Knives Which Have Doubled in Price, Been a Good Investment

Other than the limited editions, it is very hard to predict the future with knives. Same goes with guns but not so much the limited editions. Buy what appeals to you and let the market take it's course.

All of my Randalls have increased in value, but I did not buy them as investments. It just sort of worked out that way.
 
My Spyderco Kopa's seem to have doubled in price...at least from what I paid a few years ago. I didn't buy them for an investment but it just seems nice that their value has gone up to over $200 the bay. They are too Purdy to get rid of!
 
The Kershaw Skyline has doubled in price since around 2006-07 or so.

But somehow I don't think that's what you were asking :p
 
Scurvy092 said:
Don't buy knives for a long term investment. You never know what's going to happen. The whole market could soften quite easily since its a luxury item for the most part.

Buy knives you enjoy and learn more about them.
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Then if you are lucky, they will increase in value. Although you just may not want to let it go..;)
 
It's such a high risk to intentionally buy any knife for increased value down the road, that it may not be worth it. The market right now is on a upward cycle, and I don't think it's hit the top of the cycle just yet. I don't think anyone knows why some older knives fetch such stupidly high prices, but they do. I also think that most knife makers are offering better quality knives than in the past and finding those knives today is not an issue. For a knife to increase in value, regardless of the knife, the market is small and few will pay a premium price.
I have a couple that I bought for that very reason at first, but now, it's more of a bragging right than anything else and I'm not so sure I'd ever get rid of them.
 
Every single Busse knife (and kin) that I have ever owned, I have sold for a profit. Sometimes a very tidy profit. You can expect some of their knives to go for double, triple, or more than what you paid for them.

And what I think is the coolest thing - you can use the hell out of them and still turn a profit. Especially if they are limited editions, or have been discontinued.
 
Rasco said:
The Kershaw Skyline has doubled in price since around 2006-07 or so.

But somehow I don't think that's what you were asking :p
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That is what I was asking. And the Skyline is a great example. Some of the collector and limited edition ones seem like a great thing to invest in. Seems like you can always get your money back, thus making them very liquid.
 
Recently the market has been REALLY bad. I put up a few very desirable knives that normally would have given me a profit.... I ended up selling them at a loss. Don't bank on buying knives to resell for profit. I've had some knives that I was able to sell for more than I bought it for, but a large chunk of them I had to sell at a loss. And these are rare customs I'm talking about. If you plan on buying a production knife to flip.... forget about it. That's like saying you want to buy a comic book printed this year in hopes of someday making a profit off of it.
 
Any of them can bring a lot more than what they sold for. They just have to be popular and discontinued. Even those Parker knives made in Japan in the seventies & eighties, now bring way over what they sold for then. A friend wanted a Parker El Diablo, which was a little bone handled lock back dagger, that sold for about twenty dollars back then. He'd had one years ago and lost it. I found him one on eBay and it was over four times what it cost then.
 
Obviously, if I had a Delorean equiped with a Flux Capacitor, I'd be going back to 1998 to tell my younger self with no kids and a great job to look into a few investment opportunities. Since I don't, I just buy what I like when I can afford it, and then use the darned things.
 
The economy is sh!t right now so nothing is for sure , but I have to agree with Antdog . I made money on every Busse Combat knife I even owned .
 
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