Knives you plan to hang onto...

Large Inkosi born on my birthday (original ball-groove version)
CQC-10BTS beater (worth WAY more to me than I could ever get for it)
Gayle Bradley 1 (non-drilled liner "heavyweight", it is .019" behind the edge - awesome slicer)
CTS204p Military (with OM-Hack™ tip down clip mod - absolutely perfect Military)
CKF Ratata
CKF MILK
Tanto Umnumzaan (old pivot, factory polished blade, "murdered" by Phantom Steelworks)
Waveless CQC-8
2002 Annual Large Sebenza in Boxwood Elder
 
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Right now the only one off limits is my GB2. The rest I'm not totally in love with.
 
knives_in_nature said:
most of these

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It's obvious that you are a Benchmade man.
 
Spyderco police ss serrated,victorinox alpineer,alox soldier,classic alox,cold steel code4,cs vg1xlvoyager and bark river vest pocket bowie.
 
My 6 PM2's, GB2 Manix XL, Domino CF, Steel will 1500 & 1551, Kershaw Blur S30V and and Launch 2 (auto ).
 
madcap_magician said:
There are a lot of knives I wish I had kept or been able to keep, but when it comes down to it, none of them are irreplaceable. I'm currently in a bit of a hard spot, recently separated from my wife, and I found it good every now and then to sell off most everything and remind myself that it's just a hobby and that I control the hobby, it doesn't control me. If that helps me salvage my marriage, it will be a good trade. There will be more money and more knives in the future.
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Interesting. Are you saying that your knife hobby has had a direct detrimental impact on your marriage? I know folks here joke about that as they do on the gun forums. If such a thing happened to me it would be more related to my pack rat tendencies for many things that some would call high value (or as I usually phrase it "concentrated value").
 
Very few of my knives have proven to be absolutely immune to finding their way to someone else's doorstep, but there are a few keepers like:

Cold Steel 3V Warcraft Tanto
Stedemon ZKC-D01
Boker Plus Peanut
Spyderco Pingo
Cold Steel Rajah II

They all fill roles so perfectly that I could barely imagine a scenario where it would be worthwhile selling or trading them - I would just end up getting the exact same thing again.
 
22-rimfire said:
Interesting. Are you saying that your knife hobby has had a direct detrimental impact on your marriage? I know folks here joke about that as they do on the gun forums. If such a thing happened to me it would be more related to my pack rat tendencies for many things that some would call high value (or as I usually phrase it "concentrated value").
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It wasn't the biggest thing, but it played a part. It wasn't anything intrinsic to the knife hobby or the firearms hobby, it was just my unhealthy way of looking at it. The money wasn't a big deal, I spent a lot less than many here do, it was the time and the way I made my priorities.
 
So far I'm just in the acquisition phase of collecting operating under the motto, "More is better". That being said, there are some that may eventually find their way into other people's hands. So far, I've been luck in that the few knives that I bought and did not like, were all defective and got sent back, usually for a full refund. Although I had one maker send me a refund and a new knife. Got one the other day that should never have been boxed and shipped. One of the bone scales had the 1/4" of the butt end chipped off, and was pushed up off the tang by the brass lanyard fitting, which also was not attached to the scale on the opposite side. It all worked out in the end because I found the knife too small and really not worth what I paid for it. So it would have been a "sell it off" contender, except it is a return for a refund instead. No loss and I move on to the next candidate for my expanding collection.

Somebody should have warned me that knives are a lot like Tribbles. lol
 
Nope. No knife is immune from being sold. None were gifts and none are priceless one of a kind customs. Have yet to find that knife that is so close to perfect for me I can't see me being without. But I will say I will always have some variant of a Spyderco around.
 
-Military

-Delica

-Small Starbenza (as soon as I can afford another one. Should have never let my small go!)

-3 Dot Buck 110

-Pre '84 Buck 501

I think everything else could go if it absolutely had to, but those I think I would keep. The value to me is much higher than their monetary value anyway.
 
madcap_magician said:
It wasn't the biggest thing, but it played a part. It wasn't anything intrinsic to the knife hobby or the firearms hobby, it was just my unhealthy way of looking at it. The money wasn't a big deal, I spent a lot less than many here do, it was the time and the way I made my priorities.
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I know how it is. Once the SHTF marriage-wise, even the stuff that you might do like scratch you butt from time to time become an issue. We can dream up all kinds of reasons to can a marriage once things move to that point. I suspect if this happened to me today, knives and other collectibles would be an issue or icing on the cake so to speak.
 
22-rimfire said:
I know how it is. Once the SHTF marriage-wise, even the stuff that you might do like scratch you butt from time to time become an issue. We can dream up all kinds of reasons to can a marriage once things move to that point. I suspect if this happened to me today, knives and other collectibles would be an issue or icing on the cake so to speak.
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Basically. Unhealthy focus on hobbies was just the icing. Several other critical issues were what ended it, most of which were my failings. I'm not really sure how bad the knife and gun hobbies would have to be for someone for that to be the PRIMARY or even a major reason for a marriage ending, though.
 
I think the reason for the sale of the knife needs to be categorized in order for a thread like this to work.
Am I just selling randomly on the Internet or at a show to random people or am I wanting to get a knife to one of my friends who would not feel comfortable accepting that high value of a gift and they would rather reimburse me?

Knives that will never leave my possession until they're passed on to my son or daughters (or grandkids when that time comes):
-CRK Sebenza 21 CF
-Spyderco GB1 (a gift from a forum member which really really means a lot to me as it came, unexpectedly, at an especially tough time in my life)
-Any custom I own now or will ever get which I have personally designed and commissioned.
-Any knife that's a family heirloom already.

Knives which I would never sell to a random person but would gladly give up to a friend who needed / wanted a good knife:
-Any customs not designed my me but I choose the materials on
-Plain Jane small Sebenza my wife currently carries when she doesnt want to risk loosing her CG sebby I got her as an Xmas gift.
-My extremely customized Techno
-zt 0620 with Cu bolsters / CF scale (scale done by a personal friend who's passed, knife Xmas gift from kids 2 years ago)
 
Any of your kids eyeballing that CM Tanto?
 
silverds said:
Nothing here is for sale.

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Yo how is that Hungarian folder? You're the first person I've seen post a pic of one.
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So far I have sold zero knives but given away lots. Lost a few too.

Might start selling, its at the point I have too many knives.
 
List is too long.. I got a few hundred or so that aint going anywhere..:D John
 
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