What kind of knife person are you?

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I buy knives to use. I try to buy the best quality I can afford and settle for fewer knives, but have better quality. I have knives for light use, heavy use, dress, and casual, but they, everyone, are for USE.

But that is me. What are you? First a collector then user, user then collector, strictly one or the other? Do you like quantity over quality, and try to get as high a numbers as possible, or do you settle for just one now and then, looking for quality above anything else? What are you?
 
I enjoy knives for their design, aesthetics, and use. A well designed and executed knife is a thing of beauty to me and to honor such, I use it.
 
i try and use all my knives, but some that were given to me have sentimental value and i find it hard to use them. lets just say, if i purchase something, im gonna use it
 
I probably use about 10% of my knives. But I've got a lot of knives.:D
 
I go for quantity OF quality, but eventually will have to become responsible. :D

I only have a few I won't use, and they're historical (Civil War, etc.)
 
Both, I have knives for hard use (BM 551, Ontario MKIII, CRKT Apache II, CRKT M60 SOTFB) and knives I won't use because I don't wish to ruin them. Such as a Boeing Damascus folder my uncle gave me, I won't use it because I dont wan't to scratch it (and it came with a presentation box). But I do enjoy quality products and finding a good value. I am guilty of buying a couple cheap beater knives (no name chinese ones that are just a bar of steel with a point) and i use them and enjoy every moment of it.
 
I try to go for quality. It used to be quantity, but now i realize that i was just throwing money away. i also have knives for certain purposes. I am not going to carry a ZT 0650 in dress pants, but I am not going to be carrying a Kershaw Leek out in the field. Each one serves a purpose. Just sometimes, I find a new knife to serve in place of an old one, and that old one becomes quantity.
 
While I have way more knives than I really need, I tend to put most of them to use. Its not so much that I'm aiming to build a collection as it is me trying to convince myself that I'm refining my loadout
 
I am a user, and looking at any one of my blades can tell you that. I tend to go quality over quantity but i will buy anything that interests me. I try to rotate my knives so that they all get used as much as possible
 
I'm a user. Doesn't matter if it's a Buck or a Randall, I'll use it like it was intended...except for the Model 17. I don't think I'll be making any sub-orbital flights anytime soon.:D
 
Aw, the Astro's just a "survival knife." You don't need to go into space to use it. (And, in fact, the guys who did take it into space didn't use it there.)
 
deermaster said:
What are you?
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I'm a user, with a strong tendency toward hoarding. I think that the fun of the hunt, the purchase, the waiting and the trip to the mailbox is a powerful reason why I buy.

From a pure usage perspective, I could get rid of 98% of my knives and get by just fine.
 
powernoodle said:
I'm a user, with a strong tendency toward hoarding. I think that the fun of the hunt, the purchase, the waiting and the trip to the mailbox is a powerful reason why I buy.

From a pure usage perspective, I could get rid of 98% of my knives and get by just fine.
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+1

Couldn't have said it better. I guess that makes me a collector/hoarder.

I use a knife every day at work, but the last time I took one of my better knives to the job, my BM AFCK got broken and then lost all in the same day. That sucked!!
I was carrying a cheap Gerber for quite a while until I lost it too (found it under my easy chair a couple days ago) and then I started carrying my CRKT M16-01Z as a replacement. So it's the cheapo's at work and my nicer knives when I'm off work doing whatever.
 
deermaster said:
What kind of knife person are you?
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I'm a user. Have been for 50 years. For me a knife is a tool, not a weapon. But I like to experiment with different designs and alloys. See my sig line.
 
I'm more of a quality person. I have eight knives, and I feel that that is too many. Unfortunately three of them have too much sentimental value for me to get rid of them or carry much. So maybe it's more like I have five knives.

In fact, I've gotten rid of several knives that I just didn't end up carrying or using much. The Spyderco Para2 among them.
 
I'm more of a carrier. I rarely need to actually use a knife to cut anything, so before I became a knife nut I never carried one. Now that I am a knife nut, I carry them for the novelty of carrying them. There are three that are fairly rare, rare enough where if I scratched up and tried to find another one it wouldn't be easy; so those are for display only. The rest of them I carry if the mood strikes me, but I have two that I consider my EDC's.
 
I use my knives because they're tools that are meant to fulfill a need and accomplish a task.
 
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