What knifes cost shook you up, but then you were glad to have it?

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Have you gotten a knife you couldn't wait to have, or one that you got in bidding, then suffered some buyer's remorse afterward, only to have it melt away when you starting to enjoy what you had bought?
 
If I've had it, it's been awhile because I don't remember. The only thing that I was ever truly extatic over was when I bought my first small regular Sebenza two years ago. I thought it was the coolest knife ever, plus I had been saving for it. It was the first time I'd ever spent $300 for a knife. My biggest remorse story also comes from a Sebenza, an $800 Sebenza. It belonged to another forumite and I told him I had to have it, long story short I bought it, decided I didn't want it two days later, and he still owes me $400! :rolleyes:
 
I was a little unimpressed with my Tai Goo bush Bowie until I used it. It's big, but it chops better than kukris I own that are much, much larger. It absorbs handshock like nobody's business. I'd take it with me when hiking if it was a little smaller :D
 
I bid on 3 knives at the Evening of the Cutlery Arts last October in Huntington Beach; the above mentioned knife, Chris Reeve Handmade, and a Harvey Dean Damascus Bowie. I would have gladly taken any one of them.

When I made the rounds after the drawings had taken place, I "won" the Osborne. It was $1,500, only the second time in my life that I had spent that much on a knife. BG-42 steel, semi-interframe, MOP "scales", and 18k gold pins. It is the smoothest, cleanest mid-lock that I own, and every knifemaker that I show it too marvels at the simplicity and relative perfection that this knife is.

It makes me very happy to own it, but at the time I was afraid that I was going to soil my trousers. :D

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
No. Sometimes, I've bought a knife and then regretted it, but I've never done a back and forth. Even when I changed my mind, it's generally been because I bought something on the net and was disappointed by the quality when I got it.
 
Every time I buy a Loveless I have pains over the money I'm spending, but within six months I see a similar knife that sold for more money, and I start to breath again. I don't know of too many other makers who's knives consistantly increase in value like the Loveless.
 
I'm with Joss - I have had the occasional experience of buyer's remorse, but never had flip back again. And the incidents of buyer's remorse are increasingly distant memories as I have come to understand what I like in a knife and why.

Cheers,

Roger
 
Nearly every time I purchase a knife. When you lay out a considerable amount of cash, you expect nothing short of perfection. As we all know, this is very rarely the case. Whether it is something not finished exactly as you think it should be, something in the design that you wish were just a tiny bit different, it doesn't perform the way you imagined or the overall package just doesn't hit you where you thought it would. I think this is normal when your dealing with something as personal as knives. Sometimes the buyer's remorse never goes away and I will sell the piece. Sometimes it does when you find the knife meets or exceeds your real world needs rather than those conjured up in your mind.
 
My Jim Hammonds. I bought them when I was an E5 on active duty. That was a big chunk out of my pocket. Worth every penny. Never looked back.
 
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