I will never use this knife

knife_daddy said:
Click bait apology first followed by my intent. Do you have any knives that for whatever reason will never be used? Ergos not what you expected, changes in preferences, dislike the person who gave it to you, political stance on country of origin, whatever floats your boat? I have about 50 knives I want to start moving for various reasons. When I bought them, I was excited at first! But now…..Meh. They are gonna collect dust so I should try to get some money out of them so I can spend it on knives I will like better. My daughter tried to explain “girl math” to me lately. Not sure if this qualifies, but feel free to ask someone in your life if you are not familiar with this term.

For example. My LT Wright Frontier Valley. I was so excited to get this. Hard to find, Ohio made (Go Bucks) and an internet darling. Not my preferred steel, small in hand, paid too much to actually use, and ready to move on from it. Nothing wrong with it, but I WILL NEVER USE IT.

Do you have a knife you own and will never use?
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Well the XL Cold Steel Espada and the Large one don't get a lot of pocket time but no I don't go in for big knives so all of mine see some use .
. . . that reminds me , I need to dig out and carry my Grandpa's big Clean Cutter . I only met him once ( I could have learned so much if I had been a little older ) .
 
That was a good dilema, until I changed the angle to 22.5 per side to my Busse TGULB🤣
 

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I would turn this around and ask that if a handful of knives can comfortably meet all of your needs why would you need or want to use anything else? When my dog used to go around sniffing and marking every tree in the area he was establishing his territory. These threads make me wonder if some of you feel the same about your knives. Knives are tools and as such every craftsman tends to have a core set that they have adjusted and grown accustomed to. They may experiment with other tools but there is efficiency in growing familiar with a trusted set of tools. Most of us don’t rotate computers, cellphones or automobiles every day, why would knives be any different?

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not2sharp said:
I would turn this around and ask that if a handful of knives can comfortably meet all of your needs why would you need or want to use anything else? When my dog used to go around sniffing and marking every tree in the area he was establishing his territory. These threads make me wonder if some of you feel the same about your knives. Knives are tools and as such every craftsman tends to have a core set that they have adjusted and grown accustomed to. They may experiment with other tools but there is efficiency in growing familiar with a trusted set of tools. Most of us don’t rotate computers, cellphones or automobiles every day, why would knives be any different?

N2s
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I tend to find a knife that meets my wants and needs, test it out for a bit and if I’m happy with it after a “trial run” it becomes the go to daily knife. It will remain my daily until it gets broken lost or no longer fits my needs. This will often last for years at a time. I’ve had the same ZT folder in my pocket for going on 3 years now. My benchmade before that for 5 and so on. I don’t do the rotation thing. Knives that I bought that didn’t fit my needs or I didn’t vibe with get sold or gifted.

I do have a handful with sentimental value but even those get put to use either stashed in vehicles or toolboxes.
 
I have 3-4 that are gifts from family members and gifts from BF members. But I don’t keep anything that doesn’t get carried. I use to worry about hurting the value of a given knife. Now i do my best to carry everything.
 
Monofletch said:
I have 3-4 that are gifts from family members and gifts from BF members. But I don’t keep anything that doesn’t get carried. I use to worry about hurting the value of a given knife. Now i do my best to carry everything.
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When you have vintage or antique knives the value may go way further than its cutting ability. There is always the hope that the item may eventually encourage a younger person to research its origins and in the process to learn something new about their heritage and culture. These things are important personal artifacts and can often provide value without being consumed.

N2s
 
I was pretty sure my Anso Toko would be a safe queen but this knife is just way too good to just sit on. Life is too short for safe queens, use your knives.
 
Many years ago I bought a quite expensive Chris Reeve Sebenza with box elder inlays and what was called ribbon Damascus that had a protective coating on the blade, which I found out that it would tarnish/patina and lose the coating if I were to cut into an apple.
It was a $700 knife that I had scrimped and saved to buy but after I found out about the limitations I ended up selling it the very week it arrived.

I’ve not bought a knife since that was as expensive as that.

Now some knives that I have owned that arrived so sharp that I just didn’t want to use because it would lose the exceptional edge and feared that I would never be able to recreate that level of sharpness again, but now years later I have increased my sharpening skills so that isn’t a problem anymore.

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ferider said:
Yes. 1) a front flipper. 2) a custom fixed blade with overheated edge, not to be named. 3) another fixed blade that was supposed to be Cruwear but obviously wasn't.

And that's it - I think of myself as pretty adaptable when it comes to knives. :)
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I have purchased 3 front flippers along the way because i really liked the knife design and i wanted to check it out, but yeah...i really hate front flippers it seems! The 2 have been sold and the 3rd is listed for sale! But hey...maybe the 4th time is the charm?? 🥹
 
The more I narrow down the knives I want to use for purpose the most, the more likely it is that some knives slip deeper into rotation and might only ever get pulled out to have a look at. You'll also buy a knife that should get some heavy use, but then you buy another or several anothers that are better in enough ways that the other one won't get used if the time between purchases is too short.

My Kershaw Factory Special Series Blur is a good and well designed knife, but might not ever see use because the other knives bought around the same time were better and I'm not a huge fan of assisted opening that isn't an automatic. At the time, I bought it because I didn't have any knife blades made from CPM M4 steel. The Grohmann No.1 60th Anniversary Model, with all its engraving, will likely never see use, because it's a commemorative piece and I have two other Grohmann No. 1s to work with. I can't imagine getting a whole lot of use out of my Joker Chamois (13" bayonet style huntsman coup de grace knife). The Case xx Medium Stockman White Horses design is a keep sake and not likely to see a lot of hard use anytime soon. I have a lot of old timey knives that would get put to work long before it was. I'm not sure if I'll ever find a use for my Cold Steel Magnum Tanto XII that was pretty obviously purchased under the influence of my teenage fever brain being in dominance at the time.

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