What knife purchace made you realize you had an addiction?

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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What knife purchace made you realize you had an addiction?

Mine was the first Spyderco Worker, and a Custom Bud Nealy fixed blade.

Until that point the most expensive knife I ever owned was $2 Colonial Pen Knife.

With nearly 300 knives I'm in denial, my wife say's I need help, there are knives everywhere, I don't see the problem.
:confused:
 
Just as long as you can get, food, pay the bills, and drive a car, your ok ;)
 
What purchase made me realize I have an addiction? The next one ;)
I think it was a BM722 - just the coolest piece of cutlery I had ever seen at the time, tanto blade, axis lock. That was the point of no return....
 
I shelled out about $100.00 (give or take) for a Benchmade 970 when they first came out. About a month later, there was an ad in a gun magazine showing it with an AFCK. That was all she wrote...:eek: Sick, sick, sick. geegee
 
I knew I loved knives from the beginning. But I didn't realize how addicted and into it I was until I shelled out $650 for a mint condition custom folder, just to put it in mu pocket and let it get scratched up and used. I knew at that time, I was truely addicted. So instead of fighting it, I just let it go. I figured that way, I wouldn't have any more money left to spend on some of the far more dangerous addictions in life.

JR
 
I figure the addiction started on the 1st spyderco. It was the point of going from $20-40 for a knife, to $80 for a 3" folder. Right before that had been a $5 cheapie.
 
It was a Gerber LMF (which is still sitting in its box). I always tell people: when you buy a knife knowing perfectly well that you will never use it, that is when you have a problem :D .
 
I've always been interested in knives...my first "real" knife was a Spyderco but things became a lot more serious after I got my Emerson Commander...two knives later I was already into customs...

RL
 
Back in 1968 when I had to buy a Gerber Mk II although I already had a dozen more practical combat knives. It cost more than any other knife I owned and I never really used it. It wasn't heavy enough and wasn't balanced for throwing. It wouldn't even get as sharp as I generally like my knives. I knew that I was buying it for its look, feel, and materials--not because it was useful. If I'd had more money I would have bought two or three.
 
A couple of years ago I allready had a few knives, when I got a MOD Trident. One mounth later I got a MT socom clipoint and it had barely landed in my hand before I ordered a socom tanto.

Then i struck me... I don´t buy all this knives because I need them, I just wan´t them.
 
...after having received a few incoming customs, one of which included a Phill Hartsfield -- and then getting yet another custom Phill Hartsfield simply because it was available and that they are in such short supply ..... does this justification sound familiar to anybody?
 
The knife that got me hooked was the Benchmade 905. I bought one for myself when I turned 18 and it's been downhill from there. Now that I have my small decorated Sebenza and my large plain Sebenza, I've really cut back on buying knives. I recently bought a Camillus Arc-Lite because I don't have a neck knife and it looked like a great deal for $20. I'm sure I'll end up getting a custom eventually, but I'm very happy with what I have now.
 
The realisation came soon after my '98 50/50 plastic clip, AUS 8 Endura purchase.

That knife is still going strong and is in fact one of my favourites from my collection.
 
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