My collection! (and introduction)

link2derek said:
Good for you, and Welcome to the Forum! I started collecting at a young age also (about 12 years old), but it really got seriously going when I had my first "real job" after grad school ( I was about 24 then). All downhill from there... LOL!

But the great thing about quality and otherwise popular knives is that they retain their value pretty well. So, down the road, you can sell old knives you're no longer interested in to fund new knives that you want to check out. I rotate knives in and out of my collection all the time, and it allows me to try out many other knives than if I kept everything I ever bought. Just a consideration.

Here's the newest addition to my fixed blade collection - it just arrived today - a Northwoods Iron River (compliments of Derrick at KnivesShipFree, my new Michigan neighbor to the north):

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Dog gone Gorgeous Knife,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Congrats! TD
 
Welcome to BF San! It is always nice to meet another woman who collects knives. My Mom got ME started when I was 7-8 years old. It is nice to meet you. You have some amazing knives! Congrats.
 
Blues Bender said:
Nice pickup! I've been on the search for a Mnandi with box elder burl, but the wood must have strong red hues (rare). I'm picky:D



Thanks man!

It's marbled carbon fiber, or sometimes called black pearl carbon fiber. That's a knife from Jim Dunlap you saw, I sent him the CF from my personal stash:D That is the first knife in MCF he has ever made.
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Marbled carbon fiber...ahh, nice. Thanks again man
 
@ConBon: Well, you've got plenty of time to gather a collection! Probably half the knives I have are from the last couple years, because many stores wouldn't sell to me until I was 18. Now I'm actually kind of glad, because it forced me to do more research before I had a chance to spend too much. And of course, no reason to limit yourself to one hobby... I've got several, although I tend to spend more on some than others...

@link2derek: Great Mnandi. Is it snakewood as well? Looks very brightly red in that picture.

@Spyder59: Thanks! It's a great knife; been working on a cherry-wood spoon and it's cutting beautifully, which is quite impressive to me given that it is a hardwood.

@T. K. C.: Oh, thanks, and that's great! Does your mom collect knives as well? Oh, and nice Inkosi! I've been thinking about the Inkosi or Small Seb Insingo... unable to make up my mind, though, and I may not be able to afford either one at the moment...
 
Man, you have excellent taste! You are definitely one of us, RWG, and that's a fact!
 
I've been up at a swim meet at the UCSC campus all weekend. My son and I will be up there tomorrow too. What a nice weekend to be up there.

Anyhow, when I was at UC Davis, I didn't have such a nice collection.

I had:

Buck 110
Buck Stockman
Gerber Sportsman (when Gerber still made top notch knives)
Mora fixed blade

Glad to have another knife nut in the area.

Ric
 
Welcome to the asylum... You definitely have good taste in knives it would appear... I like to think I'm a "young" collector still, but reality says I'm now a middle aged collector, at 36 with a 2nd wife (not officially married this time around though), 2 kids, and a pair of dogs... Couldn't tell ya where half that time went though, probably because I was partying too hard in my teens and 20's.

Anyways, great little collection you got going there, I won't list all my knives, but a few of my personal favorites that I own;

A dozen different Kershaw Blurs
Benchmade 810 in m390
Benchmade Harley Davidson mini Hardtail
Kizlyar Supreme Ute
Kershaw Scrambler (x2)
Cold Steel code4 in XHP
Lionsteel work knife
The Buck Vantage Pro

A few SAK's (huntsman's and classics) and KaBar/Beckers (bk5, 11, & 15)
Meyerco Darrell Ralph 18xray
And an Arno Bernard Wasp my wife bought me for Christmas.
 
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Wish I had gotten into collecting knives at 19. Instead, my interests was muscle cars and girls, both of which were quite costly.

Congrats Redwood girl on an amazing collection.
 
RedwoodGirl said:
My Chris Reeves Snakewood Mnandi finally arrived, and it's absolutely beautiful! The inlays are excellently done; I love the blade shape, the pocket clip, the smooth and solid feel... I could go on but I'm sure you've heard it all before. I was pleasantly surprised that it was easy for me to open one-handed: maybe it's just that I have longer fingernails, but I had no trouble with the supposed "annoying new nail nick". Anyway, this one's definitely a keeper.

OK, picture time! Just a quick outdoor shoot, but I think you'll get the essence...

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And that concludes my collection! Hope you enjoyed them as much as I liked photographing 'em and meeting all of you!
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Welcome to BF RedwoodGirl, you've got a nice collection going there!

Wow. That Mnandi is GORGEOUS!!! :eek: --- :thumbup:
 
@Quiet: Thanks, I'm trying! And by trying, I mean buying way more knives than my bank account would like. :p

@Phydeaux: Well, those are classics. Hope your swim meet went well! And yeah, there are several knuts in the area, if you know where to look... the problem is that many of them are reclusive and hang around on forums all day... oh wait ;)

@strategy9: Young at heart, perhaps? You must really like the Kershaw Blur. I tested one a few years ago but it just wasn't quite "my knife", although I liked the design. I just got my first assisted opener, actually, the Kershaw (Ken Onion) scallion in rainbow. Very fun to play with; I'll have to post pictures soon I've just been too busy! (admittedly, "busy" often means sharpening knives, whittling, playing with fire...) :D

@Cobalt: Thanks, and hey, no matter when you start collecting, it's more important that you found something to enjoy now and a group of fellow admirers, eh? Its normal for tastes to change over time, but I do hope I never give up my love for shiny sharp things. They're just too fun!

@EvltCat: Thanks so much! It was a great snag, if I do say so myself.
 
RedwoodGirl said:
Alright, so here's the dagger! I kept coming back to this on TNK and even though it wasn't likely to be “useful” I just needed to have it. You know the feeling?

I would call this very characteristic of Herb Derr, at least from my inference from his other works... beautiful custom sheath and his signature “bird's eye” damascus. The blade is 5.5” long, with a handle of dyed burl and a fossil walrus tusk.

The larger knives are a little harder to photograph, so I apologize for the slightly lower quality... I can't fit them on my windowsill anymore :rolleyes:

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That's a sweet looking blade! I'm assuming you can't carry any of these regularly what with betting a college student...in California?

Btw, welcome to the forum! Make sure you check out all the different subsections as there are some real hidden gems outside of general discussion...like the exchange ;)
 
@Kitten Party:

I don't live on campus, so I can actually carry any of these I want, whenever I want to! OK, not quite, but outside of big cities and schools we can carry pocket knives of any size concealed or openly (with the exception of switchblades or balisongs with blades over 2 inches), *and fixed blades of any size/shape* if carried openly in a sheath. On campus, we are technically limited to blades under 2" with the exception of cutlery, but I know quite a few people who don't pay any attention to that (actually, a survival skills class I once attended there all but required attendees to break the rule).

Santa Cruz is at that weird margin where there are a lot of people who are super liberal, but there is also a surprising number of people living in the more rural surrounds who are more traditional country people: into knives, guns, roughing it, all that stuff, and then some folks who are somewhere in between. I grew up here (homeschool, then UCSC), so I like to think I know the place better than most.

I've been by the exchange. One purchase so far; I'll probably be hooked as anyone else before I know it. ;)
 
I see, I thought they had one of those "concealed weapon" laws for the state, you know, intentionally vague so its up to the officers discretion whether your "concealed" knife clipped to your pocket is a weapon or not. :rolleyes:

I lived and went to school at Indiana University, A very liberal place but literally in the middle of hillbilly country where I grew up, was an interesting melting pot...
 
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