Use the knife or just admire it?

For my birthday recently, my wife did a very thoughtful thing. Though she cannot understand my knife habit, she went and got me an oak, red velvet, glass top dislpay case that would hold about 30 knives. While it would have been a great excuse to buy enough knives to fill it, I told her that I don't but knives to put under glass. Who the heck would I display them to anyway ? I buy knives (so far) in the <$60 range for using. Alright, I've got a couple I have not used or carried, but they are exceptions. Most are legal to carry, practical folders.

I sent it back in favor of a Sharpmaker 204. Best trade I've ever made.
 
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For my birthday recently, my wife did a very thoughtful thing. Though she cannot understand my knife habit, she went and got me an oak, red velvet, glass top dislpay case that would hold about 30 knives. </font>
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My wife also wants to buy display cases for my knives. I think it has something to do with her being tired of all those knives piled on my bedside table.
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Dave

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[This message has been edited by dsvirsky (edited 02-06-2001).]
 
...And then there are the knives (Cold Steel Extra-LARGE Gunsite, and Extra-LARGE plain-edge Clip-Point Voyager) that I carry, but hope I NEVER have to use, as they are my "fighting folders".
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Dann Fassnacht
Aberdeen, WA
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I have several knives that I don't use, or have not used yet. I try not to buy a knife when I say to myself "Man, I would never cut anything with that one". These days I only buy customs, and I like to think that I may use each one. Though that use may be light.

My every day carry is a custom slip joint Toothpick from Richard Rogers. It's built like a tank with mammoth ivory scales. I get a great feeling everytime I take it out to open the mail, or cut up my lunch. Using it does make owning it much more special.

Jeff
 
Ok, let me try and take a stab at this (no pun intended).

I think that you should do whatever makes you happy. Different people have different criteria, and goals, for the knives they own. There is no single way to define a user's needs, and there are many shades of gray between Investing Collectors, and Using Collectors. Where you draw the line between these two, and which knives fall on which side of that line, is a personal choice.

Investing collectors will not use their knives, because in a market where condition determines value, it would depreciate the price of the knife, the same way a coin collector won't handle their Proof or Uncirculated specimens. Money was "made to be used", but if you collect it, those rules change.

Aesthetic / Hobbyist collectors acquire pieces "programmatically", or by "theme", to build a collection based on personally defined characteristics such as blade geometry (spearpoint, tanto, etc.), knife type (Bowie, Kindjal, Persian, Skinner, etc.) or one of every type by a single maker. This collector buys what s/he likes, and uses it. If it's worth something by the time they have to bury you, then so be it.

If you intend to invest, then don't use 'em.
If you are only slightly bothered by scratches, then use 'em a little.
If you don't care if you scratch your a$$ with the blade, then us 'em a lot!

There is no right or wrong. There just is.


[This message has been edited by Rovert (edited 02-07-2001).]
 
Got a BM 750 Monolock the other day! It is my 'cheap' Sebi! Great quality and if I ding it no big deal!

BTW thank god for stonwash blades! At least my LCC and Sebi wont show the scratches!

W.A.

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