Were does it end?

Mike Large

Mike Large

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This is actually a serious question. Where does this knife addiction end? When do i say, ok, I officially have enough. My first 'good' knife was a mini griptilian. From there I worked my way through the smaller knives until I finally had the nerve to spend almost 200$ on my 940. Three or four 940's later I had to get the para2...of course right? After a huge spyderco bender I finally had the balls to get the 350$ small sabenza 21. I just ordered my 3rd CRK inlay sabenza. I'm almost 5k in the hole! And I in NO way feel bad about. I'm full on addicted friends ha. The serious question is has anyone ever felt 100 percent satisfied with their collection, or is this for life? Because honestly, I see no change whatsoever in the future...
 
In my experience you either buy a nice (or crappy) knife and use it for everything or you get hooked.

Me? I'm hooked. There's always something new at SHOT that I want, there's always a new knife maker I'm eyeing. Sometimes my want list waxes or wanes, but there's always something on it.
 
Well, I thought this spalted beech may be my 'grail and I could sit tight for a couple years but another is on the way and it's only been two weeks haha. Wondering if anyone has a super grail that has at least calmed them done for a bit...
 
It ends where you choose to let it end. If you want the collection of material things to rule your life then it will rule your life. If you don't then it won't. Sorry to state it in such a blunt fashion but that is the simple and most direct answer. If you want someone to be an enabler for your desires there will be plenty of people to assist. It's simply up to you just as it is with any other compulsion, addiction or desire. :)
 
I have more than I need. I could stop now if I had to.
There are however, a few more that I would like pick up. I really mean a few. Maybe about six or seven, tops
 
Mike Large said:
This is actually a serious question. Where does this knife addiction end? When do i say, ok, I officially have enough. My first 'good' knife was a mini griptilian. From there I worked my way through the smaller knives until I finally had the nerve to spend almost 200$ on my 940. Three or four 940's later I had to get the para2...of course right? After a huge spyderco bender I finally had the balls to get the 350$ small sabenza 21. I just ordered my 3rd CRK inlay sabenza. I'm almost 5k in the hole! And I in NO way feel bad about. I'm full on addicted friends ha. The serious question is has anyone ever felt 100 percent satisfied with their collection, or is this for life? Because honestly, I see no change whatsoever in the future...
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It doesn't. It all comes full circle. Even if you sell off every knife you own the collecting/wanting sucks you back in. It may take a little while, but it happens. Slowly at first, and then gradually picks up speed. One day you will wake up, and realize that you have amassed another collection. Usually similar to the first one. Its a vicious cycle, and it haunts all of us. If you don't sell, and rebuy, but just grow your existing collection I feel its like being a drug addict.......looking for the next high. You get a hard on for a blade, and jones for it. Once you get it you are good/happy for a little while......then the novelty wears off, and you are searching for the next fix. Even with these so called "grails" that we hunt.......once acquired the high eventually wears off, and we are on the hunt again. Its an addiction, and its not an easy one to quit.............Lord knows I've tried.
 
It pauses, or slows to a trickle with major life events (getting married, having children, buying a new home), or can stop completely with the advent of a new hobby (firearms, watches, new girlfriend). Or not. Basically, you stop/slow/start based on your current desires/responsibilities and available discretionary income.
 
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My wife doesn't know it, but every time she buys new furniture or something like that I go online and buy a new knife. If she stops buying crap for the house for a while then I stop for a while. I guess it's my way of justifying knife purchases.
Hehe. It's an addiction
 
For quite a while, my PP credit was running about 1500/month...one heck of a lot more money than I had. I finally got smart and got scared, and slowed to a snail's pace. I just turn these things around; I never carry them, so makes not a whole bunch of sense. For the last six or seven, I've carried either a CRK large Sebbie, Zaan or Bradford AVO, and have been perfectly happy. My collections were basically Spyderco, which shows decent reasoning power, but they are basically all gone now. I just sold two nice Spydercos and one BM 940-1 last week in order to finance the outstanding Wilson, CRK Starbenza, which presently resides happily in my pocket.
 
There is an ebb and flow to the whole knife thing. You just haven't gotten to the ebb yet.

You selling knives too or just accumulating?
 
I haven't sold any myself yet. Just can't bother with that to be honest. On occasion someone has offered to trade something for one of my knives, but almost always I already have been there and done that.
 
Well I sold my rats and a few cheaper bokers and such but all the benchmades and crk's are going nowhere
 
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