What is the most valuable info you have learned since acquiring your knife sickness??

I've learned that the expensive knives aren't worth it. Especially if they are just sitting in a case being looked at. I've gone from being a collector to more of a user and my knife collection as well as the prices paid have decreased tremendously.

To give an idea of how my collection was before...... I was into hinderer, strider, crk, and ZT. The most paid at one point was 2,200 for one folder. Now I have spyderco, cold steel, and kershaw. I try to hover around 100 if I can help it.

I've also learned that the super steel trend isn't worth it either and steels like 154cm, D2, and S30v are more than enough for MOST knife people. It's cool to have them, but they aren't necessary at all(super steels)
 
RLDubbya said:
That some days are hard, that some days are harder than others, and then there are the days that you just want to end.

That any distraction, even just holding a knife and thinking back to that fall of 1977 at Lake Nippising, can be worthy of my attention on those days.

That as I become less and less capable as the cancer wears me down there will come a time when I am left behind on the ice. That great strength will be required to live that.

That, at the end of days, we are all fundamentally alone; that we need not seek the approval of others for the choice of paths we've taken to get here.

That until we are alone on the ice, it is incumbent upon us to make the world a better place in whatever ways possible. That to fail in this is to fail as a human.

That Emerson knives are for real men who don't care about FnF.
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That right there is a heavy dose of perspective.
 
I enjoyed reading this thread. Some good insight. So I'll add my little bit of what I've learned. Buy what you like not the latest fad or what's in style. Use what you buy and if it's sits in a drawer collecting dust sell it. I was for the longest time hesitant to use some of these high dollar knives. Then I wondered what the hell am I spending all this cash on for it to sit in a safe or drawer. So now I beat on mine. If it doesn't suit my purposes it goes to someone else who might have a better use. Enjoy those badboys, life is too short and we all work to hard to not enjoy the fruits of our labor.. but hey that's just my opinion..
 
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