Sentimental value

I have a couple. One is a old hunting bowie dad had for as long as I can remember. My mom was mad at him about something so she used it to pull nails out of the sub floor in our kitchen. ( we were remodelling at the time). Made the knife dull but no damage to the blade.
Second is a bit of a story.
Dad worked in the steel industry so had access to all kinds of exotic steel. A local custom knife maker found this out and asked if certain types of steel could show up at his shop then any knife dad wanted could be made from that.
I ended up with them both when Dad passed away.
 
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Quiet said:
This knife (the top one):

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This Seb 21 Insingo was my first "nice" knife, and it was purchased for me last year as a gift from my wife for our seventh wedding anniversary. I tie a new lanyard every year, and denote the anniversary year of the gift by using a shifter assembly nut from a car that meant a LOT to me, and that my wife and I had a lot of road-trip/car show adventures in. As you can see from the lanyard, this is the second year, and next year, I'll tie a new lanyard, and there'll be nine total years represented.

This knife will never be sold, and on days I'm not carrying it in my pocket, it still comes along for the ride in my day bag.
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Great story and meaning behind that blade! I like that.

Mine was my Umnumzaan I bought with the same date of birth as my wife's 30th birthday. It's one of the few knives of mine she actually really likes and uses it herself as well. Great knife in every way that I carry and use all the time…
In fact its in my pocket right now. ;)

 
My knife with sentimental value is a Spydie Pacific Salt (blacked out, pe). My sister gifted three of these for my dad, my bro-in-law, and myself prior to a family vacation in the Gulf of Mexico several years back. I hold onto it because it reminds me of the great time we all had down there :) It rides in my board shorts any time I'm in salt water now.
 
Yup, I got one for sure. CRK Small "Vines" Sebenza. My gal got this one for me very early in our relationship - she's a keeper (the knife, too!):

 
Definitely a sentimental favorite of mine and just had it professionally photographed
by Caleb Royer.
Was lucky enough to pick this one up right here at BFC, almost 10 years ago. :)

Maker: Rodrigo Sfreddo, MS
Model: Gambler Bowie
Blade: 8.25"
Overall: 12.75"
Curly maple with damascus, inlaid silver wire heart, diamond, club and spade.


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Doug
 
My dad's old Schrade Old Timer (circa mid 1970s). I don't even remember him not even having the knife. It was always the blade he reached for whatever a person might've needed one for. And the thing certainly looks as if having been used heavily over the years, not to mention resharpened repeatedly. Now that his health is declining, the knife just sits in it's leather belt sheath on top of my dresser. A lot of memories attached to it...
 
I have a few actually.

The first is my most carried single knife so far (which is probably going to surprise a few people who know me), which is my SOG Aegis, in Digi-cam handles with a blacked out blade. It was the first gift that my girl ever got for me (we had only been going out for 3 months and it was Christmas), and was also the most expensive knife I had ever had up until that point.
It's not a particularly amazing knife, and I have since found that I don't like Assisted knives as much, but it is still my #1 knife in my collection probably, and has easily been carried the most out of all of my knives right now, since it was carried pretty much exclusively for more the 2.5 years, and was used for EVERYTHING during that time.
In fact, when I get home, I think I'm going to go ahead and sit down with it and put a new edge on it for the hell of it and reminisce a little bit now :D

There have been a couple of other knives that my girl has gotten me over the years, and those are also in my list for sentimental knives, and are pretty much the only ones that don't immediately fall under the "carry it or sell it" rule for me, like all of my other knives. I would sell the entirety of my collection before I sold any of the knives I have ever gotten from her for gifts, or my Sebenza 25, which was a gift from Christmas from my grandparents, which was my first high-end knife I has ever owned, and was really the one that started my interest in that level of knives, and eventually in custom knives as well.

The sentimental value of knives like that definitely trump the monetary value entirely for me.
 
Funny this thread should come up, I just came across my dads EDC that I can't remember him ever being without. Its a small stainless and wood handled Ka-Bar lockback in a leather sheath. Its one of the few things that I got from him when he passed, and probably the only knife I have that I would never part with
 
Two knives fall into this catageory for me A Linder Kentucky Bowie and B victorinox alox soldier . These 2 knives were given to me on my 40th birthday by my father who died last year. Not long to Christmas holidays now. Onwards and upwards Faron . Ps still having fun , life's short.
 
Quiet said:
This knife (the top one):

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This Seb 21 Insingo was my first "nice" knife, and it was purchased for me last year as a gift from my wife for our seventh wedding anniversary. I tie a new lanyard every year, and denote the anniversary year of the gift by using a shifter assembly nut from a car that meant a LOT to me, and that my wife and I had a lot of road-trip/car show adventures in. As you can see from the lanyard, this is the second year, and next year, I'll tie a new lanyard, and there'll be nine total years represented.

This knife will never be sold, and on days I'm not carrying it in my pocket, it still comes along for the ride in my day bag.
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Wow, Quiet! That's an awesome gift and a beautiful way to mark your anniversary! :thumbup:
 
Sentimental would be the only value of this tiny budget slip joint, the all steel one in the middle of the pics.
It belonged to my grandfather, and it's older than I am (51).

One of my aunts had kept it after he passed away about 48 years ago, and gave it to me a while back when she realized I had a pocket knife collection.

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No, knives and axes etc. for me are in the toys/tools category. Just another hobby/interest like fishing, motorcycles or metal detecting. Sorry to hear about your g/f Comeuppance. I have seen many die from addictions through the years. Some go deep from underlying mental health disorders, as common as anxiety or depression etc. Some go deep because they took partying too far and long. I hope that she makes it, some don't. And it was healthy of you to cut ties. Active addicts don't have relationships, they take hostages.
 
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