Price for user knives vs. collectors knives?

I buy absolutely NOTHING to collect. Only a knife with sentimental value may get retired from use.
 
I have no Safe queens.
There is no price limit. If I buy it, I use it.
Currently ~$700+ is the most costly. And I am not wealthy by any means. I just appreciate fine things, and the fact that life is very short. Other people think nothing of spending many tens of thousands on a new car, which I consider a huge waste of money. Everyone has a money pit of some sort.
 
I use all my knives. My most expensive EDC is $500.
 
If I could afford it, I'd carry the best, most expensive knives available. With that said, my EDC knives are in the $40 to $150 range. I have some beautiful damascus steel knives which are strictly for display / admiration. I just can't justify messing with that beauty.

Is that wrong?
 
whkento said:
If I could afford it, I'd carry the best, most expensive knives available. With that said, my EDC knives are in the $40 to $150 range. I have some beautiful damascus steel knives which are strictly for display / admiration. I just can't justify messing with that beauty.

Is that wrong?
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I don't think that there really is a wrong or right answer to this question :) It's all personal preference and where you are at financially also. I would love to say I use a $500 knife but at this point in my life I couldn't justify that right now. Of course once I get out of medical school I think my justification will come swiftly :D
 
Everyone has different circumstances.
I enjoy using nice knives. (Nicer than I should be using, but when I die they will not be coming along with me so what the heck.)
 
It must be very special to actually be carried if it cost over $80 ( even that is slightly generous ). For me that seems to be where good practical tools end and pure hype begins. So many of the advantages of more exspensive knives can only be appreciated on paper or are cosmetic. The tests in which they excel usually go far beyond what most people need a knife for. It is basically a mind game where everyone has agreed that a knife that cost less than $300 is not worthy of spreading butter or is not capable of opening a letter.

However, I am happy to pay more for a user handmade knife, somehow it feels ok to me while paying more for a production piece does not.
 
For carrying, my current two-knife lineup costs $8 + $20. I wouldn't mind spending a more, if what I liked cost more. But I won't carry anything that can't easily be replaced.

Buying knives to set aside as part of my Accumulation, I spend anywhere from $2 to $250 per knife. Just depend what catches my eye and what's in my budget at the moment. Most of my purchases are in the $50-$100 range, but occationally I'll spend more for a custom. On a very rare occation I'll find something good in the sub-$5 category (closeout Imperial-Schrades and Wenger SAKs come to mind).
 
I carry a $200 flashlight(surefire) and a $230 knife(emerson) everyday both get used alot. I really like fine tools they just work better and the only knives that get put away are ones with sentimential value.
 
My weekend EDC is my XM-18 ($400) and it has seen a lot of hard use, my weekday EDC is an M2 Ritter mini Grip ($125). I do have a limited edition small Seb on order, but that will be a safe queen. I will carry most folders I buy as they will not go up in price, so as an investment that is out, but I buy what I like, and use what I like. Steven
 
The most expensive knife that I currently own is the HH ($550), but I would spend up to $600 for a knife that Iam going to use.
 
I buy & use custom knives. I do not buy productions anymore. I have a Kevin Wilkins Avalon 3 in my pocket as I type this. I do not have a price limit on what I would buy for a user.
 
I spend up to about $200 for a user--beyond that is just getting into more and more specialized handles. I buy almost exclusively user knives.
 
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