Sell all knives and keep one?

Like others in this thread, the resale value of my collection just isn't high enough to solve any kind of financial crisis.

Since multi-tools are out (why?), that knocks out my first choice, my Leatherman Surge. I guess other knives with tools are out as well, so not a Victorinox Pioneer or a Böker Tech Tool.

That leaves me with either a single-blade folder or a fixed blade. Assuming I'd still be living in a city in polite society, I'd go with a folder, and in that case, it wouldn't really matter which dependable, medium-sized folder I chose. Probably a Paramilitary 2, for robustness, but at the end of the day it's pretty much interchangeable with my Sage 1, Sage 2, ZDP Delica, Kizer Gemini, etc. I'd do okay with an Opinel #8, really. They all cut stuff just fine, and since you've just robbed me of all joy in life, I won't care all that much which one it is.
 
Well, huh, I just said this earlier this week. So I'm going to stick with what I said earlier.

Way back before I got "Into Knives" I had a Buck 102 Woodsman. It did everything I needed a knife to do back then.

Having been "Into Knives" seriously for what feels like my entire life, but is in fact is about 15 years. I have acquired, bought, sold and traded all manner of knives. Not super expensive. But enough to make any sane man pause for a moment. Barkies, Swampers, Busses, Falkies, BHKs, plus an embarrising assortment of many others. Boxes full, with the overflow stuffed in draws all ove the house.

My Buck 102 still remains one of my most favored blades. Partly because my wife bought it as a present so many years ago. But mostly because it just rocks for what I need a knife to do.

It is easy to carry, easy to conceal, easy to sharpen, cuts extremely well and has never let me down. It currently sits on my kitchen counter having had a hand in most of the meals I have eaten this week.

So that is my one Knife choice. The Buck 102 Woodsman.


Here it is on kitchen duty from last fall.
 
Assuming I would ever be in a position where I would absolutely HAVE to sell all my knives (save for one) because I absolutely NEEDED the money that bad, and there was no alternative way to accumulate said money, then, I would have to assume the one knife I kept would likely be one of the cheap ones that I couldn't get much money for, (since if I really needed the money that badly, the first knives to go would obviously be the ones I could get the most money for, and if I needed money bad enough to sell my knives in the first place, it would undoubtedly be a situation where "stuff", my favorite knives included, became completely irrelevant and unimportant next to whatever I needed the money for in the first place)... That all said, I would likely keep only my Böker Magnum Ironworker... Cheap irrelevant knife with very little resale value, but even next to my other irrelevant knives with similar minimal resale value, it has decent size, weight, and a sturdy lockback, and would suit my "needs" well enough in the event of an emergency, until I could rebuild my collection.
 
marcus52AR said:
NOOOOOOOO! I don't even want to think about it.
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DPC said:
I wont lie to you I much rather get kicked in the groin once a month than part ways with my knives.

...I'd have an even harder time getting rid of knives gifted to me

...Then it'd be almost suicide to get rid of the real special ones, be it because they're custom made or because they have some special trait ( like my Busse B11).

...I make it real easy here but I'd much rather have all the furniture and home commodities sold before my dear knives.
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This. I've been Accumulating and Collecting for almost 40 years, finally to the point where I have a decent collection: Most are discontinued. A few are family heirlooms. A few are custom-made. Even some of the "factory-made" knives are one-of-a-kind. A few are more valuable than I could afford to buy again. Several were important gifts...

I sure as hell wouldn't want to start over from scratch.

There's nothing that money buys that I need that badly.
 
I am keeping my Emerson Custom Super Roadhouse, I chased a custom of any sort from Emerson since I was 13 that knife is irreplaceable to me.
 
I would keep my PM2. It does everything; kitchen work, wood work, and hunting (field dressing/skinning/boning) work. It isn't my favorite knife, but it is by far the most useful knife I own. Its strength to weight ratio is off the charts, and it is easily carried and concealed. Its blade is long enough to be useful, but not so long that I feel uncomfortable whipping it out at work.

If I was a poet I would write a poem about it.
 
It would have to be my Military or my ASH-1.......

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ZT 562. Out of the dozens of knives I have carried, it suits my uses the best.

Let's hope this scenario never happens.
 
Sentiment aside, I guess I d keep the one I carry the most, a pm2 . Second choice might be an xm 3.5.
 
folder - Grayman Dua

fixed - my pimped Tekna Ocean Edge
(and, if I could sneak it by, my leuku)
 
Additionally, along with the one cheap folder i would keep, The first two I would buy again to start over would be a Mora and a Tram.
 
I'd keep the Kinfolks K380 fixed blade my father bought in 1926 and gave to me in 1973, all others I could replace.
 
My Mission MPF Titanium folder. This folder can handle and task and will never rust.
rolf
 
22-rimfire said:
That is the reality if I am not present to deal with my own "estate". Sounds harsh. The knives would get picked through by my wife's children or grand children. The rest would probably go in a garage sale or to the landfill.

Selling all of my knives because I needed the money would be an exercise in futility as it would generate perhaps a couple thousand dollars at resale prices. I have an accumulation, not a collection....
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Pretty much my own situation. While I have gifted a few, I've never sold a knife in my life. The entire accumulation is not worth enough to pursue selling.

If I had to pick one knife to use to the exclusion of all others, it would be a random selection from a pile of favorites. I would want a knife I could easily carry, manipulate and maintain, a well made simple knife, a comfortable knife to use in a size that would handle average daily tasks without being illegal in jurisdictions I might visit. For my purposes, that excludes all the fixed blades and traditionals and the big heavy-duty tactical folders. I could also eliminate any knives that I simply don't like based on subjectivity. There would still be a pretty nice pile of knives left over to choose from. So, I would make sure all the blades were folded, close my eyes and grab one.
 
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