What is your knife budget?

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When I tell non-knife people that I spend between $50 and $100 a month on a new knife or sharpening equipment, I generally get an incredulous stare in return. Then they do a little math and exclaim, "You mean you spend around $1,000 a year on KNIVES???" :eek:

I think my budget is pretty reasonable, considering all the great products coming out each year. I would be interested in knowing how much other forumites spend on their favorite hobby. :D

Regards, -Alex
 
my budget and that of my hubby runs around $150.00 a month. we try to support a couple of young and upcoming knifemakers in the area at local shows.
 
I'd say you were very reasonable with those expenditures.

Just since January I have ordered a $3200.00 Bowie, ordered a $ 2500.00 bowie, taken possession of a 2200.00 Bowie, a $1300.00 bowie, $700.00 hunter, $150.00 commercial bowie by spyderco, two folders for $100+ each at my cost, and a few kydex rigs to hold them.

What that come to? $10,500, actual outlay so far [ no money down on the orders ] is $4800.00

I better slow down, thanks for getting me to add this up here, it shows I have been a little overboard in 04 already. Normal yearly expenditures on knives runs $4-6000.00, more or less.

Ya, I got it bad, but it beats drinking and peeing the money away at bars and I'm home at night where I belong. My wife is very understanding about the OCD I suffer from.

Brownie
 
but more than the general populace. My last knife was a little Anza that I picked up almost a month ago for $30. The bulk of my tax returns went to a new longblock for my '65 VW. This next paycheck will be going towards a new oil cooler and new exhaust. When my little Lucy is back on the road I can start to work on my wife's '65 Plymouth (upgrade to disc brakes, new sterring gear box, rally wheels from a '71 Dart GT). I would love to pick up a Martindale machete but I'll make do with my Tramontina, I love the look of a Pete's 110 but I'll make do with the basic one, I like the looks of the Howling Rat but when it comes time to get a medium-sized fixed blade I'll probably get a Becker Crewman. Fifty bucks may not seem like a huge difference but that money could go to tie rods or wheel bearings. A hundred bucks could net me a nice Spydie Millie or a sway bar or a tattoo. Knives are only one of my hobbies and nowhere near the most expensive. I don't dream of a Sebenza, I dream of putting a pre-'72 340 in the Valiant.

Frank
 
I spend only about $50-$100 a month, but then I'm a newbie (as in I got the bug just before Christmas). I had purchased a lot of knives (some okay, some really crummy) before that over the years, but I never knew much about what I was buying -- this forum changed that.
 
I'm too damn poor to have a "knife budget"...All I can afford is the postage to make a trade now and then...:(.
 
My collecting is totally self-supporting and sometimes I buy (this means I have to sell) $500 worth of knives a month. Sometimes less, sometimes a bit more. Finding a knife that will sell for profit in itself has become as interesting and exciting as collecting knives. I enjoy it.
 
I believe the last knife I bought for myself was a SAK two years ago. I ain't into buying knives, but I am into using them and reading about them.
 
My budget varies, but its not too big, I got a house to pay for and petrol for my car and they are very very expensive over here in the UK...

Last year I spent around £1000 on knives etc (thats $1600 - $1800 sepending on exchange rate) but that doesnt go too far over here in the UK as knives are also very expensive!!
 
Budget? We ain't got no budget. We don't need no budget. I don't have to show you any stinking budget!

Seriously, I can't say that I have a fixed budget. I just try to spend less than I make.
 
dsvirsky said:
...I just try to spend less than I make.
Click to expand...

:D :p :D

Great idea, I'll have to try it sometime.


Mine is a closed system - if I lose money selling and trading, my collection loses value, if I make money selling and trading, my collection raises in value.
 
Probably a couple of K per year now thanks to you guys and your bad influences. :D
John...
Waiting patiently for UPS to drop off my gen 5 Strider SnG tanto today.
 
Knife budget? Great idea! I'll swing that one by my wife tonight, I'm sure she'll like the idea, :footinmou .

I try to keep it simple and buy only knives I "really" want. Of course this still includes the occasional impulse purchase. But all things considered, I spend maybe $100 a month at most, and try to spread it out between cheaper knives (read CRKT and the like here) and better production knives (benchmade, spyderco, etc.). Somewhere along the line I am looking forward to moving up to semi-custom (Chris Reeve, William Henry, etc.) and then full blown one of a kind customs. I'm still relatively young, the better side of 30 :p , and am sure hoping my income continues to increase as my age does.
 
I just got started in a serious way over the last 18 months, averaging about $700/mo., one Ralph, one Sebenza, one Camilus Dominator and all the rest Busses.
 
Well, ever since I discovered the world of guns and fine knives, I have diverted money that was basically wasted (eating out, seeing movies, cd's etc.) to buy the stuff I really want. I spend around $40-$60 US dollars a month on this stuff, so I can only buy what I *really* want, not what I sorta want. ;)
 
I probably average around $50 a month. I may have a month or two go by and then drop a $100. But not that often. I've been over my average a little lately with a CRKT M1, an Al Mar S30v operator and a Gerber Silver Trident in the last 3 mo. But I will probably hold off for another month or so.( Yeah right :p
 
My knife purchases have become so seldom of late, I don't think I have a budget anymore. I've spent less than $100.00 so far this year, and most of that has been on Swiss Army Knives as I hone my handle scale making abilities. I doubt that I spent more than $250.00 on knives all last year.

I do believe that I've finally become quite comfortable with the knives I have. Newer purchases are merely done out of curiosity over new companies. Something is dreadfully wrong with me!!! :eek:
 
I looked at my MC statements over the last four years and I've spent a tad over $ 160.000 on knives. That is just plain dumb. That money could of been spent on a more reasonable pursuit. Like paying off my house or guns. :D
The odd part is I'm just an average working guy with an addiction to knives.
I'm a slow learner. After 56 years of sucking air, I've only resently discovered the solution to this problem. It is called TRADE not buy !
 
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