What are your collecting interests now?

bandaidman

bandaidman

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I started out just buying tactical folders, almost all frame locks

Would buy a rare fixed blade when they appealed to me.

Lost interest in all for a while.

Recently got back into buying traditional knives. Small single bladed slip-joints primarily. I like Erickson, Menefee, and Richard Rogers the best. Also a new guy named Gene Wiseman makes a great custom user at a very fair price. Picked up some non-stainless outdoor knives as well. That is a real switch for me

I still buy only knives i would consider using, that happens to at least 75% of them

Will always be interested in lefty Mayo tnts though!

Have your collecting interests (or interest in the hobby) changed at all the last few years?
 
I go from
Knives to Guns to bows to paintball to my truck to mnt biking regularly switching (I swear it's like 2-3 month cycles of each).

But when I am into knives I tend to go towards folders, right now Im getting into traditional folders, before that it was tactical folders.....who knows what
It will be next
 
I'm not a collector, but I am interested in various ethnographic blades. Currently I have specimens of the following genres -
1) Philippine balisong
2) Nepalese khukuri
3) tomahawk
4) Finnish puukko
5) bowie

I still want to pick up examples of the following -
6) Philippine barong
7) Hungarian fokos
8) Japanese tanto and/or kwaiken
9) Scottish dirk
10) Argentine criollo
 
Still my favorite knife. Ed Fowler, Pronghorn.
David
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I like to collect knives by maker's whose work I admire,and tend to lean towards bowies the most.I have a stag handled D Lisch and an ivory handled J Neilson coming in soon!
 
I must admit I'm drawn to and collect almost any type of sharpened steel that catches my eye, especially pieces from folks that no longer are making knives....knives that will never be made again, and even recently have picked up in a couple of Art pieces. :)

I've always been enamored by automatics with 'hidden' release mechanisms and have picked up a few D/A's and others recently. :cool:
 
I started out collecting Kershaws almost exclusively.

Now I have pretty much stopped buying production knives and have started down the road of customs and sole-authorship handmade knives. The prices are quite a bit more but I can get exactly what I want tailored to me (and lefty-specific). :thumbup:
 
My latest trend of collection are on ..

  • Southeast Asian traditional knife remake
Here is a set of a remake Parang Lading Kedah and a remake Pisau Bungkul by Orien M.

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mohd
 
Some projects with some GREAT Makers doing a lot of hardcore performance oriented stuff. My taste has gone to almost all synthetic handle materials mainly the Phenolics. If I can't carry it I'm not buying it anymore.

Family stuff takes up a lot of time

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I've been mostly collecting and shooting my Recurve Hunting bows of late being that hunting season Is fast approaching. Setting cameras , etc. and shooting

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SHOOTING VIDEO

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa302/jparanee/fda04539.mp4

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa302/jparanee/2fa13590.mp4
 
Jparanee, are any of those bows vintage bear recurves?

I own one, a 48" kodiak magnum, from the mid 60s and I love it, shoots fast and hard for 45# pull
 
Ouch, whenever my interests switch to bows a bear Kodak variation will be my next one, I love the old bear bows, I have a Pearson too, but the bear is best
 
mohd said:
My latest trend of collection are on ..

  • Southeast Asian traditional knife remake
Here is a set of a remake Parang Lading Kedah and a remake Pisau Bungkul by Orien M.

ParangLadingKedah20in09bTheWholeSetSideBySide.jpg


mohd
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parang lading yang sangat manis pak mohd :eek::thumbup:
that is really sweet couple :D
 
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Lately I've been into full titanium framelock folders. I just ordered two Direware Solos in all titanium handles and I'm trying to find a reasonably priced VECP. Something about the solid feel, weightyness, and car door sounding lockup just pulls me right in.
 
crazyengineer said:
......I love the old bear bows,.....
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^^
Years ago I sold a Tamerlain HC300 with all the toys attached. I competed with bow when I was 12 years old.

Man, I regret that!

Joe that's a fairly impressive collection you have there. I appreciate the absence of pulleys and cables!

-Peter
 
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