The End

For the last few years, I've sold more knives than I bought, by orders of magnitude. I still have more than I need, but my remaining accumulation are mostly users, with a few keepsakes. I find this to be a comfortable place to be. I'm retiring at the end of the year, so it's time to sort my drek. However, since I'm self employed and nobody will throw me a retirement party, I decided to celebrate with a White River Backpacker. After that, I won't be buying many knives.
 
SomebodySomewhere said:
I swear I don’t buy them just to buy them or have more. I tell myself each one must have a purpose. I dream of having only exactly the knives I actually need and use.

But I’ve told myself “this is it” so many times now that I’ve had to admit this probably isn’t it for me anytime soon.
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Earlier people's, hunters, fighters, warriors, murderers? Didn't have the amount of knives we do
Yet here we are doing what we're doing
Boggles the brain thing
 
ShaiHulud said:
Earlier people's, hunters, fighters, warriors, murderers? Didn't have the amount of knives we do
Yet here we are doing what we're doing
Boggles the brain thing
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Yeah, if you think about it like that, we carry more daily blades than a Roman soldier out to conquer the Gauls, or a Crusader on Richards quest to liberate Jerusalem from the Turks. Weird. My Uncle Charlie went ashore at a beach in Normandy, walked to Germany, and carried a Camillus TL-29 and the bayonet for his M!. When the war was over he still was carrying the TL-29 all the way home and for the next 25 years, until I brought him a new one when I came home on leave.
 
jackknife said:
Yeah, if you think about it like that, we carry more daily blades than a Roman soldier out to conquer the Gauls, or a Crusader on Richards quest to liberate Jerusalem from the Turks. Weird. My Uncle Charlie went ashore at a beach in Normandy, walked to Germany, and carried a Camillus TL-29 and the bayonet for his M!. When the war was over he still was carrying the TL-29 all the way home and for the next 25 years, until I brought him a new one when I came home on leave.
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Nowadays people just take their knives on dates, dress them up, stick them in cake, throw them in the river, fondle them while watching SpongeBob or whatever. It's highly odd and peculiar, at least to me
 
ShaiHulud said:
Nowadays people just take their knives on dates, dress them up, stick them in cake, throw them in the river, fondle them while watching SpongeBob or whatever. It's highly odd and peculiar, at least to me
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I'd say the overwhelming majority of people on this forum do not fall into this category. Most of us use our knives, regardless of brand, regardless of cost.
 
I'm not into sports cars, computers, watches, or video games. I don't have a bunch of tattoos, I'm not a world traveler. I very rarely go out to eat, or to the movies. I'm a working class dude that grew up in a working class home.

I enjoy edged tools, that's my hobby. I have more knives than I'll ever use up, and that's ok with me. When I get too old to need a larger pocket knife than I use daily now, I'll make the change. When my ticket is finally punched, I'll be leaving behind an eclectic accumulation of knives for the kids.
 
On a practical level I think it's absolutely fine to have only the knives you require for your needs. I have a tiny "collection" compared to many here (50 or so fixed and folding) are they all essential of course not but they are all used although I could most certainly reduce that number to around 10 or so which would serve all of my purposes from a Machete to a multitool and smaller folder etc with a few in between ....

I won't be selling any as I enjoy using them all, my purchases are far and few between now and yes are more based on
trying something new than necessity.
 
Dav1 said:
On a practical level I think it's absolutely fine to have only the knives you require for your needs. I have a tiny "collection" compared to many here (50 or so fixed and folding) are they all essential of course not but they are all used although I could most certainly reduce that number to around 10 or so which would serve all of my purposes from a Machete to a multitool and smaller folder etc with a few in between ....

I won't be selling any as I enjoy using them all, my purchases are far and few between now and yes are more based on
trying something new than necessity.
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If one were to leave the cities behind and build or purchase a cabin out in rural Alaska I can see a sizeable assortment of fixed blades
It's not like you can get a ups or Amazon truck out there in Tim buck two, so if one knife breaks, and usually by abuse. You'll have others
Someone once here said "knives rarely break because of the steel they're made of, it's usually by abuse"
 
I also have a "preppers" mentality, I should have lived in the US of which I love btw, so there's not much chance of that Shaihulud!
 
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Dav1 said:
I also have a "preppers" mentality, I should have lived in the US of which I love btw, so there's not much chance of that Shaihulud!
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I'm smack dab in the middle of an overpopulated California
I'm just dreaming
 
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