The End

The knife bug stopped biting a while ago. I have my perfect EDC knives. Both folder and fixed.

The sharpening equipment bug bit after that.

When I retire from my current job I’ll be selling my tools to buy a Burr King 2” X 72” belt grinder. 😎😜
 
I am kind of there myself. I still love knives, but when Iook for the next knife to buy none of them really jump out at me. Or not enough to buy them. And with prices heading north I don't see it changing.
 
I literally could have stopped for all practical purposes with the knives I owned by 1990. No exaggeration whatsoever!!! I still own and use them and if I had to give away everything since I would be upset but with the exception of a big chopping blade I would really not be worse off. I don’t but because I need/have to but simply because I take pleasure from what I have. And my godkids will make out like bandits when I am dead !!
 
Sort of. My folding knife case being over full (got a few I need to sell) plus financial constraints have put a damper on my hobbies for the next few months at least.

I'm content with what I have, and I haven't had much peak my interest recently that I must have or I'll die.

Modifications are more interesting to me. When money allows, scales for the Spyderco Domino and GB1 are on the list.
 
I'm almost there. I seriously whittled down my collection last year. I've been carrying a Ruike P662-B folder pretty much exclusively for a year and a half now. I could be fine with that, but I really like Opinels, so been carrying a no. 8 recently as well.

I'll never have one pocket knife though. I have a few sentimental knives that I will never get rid of. I always pack a SAK when traveling in addition to my main folder. SAKs are just too useful not to be included, but I don't like using them as my main knives because of the multiple nooks and crannies they have, however I keep a SAK in the car and in the house, so I'm never far away from one. Saved the day a couple times when we had to open a bottle of wine and nobody had a cork screw.

Having less is very liberating.
 
ShaiHulud said:
With the last three knives in sight, I feel very at peace with myself, that I'm finally nearing the end of my knife selection, assortment, accumulation, collection, whatever word you prefer.
To those who don't know, I bought and sold off my knives in repeat more times than I care to remember, but I have found the knives I won't sell, but has also satisfy me in every way that I don't need to buy more

who else has, are, is, reaching this
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I'm still in heavy knife purchasing mode, but I've slowed down a bit from the last few years of crazy knife collecting. I had the crazy notion of limiting myself to 12 knives this year, but that went out the window pretty quick, after a series of binges and purchases triggered by sales. I've gotten a lot pickier about the knives I buy each year. Next year we'll see if I can keep the number of knives purchased to under 20. It could happen.
 
Danny Linguini said:
Every time I get a new knife, I think I’m at that point. Then I see that one more that I just have to have. I don’t go looking for it, it just finds me.

Rinse & repeat.
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^ yup same here.
(Of course I am subscribed to about a dozen different dealers emails, so how could I not want a new knife once in a while? Lol)
Honestly, if you want out of the knife hobby, this is the last place you should be.
It’s like walking into the liquor store for a pack of gum on your 3rd day sober…
 
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I can't remember feeling so certain of anything, anywhere in my life, as you do about the final shape of your knife collection. I admire (and envy) your contentment.
 
Good for you. After 40+ years, I’ve slowed down, but I still see something I have to have. My illness has waned, impulse is somewhat muffled, mostly because I stopped pining over favs I sold/traded in the past. To the untrained eye, I am normal, but … I am not.
 
Some people fall out of the hobby (any hobby) I guess.
I can’t imagine ever being “done”collecting and carrying knives. I just like them too much. There will always be knives that I want and do not have. I can name at least ten right now off the top.
 
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