My knives are way too cool to use!

bld522 said:
Apparently not.


Thank you. :)


What you laugh at is none of my business.
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You must be one of the "only look at my knives under glass on Sunday types". Thanks for the input! Be sure to leave your family detailed instructions for their care and feeding...
 
AntDog said:
I hear you, but why collect knives? I mean, knives that will never be used? They are cutting tools ....

Lemme ask you this: if you were to die tomorrow, how do you think your precious collection would be treated? Would they be lovingly rubbed down with oil every day and placed lovingly back in their glass presentation case? Hell no! After your family chunked you in the clay, your knives would be sold off in a massive fire sale, probably to recoup expenses from you "falling down on the job"....

So now how much sense does it make? Enjoy using your tools that were made to be used and enjoyed!!!! While you are above ground. If you don't, I'm sure your family can make pennies on the dollar for them after you're gone.
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It's more so that one can resell the knives at a later date for profit. My manager has his retirement money set aside because of his massive knife collection. (Still a few he'll never give up, since they're such great users.)

Either way, it's not like it matters what someone else is doing with their own collection. If someone sees their actions as being worth the cost, you're not going to convince them otherwise. They've likely already considered their options.

As for my own family, they know almost exactly what my knives are worth... which doesn't matter since I use almost all of them. :D

AntDog said:
You must be one of the "only look at my knives under glass on Sunday types". Thanks for the input! Be sure to leave your family detailed instructions for their care and feeding...
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Now I'm a little surprised you take such offense to collectors collecting. Please take it easy on the stamp guys! :p
 
I don't take offense to it man! It just makes me scratch my head and wonder..... All those tools yearning to be used - hahahaha!!!! They are begging for it I tell you! Use me, don't hoard me - that's what they're saying....

Anyhow, I have quite a coin collection, and used to collect stamps as a kid. However I can't cut anything with a coin or a stamp!
 
As long as "knifesterbation" doesn't progress into full blown "knifestercourse" or "for-knifecation". Also no "knifalingus".

I am glad you started this thread...as much as I put my knives to use, I always feel that tinge of regret when they get their first visible wear...at one point I was buying two of each of my favorites, one to use and one to collect. Now I just use them and appreciate them in action. Still feel a loss whenever a virgin is deflowered, but if she rides good sloppy seconds aren't so bad...
 
AntDog said:
I don't take offense to it man! It just makes me scratch my head and wonder..... All those tools yearning to be used - hahahaha!!!! They are begging for it I tell you! Use me, don't hoard me - that's what they're saying....

Anyhow, I have quite a coin collection, and used to collect stamps as a kid. However I can't cut anything with a coin or a stamp!
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Out of all your posts in this thread you keep emphasizing on USING IT USING IT USING IT... it's a TOOL it's a TOOL it's a TOOL. What if a person has no need to use a knife in their daily life? You do realize that the majority of people can go about their daily lives without ever NEEDING to use a cutting tool right?

You can USE coins to buy things and USE stamps to send mail. If you're not buying anything with the money or use your stamps to send mail with.... what's the point of collecting them? USE THEM! RIGHT??? (Sarcasm)

No matter what hobby it is, you have items that are made to be used, not collect. You wouldn't "collect" a 1995 Toyota Corolla by keeping it in pristine condition and not drive it, but you would "collect" a 1966 Ford GT40 race car. You wouldn't be afraid to drive the Corolla everyday to work because if you wreck it, it's no big deal. But you wouldn't put a bunch of miles and risk getting the GT40 scratched up or worse...wrecked right?

Same thing goes for your coins, stamps, KNIVES. There are one off customs that costs thousands of dollars. Some of you seem to only think of ZT's or Cold Steel as "high end knives", but there is a whole different realm of high end customs out there. There are people who actually use high end customs, but I see nothing wrong with just collecting it.
 
I see nothing wrong with just collecting knives and not using them. Its a choice, and it doesn't mean your a bad person or trying to impress your dinner yuppies or whatever. This is a diverse community and we should respect our differences. For me a knife is not fully appreciated until I see it in action. For you, displaying it or handling it without use may do it. Not everyone goes for blondes with big tits...okay bad example. :)
 
AntDog said:
I hear you, but why collect knives? I mean, knives that will never be used? They are cutting tools ....

Lemme ask you this: if you were to die tomorrow, how do you think your precious collection would be treated? Would they be lovingly rubbed down with oil every day and placed lovingly back in their glass presentation case? Hell no! After your family chunked you in the clay, your knives would be sold off in a massive fire sale, probably to recoup expenses from you "falling down on the job"....

So now how much sense does it make? Enjoy using your tools that were made to be used and enjoyed!!!! While you are above ground. If you don't, I'm sure your family can make pennies on the dollar for them after you're gone.
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My wife's next husband will probably treat it like it wasn't his. :D
 
It's also a waste to keep buying knives just to use, when you haven't nearly used up the other ones you own. Collecting knives could be viewed as useless to the use everything people, but at least they can be sold for sometimes a lot more money. Fact is I don't need many users, I have a few I feel offer me the performance I desire in different categories. But, I still see knives I like and buy them. Then I never use the new ones. Can't justify it because I already have it covered just fine with my 10 or so users. But, I could justify buying it because it will remain new and retain it's value, or even increase. I can feel fine about that, but I wouldn't if I used it, while owning other users. Plus, you can always start using new ones at any point. There's always someday and I don't like to worry too much, about stuff I've already bought and paid for.
 
One can do as they wish with the things they buy... I simply think that they were made to be used, they excel and come alive in use, and I derive a great deal of pleasure when I use them. That's my view; to each his/her own. There is room under this tent for everyone... Here's a couple of pics from my perspective:

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AntDog said:
You must be one of the "only look at my knives under glass on Sunday types". Thanks for the input! Be sure to leave your family detailed instructions for their care and feeding...
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A far wiser individual than I am would respond this way . . .

Don't make assumptions.

Note to the OP: Any further questions? if not, do what YOU like . . . not what anyone else likes. What they like is none of your business and what you like is none of theirs. As for me, I'll stick with the motto I've had since I've gotten here: there is no wrong reason for buying a knife. :)

TTFN!
 
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I blame the eBay phenomenon, everything became collectible and ridiculously priced overnight
 
Using my knives is what makes them valuable to me. A pristine knife sitting in a drawer or in a display case is a waste of a good knife to my thinking. Looking at my knife, whatever knife that may b e, and remembering all it's done form from slicing up some nice Jarlsburg to go on a fresh baguette, or gutting and cleaning a nice fat perch to go into the frying pan over a campfire beside the lake I caught the thing in, is what makes it for me. The memories built up from all the camping trips to opening the birthday gift from my better half.

Here's a hand made Resolza from Sardinia, made by Senior Osai and sons, rams horn handle that feels great in hand. It served well on a camping trip that it was used to cut line for tent pegs, food, and a little whittling. It was building up memories.

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jackknife said:
Using my knives is what makes them valuable to me. A pristine knife sitting in a drawer or in a display case is a waste of a good knife to my thinking. Looking at my knife, whatever knife that may b e, and remembering all it's done form from slicing up some nice Jarlsburg to go on a fresh baguette, or gutting and cleaning a nice fat perch to go into the frying pan over a campfire beside the lake I caught the thing in, is what makes it for me. The memories built up from all the camping trips to opening the birthday gift from my better half.

Here's a hand made Resolza from Sardinia, made by Senior Osai and sons, rams horn handle that feels great in hand. It served well on a camping trip that it was used to cut line for tent pegs, food, and a little whittling. It was building up memories.

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Very nice.
 
My knives are too nice to not use.
Now sure, I won't scrape rusty steel with some of my high end knives (except for the SmF...it works great for things like that :)), but I just feel like it's money wasted if they never get used, at least for something.

If people get their jollies from admiring their pristine blades, that's cool. :thumbup:
That's just not for me.
 
My $550 Strider actually gets better looking with wear I think, if you're not using your knives you probably didn't need one in the first place.
 
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