So MANY Knives!!

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bucksway

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I don't venture out of the Buck section very often but "When I Do" I'm literally shocked by the vast number of different manufacturers and even more by the shear number of different models they produce! It's a impossible task to really know this market and that's not even considering the thousands (or Ten's of thousands!!) of Custom makers.
I was overwhelmed..Such a simple and basic tool our knife IS and yet the variations are endless! Taking in account just steels and handles a person could use a different knife every hour of every day for multiple lifetimes and still see no end of choices. How can so many actually sell? Is there a saturation point? I have close to a hundred Buck knives with most being 112's since I collect and display them in Altanta but truly how many 3"-4" folders does anyone need? With new manufacturing company's added weekly and new Customizers and makers basically every minute I seriously think we are going to run out of names for new models! I think it's a absolute problem right now! A lot of the good ones have been used and I bet a lot of intelligent bright folks in the business spend/waste many many hours trying to come up with a new name for the company or a 'new' model...Similar to 5 old Rockers picking a Band name lololol!!
And who came up with WE knives?
 
How many 112s do you really need? I think its hilarious how that statement followed the one right after it.

I get it though but they are not all Buck nor trying to be. Some like Spyderco want to offer everything from affordable and commonly available good "boring" knives like the Delica or Tenacious, fancy stuff and everything in between, some are offering huge hogs that I love like my few 5.5, 6 and 7.5in Cold Steel folders, some are just doing a custom niche, look, and dude... I can hardly even find people to do the services I want.
 
I have way too many knives as well, but for me I like variety, maybe 60 different makers and no more than 7 knives from any single one. Again we all like what we like.
 
My total accumulation has gone down but the value has gone up. I have around 20 folders, 2 traditionals, and 2 fixed blades.

I buy, sell, trade, give away. I've got a new custom coming next month (hopefully) and 2 for sale.

I'm long over the full Ti framelock thing, but that seems to be what a good 70% of what I see are. Chinese companies, and American brands made by the Chinese companies are hot, but I bought longer have an interest in owning Chinese knives, and to be honest, production knives bore me now. I like what I have, I use everything, but I'm at the point of wanting more uniqueness.

My next purchase (2024) will be an Arno Bernard iMamba with warthog tusk inlay.

Hmm, I wonder what the dentist would charge for a warthog tusk grille. That'd be badass for Halloween. Paint my skin green and id look like an orc!
 
K.O.D. said:
My total accumulation has gone down but the value has gone up. I have around 20 folders, 2 traditionals, and 2 fixed blades.

I buy, sell, trade, give away. I've got a new custom coming next month (hopefully) and 2 for sale.

I'm long over the full Ti framelock thing, but that seems to be what a good 70% of what I see are. Chinese companies, and American brands made by the Chinese companies are hot, but I bought longer have an interest in owning Chinese knives, and to be honest, production knives bore me now. I like what I have, I use everything, but I'm at the point of wanting more uniqueness.

My next purchase (2024) will be an Arno Bernard iMamba with warthog tusk inlay.

Hmm, I wonder what the dentist would charge for a warthog tusk grille. That'd be badass for Halloween. Paint my skin green and id look like an orc!
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I think that’s probably where most of us end up. Not all wanting an Arno Bernard, but after running amok through the ‘regular’ stuff, we find something unique to our individual tastes to set our sights on. Some of us just take longer than others to reach that point. 😅
 
Danny Linguini said:
I think that’s probably where most of us end up. Not all wanting an Arno Bernard, but after running amok through the ‘regular’ stuff, we find something unique to our individual tastes to set our sights on. Some of us just take longer than others to reach that point. 😅
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I've been in the game 10 years...

Hmm maybe tomorrow I'll take pics of my "accumulation."
 
Some make do with a couple, some need a couple hundred...to each their own. I'm at the extreme end, but I can tell you something unique or interesting about almost every piece in the collection...and I still come across knives and mechanisms that are new to me.
 
WValtakis said:
Some make do with a couple, some need a couple hundred...to each their own. I'm at the extreme end, but I can tell you something unique or interesting about almost every piece in the collection...and I still come across knives and mechanisms that are new to me.
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I'm glad you've got an extensive collection. Your daily "Hey, look at this cool knife" posts on Instagram are one of the best parts of my day.
 
Decided to count and I have given or sold almost a third of the folding knives from collection and almost half of the fixed and I still have too many. Interesting to me is of all the knives that have left I only miss one or two of them.
 
I have too many, I have many that I have bought for the same reasons I have bought previous ones, so i wonder is it the excitement of receiving a new knife ( getting a new package with Christmas-like enthusiasm ) and not rediscovering the earlier knives I bought with the same passion? Maybe I should just rediscover my own already existing collection, reintroduce them to use and care and hopefully that will satiate the desire to get a new one.sorry, I am just rambling. For example, I like small fixed blades for small tasks and use in the kitchen, I got a LTW Bandit and a O’neill hunter but I have several Duck Childress knives that are what got me started in the small fixed blades genre. I like them all, some more than others, and I try to sell or give away some before acquiring new ones, thin the herd, it does not always work out that way. :) You know you have too many when you state to your daughter the ones you’re currently looking at are some of your favorites, and she replies that you say that about all of them. My name is C…., and I have a problem. resistance is futile. All I can do is deal with the symptoms.
 
Hashishiin said:
How many 112s do you really need? I think its hilarious how that statement followed the one right after it.
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Indeed a humorous situation.

I don't need very many at all. But I love knives, and want them all. I cannot afford them all, however, but at least because I make them I can somewhat live vicariously through those those for whom I work. I get to handle many cool knives that I would love to keep before they go to their owners. And I have managed to keep a few for myself, which I put through their paces as a type of informal R&D. Once I feel the overwhelming desire to own something new, I bid a tearful farewell to something I've been using (ie sell it to someone for either a reduced price as is, or a semi reduced price after some of refinishing and refining), and make something new for myself. And lately it has always been a Prevail, or some new iteration of my neck knife.

So at the moment, for knives the size the OP specified, I only "need" two, but I do t believe they will be the last ones.

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In the size range specified, give or take an inch or so of blade length, I also have a modest folder collection which all get used as well consisting of mostly Spyderco Resiliences I’ve modded to various blade shapes, and a Buck toothpick.
 
tony281sc2 said:
same here. Years ago I never thought I’d spend over $100 (on 1 knife)…. Then it was $200. Then $300…… then
LOL
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For knives purchased in the last 14 months (not including those I've bought for others) the median price is about $425. Next month I will add a $930 knife to that list. Not sure what I was thinking, but I put a down payment back in May when I ordered it. It will be cool as hell and unique.
 
bucksway said:
I'm literally shocked by the vast number of different manufacturers and even more by the shear number of different models they produce! It's a impossible task to really know this market and that's not even considering the thousands (or Ten's of thousands!!) of Custom makers.
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I don't understand why the few survivors in all the apocalypse films don't have loads of really cool knives.

Is it possible that our perception of the ubiquitousness of cutlery is skewed by our avocation?
 
When I first started collecting 112's in 2007 I made the decision to collect odd rare one of one knives. I first displayed in 2009 at the Blade Show with the BCCI and was the first (and still the only one I think) as a single model. So after more than a dozen years of collecting/displaying having 75-80 or so 112's dosen't aeem like so many..But I DO actually use quite a few of them. Some I consider a part of Bucks history and myself just the caretaker.
For many years the 112 was the 'Red Headed Stepchild' in the Buck world and the 110 got all the glory lolol! But in the last 10 years that changed but to this day you still cannot order a drop point blade in Bucks Custom shop. 20200307_160820.jpg
 
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