My knives are way too cool to use!

The Logical One said:
I consider myself a "collector", but almost all of my knives get carried.... just not used. I have one or two knives that I carry at work and they get used, and they're nice knives, but I have other ones that I carry on my days off where I don't need to cut anything. I'm not going to go batoning wood or cut a tire or cut a bunch of cardboard just to "put my knife through its paces".

I agree with you that it's doing the knife injustice to leave it in a glass case just to stare at it once in a while. But I don't agree that you should make every knife you have a user just because it's a "tool". As you said.... we can agree to disagree.
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I can't imagine carrying a knife I was not willing to use.
 
Aias said:
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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Exactly. I just added a Santoku knife-laminated steel w/ a Super Aogami core. I couldn't wait to use it, and so I made dinner that night with it
 
Looking back on how this thread evolved (after medusaoblongata's sweeeeet post) is a lot like looking in the toilet after 45 minutes of hard work. Can we flush now?
 
"We've built a few collector pieces but most Spydercos are hungry and like to eat. As mentioned, open, close, cut, clean, oil, cut, cut, cut... To a Spyderco, that is living. All of the effort that we put into designing and building the knife is found in using the knife; The horsepower in the steel, the edge, the ergos, sophisticated mechanisms, carefully chosen materials or custom made materials, history of and refinements to the design, etc. Letting it die in the box is to lose 75% of what we put into it."

-Sal Glesser, President of Spyderco


Use them. It's a waste not to.
 
I think by the point when you have 50 knives, you simply just give up and start to trash them to make up excuses to buy more.
 
I like it when people buy knives to just put in a drawer and take them out to look at them every couple of years. This is how I get some really fine thirty, fifty and even 100 year old knives. If I like them well enough, I'll get a duplicate user or two. But having an example of an old knife in new in the box condition, exactly as shipped from the factory, is cool. Since they aren't making them like that anymore.
 
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