Knives are a Disease!

bekylane said:
So the disease is for life and progressive. My poor wallet:(
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Yeah, so is marriage but good thing is that knives don't feel bad if you get more knives or they take 50% what you own after things don't work out... So knives are safer investment ^^
 
Yea, I've gone from a $10 EAB folder from Target to having a Morpho 32, a Damascated Kershaw Scallions, a Manix 2, and a small Sebbie in the mail as of yesterday...

We need some sort of 12 step program.
 
Teague said:
My grew by about $600 last month! YIKES!!!
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You're my roll model! :D

Makes my spending seem normal!

I only added 6 knives this month, none over about $70 -- but the more time I spend here, the more appealing those over-$100 knives look!

Family members just don't understand when I ask for a knife as a Christmas or birthday present, they say "but you already have too many!" so I have to get my own.
 
jfn said:
We need some sort of 12 step program.
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If you find one, let me know... that sebbie... Oh, my you've gotten advanced state of this disease. Worse the disease more expensive knives you buy. Sebenza's and similars with custom's are symptoms of the advanced state of disease...
 
I've always been a knife nut. Since I was a kid, I've appreciated a nice pocket knife. Once I became old enough to buy them on my own, I did. Here and there, my collection grew and shrank. As I could afford them, I bought higher quality tools, and so the prices rose.
I don't look at my bunch of knives as a collection in the sense that I continually pursue and acquire them, or have goals like "gotta get one of each of these" or "need all the colors/permutations of [X] knife," but a collection in that there are a bunch of them, all collected together. :p
They're tools, first and foremost, and I tend to avoid knives I can't actually carry & use.
That said, next on my wishlist is a ZT0302. :D
 
Yeah and this site is where the junkies meet to egg one another on! We are the opposite of a recovery group:)
 
I don't know if I'd call it a disease, as it's more of a quest to find the perfect knife to handle nearly everything. In that quest, I somehow accumulated ten more knives since last month.

Getting closer, though...
 
What is a sickness is when you keep getting multiples of knives you already owned, and got rid of, only to get them again, and get rid of again. Vicious cycle.

Benchmade 710, Buck Mayo TNT (got again in a trade, I am keeping this one this time), Spyderco Enduras (saw a white and green FRN one at a gunshop at a VERY good price, but didn't get them because I knew they would be in the trade box soon). Did it with Dejavoos, Swamp Rats, even some customs.

It is especially heart wrenching with the premium folders. I had Striders, sold/traded them, now want them again, if only with the CC variation. Same with Sebenzas, notably a few micarta versions. Now, with the wood versions. Been through God knows how many Spyderco Militaries (440V SE, S30V CE black, S30V PE black and now S30V PE with Military stamped on the blade). Now I'm looking for a BG42/CF Military. Insanity!
 
"Family members just don't understand when I ask for a knife as a Christmas or birthday present, they say "but you already have too many!" so I have to get my own."

My brother and I have a tentative arrangement as knife nuts:
We are both excused from buying birthday (both in October) and Christmas gifts for each other this year, in favor of each of us blowing some money on knives.

Woe to us that heed the riddle of steel...
 
The other day I was going through my collection and I realized that if I had all of the money I'd sunk into knives, I could buy a nice new car. Nicer than the one in my garage. I'd rather have the knives.
 
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