how much is your knife collection worth?

I don't ask how much you paid for your house don't ask how much I paid for my knives ;) just playing but seriously if my wife ever found out....


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I sold off most of my stuff, as it just sat in a box. I still have some nice knives, but not much.
Perhaps the answer to your question depends on whether a person buys knives that are twenty bucks apiece, or $300 each.
 
Only about $350, I am still young so affording knives is not easy for me haha. I have a ZT, Ontario, CRKT, and a Buck. Plus a few other random cheap stuff.
 
$45

Don't you dare ask how much I've spent making them. :D
 
No idea and don't really care to even make the effort to put a number on it. Since I don't sell knives, the value means nothing other than self satisfaction. I have considerable value (at least to me) tied up in firearms and that's enough for me putting numbers on things.
 
Not really sure that I want to know the value.

Of course, I would need to know how many knives I own before I could place a value on the lot.

If I don't know how many I own, I can't have a response for my wife when she ask. It is safer that way.:D
 
It is difficult to answer accurately, I think around 7000/8000$.. In fact sometimes the value is different from what we actually paid it, especially in collectible knives
 
sabre cat said:
Not really sure that I want to know the value.

Of course, I would need to know how many knives I own before I could place a value on the lot.

If I don't know how many I own, I can't have a response for my wife when she ask. It is safer that way.:D
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I bought quite a few knives back around 2011. Many were knives I expected to increase in value. Most were also knives I liked. Since then I have bought more, tho cheaper knives I liked. Going by purchase price, I must have around 6000 worth of knives. Going by current value, probably under 4 now. I have sold some knives lately and made money on a couple. Have also renewed my knife addiction and bought some Rats, spyders, and Benchmades.
Will be selling more and hope to make a profit on a few.
Oh, I'm in Alaska. Come on up and try to steal them!!!
 
Honestly, I'm not comfortable disclosing such. The folders I rotate over a 3-5 week span costed more than the two cars I own combined though.
 
How much I've spent since I started collecting/accumulating in 1975? More than my parents paid for the first AND second houses. :D But the first one ONLY cost $13,950 and the second only $30K.

I have a whole bunch that I bought/acquired/received as gifts between 1975 and 1987 that I neglected to write the amount I paid for them or how much was paid for them by other folks. For some of the notable ones, I remember the circumstances though. I have a couple of hundred that fellow Navy people who knew I was into certain blades would find them on their travels, buy them and bring them back and say "Give me $XX", where XX might be anywhere from $0 to $20.

I have an 1891 Argentinian bayonet with scabbard/matching serial numbers on which the Argentinian crest was NOT removed before government disposal that is worth (to the right buyer) $300+, but I only paid $25 for it. That's how much I paid the inebriated sailor who paid $15 for in a San Diego pawn shop back in 1981. He had a death grip on it and told the Marines at the gate trying to take it from him that he would only give it to "Mr. Z on the Connie." So they delivered both the bayonet and the sailor to my ship.

He was one of many sailors who would scout pawn shops and garage sales for me when whatever ship I was on happened to be in port. They would buy what they knew I was looking for (Kabars, Westerns, military knives, bayonets and swords) and bring them back knowing I would pay them $5 more than whatever they paid for them. I paid an extra $5 on that one because I had never seen one before and it was in really good shape. I got a bunch of good blades :D and a bunch of junk as well. :barf: It was a crap shoot what they would bring back.

As I told the Marine SP who asked why I did it - "If they are out looking for knives, they're not getting as drunk as they would be if they weren't trying to make extra money buying me blades."

"Sir, that's sneaky."

"Yep, that's the plan."

:D:D

I've spent a whole lot more than I admit to other folks, but only because I can do without the "comments from the peanut gallery".
 
wow, I am surprised at some of the dollar amounts. I was curious to gauge how much people put into this hobby, and it is apparently much more than I had originally anticipated. Also, I never considered my knives to be something of great value such that others may covet.
 
whatever my paid prices were, I think if I sell my entire collection now, I am going to lose at least 30% of what I paid. And I am talking about knives that have never been carried and only rarely used. It would be foolish to think buying and selling knives can make money or break even. Luckily that is never my purpose.

I look at this way. At least after enjoying these knives, they still have value. It is not like wine or steak.
 
highestpoint said:
I ain't givin' that lochness monster no gd tree fiddy
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They havin' a sale on monster munchies or somethin'?

I'd estimate that I have 15 knives that range in cost between a small sebenza and a Buck 110. I'd say that that range is pretty well represented, too - not particularly one-sided. But I make a point of not counting them.
 
I'd say about 2k. I'm super content with my collection tho. (Besides that Large Micarta Inlayed Inkosi) Hey that's only two months rent if you think about it....
 
Ballpark estimate based on approximate number of knives and about what my average cost per knife is, and I'd say somewhere around $6K.
 
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