So you collect Traditional Patterns, Vintage or Modern?

[Rivit]

I own very few knives made after about 1950, and most of those were gifts. I will pick up a custom on occasion, but they inevitably get traded for vintage knives.

 

[navihawk]

Vintage and new production for me. I too am an accumulator. If I see something at a yard sale or flea market I will get it if it's worthy. I change my trends around.I started to collect customs in the early eighties, but got away from it.

Here's my hodge podge minus the Queen in my pocket, and the bottom drawer with multi tools and this one...

 

[yobbos1]

Was a collector of vintage Schrade and Camillus slippies for years, then they went under and the prices went nuts.:grumpy: I stick with new Case knives now because I love slippies and with a young family I have to mind my budget. Tried the RR and Steel Warrior and even though the quality is there, the magic is not. Case or nothing now. German slippies can be nice too but I need to handle them first and since there are no knife shops around...

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Vintage and new production for me. I too am an accumulator. If I see something at a yard sale or flea market I will get it if it's worthy. I change my trends around.I started to collect customs in the early eighties, but got away from it.

Here's my hodge podge minus the Queen in my pocket, and the bottom drawer with multi tools and this one...

My drawers used to look like that now it's a monstrosity.

I really like the Fisherman with the bottle opener on the backspring, got a shot of the backspring side?

 

[GigOne]

I'm a combination gatherer. Too much cool stuff out there prohibiting a specific genre.

 

[Rick]

I started collecting "vintage" slippies decades ago when the cost of more or less "mint" condition old knives was still relatively down to earth. I've always considered it a...well, a 'crime' to use rare knives that still retain most of their fragile original factory finishes (see my "Caretaker Obligation" thread on this board), so those knives went straight into the display case where they thankfully reside to this day.

Even though my first knife as a kid was a little Case XX sleeveboard, I drifted on to modern lockbacks and linerlocks and basically considered slipjoints of any kind to be "quaint" asynchronisms from a bygone era; it never even occurred to me to actually carry one for some reason. It's funny how easily some things can hide in plain sight for years.

Fast-forward to my recent Traditional board epiphany: some kinda switch in my big concrete head went *click* and I was suddenly compelled to pick up the slipjoint-as-EDC concept that I'd misplaced when I was seven years old. Now, here I am replacing modern custom 'art' safe-queen knives with custom and factory slipjoint users, and I'm enjoying fine knives more than ever before (but the vintage stuff stays in the knife case).

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Thanks for the wake-up call, guys! :thumbup:

 

[Knife Outlet]

It is almost embarrasing. I collect Case Eisenhowers, Schatt & Morgan File & Wire, vintage jacks and barlows and Congress patterns of every description. What a mishmash!

 

[Ice Tigre]

I'm in that last one too, but I don't see myself as a 'collector', since I Use all of mine... Anyway, I don't care who made it, where it was made, or really what it is made from, as long as I like the feel, like the look, and its a good cutter... vintage, new, custom, or factory, as long as its nice, I'll take it.

G.