How things change

Gurdygurds said:
I keep realizing how little knife I actually need. Just spent ten days out in the middle of nowhere on a Lake in Ontario fishing and could've gotten by with a Victorinox classic. In reality I find myself needing a small sharp blade for random daily things that pop up. Don't need special steel, don't need a serrated blade, don't need at least a 3 inch blade etc. I keep buying knives to check them out and end up selling them or giving them away once the novelty wears off. My always knife is a victorinox classic. Everything else has come and gone, some more than once. The Kabar Dozier folding hunter and the mini folding hunter are the two knives I may just hold on to. Simple, utilitarian and cheap.
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I hear ya!!!

For years now, I've been wondering why I messed with all those other knives when a simple little 10 dollar keychain SAK does most of what I need a knife for. Plus it snips, files, screws/unscrews. I have it on my car keys so I can't leave home without it. No matter what is in my pocket, my classic is always on my keyring.
 
Sabrecat,

Agree with both points. Gone to the drop point myself.

I am definitely more critical of QC which I think stems from simply paying more.
 
Size and cost mostly. 3.25" used to be the minimum blade length before I'd consider it with 3.5" being ideal. Now the majority is made up of 2-3" blades. I still carry a 3.5" about 50% of the time, but that's a big difference from 2 years ago. As far as cost goes, $200 used to be a lot for me to spend, but now half of my collection cost $350-450.
Basically less quantity, more quality, and average size has been reduced.
 
When I started I thought aus8 was the beezneez . Now I won't even consider it for buttering my toast. For years I only bought fixed blades and the last 6 months or so I've grabbed maybe ten or twelve folders (almost all spyderco ) . Man things have changed !
 
For me the main change has been that I no longer carry just a single knife anymore. I almost always carry at least two, and sometimes up to four knives on my person at a time. Each knife serves a different function such as being people-friendly, a dedicated food knife, dedicated dirty-work knife, or a multi-tool (always some Victorinox). It's not that I need or even have a regular daily use for all of them; I just have a lot of knives and I like to carry them!
 
riversidedep said:
For me the main change has been that I no longer carry just a single knife anymore. I almost always carry at least two, and sometimes up to four knives on my person at a time. Each knife serves a different function such as being people-friendly, a dedicated food knife, dedicated dirty-work knife, or a multi-tool (always some Victorinox). It's not that I need or even have a regular daily use for all of them; I just have a lot of knives and I like to carry them!
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That's me too. I could get by with one folder but I enjoy them all.
 
I expanded my collection of different patterns. All I had in the past was Stockmans and Barlows. Now I have Jacks, Cigars, Peanuts and all sort of folders.
 
I found a small 2 blade slip joint when I was 4 and other than when I have to take a commercial flight I have had a pocket knife in my pocket virtually every day since. I've run the gamut. Barlows and kabars mostly early on in my life. Only went to single blade lock backs maybe 15 years ago. Now I love the Benchmade axis locks & ZT frame locks. Just recently acquired my first Sebenza. But if it gets right down to it I'm sure I could survive with a medium size kabar or boker stockman which is what I carried for a very long time. Fix blades are well represented in my collection but I just don't have a pressing need as a practical EDC knife. And yes, I will keep buying more and different knives in the future.
 
What's changed?

I've gone from using this...

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To using this...

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Oh and we can start a fire with one of these... ;)

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Seriously though, the biggest changes have been in materials, (super steels and the trend towards more modern materials like ti and carbon fiber)
 
T. Erdelyi said:
What's changed?

I've gone from using this...

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To using this...

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Oh and we can start a fire with one of these... ;)

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Seriously though, the biggest changes have been in materials, (super steels and the trend towards more modern materials like ti and carbon fiber)
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From the looks of that first one, you use to ride dinosaurs and wear rock underwear.

That second blade reminds me of the old Pumas. What is that?

The Bic lighter shot is cool. I can't stop looking at it
 
Even tough I mostly avoid knives now that go past 150.00, I used to think 70.00 was my ceiling in years past.
 
I used to think 50 dollars was a lot to spend on a knife. Now, it isn't unusual for me to spend a hundred dollars or more. I have always liked tactical knives and traditional folders, but now I am willing to drop extra cash to get quality.
 
GB940Rookie said:
From the looks of that first one, you use to ride dinosaurs and wear rock underwear.

That second blade reminds me of the old Pumas. What is that?

The Bic lighter shot is cool. I can't stop looking at it
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I don't know as they were both stock shots and not mine but the internet's ;)
 
I've had one thing change massively in my tastes, and when I first got into knives I was I into obnoxiously big fixed blades (5" was tiny to me). I eventually shifted to folders, but kept the big (~4") until I handled a Spyderco Dragonfly. From then I found my sweet spot in 3 finger grip up to 3.5". Any bigger is just unwieldy to me.
 
I understand more what makes a knife a good knife, and more importantly a knife I will like beyond intrinsic feel.

Some of the first companies I knew about in the modern folder world were Sog, Spyderco, Kershaw, Gerber, Microtech, Coldsteel and Buck. I know way more companies now. More importantly I know what interests me.
 
I went from owning crkt's low end bucks and the likes to owning spydercos zt's a lionsteel etc... As far as blade lenght goes... Well that just varies day to day. Ill carry anything from 1 to 4 inches of blade.
 
blades&wrenches said:
Size and cost mostly. 3.25" used to be the minimum blade length before I'd consider it with 3.5" being ideal. Now the majority is made up of 2-3" blades. I still carry a 3.5" about 50% of the time, but that's a big difference from 2 years ago. As far as cost goes, $200 used to be a lot for me to spend, but now half of my collection cost $350-450.
Basically less quantity, more quality, and average size has been reduced.
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I've tried smaller stuff but 3" is about as small as I like. I carried a SAK Cadet as an EDC for a month and can tell you that I don't want anything smaller than it's 2 1/2 inch blade. Never ever. Size does matter.
 
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