The Problem With Bladeforums......

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redfeenix

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.....is that, the longer I spend my time on this forum...the more knives I end up buying. I've purchased about 10-13 knives this month already and I'm having a bittersweet/happysad moment :(

I know a lot of people here have mentioned it being an addiction, but has it reached a point where you needed to really hold back and think it was getting out of control?

Looks like Ramen time for me for the next two weeks sigh! ...ok not really, but you get the idea :D
 
Do not worry. this will get a little better when you run out of money. Also in five days August will start and you didn't buy any knives in August yet :D
Than sell some of your knives. That will not be much fan, but will keep you occupied.
I never bought more than six in a month. Mostly one or two. Sometime sell a few. all this fan. Enjoy the life. Just do not spend the money, which you do not have.
 
Yeah I hear you, but I have a hard time of letting go of my knives. I've only sold one knife from my collection a Delica brown ffg...which I ended up buying again, because I missed having it....and I REALLY want to sell my SOG Trident because quite frankly I just don;t like it, but I just have a hard time parting with it....I'll admit I baby my knives a lot and take a lot of care of them, so saying goodbye really hurts :(

Once I purchase a knife I always tell myself , "Alright, thats it..its part of the family now."

And it stays that way...I'll admit my collection isn't very big....but there's a part of me that wants to "collect" them and not sell no matter what...so funding my habit is a bit of a problem :(

I guess you could say I have a knife keeping OCD :D
 
Guilty! I got myself in a bad hole $$ but got out. Now I buy one to sell one or trade only.
Be careful!!
 
I've sold three handguns in the last six months to financy my knife interests. And I have a new CRK Sebbie coming in today. With all the selling, I'm stilll in the black, but there is that certain folder that has been calling to me for a while now...
:) Sonny
 
Sonnydaze said:
I've sold three handguns in the last six months to financy my knife interests. And I have a new CRK Sebbie coming in today. With all the selling, I'm stilll in the black, but there is that certain folder that has been calling to me for a while now...
:) Sonny
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Me too, except I sold one AR to fund knives...
 
I've actually found the opposite. I've been spending less since I started. its almost like the nicotine patch but for knives. I still want to drain my rainy day funds for sharp things but at least I have somewhere I can vent some of the building pressure.
 
This can be an addiction but I prefer to think of it as an enthusiasm. I think a person has to have something in life that they are enthusiastic about, whether it be sports, hobbies or knife collecting. There are a lot of things that people could do that are less constructive and more expensive, so knife collecting is a good hobby.

I have bought a good number of knives this year but only a couple a month. Mostly I sold other stuff to pay for the knives, which I had to do since I haven't had an income for the past 18 months. But as other people have said, buy what you can but don't spend more than you have. And you can sit back a little and enjoy the knives that you do have, especially the new ones, and the ones that you still want you can buy gradually as your finances permit. This gives you something to look forward to and you might find that after awhile you decide that some of the knives that you wanted you really don't want anymore.
 
This is not meant as help or advice, but an effective way to stop the addiction/enthusiasm is to MAKE a knife. Somehow, that quells the obsession with knives... or at least with possessing production knives. I've talked to veteran custom knifemakers and they are oddly not much interested in production knives at all. They might merely keep up with what's going on in the industry, but they don't seem interested in owning/collection production knives.

I made a knife recently, and honestly, that blue FFG Delica I was thinking about getting a couple of months ago, I'm not thinking about now.
 
Don't go nuts and forget the important stuff. I went from Cold Steel and CRKT to Chris Reeve and Strider, and barely broke into the custom folder market, enough to get my feet wet. Now, I still have a few CRK's, most of my fixed blades are custom bushcraft style knives, and the majority of my folders are all slipjoints. It's taken me a lot of $ to find out that slipjoints and custom fixed blades are pretty much where it's at for me.

Of course, I want most every regular, classic, 21 and 25 Sebenza out there, so I don't know how much has changed.

Hang out here, buy some knife books and knife magazines, and learn as much as you can about the knives you want to get.
 
pibbxtra19 said:
I feel you, after a Hinderer, CRK TI Lock, and a Strider this month, I'm broke.
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OMG, no wonder you're broke. Particularly with that Hinderer!!!!!

calvinw said:
This is not meant as help or advice, but an effective way to stop the addiction/enthusiasm is to MAKE a knife.
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The last time I tried to make a knife was about 1985, and I never got past the plastic "model" stage. I bought some good steel, and the bandsaws at work wouldn't even touch it. So, twenty-five years later, I'm into "production" knives. I don't recommend trying to make a knife; at least it didn't work for me.
I realize that there is tooling these days that would cut that steel just fine, but it's a bit too late for me. I had read everything I could get by Blackie Collins, who was then "the Rage" in knife-making. I had done some amateur jewelry (back then), and some watercolor painting (back then). So I guess that knife-making must fulfill some kind of artistic bent in some folks. I guess I'll be content, nowadays, with production knives, although I do lean toward the higher-end stuff, like CRK.
My wife just saw my latest new small Sebenza with lignum vitae inlays...and she said "My gosh, that's beautiful." So yeah, there's the art.
Sonny
 
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Well, no doubt 10-13 knives in a single month is a little crazy but it depends on what you are paying for each knife in my opinion. I bought an Umfaan, a Small Sebenza Insingo, a large Sebenza Insingo and a Lionsteel SR-1B all in about 2 weeks. If it goes in cycles it really is not that bad, but if you are stuck in a 10-13 knife months for a while than you got problems.
 
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