of the value..
Why use it until I need to and if I never use it and need to sell it at least it's bnib..
My mistake was buying to many to soon..

 

[smokinbasser]

Yall need a 99% for folks that carry a modern one but collects older patterns.

 

[Kampman]

Knives are made to use, just staring at them is a shame for the maker and the knife

 

[bh49]

Less than 20%
I have about 80 spydies. Four of them are used on the kitchen. I have 9 folders in use, which is absolutely sufficient for me. 2013 Forum Native is carried and used daily. Persian and Caly3.5 take turns in FRP. Kopa Coco in a watch pocket. Jester is on key chain and getting used once in a while. Caly, as well as DIW & Ti Fluted Natives see occasional use. FRN Native is a car resident.

Bob Loveless hated people who collected his knives and didn't use them

Probably Bob Loveless would hate them even more, if they would stop buying his knives.

 

[762cal]

i use all of my knives but one, the hand forged katana which is hangin on the wall stand

 

[shunsui]

My EDC is an Endura3, but I like to try out all my knives for work around the house. Haven't gotten around to some of the mules yet, but I'll get there.

 

[gruntmedik]

To me, not using a knife kills a little bit of its soul. I mostly have Traditional knives, but I have 20 or so Spyderco's. I have knives that I would be upset, or disappointed if I lost or tore up, but in the end they are just things. Things meant to be used.
All my knives get used.

 

[Whetstone39]

I buy every knife with the intention of using it, and have used all of them for something. But i end up liking some more than others (or very rarely not liking some of them at all), and i only consistently carry those i really like. So i have in effect a collection of those i like and carry and use a lot, and those i am not as crazy about that never get used. Should probably sell off the non-users but haven't done it yet.

 

[C_Becker]

All of them get used, some more, some less. That mostly depends on how they fit my hands and how good the blade shape/grind works for me.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

Most of my daily users are "modern" (1980s > ) folders and fixed blades. However, my primary EDC fixed blade is a 1960s Kabar 1232.

My knives fall into 3 categories -
Users
Users-to-be (NIB but only because I haven't lost or worn out a user and I have multiple spares of the ones I REALLY like to use)
Collectors.

Even 95% of my collectors are used because I collect primarily knives that are pre-1980. And since they're used, I would have no problems using most of them. NOT the screw-pommel Camillus Mk2, screw-pommel Camillus Pilot's Knife and MSI Mk2, though. Probably be looked at kinda funny if I went to use 27 inch 1860s-1870s bayonets or the 16 inch 1906-1919 bayonets.

 

[JPalm]

I like to use most every knife I buy. Then if I don't like to use one of them it will be sold. One of the few knife I ever had that I didn't use was a Scrapyard Regulator and I just sold it last week. Buy them and use them see how they feel in hand that's what knives are for. Besides knife makers gonna keep on making knives long after we are all dead.

 

[HwangJino]

Why I keep my collection small.

about 5 or 6 folders and maybe 4 fixed, all users and polished.

 

[Chris Pierce]

I voted 100%. While it is true that I have no Safe Queens, it is not true that 100% of my knives are users. It's probably more like 80% are users. As I have a few knives that are purely sentimental, my father left them to me when he died so I don't use them. But only look at them and remember him, and occasionally carry one, but don't want to risk losing or damaging them.

 

[ArchAngel]

All of the folders that I possess get carried and used. Some more than others, as my collection has grown rather large some of the older ones sit while their younger brothers get the loving now.
As for fixed blades, some that I have bought are either so beautiful or purpose driven that they haven't been used. Most have been tested and used and sharpened when I am out and about to test their mettle. I find that sharpening a new knife that I have put through it's paces makes it feel more mine. reworking little things to make it feel perfect, are for me the binding moment.

 

[Chris Pierce]

Won't own a knife I won't use.
Won't own a gun I won't shoot.
Won't one a pipe I won't smoke.
Won't own a watch I won't wear.

What about heirlooms? I have a 10 gauge shotgun with a Damascus barrel that came from my great great grand father. Would you "not own" something like that if you had the opportunity? Or maybe it ceases to be a gun at this point, and is simply a piece of history?

 

[RABCarver]

I voted 75%, only because I couldn't bear to break or lose the heirlooms that were left to me by my father.