The one that got away...

CD Fleischer

CD Fleischer

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After RattlerXX's great thread on what the best deal you had gotten recently on a knife, it seems only proper to list the deal you should have taken but didn't for whatever reason and for which you are still kicking yourself.

Me? A used but in very good condition Cold Steel Trailmaster for $50 at a gun show. Don't know why I didn't get it. What was I thinking!?



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Clay Fleischer
clay_fleischer@yahoo.com
AKTI Member A000847
 
I missed out on a brand new Cold Steel Ghurka kukri. Not the cheaper thinner one, the real job with the thick Carbon V blade. The guy would have took $100. I didnt have it at the time, but think about the knife all the time.

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Danbo, soul brother of Rambo
 
This is one I actually had and let it get away, but I think it still fits the theme (if you think of it in terms of women). Frankly, I can't bear to tell you about the one I almost bought.

When I got the knife disease several years ago,(around the time of the introduction of the Socom), I wanted the most radical, drop dead, wow factor piece I could get my hands on.

So I bought a brand new MT Hawk for $300, and later let it go.

ARRGGHHH, my first knife and an MT Hawk, gone forever. Why?, why?, why?...



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A custom Emerson CQC8 for $750.

Yeah, yeah, I know what many of you are thinking...but have you seen the going prices on custom Emersons lately???
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At $750, I thought it was a steal.
 
Big ol' Cold Steel Magnum Tanto..... $100.
I wanted it, I had the cash, my wife was standing there telling me I should buy it...

I heard some country song one time with a line in it that goes "Somebody slap me".

I hear ya, brother.

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Sometimes I catch myself assuming that everybody knows their way around a pocket knife. Then I remember what the first three letters of "assume" are.
- James K. Mattis
 
An early model MT Chameleon, for only $250 when they first came out, and the dealer in question took credit cards---AAARRRRGH!
 
A Loveless hunter in the mid 70's for 100.00.

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have a"knife"day
 
If your wife suggests you buy it, you NEVER pass on that one. Someone up there is trying to tell you something!

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"It is not criminals who enter schools and shoot children . . ."
--Ann Pearston, British gun control apologist and Moron
 
I saw a Boker Optima, you know the one with the exchangeable blades, on eBay with the ceramic blade included, as well as a sheath, and it was the bone handled one. It was going really cheap with no reserve, and ended up selling for $110. The retail on that set was nearly $350. I know, not all that spectacular, but, hey, I like that knife. Alas, I neglected to get back to it and put in a bid. I just tell myself that the other guy had his auto bid set at $200, and I wouldn't have won anyway. Oh, well.....

DD
 
Absoultey Mint condition Buck USMC M9 Bayonet for $350. This was before I educated myself on the going price for one of these. I could have saved myself about $200
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Now when I find them, it keeps coming back to me that I had my chance...

Dark Nemesis

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Crimson Horizon
Nothing but edge baby...
dark.nemesis@home.com
 
Randall #1 8" Blade w/ Heiser Sheath. I was 1 minute two late. A guy got it for $23.

Also passed on a Hard Hat diver knife for $75, a Randall #4 for $85, and a Buck M-9 for $50.
 
I have a Phrobris III M9 (made by Buck, but the military model) I paid £125 for it brand new.

However the one I regret never buying is a Gerber BMF sawtooth blade. It is the first... good... well reasonably good fixed blade
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They were asking £169 for it, which is about $220-$240 now. But I have seen them go for well over $300! If you can get one
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Wayne.
"To strive to seek to find and not to yield"
Tennyson
Ranger motto

A few useful details on UK laws and some nice reviews!
http://members.aol.com/knivesuk/
Certified steel snob!
 
on eBay, missed out on a out of production NIB valor butterfly knife that went for 9.99$. Thats less than what it went for when they were in production. Curse this auction snipping software!
 
Busse Steelheart E in NIB condition for $265 shipping included. Cobalt beat me to it because of some miscommunication between the seller and I. Cobalt... hope you finally got delivery of it and are working it hard.
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It would have to be-(i'm gonna get slammed) a Randall stag handle skinning knife in excellent condition for $100.00. I was in the Pawn business for about 10 years, and have had some good ones get away. This guy came in, wanted a loan on a set of Stiener binocs, Puma stag skinner LNIB, and the mentioned Randall stag skinner all for $350.00. I put $200 in the binocs, $100.00 in the Randall, and $50.00 in the Puma. I took the Puma, sold the binocs to a customer for $350.00, and sold the Randall to an employee for $100.00. That was STUPID on my part!! But I made it up when a guy lost two guns in Eagle cases with a Cold Steel Tanto. I sold the guns, kept the Eagle cases, with the Tanto inside.
 
Engnath katana in full polish and koshirae. just the right size and style too *sigh*.

Oh, and Howard Clark's oosic-handled katana of course.

Shinryû.
 
Oh, yeah, I thought of another one. A beautiful Randall (I forget which number) with maroon micarta scales. It was $250 or so. I think fellow forumite Professor got this one. *sigh*

Keep 'em coming, guys.

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Clay Fleischer
clay_fleischer@yahoo.com
AKTI Member A000847
 
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