Its Gone...OMG ...its all Gone...what did I do...!!

Ren the devils trailboss

Ren the devils trailboss

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Well with the exception of a few knives left..I have sold my entire knife collection. Mind you I have been collecting knives for well over 30 years. Heavily collecting ( a knife or two a week) for the last 10 years. Last April 2003 I decided enough was enough and that I had so many knives I needed to sell them all and start over..I was collecting EVERYTHING!!!

so I sold....
all my Early 90s Daltons
all my Early 80 Hubertus
all my autos
all my fixed blades
all my Benchmade
all my TOPS
all my BlackJacks
all my Bucks
all my Gerbers
all my MOD
all my Sebenzas
all my EK combat blades
all my CRKT
all my Emersons
most of my spyderco
all my REKAT including several rare SIFUs and Hobbits..
and most of the misc. collectable stuff I had gathered over the years..

all total..probably 1500 knives Im guessin..for a sum dollar total of around $35,000. Many complete collections went to collectors..now my safe is empty..I WANT THEM BACK WHAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! WHAT WAS I THINKING DOH!!!

Seriously..now the safe is empty with the exception of a few things that based on my actual " I like this knife and its gonna be useful" I have decided that from now on I am only going to collect a select few customs ...and evern a more select few productions..ok ok just spyderco..
custom makers so far are as follows
Perrin
Crawford
Jones Bros
Nealy
THATS IT!!!

ok..ok..maybe Arno Bernard occasionally.....but honestly...felt kinda good to start over..those of you that bought knives from me on the exchange..hope your enjoying them..

off to go take a nap in my empty safe...

Ren
 
Ren you're crazy. I could never do that. And for such a small amount of money too. That's an average of $23 per knife!
 
Ren the devils trailboss said:
off to go take a nap in my empty safe...

Ren
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Hmm the only thing left to do is....Sell the Safe? :)

I had a similar experience, actually I'm still living it now :(, sold almost all my knives, not quite as extensive a collection as yours but...much money in steel!
Now I'm down to only a few remaining;
Large Classic Wood inlay Sebenza, BG42 no less ! which I feel is hardened nicely and keeps a good edge;

And a Kershaw Random Leek, S30v blade, a special run

And a few others but that is about it! pretty sad eh?
So I hear yah and understand,
G2
 
On a much, much, much smaller scale, I kinda doin' the same thing. I'm purging all of my production fixed blades (except for a couple of real users) in favor of customs. Ren, I'm even selling some I bought from you! I'll be posting them in the exchange as soon as I can sweet-talk my brother into taking some good pictures for me. (Maybe I'll have to let him pick one out to keep.) :D ;)

A little off-topic, but I may need to do the same thing with my pipe collection. I staked out a very narrow, specific type to collect, but have somehow ended up with a lot of 'periphery'. (I'll definitely have to give bro' a knife if I want him to take pics of all those, too.) :eek: :D
 
NeedleRemorse said:
Ren you're crazy. I could never do that. And for such a small amount of money too. That's an average of $23 per knife!
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No kidding!! If anyone thinks that collecting knives is gonna someday earn you a windfall of profit..on thier collectability ..I just gotta say this...dont give up your day job!!

I did make a profit on the Daltons, the Black Jacks, and the Rekats..but the rest I probably sold cheaper than when I bought them..all the numbered Benchmades..waste of time..numberes spydies..same story...the first production run of anything..Big F#*N deal...

So buy em..enjoy em..and use em....thats my advice..
 
I think it's interesting that you kept the Spyderco knives over some of the customs.
 
Well, Ren wanted the knives he kept for practical reasons, and lets face it, theres no point in using a custom that could drag in a lot of cash instead of a cheaper production knife that can do what you ask of it.
 
i also sold off all my balisongs to cure my attachment problem. Now i live with a CRKT Large Point Guard and a China copy of Buck 110. Life is much simpler now ;)
 
I occasionally think about a collection selling for way below what it should, if it's sold by heirs who don't know what the individual or collective values are.

I have sold a lot, but then I buy a lot - still trying to keep only a certain amount put into my knives. Sort of like getting new stuff on the sales of the older.
 
I took a different path. I stopped buying knives altogether after I realized I rarely used what I had already. I've been carrying and using the same slipjoint since Sept of last year. The last knife I purchased and kept was in Nov two years ago. I did buy a Buck Strider last summer, used it, didn't like it, and sold it on ebay for a profit. I have a small sebenza on order, but I've already decided it's not what I'd want my money tied up with, so I've arranged to sell it on delivery to a friend. I'll recoup my money plus a small profit.

There's just not much that interests me about knives anymore. After 4 years of solid knife collecting, ready, and general obsession, I've realized that most knives are not worth owning, most are too similar to others on the market (not knockoffs, but how many different black G10 clad tactical knives do you need?), and just plain boring. The few knives I'm keeping are all different from the others and most are custom.

This is what I'm keeping:
Tomey Day Hiker with mosaic pins and filework, blade is O1 tool steel
Jens Anso Personal Sheepsfoot with cocobolo and lizardskin sheath, ATS-34
Hubertus leverlock
Beverly Knives Gent's linerlock with dyed giraffe bone scales (nickel steel bolsters and jeweled Ti liners
Buck Custom 110 with redbone scales, BG42 blade (and a great sheath by Gary)
Buck Creek Whittler (good ol' carbon steel too), this is my EDC
Schrade Golden Spike fixed blade. This was a gift. It lives in my camp box and goes deer hunting with me.

I have a well used REKAT Savant that will be hitting ebay in the near future.

Chris
 
Ren, is that for real?
You really sell all your knives?

That's the most impressive thing I ever see here

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BETO

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Sorry for my engish :o
 
I always wondered what the heck was going on with you selling all those knives. Are you sure you didn't buy a bunch of crack with all that dough? :p ;)
 
I think about selling off a bunch of them...and then I can't bring myself to do it. Ren, you should make an inspirational cd to help others overcome their problem..."You can do it, you will do it, press the submit button to post, sell, sell, sell..":)
 
It's a true compliment to Spyderco that you kept some of them, and plan on buying maybe some others. :)

I'm more into traditional knives myself now, but Spyderco is my favorite of the one-hander companies. I'm dying for a Kiwi!! :cool:
-Kevin
 
I found that after a solid 25 years of collecting there wasnt that much new anymore that really turned my crank..I was becoming more and more discriminating on what I purchased and actually liked..then when I started looking at the stuff I actually owned it was a safe full of knives that had held my fancy for a brief moment then spent a decade in the box in my safe. The knives I did think were great designs or good knives I ended up buying two sometimes three..why for Gods sake I have no idea..Those all got sold too....

Spyderco in my opinion maintains a quality knife and freshness of design but maintains a overall design integrity (spydie hole) that pleases me. They have made some real turkeys in my opinion also but heck I just dont buy those!!

the few custom makers I have decided to collect are for the following reasons..

Fred Perrin..His LaGriffe is a true knife..easy to carry easy to use and a great defense weapon. His knives were meant to be be used..he doesn make em pretty he just makes them useable.

Arno Bernard...well priced and his knives are beautiful and flawless..this appeals to my I "need a beautiful knife" side of me..the steel is perfect..the handle material is also perfect..His knives are perfect in every respect and for $100 you cant go wrong..

Bud Nealy..Again I am IN LOVE with his MASS and MCS system for knife carry but also his blades are useable, durable, and great design. ie. THe cave bear is a knife that a mall ninja, a carpenter, a terrorist killer, or a fisherman could carry and use and love..The knives are very well made and a pleasure to own and use.

Jones Bros knives..again these knives are well made but not made to sit in a glass case or a safe..they are made to be used..and used well..they take a beating and just want more..and they are priced right..in my opinion these guys are up and commers in the knife biz and thier work represents a new era of knife collector/user

Crawford..a few pieces again because the design is unique..a bit overpriced but I think for the money you still cant get a better knife with a better reputation behind your blade. I own a magnum Lepord and it is a joy to carry..

but as far as damascus folders with Ivory inlays and mother of pearl bolsters..not any more for me..users...
 
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