Knife collector's software

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Jesse B.

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I'm curious: Would anyone in here be interested in some sort of software which catalogued their knives? For those with enough of a collection, I think it might be cool. I use software to organize my huge movie collection and find it really useful.
I tried looking for some pre-existing software but couldn't find anything decent or free so I may give a crack at creating my own (though I'm no programmer.) Watchya think?
 
Easiest thing to do if you want to go beyond a spreadsheet would be MS Access. You could load up everything, then write a few simple reports to run against it.
 
remmmm said:
Easiest thing to do if you want to go beyond a spreadsheet would be MS Access. You could load up everything, then write a few simple reports to run against it.
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That's what I did. I keep all the relevant info such as steel, limited edition info., purchase date, price, retailer, current condition, sharpening angles, performance notes, etc.

It really comes in handy when selling knives so that I can remember what I paid for each one and then balance that with what the market currently says, so that I can arrive at a reasonable asking price.

- Mark
 
Hi,

This is a very interesting idea to me. I've been playing around with some website stuff - (i am a programmer :D ) - What would you guys think of a website that would allow you to store your knife information in a spreadsheet format and share it.

Perhaps with some security stuff (i.e. some columns are password protected, like price paid?)

If there is enough interest, I have about 3 weeks off coming up and I can definitely get something rolling.

I also really want to do some websites for some of the knife makers around here with less than optimal/1990s websites :)
 
I use filemaker Pro to organize my collections. It is easy to use, powerful, and looks great. You have different view options to scan through your collection and keep track of sales/purchases. There are limitless possibilities with this software, can even upload to a website.
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Excel works nicely for this sort of thing. You can put pictures into cells, you know?

One thing I worry about with this sort of thing is that the software will be discontinued. With Excel, you can write out a .csv format file. Just about every spreadsheet or database program now or in the foreseeable future has or will have a facility to import a .csv file.
 
That's what's great about Filemaker, .CSV is fully suported. Check out the screenshots, it has export and save as options for excel.
It is pricey, but I am fortunate enough to need it for a few HUGE databases of products for few websites I run, so making a seperate database for my knives was a snap!

Gollnick said:
Excel works nicely for this sort of thing. You can put pictures into cells, you know?

One thing I worry about with this sort of thing is that the software will be discontinued. With Excel, you can write out a .csv format file. Just about every spreadsheet or database program now or in the foreseeable future has or will have a facility to import a .csv file.
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Try Bento from Filemaker. It's much more affordable and should be powerful enough to do the same thing with a knife collection as Evan is doing.
 
Excellent tip! Bento is very cool, I have used it and it's great... Mostly for quick jobs like Warehouse inventory counts exc...
When I upgraded my OS to Snow leopard, my old version of Bento needed upgrading and I decided to stick with Filemaker, but have been thinking about getting it again.

tedwca said:
Try Bento from Filemaker. It's much more affordable and should be powerful enough to do the same thing with a knife collection as Evan is doing.
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Gollnick said:
Excel works nicely for this sort of thing. You can put pictures into cells, you know?

One thing I worry about with this sort of thing is that the software will be discontinued. With Excel, you can write out a .csv format file. Just about every spreadsheet or database program now or in the foreseeable future has or will have a facility to import a .csv file.
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Ditto. Excel is universal. Open Office is supposed to read an Excel file without csv conversion.

I use Excel to create "flat databases", non-relational. I track a number of items at work that way. I also maintain the church library catalog in an excel flat database. The church library catalog has over 5,000 items in it and there is room for plenty more.
 
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