Knife Addiction

[Tacticaltater]

Hey guys my name is TacticalTater and Im an addict.
These knives are constantly on my mind and i find myself here on the forum like all day buying, selling, reading, and such.
Im just playing around. Do any of you guys feel like these knives are like the coolest things ever?
Once I tried to sell most of my collection and keep 2 or 3 that i would use but that only lasted a couple months before i came back with a vengeance
and now im back to where i was when i first started. Also its crazy how peoples taste in knives always change. Its a never ending cycle of craving for new knives.
Pic of my Edc for the day.

 

[Sosa]

I buy and use knives I like. The problem is sometimes I change my mind about the appearance and materials and find myself searching for things that are currently unavailable. The hunt is half the fun.

 

[davek14]

The hunt can be the addiction surely, and that's OK although it can get costly.

A knife addiction has many advantage's over other addictions a person can have. No hangover, no dain bramage, no health risks other than a bad cut.

Many people here have said that they used a knife "addiction" to substitute for more harmful fascinations on their part. Maybe an "addictive personality" is just a person who is passionate about what they do and does things to the fullest. It is surely a fact that you have to search for other interests and passions to fill your life if you quit more harmful addictions.

One danger in a knife addiction is actually having an "acquisition addiction". People have shopping addictions and they can be financially harmful. The great thing about knives is that you can change your focus. You can get in to sharpening, whittling, or many other aspects of the hobby. You can feed the acquisition aspect by searching for wonderful old used knives, thus the hunt costs less. Or you can focus on budget knives.

What are you addicted to, or passionate about?

 

[Tacticaltater]

Come to think of it, passionate is a better word then addicted. i have a lot of fun with my knives and dont really see it as a problem. ya sometimes it does get expensive but i mean everything cost money.
i just find it funny because once i bought my first nice folder, i was hooked like a crackhead lol.

 

[marcus52AR]

I'd say I'm passionate about knives, I'd also say I'm somewhat addicted. If someone told me I had to stop coming on blade forums I'd have a hard time stopping. Haha but as far as purchases go I'm good at keeping in control.

 

[palonej]

Another nice thing about this particular passion is as your tastes change you can sell the ones you don't use much and not get busted up too bad.
Joe

 

[strategy9]

*oops, wrong thread.... Happens when you're watching football, a toddler, and blade forums all at the same time.

 

[js1badsti]

well said dave I went from high end 1911 buying to knife addiction and have bought quite a few special edition knives including a couple CF sebenzas.But like you said it has turned into a fun hobby of sharpening which made me buy first a worksharp ken onion set up then just recently an edge pro apex after watching many youtube videos starring apostleP and his sharpening skills.

 

[Gaston444]

The thing to be careful about is that individual knives can easily be something that you quickly get tired of... Because of this, I am very, very wary of plain-looking lower-priced knives. Even high priced knives can be a little too plain, like the Chris Reeve one piece range for instance... I've found more colourful and expensive knives are actually cheaper in the long run... Randall is the absolute lowest end of what I would consider now. And with the four I have I will need no other (if they produced new model numbers I might buy more, but they are so overworked as is, they don't need to stoke demand in this way)...

The solution to not getting tired of what you have, I have found, is to buy functional, but fancier and more expensive knives than you ever considered reasonable before: When you know you have the ultimate of what is available, the time devoted to thinking about getting new ones goes down... I think over twenty knives in total means you tend to buy yourself "short" for each individual ones...

Gaston