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One more folder and I think I am done

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I was supposed to be done buying when I retired in January; in fact I actually sold a few to thin the herd, as it were, to help get myself in the right mindset. But alas, I’ve been on a minor shopping spree lately, because I guess I never fully got over the bug. Mostly stuff I see in the exchange that looks too nice and is too good a price to pass up. In fact I have one more in the mail right now that I had never seen before and was just too pretty to ignore. Well, now I think the last one will soon be on its way: a TRM Atom. After having a Neutron for awhile and becoming more infatuated with it the more I fidgeted with it, I just had to have its bigger brother. They’ve been increasingly hard to come by, so when I learned that I could wrangle one direct from TRM with the scales I want, I had to pull the trigger. And now I really have to stop. Yeah right.
 
I'm sure we can all quit anytime we like...after all, we are adults...right?...right?


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SwissHeritageCo said:
I just want 5 knives (folders) that I find ideal. So far I only have one, I recently claimed another but the thread was nearly two months old and I haven't heard back :(
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I have at least 20 that I could consider ideal, which is why I bought them. Maybe two or three of them actually get used. I’m sure I had equally good reasons for buying all the others at the time, too. 😁

I do hope your most recent claim works out.
 
Danny Linguini said:
Unbelievable. The fingerprint smudges were still damp on my keyboard from posting this when I got an email from Buck announcing the new 791 Range series. Somebody please convince me why a black handled Range Pro shouldn’t be my next last knife purchase.
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Because one more ain't gonna cut it. Now, get back into the game...we need you on that wall.
 
edgelion said:
With you. I've got 2 on preorder, and my eye only like 3-4 more, but after that I am D-U-N, done.

Then I'll probly go back to weird fantasy axes or something.
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Damned if I didn't get more folding knives and not one axe since I posted this declaration.
 
I admire the OP's restraint. I don't think I would be able to stop, I've just slowed way down.

Even before the Emerson that made me realize there wasn't an equal cost-to-satisfaction increase, I had already experienced a lot of what the production knife world had to offer. I started looking at my reasons for accumulating knives, in the first place.

I'll skip the philosophy in the middle of that process.

These days, a new purchase has to have some job that it does for me, and a lot of things about size, shape, lock type, and cost also have to be right for the credit card to come out.

It would seem that a custom purchase is the "logical next step", and I would agree, except that I decided to do something even more foolish, and try to concentrate on improving my own knife-making process so that I can offer the knives I would want to buy if they already existed. In the meanwhile, I still get distracted by the occasional electrician pattern, and I'm looking for a Schatt & Morgan that I like.
 
Landshark99 said:
After many years of collecting, owning now over130 folders 75 fixed and or kitchen knives, 65 manufacturers, made with at least 60 different steels, way too many multi-tools and saks. I want just one more knife, sell a few and then I think I am done collecting. I can only use so many in my rotation and even with whatever latest drop that shows up, I find I do not want anything else. Not saying there not a lot of other great knives out there just that I am good with where I am at.
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I've been repeating the "one more folder knife and then I'm done" line for the last 10 years. At this point, who am I kidding? 🤣
 
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