What kind of knife person are you?

[Liquidm1980]

i would say a collector then user. there are numerous knives i have only played with. i work in an office setting and hardly use the knife i carry.

 

[sambo.]

i have no safe queens. i look at quality of materials, design and workmanship before considering price.

 

[Bastid]

I probably use about 10% of my knives. But I've got a lot of knives.

That fits me pretty well.

I mostly collect daggers and slipjoints and generally consider them the most difficult knives to make well; most makers I know agree with that. At the same time, there are representatives of of just about every style that I have accumulated over the decades from balisongs to autos to bowies. I just ordered my first custom sword this year.

Most experienced collectors will tell you that a knife collection is not complete without daggers, but they are pretty much useless, if not illegal in some places, as an edc.

I do use and carry quite a few slipjoints.

A couple of safe queen examples.

A couple of users from Tony and Reese Bose. They are highly collectable and quite valuable. At the same time, I can carry them and should I decide to sell them they will without a doubt still bring more than was paid for them. They also could be sent back for a fluff and buff to the maker and bring more if priced fairly in the blink of an eye they are so much in demand.

 

[Charlie Mike]

When I am carrying with a bent towards potential defensive purposes, it's a Reese Weiland CQC8-styled folder on steroids

How is the 3V on that proto holding up?

 

[22-rimfire]

I probably use about a third of my knives. Most were bought to use, although there is a serious question as to how many does one person really need to "use". I keep spares on the ones I use daily to replace them if I bugger one up badly or loose it. I seldom use a knife that I have paid more than about $150 these days. No Sebenza's in my accumulation.

 

[Toyz]

I am a user - and am on the lifelong quest to find the "perfect" knife.

I don't buy anything with the intention of letting it sit.

 

[jbob24]

Agreed ^^^

If I had more space and money I would probably collect but since I don't, I am content to buy what I like as long as it's something that I'm willing to use

I've accumulated less than 50 knives... Every one has seen at least a day at work or out camping. If I don't end up liking it, or find I won't use it for some reason, it has to go somewhere it will be appreciated more

 

[mucklechumps]

I'm a user. I just spent the most I've ever spent on a knife. Its a Jens Anso Outbreak 67 and I'm going to USE it. Its kind of like my Persian carpets. I love looking at them under my feet. I dont buy knives to re-sell, I buy to enjoy them in my pocket.

 

[Wayne Whitney]

OK I am a collector and a user. I have a fairly large collection of folders with either nice stag handles or Mother of Peral, or Abalone sides. I also have a number of tacticals that I have in my collection. I also have a number of knives that I carry both folders and fixed blades. I consider a knife as a tool to use for what ever I might need it for. If I need a weapon I normally carry a compact 9, a 380 or my favorite a V-10 45 compact. If it comes down to having to use my knife for defense I am smart enough to know that I am in deep sh.., I consider knives as works of art and function and when that comes together I am sorely tempted to purchase it, then I will decide if I want to carry it or display it for my enjoyment and the enjoyment of others.

 

[puukkoman]

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.

I echo this sentiment.

 

[mr.trooper]

I usually buy a knife for its collector or aesthetic value, but I will carry it a few times at first just to get a feel for it - then I clean it up and put it away, and go back to my work knives.

 

[Peter Parker]

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?

That is pretty much me but I do collect some on traditionals.

 

[puyallupn8ive]

I'm both user, and collector. I have knives that I won't use, and I have my edc knives.

 

[uyotg]

With my outdoor knives, I'm more of a dreamer. I buy user knives with all the intention of using them hard and for manly things, but 1. I don't get so many chances to go out and 2. my genes did not bless me with a full manly beard. It's more of a fantasy to me, I guess, but I will jump on the chance to go out into the wilderness when I have it, no doubt about it.

With my kitchen knives, I used to be a collector, but I think I've found some I'm satisfied with, and I'm a proud user of those knives now.

In both cases, I'm still learning how to handle them.

 

[wildpig001]

YOU HAVE 350 KNIVES? I'd say yer quite normal by my way o reckoning,, course i am also in favor of owning a machine if you wana and in favor of public hangin....... i do draw the line at privately owned hand grenades and rpg's....

 

[CARRERA50]

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.

That's pretty much me as well. My good stuff is just too damn pretty to scuff up. My mother used to have this little embroidered poem:

If what shone afar so grand
Turns to nothing in thy hand
On again, for virtue lies
in the struggle, not the prize.

Anticipation is everything.

 

[Never Dull]

Yeah, I keep my pistol on the closest cop...

As they say, when seconds count the police are just minutes away!!!

 

[Fishstalker]

I'm a knife user, not a collector. I don't buy knives to put them away. Although my collection is growing daily. I've come to realize that it's important to handle a knife and find what you like and want instead of just buying because everyone else has one. While I have over 50 knives, I have 7 that are my favorites.

 

[cziv]

This kind

Cut down about a dozen small branches, batoned, cut pears in half (tossed in the air) finished with trying a big green black walnut ball (left all of that brown stain - my left finger is still dark brown) The XM-18 never flinched and no scratches, dings, chips, change in lockup, blade play etc. The stonewash is still glossy looking. :thumbup:

 

[dark impaler]

User, over here.