Price limit?

Maybe $200. As others have said, I cannot justify not using something that cost a good chunk of change. The blade must serve a purpose. Opinion subject to change. ;)
 
I used to stay under $50.
Then I used to stay under $100.
Then I used to stay under $150.
Then I used to stay under $200.
Then I used to stay under $400.

Notice a pattern? :confused:

Nowadays if I have the funds in Paypal I really don't limit myself. I haven't really found a knife I wanted yet that cost much more than $500. I'm considering a Hinderer next. Good thing with a lot of expensive knives is you can usually sell them for a minimal loss.
 
Since my collection centers around the peanut pattern I have to think twice if it costs more than $400. It doesn't really keep me from buying them but they really have to be unique or 1 of a kind.
 
Folder limit is around $500, fixed is $250 or so.

I only have a handful of knives, I'd rather have a few select high quality pieces than a drawer full of low to mid range ones.
 
As of now the most Ive ever spent was around 300$. But I plan to spend more someday soon on my two so called dream knives the ZT 0600BLK and ZT 0777M390 BLK. I use to have a limit of 100$ when I first got started collecting but it has went up and up in little time
 
I'm more like $125-150 for EDC knives, but I have gone past that on a few recent Spydercos. I buy almost everything used and that helps a little bit.
 
Years ago it was $50. Now as long as the bills are paid and there is food in the house I don't really have a limit. The thing that usually holds me back is the lack of left hand friendly knives.
 
Not really, but I guess a few grand would be a limit. I've not yet spent that much but I wouldn't say that I've never considered paying secondary market prices for the right Bose slipjoint. Not something I have the budget for presently, but if I do at some point then it would be something I would consider.

Some people set these limits and then buy a whole bunch of knives under that limit. I guess if that is your thing and makes you happy then cool, but I'd rather invest my budget in a very few knives that are of superlative quality. Maybe even just one knife. I'm not a collector, I don't need 25 knives sitting in cases and boxes around my house. I don't want to switch knives every day. I want one really good knife riding in my pocket every day for many years. You develop a relationship with a knife when you carry it like that and so that is my preference. As such, I don't have a specific price limit in mind...if the right knife comes along and I have the money then I could see paying a pretty hefty sum for it.
 
Probably $300, not sure, all depends how badly I want it. So far I paid for most expensive around $240.
I remember, when $100 was enough to by descent knife. Now only very few decent knives, which I like are around $100. So the target around $150, may be a little more.
cards94 said:
lots of doctors, lawyers, and engineers on here.:p
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I wish to be this kind of engineers, who is paid like a doctor.
Cynic2701 said:
Usually around $200-300 for a pocket knife; usually around $300-500 for a kitchen knife.
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respect. You are the bright man.
 
I don't have a specific limit, but the amount I spend per knife has decreased. I won't use a knife that's too nice or expensive to get some kind of damage from use,
and I don't keep knives I don't use. I have a few knives, each is different, or of a different size and fills a particular "slot". I'm also less interested in super steels,
440C and 1095 or O1 are fine, more interested in being able to resharpen in the field. I have smaller knives than when I started as well. I don't think I's spend more
than $100 on a folder, the ones I am looking at are more like $50, and about $150 on a fixed blade.
 
$1000 or so. If I have the money. I am at a point now, where purchase of a nice knife, normally means the sale of a nice knife. My most expensive user right now is about $600 plus. I had a user that was valued at about $1000 for a while (market softened after that and you could pick them up cheaper by the time I sold it to fund another set of knives).

I have about what I am comfortable having invested in knives for a while. When I "need" something new that is expensive, I sell to fund it. It is almost like not spending money on knives......right?


I seem to be leaning toward customs lately, and moving away from high end production. With the exception, that I am still very enamored with production slip joints (GEC etc), and have been buying Opinel knives, which are delightfully cheap, and fantastic cutters.


I am not a collector, and don't really buy with an eye to resale, or gaining value (this has happened with several knives, which was a pleasant surprise).
 
Though I'm single, my problem lies in that I have too many hobbies. Cars, guns, knives, guitars, cologne, audio equipment, computers (building and repairing), and shoes. So I have to divide up my money between those.
 
K.O.D. said:
Though I'm single, my problem lies in that I have too many hobbies. Cars, guns, knives, guitars, cologne, audio equipment, computers (building and repairing), and shoes. So I have to divide up my money between those.
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how do you have any money left to pay bills?:confused:
 
Well, I rent, and heat, water, trash and internet are provided in the rent, so I only pay electric and tv. I'm disabled and get medicare so I have no health insurance bills. And I make decent money at my job as well.
 
I try to stay under $1K which is the most I've spent thus far. However, for a select few knives, I'd go beyond that (Marsh Vanquish is at the top of my "grail" list) if it was feasible. The average spent across my current collection is $700.
 
When I first looked for a good pocket knife (singular, haha) I was prepared to spend as much as $100.
Now I have 19 folders the most expensive of which ran about $330 by the time I added Cuscadi scales to it.

So I guess my limit is best described as...evolving...
 
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