I don't know about you guys, but I have already purchased more knives in the first 6 months of this year, then in any other whole year! We're over the half way hump, and I'm at 14 knives, not counting the two I have coming in! I know I have never purchased much more then half a dozen knives, in a years time. I'll bet some of you non-retail guys have me beat! So, how many knives are you up too? RKBA!
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Over the hump/a show of knives please
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I finally got myself the Carsons I drooled over for years. Got one in March, and another incoming from a fellow BF member. Plus a couple of productions including a pair of MT clip point Socoms.
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"Praise not the day until evening has come;a sword until it is tried; ice until it has been crossed; beer until it has been drunk" - Viking proverb
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"Praise not the day until evening has come;a sword until it is tried; ice until it has been crossed; beer until it has been drunk" - Viking proverb
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The only knives I've picked up this year are an Emerson CQC7 satin finish with wave, and a MT LCC stonewash finish plain edge on the way now. On my list are a William Henry Lancet with Amber handles, a Spyderco Vesuvius with shell inlays and a custom fixed blade user I recently saw some pictures of.
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I have two fairly well paying jobs and it's STILL hard to satistfy my "lust" for knives.
I was going to buy only LCC D/A this year (ok, or at least within the first six months), but...
... I've bought it AND
- CRKT M16-03Z
- Kershaw Double Duty
- Boker boot knife
- Camillus USMC
And it's not all there. I'm thinking of buying (along the autumn)
- BM 735
- BM 690 (who's got these in stock?)
- BM 750 (no, I'm not any BM fan...) or CRKT S2
It makes me feel sick when I think how much money I've "wasted"...
... mayby better not.
... I've bought it AND
- CRKT M16-03Z
- Kershaw Double Duty
- Boker boot knife
- Camillus USMC
And it's not all there. I'm thinking of buying (along the autumn)
- BM 735
- BM 690 (who's got these in stock?)
- BM 750 (no, I'm not any BM fan...) or CRKT S2
It makes me feel sick when I think how much money I've "wasted"...
... mayby better not.
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I seem to buy 2 or 3 knives a year, pretty steadily now for the past 5 or 6 years. There may have been a few 4 knife years in there somewhere too. The vast majority of these were high and medium end production knives though there has been a gradual shift to customs of the "user" variety over the last 3 years.
This has left me with a not inconsiderable collection of decent knives, some of which are rarely used now. I'm going to get to the point where I know it makes no sense to order another knife from anyone. All the possible knife applications I can forsee for myself for the rest of my life is repleatly covered by what I already have. Yes I'm still enjoying myself with all of these knives, though as I said, some are rarely used.
This summer I await the arrival of my first "true custom" in the sense that it is a one-of-a-kind, something collaboratively designed by myself and the knife maker, in this case, George Tichbourne. That is another sort of hump to get over I suppose.
Mostly the knife is a combination of handle and blade shape already in George's catalog (from two different knives), executed in a somewhat thinner profile, 3/32", than is common. I'm a proponent of the "thin just cuts better" school of thought, and there is enough strength in modern steels, especially at say 1" in width, that you can get away with dropping the thickness under 1/8" in a blade up to 5" in length. This one happens to be 4", my ideal utility knife length.
So we're going to see what happens to this, but if it is as nice as I think its going to be, I might have to redirect my knife collecting again to a thin version of everything I already have
This has left me with a not inconsiderable collection of decent knives, some of which are rarely used now. I'm going to get to the point where I know it makes no sense to order another knife from anyone. All the possible knife applications I can forsee for myself for the rest of my life is repleatly covered by what I already have. Yes I'm still enjoying myself with all of these knives, though as I said, some are rarely used.
This summer I await the arrival of my first "true custom" in the sense that it is a one-of-a-kind, something collaboratively designed by myself and the knife maker, in this case, George Tichbourne. That is another sort of hump to get over I suppose.
Mostly the knife is a combination of handle and blade shape already in George's catalog (from two different knives), executed in a somewhat thinner profile, 3/32", than is common. I'm a proponent of the "thin just cuts better" school of thought, and there is enough strength in modern steels, especially at say 1" in width, that you can get away with dropping the thickness under 1/8" in a blade up to 5" in length. This one happens to be 4", my ideal utility knife length.
So we're going to see what happens to this, but if it is as nice as I think its going to be, I might have to redirect my knife collecting again to a thin version of everything I already have