I'm Done with this BS!!!!!

Gator97 said:
They work(ed) well for their time. Or put it another way, it is a shame we don't have alloys or blade materials outperforming 5x or 10x times those from 50-100year back.
Sometimes when we do, then there is no demand, because lots of users have the same approach, if I can make a cut with whatever good old steel, why pay more for latest super steel. I agree, very often, super steels are more hype than actual performance, but also very often users/makers put 50 inclusive angle on the latest and greatest knife and then conclude it's just a hype...
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the steels are there ... but kinda labeled industrial steels .. not the cutlery steels that knife makers seem confined to using .
Grab a all hard hss power hacksaw blade .. make it into something knifeish looking and find what it *wont* do .... caution , as a knife its addictive . BTDT , am seriously addicted myself
 
Wow...a really good thread. I have been trying to change my own point of view of wants vs. needs in all of my purchases, and eliminating emotional attachments to material objects that I have never used, but couldn't bring myself to get rid of. You can't take it with you, and what is left of our "prized Possesions" when were gone, will mostly just be thrown out and sold for cheap anyway. I'm just trying to look at the big picture at this middle age stage of my life.
 
My hubby has 3 folder and 1 fixed blade, he loves knives but can't justify owning more, so he gives knives as gifts. Keeps him happy. Me, I don't need anymore knives but I'll sure take another knife as a gift. To each his own.
 
akula83 said:
Wow...a really good thread. I have been trying to change my own point of view of wants vs. needs in all of my purchases, and eliminating emotional attachments to material objects that I have never used, but couldn't bring myself to get rid of. You can't take it with you, and what is left of our "prized Possesions" when were gone, will mostly just be thrown out and sold for cheap anyway. I'm just trying to look at the big picture at this middle age stage of my life.
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If you can not take it with you - why should you care what happens with it after you are gone? Stop worrying. Not about the time you will be presumably 6 feet underground. Or you will never see the big picture: your emotional attachments may be the only thing that counts after all. :D
 
There have been a lot of threads like this recently and lots of threads about why so many knives for sale lately. All of this deep introspective soul searching about needs and wants, etc. Is just a by product of the fear that is running rampant through our society about the economy, yes threads like this have always been around but not like the volume I've been seeing here lately.

I've got 13 knives (I've got lots of gas station stuff, promo and charity event give away knives but I don't count those) and only 5 different models. 2 models are duplicates, 2 models are quadruplicates and 1 model is solo. I've got $1,600.00 in the 13, so say I sell em except like 4 of em and get 900 to 1,000 bucks for em. What am I going to with that, take a vacation no, pay off my house no, really boost my retirement account not even close need a whole lot more than that, in truth the money is not really going to make a big enough difference in anything to warrant selling them. Besides ABSOLUTE need has nothing to do with it, I like knives and when i can't do other things like actually go hunting and or fishing, riding 4 wheelers, etc., I can go out into the back yard and use my knives and sit around the fire pit. They bring me enjoyment and pleasure and after all that is part of the reason I practice the hobby if you want to call it that.

Knives are something more to me it taps something much deeper kinda like touching wild, what I call the feeling when you walk up to a buck you just shot right at dark and your alone deep in the swamp in knee deep water and you can here the wood ducks landing around you in the slough and the yotes running on a ridge off in the distance and you put your hands on those antlers for the first time and watch your breath in the fading light. That touches something deep in my soul and stirs me in a very profound way. A well made quality knife in my pocket hits me almost the same way, not quite but real dang close.

Which leads me to need, I need those feelings of touching wild if you will, I need some escape and enjoyment while the world seemingly crashes down around me and us for that matter, so if it only cost my $1,600.00 then I consider I got off cheap. Essentially I'm saying I need my knives and am looking to acquire more when I can afford it. One last thing all this talk of going minimalist shedding all of this worldly stuff, say The Balloon really does go up and the economy crashed, we get a solar flare or a state or terrorist sponsored EMP device, etc. or any combination thereof. Knife companies go under and with what little if any disposable income I or you have left can not be spend on things like knives, or there is no electric power for 2 or 3 years. Your gonna NEED those knives, or your neighbors will, etc. Maybe you can use some of your knife stash to barter with your neighbors for things like chickens, goats, seeds, lumber, etc. Stop assuming things are always going to be like they are today are were yesterday, or yesteryear.

Knives are small, useful tools which take up little space but provide big dividends in both usefulness and enjoyment for us here, its not like a car collection that requires space, lots of disposable income, massive amounts of materials like metal, cars or big no? Its also not collecting art, or other material possessions that have no real usefulness other than to be aesthetically pleasing, knives are tools which can and should be used. In fact knives are probably one of mans first tools, most invaluable tools and is one tool that is required to both merely survive and also to thrive. so shed all your stuff if you want but I'm keeping a few extras of important things tools, i.e. knives, in closing I'd like to share two sayings with ya'll.

2 is 1, 1 is none

and

Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it

Life is too short, ya'll enjoy what you have unless you've got thousands in knives that little bit of money from a macro perspective isn't really going to matter much. So keep em, use em, enjoy them that is why you bought them to begin with. Remember you can't predict the future so no telling how many of what your going to NEED at some point going forward.
 
I don't really have many knives myself, but I do have a reasonable coverage of the different types: some choppers (1 machete, 1 proper Khukuri, 1 Khukri machete and 1 big knife), some normal sized users, some folders, some SAKs, some Opinels & some Moras. My total spend has been pretty small compared to many members on this site (my most expensive knife was $95 + shipping).
I haven't bought much this year - some SAKs on special and a BK-2 ($56) and that's about it. I don't intend to buy much more either, my needs are fairly well met by my current knives and I really don't want to spend a heap of money on knives just for the sake of collecting them.

The idea that someone could get by just fine with a Machete & a slip joint makes perfect sense to me, I am certain that most people on this site are buying knives because of 'wants' rather than 'needs', no one 'needs' a knife that costs hundreds but plenty of members here own several knives that cost more than $200 - clearly they buy them because they want to and there is nothing wrong with that. If I had 1 Mora + 1 Machete + 1 SAK then what couldn't I do? What more would I NEED?
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
L6, for instance, is sometimes used in saw mill blades.
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Im working on getting a couple saw mill blades :) I like the crazy insane sharp edge you get on that stuff . I kinda wish I had a better shop to turn out knives in .. this is the heart of my shop at the moment
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a little primitive , but Im kinda over buying knives and into steels at the moment .

I have a primitive R+D section for seeing what holds up better than what else

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same addiction , different angle , I think I have had my gutsfull of over hyped " good enough" steels in knives being hocked as the ultimate , a good few years ago . Starting when I made my first knife and it did what knives I had bought previously could not do .
 
Free Knives are everywhere. You just have to know where to look. :D

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FortyTwoBlades said:
Hahaha--how many degrees? :D
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:P

Ive never measured .
I have messed with angles and grinds , but only to the point of making a knife cut a particular stuff better , mostly when I was rubber lining .
Im kinda guilty of messing with varying angles on blades , some I like thicker neat the handle , since that is where the serious work will be done , others like a machete type knife Ill make a fine cutting edge at the handle area , to do the delicate stuff while the sweetspot wil be a nice convex to deal with the hack slash bash work it does , but I have never taken the time to sit down and measure what angle I use , or found out if there is a " proper" angle to use

You do realise , youre making the addiction worse dontcha ??
:)
 
Myal said:
Im working on getting a couple saw mill blades :) I like the crazy insane sharp edge you get on that stuff . I kinda wish I had a better shop to turn out knives in .. this is the heart of my shop at the moment

a little primitive , but Im kinda over buying knives and into steels at the moment .

I have a primitive R+D section for seeing what holds up better than what else

same addiction , different angle , I think I have had my gutsfull of over hyped " good enough" steels in knives being hocked as the ultimate , a good few years ago . Starting when I made my first knife and it did what knives I had bought previously could not do .
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Dude, love your shop, what is the chainsaw used for? shaping scales? lol
 
Myal said:
:P

Ive never measured .
I have messed with angles and grinds , but only to the point of making a knife cut a particular stuff better , mostly when I was rubber lining .
Im kinda guilty of messing with varying angles on blades , some I like thicker neat the handle , since that is where the serious work will be done , others like a machete type knife Ill make a fine cutting edge at the handle area , to do the delicate stuff while the sweetspot wil be a nice convex to deal with the hack slash bash work it does , but I have never taken the time to sit down and measure what angle I use , or found out if there is a " proper" angle to use

You do realise , youre making the addiction worse dontcha ??
:)
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How do you know what ANGEL to use?

Mad respect if you actually know where this thing came from. :p
 
555 said:
Free Knives are everywhere. You just have to know where to look. :D

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That's a really nice collection you've got going on bro! I want a 4" fixed with contoured G-10 slabs. Can ya hook me up? :D
 
Never Dull said:
Dude, love your shop, what is the chainsaw used for? shaping scales? lol
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ummm
youre actually close than you probably think
I did just use it for cutting a section out of a yellow box tree for handles ... gotto trim them up some on the table saw tho first
 
I have way to many knives and all but 6 are going bye--bye on the slab market to be another persons safe queen or user.! I am over all of the different steels and this is better than this and my knife is better than yours -- ect. {forgot ~~ I am keeping all of my Beckers and KaBars though ~~ not to much money in them and I can use them.!} My small Seb's. are even going on the 'block' and there goes one addiction down the drain and now maybe I can afford to buy a Candy Bar.! lol
 
Some recent threads, including this one, have made me think on my own collection. It's fairly small by BladeForums standards, but there was a time not too long ago, when I took a closer look at what knives I had and decided there was a growing number that just weren't for me. I like having a variety of knives for different things, but was starting to feel detached from my own collection. I had a bunch of 'low-cost, high-value' type folders (decent quality but with low investment value) that I just wasn't bothering to carry because I had others I like better. I ended up giving several away; these knives were barely used if at all, and I still have some pruning to do. If some day I end up with a hundred knives or more, I figure they should each represent my taste somehow and not just be a 'flash-in-the-pan' token of what was popular at the time I bought it.
 
I have kept myself (Sofar) limited to Assisteds and Autos and so far this has worked. I usually buy knives that I like because of uniqueness or they just catch my eye. I try to stay away from the real low end stuff, my collection is up to around 80 or so right now. I have to count, this week I've bought 9 I think 2 of those being Pro-Techs I just joined the forum in the past couple of weeks and I've only been collecting on a serious level for about a year so I haven't had time to get "Caught up" in all the "Knife Snob" BS We'll see how it goes, so far so good! I'll put up pics of this weeks new purchases as soon as they all get here.
 
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