Stupidest Knife collection

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T. Erdelyi said:
I bought 13 of the Franklin Mint Gas Pump Knives, I want to make a clock out of the knives, is that stupid? :confused:
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No, not stupid. Collecting the knives makes no sense to me personally and the idea of a clock using them is marginally less weird. Heck, I saw someone who made a nativity set using knives. Cute little gold anodized folder for the Baby Jesus, three decorated hunters for the Wisemen, Mother of pearl forlder for Mary, etc.

I don;t think your clock is weirder than that.
 
SharpByCoop said:
Some years ago, I paid $34 for this on eBay...

It is some of the best money I have ever spent. I learned to NOT accept crap and stop impulse buying. It's a valuable lesson and a knife that I will cherish. What a dope I was. :barf: :p :footinmou :rolleyes: :grumpy:

That blade opens with sand in the mechanism, and the edge is round.

Coop
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Great catch. :)

A.T.
 
Gollnick said:
....I didn't tell him about Surplus Sales of Nebraska....
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You are a nice man. :)

(Many years ago, when I first started 'collecting' knives, my young son saved many weeks of allowance and bought me a Franklin Mint knife as a Christmas present. It is the most beautiful knife I own.)
 
There are a few things that I wouldn't collect (but I won't call them stupid):
- Miniatures
- Production
- "Custom run production"
- Knives that are (IMHO) riding a bubble (Onion, Fowler)
- Collaborations between a top maker and 1 or 2 much less known makers (e.g., C2O's, etc) (exception to that is when you know exactly who did what. I have a Don Fogg / Randal Gilbreath collaboration folder for example)
- Fantasy a la Cronk or Hibben (I do like the Virgil England stuff, but can't afford it)
- Mid-tech knives
 
Don't ever forget, "What's one man's trash is another man's treasure".

As Knifenutz I think it's our responsibility to encourage new people into the world of knives at whatever level they feel comfortable. Let them buy what they like. Maybe you can show or share with them your perspective on the finer points of knives and the direction of your collection.

My boss was in my office before looking over my shoulder at some 2004 Blade Show pics. He asked, "What got you into knives in the first place?" I told him I had always carried a knife. Wherever I went I always bought gift knives for friends and family. I never realized there was other people that was into knives until one night while flipping through the TV channnels I stumbled onto the "Knife Collector's Show".....Ohhhhh Myyyyy Godddddd there's Knife Collectors? :eek:

I watched the show and the guys were funny and the knives were cheap, but suddenly I felt I was not alone. Next I found Blade magazine and Knive Illustrated and Tactical Knives on the news stand. That opened up a whole new world for me. Getting a computer and finding BFC was like finding El Dorado. But if it wasn't for the Knife Collectors Show I'd probably still be carrying a SAK.

So, like Coop and his FM Wyatt Earp knife, it's not where you start it's where you finish. Help folks that take an interest in knives. We're a small community often looked down upon, encourage anyone that shows an interest in joining our ranks.
 
Not inexpensively priced, though. So it would be stupid AND expensive.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Kohai999 said:
I think that collecting miniatures is stupid, if not the stupidest, and always have. Think the makers are wasting their time, when they could be making a real knife, and it is usually the white haired old ladies that collect them, the whole thing makes me want to :barf:

I blame it primarily on Earl Witsaman for putting together the Miniature Knifemaker's Society, and that fat, ugly bastard Ken Warner for publicizing them in the Knives Annuals.
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Well Steve, I suppose you're entitled to your opinion. Though I must strongly disagree. You remember that Osborne folder I just obtained, with Lytton engraving? That is one knife that I actually will keep pristine, without using. I can carry it in its pocket case, and admire the fine craftsmanship and artistic design and engraving, but won't be chopping brush with it. So what good is it? How is this any different than admiring the design and workmanship of a miniature? Niether will be used earnestly.

So you think it was a complete waste of time for me to make this Bowie?
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Or this one?
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The Osborne that you just got COULD actually be used for something, instead of a miniature which, in most cases, can't

Do I think that the picture that you show as a miniature is a waste of time? Yes, because you could have made a full sized knife in the time that it probably took you to make that one. You are free to do with your time what you wish to do. That is probably one of the reasons that you make knives. I am free to call you names, if I do not agree with how you spend your time. That is one of the reasons that I like to collect knives.

We have spoken many times of different people liking different things. When I see a table full of miniatures, I know that these are not people that I want to talk to. Doesn't bother them, doesn't bother me.

I like to work hard, play hard, get drunk, cuss and raise some hell once in a while, and miniature collectors are about as diametrically opposed to my social mores as you can generally get. I don't want to talk about religion in my hobby, but I do like talking about how fine a particular girl's ass might be.

Does this make sense?

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Kohai999 said:
The Osborne that you just got COULD actually be used for something, instead of a miniature which, in most cases, can't.

When I see a table full of miniatures, I know that these are not people that I want to talk to. Doesn't bother them, doesn't bother me....
I like to work hard, play hard, get drunk, cuss and raise some hell once in a while, and miniature collectors are about as diametrically opposed to my social mores as you can generally get.
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There are several threads about the AG Russle tiny little folder, which is basically a miniature. It can be used, and my miniatures will cut well.

As to the second part of your comment, you sure don't know me very well. ;)
 
"Minature knives are pure art. They don't have to be functional to be beautiful."

You like them, I hate them, venomously, and yes, I have looked at a number of them, held them, beheld them, looked at the little teensy weensy details :barf: :barf: :barf: .

Best Regards,

Steven Garsson
 
Steve, your knife hell:
Franklin Mint miniature knife series - collect them all!

;) :eek: :rolleyes:

Coop
 
Let's mix complete unredeemed crap, embodying everything wrong with Chinese production ca. 1992, with details so small you need a scanning electron microscope to read the tattoo on the ass of the woman engraved in the bolster of a Wild West scene featuring horses and tractors, advertising Red Man chewin' tobacco., each one different, 1 of 1,000,000 squared :D

Best Regards,

Steven Garsson
 
Just for Steven!

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Photo by Buddy Thomason

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Photo by Terry Primos
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This one does cut. Not much of a chopper though -- except for maybe little bitty 2x4's and Bonsai trees.
 
severtecher said:
After seeing this :confused: :confused:
http://www.vgg.com/swingline/index.html
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Hey! One of my prized posessions is my Swingline 747, old-stock, made in America, not those new one's they're banging out in China. My old 747 never misses. They just don't make 'em like that anymore. When I die, I'll bet that my heirs won't care about the knives... but they'll fight over my Swingline, I know that.
 
the possum said:
Well Steve, I suppose you're entitled to your opinion. Though I must strongly disagree. You remember that Osborne folder I just obtained, with Lytton engraving? That is one knife that I actually will keep pristine, without using. I can carry it in its pocket case, and admire the fine craftsmanship and artistic design and engraving, but won't be chopping brush with it. So what good is it? How is this any different than admiring the design and workmanship of a miniature? Niether will be used earnestly.

So you think it was a complete waste of time for me to make this Bowie?
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Or this one?
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I saw these minis at the St.Louis show and both very cool but the spearpoint is unbeliveable. This guy had the smallest and the largest bowie I've ever seen. Possum, I would still like to buy the spearpoint mini ;) Don Hanson lll
 
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