$$$$ !!!! Max you have paid for knife:

I'm still new to collecting knives. I still don't call what I have a "Collection" just "My Knives."
There are 19 knives, (not counting repros) on my PhotoPoint site, http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=254126&a=1889225
Some were gifts, but my total "out of pocket" spent is under $1200. That works out to about $64 per knife. How is that for avoiding the question?
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Homepage: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=254126
 
Harvey McBurnette fancy folder $375
Tim Zowada damascus fighter $315
Jerry Fisk 5" hunter $250
All 3 purchased 12 years ago (before kids)
What seemes like a fortune then is a bargain today.
 
Well, I really liked the look of the Boker Skywalker, so forked out nearly $175. Very pretty production knife. Next was a shortlived ownership of a MicroTech M-UDT for $160, which my wife found out about and made me sell.

Given a chance and a raise, and I'll be looking for more. I just got out of college and had a kid, so it may be a little while.

Daniel D.
 
Uh-oh - Dave Ellis is on the thread!

I think everyone else can pretty much pick up their toys and go home...

He's got more than a couple knives that can single-handedly make my whole collection look bush league! His recent Loveless & Moran collection photos had me embarassed to call my modest pile of steel a knife collection!

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"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, the bear eats you."
 
Yup Brian is correct, between him and Dave and most likely a few others that hang around here the rest of us are still in the Kiddie pool
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(Lets not forget about Mike T.)

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"Life is too short to carry an ugly knife." Steve F.
 
Well, without a doubt it'd be $3200.00 for a Emerson Custom CQC6/Viper MOP Damascus with a right hand grind. Then next in line would be several other Emerson Customs.
 
$300.00 for a haloIII and $300.00 for a DA Microtech Socom. Someday,mayBE AT THE bLADE SHOw, I will buy a custom knife? I need a custom knife, i need a custom knife?
 
$300.00 for a haloIII and $300.00 for a DA Microtech Socom. Someday,mayBE AT THE bLADE SHOw, I will buy a custom knife? I need a custom knife, i need a custom knife?
 
Just got my special order Elishewitz MARS. Mokume bolsters and orange jig-bone scales.
Sweeeet! $525

The one I'm looking at for my next is even more though, won't say what, but around $675.
 
I own several fine knives, including a few Morans and Scagels as well as some nice antiques. I'm embarrassed to say how much I've spent. I justify my knife expenditures as investments, but we all know that's at least partially a rationalization. I figure that if I lose money on a stock, I'm left with nothing. If my knife doesn't turn out to be a great investment, at least I have a beautiful knife.
 
geez, my most spendy knife was a Benchmade Emerson CQC7 for $115.

Next it will be a Busse Steel Heart II E model!
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Riley
Do it right,or not at all.
 
Well let's just say I sold a knife for $10,000. Forget about how much I paid for it
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And I am sure you are wondering what knife commanded such a price.

Gil Hibben made 1 automatic. The Auto Shark. It was really cool!

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Hey Gus! I may be working my way into the deep end, but compared to Dave and Mike (and way lots of others), I've only got my big toe dipped!

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"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, the bear eats you."
 
Please keep in mind that I have been collecting for a number of years, I am a knifemaker and most of all I have a "real" job that helps support my knife habit.
Dave Ellis, ABS, M.S. http://www.mastersmith.com
P.S. Will be in Atlanta row4p ABS section. hope to see you all there.

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So how many here have walked around in public (repeatedly) with a *pair* of SN:1 pieces?

(sheepishly raises hand)
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Jim
 
I paid a little over $300 for my Battle Mistress and Project I. I am hoping to get a Sebenza and the Busse folder in the future,so that figure may increase.
 
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