The Perfect Knife?

[gajinoz]

The perfect knife / knives for me are the ones that I am not overly concerned about loosing, dropping, sratching, giving away or breaking. Their are many beautiful knives that I would love to add to my collection, that I avoid buying, due to the above. I try to convince myself that a knife is a tool and thus needs to be used as such to justify the expense.

My thought are much the same as yours, or they were. Way back in my younger days one of my teachers told me: If you're going to get a tool, get the very best one you can afford, you'll never regret it. Buy sh!t and sooner or later you'll be disappointed.

Eventually I decided this should be my knife strategy too. When I first got the Sebbie I was afraid to use it in case I lost or damaged it. Eventually I realised that it was the best tool, (for me at the time anyway), and was meant to be used. It's extremely strong and unlikely to break, not with the things I'm likely to do anyway, and in the unlikely event I do lose it, well, sh!t happens, at least I had the best and I have no regrets.

Of course, if I knew that I was likely to be doing something particularly nasty with a knife or be in a situation where the probability of losing it was very high then maybe I'd grab a cheaper one. I can't really imagine any situation that I might get into though that the Sebbie or Strider couldn't handle. Could be different for you of course.