What is your ideal, steady-state collection of cutting tools?

celticrogues said:
Who said anything about “buying”? 🤠
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He said (quote) "I want to own all of the cutting tools in existence". (end quote)

That would include all the cutting tools that I have, you have, and everyone else on this rock has.

Who knows what knives, swords, daggers, halberds, light sabers, and other things that cut, which humans have never dreamed of in their worst, or best nightmares, would be imported from the uncountable trillions of solar systems "out there".....
 
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I use these seven cutting tools constantly:

An old five-pound Collins axe with a 36-inch haft for splitting firewood.
A Gransfors Bruks splitting hatchet for fluffing up the firewood to bring inside.
A small japanese hatchet for making kindling in the cabin.

A Benchmade Rukus 610 with a Vanax reblade by Josh for EDC.

A Fiddleback Forge 16 inch machete for cutting trails and clearing light brush.

A Carothers light chopper for heavy brushing.

A .6 inch stock gyuto in Vanax by Bluntcut for kitchen work.
 
For a period of about thirty years I carried nothing but an Uncle Henry stockman daily, and occasionally added a Buck 110 for hunting or for heavier work. I have "a few" more knives now, but if need be, I could probably pick out just two for edc, and get along just fine. It's nice to have choices though.
 
I’m happy where I’m at. 6 folders, 3 traditional slipjoints, and 4 fixed blades. This way they all get loved and used. I use to have many many more knives, but most never got used and just sat around…I guess I’m just not that big of a collector as I thought I was? 😁
 
As others have mentioned, I enjoy the hobby aspect as well as the usage part. I am definitely a user: at home in my house, out in the yard, on the trail and while camping, in the car - there are times when I will buy something at the store, for example, and need to open the clamshell in the car before I get home. But for me, the hobby aspect is very enjoyable - socializing with other knife knuts, buying, selling, trading, oogling the eye candy....

"Steady state" for me would be kind of a bummer, except that I already have a pretty significant variety.
 
I stopped when my collection hit 150. That's when I decided to limit the hobby to just knives that I use or plan to use. I sold off or gifted 100 knives over the past two years, and now keep 50 select knives which all fit in a Pelican 1500 case. If I decide to buy a new knife, I sell off one from the case. The hobby is much more enjoyable to me now that I use the knives. I'll probably pare another 10 knives off in the near future.
 
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