How often do you get a new knife?

dangreco said:
Me? Maybe 1 every 2 months if I'm lucky. Being in high school and the limited budget and all, and my folks just don't understand my love for knives and don't give me knives for birthdays or Christmas and such.
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same here!

i would say i get one knife every few months. and for me, they seem to get more expensive every time.
 
I average about one per month. I am just now getting into fixed blades. The SOG Super Bowie is next on my list.
 
I try my best to limit myself to about 1 a month. It just doesn't work that way. Got a delica in the mail this afternoon, then found a nice case trapper at an antique mall that I just couldn't pass up. It's a sickness!
 
At the height of my collecting, about one a month.

But after realizing how ridiculous it is to have so many knives, I have really tried to slow myself down to about 2-4 knives a year.

This way I feel less guilty about it, and still get some beautiful knives!
 
Too Often, this months saldo: ZT 0500 MUDD and Scrapyard Dumpester Mutt as 2nd hand... and perhaps Victorinox Pioneer red alox.
 
Tough call. I don't really time it. When I see something I must have I get it. Sometimes I'll order a few and they'll all show up the same day and I won't buy any for a while because I'm trying the ones out that I just got. Right now other than a couple custom orders I don't really have anything on the horizon except the Salt-1 I'm about to get for my trip to Hawaii coming up next month.
 
chipm said:
I've been running about one a week since finding this forum. If you guys would write only about knives you didn't like I'd have more money...
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Trust me, there are PLENTY of "I Hate this Knife", or, "This Brand Sucks", etc, etc, etc......

But, whatever you do, NEVER talk bad about a Spyderco, or like a Gerber. Oh, and Cold Steel is only for mall ninjas (I still am not exactly sure where mall ninjas do their ninja-ing. If anyone has seen them, let me know so I can avoid them so they don't kill me with their Cold Steel knives of death.....)


Have fun here!!
 
On average I would say less than 1 a month. I think I have bought 6 since new years but that is rare. I go through spells of turning my attention to flashlights or firearms but there is always something to be had.
 
I have been waiting paitiently (and hating it) for the new Microtech socoms to come out... I haven't bought a new folder for myself since early last year... sigh... although i did just get a RAT Hest recently! (only thing that kept me from going insane!)
 
I just started getting into slip joint folders. Two weeks ago I had only a Norwegian linesman's knife, now I have several. I spend all of my free time in antique stores, surplus shops, and flea markets looking for stockmen and trappers. If I find a clean laguiole, I am doomed.
 
I do a lot more trading then buying usually. But in the last 6 weeks I have acquired
-Byrd CaraCara rescue
-TI SG2 JYDII
-s60v Blur
-Cold Steel Pocket Bushman
-BlackJack Becker Campanion
-ESEE Izula
-Ontario RTAKII
-Scrap Yard Regulator

And now I'm thinking I need a Case trapper in CV yellow handle of course :o
 
armstrong*skier said:
same here!

i would say i get one knife every few months. and for me, they seem to get more expensive every time.
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Dude, get a job. Two if you can. I'm in high school, I buy 3-4 knives a month, and they're not that cheap. I try to limit it though.
 
Too many sometimes. When I have some control, I probably get 2 a month, but mostly on trades, so the collection doesn't change in numbers. I feel lately like I have too many. Time to whittle down the collection again.
 
When I first started 'accumulating' (there was no specific pattern or theme) I had to liken my purchasing to an addiction because it gave me a 'high'. Then, over a, roughly, three year period I began to transition out of some of what I had collected. I realized that I had fallen prey to some of the pitfalls of collecting. My number ONE question, now, before purchasing is 'DO I REALLY LIKE THIS KNIFE? Or, am I purchasing it for myriad other reasons, most of which are not good. The novelty wears off of EVERYTHING in time, and knives are no exception. There are, I dare say, few among us who have never said "Why did I buy that ?". So, these days I buy fewer knives, but better and more purposeful knives. My last piece was purchased about a month ago, it was a small Sebenza. I bought it to replace one I used in a trade. I knew as I was making the trade that I would have to replace it, not because it was a CR, but because I genuinely liked that style of knife. The latest issue of Blade magazine (I think it is Blade?) discusses in one of it's features, avoiding the pitfalls of collecting. I did'nt necessarily agree with EVERYTHING that was said, but, I had to concur with most of the points being made. I don't know if there are actually 'mistakes' to avoid while collecting knives, unless you habitually pay too much, because, IMO, the whole process evolves as you go. You eventually figure out what you like, and, generally, can sell off what you no longer care for as long as you have purchased decent quality cutlery. So, as for my collecting, it has slowed to fewer but better pieces.
 
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