WHAT PERCENTAGE OF YOUR KNIFE COLLECTION ARE SAFE QUEENS ?

Well.....that was an interesting answer.......
Looking forward to reading what other members think about your response to my post.
 
Being a collector of fine art (knives :) ) most of mine are safe queens. But still have my users. I rotate a dozen slip joints, about the same for fixed blades, a few machetes' and about 15 folders (flippers, etc.). OH and toss in drawer in the garage holds few as well. One thing is for sure, no matter what you do with your knives, the addiction is real! 😎
 
20% are new in the box hiding from daylight. I tend to buy a knife and forget that I had one on pre-order. Some times I don't get the exact knife and then find it a couple of days later.

Just sold a new in the box fixed blade, some lucky person got a safe queen! Now I have some knife money burning a hole in my pocket.
 
Exactly 2, one is a small Sebenza 21 with the UG "Join or Die" that will be passed onto my oldest son at his wedding; the other being the Spartan Harsey Plague Doctor, I am holding that for sentimental purposes based on the last few years of hell.
 
I have a couple of knives that I guess would qualify as “safe queens”- a Sebenza that matches my daughter’s birthday and another one that matches the adoption day for my boys. They are displayed, not in a safe. All other knives get carried, but some are definitely used very carefully.
 
BillZee said:
337 knives......WOW !
I'm sure you have some antique and special knives in your collection.
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Nothing I'd consider "antiques" (which generally are 100 yrs old) but a variety of "vintage" knives (mostly Kershaw and Spyderco but also Gerbers) made 20-50 years ago and many more recently made knives that I consider "special" nonetheless.
 
I use them all, just at a different rate, saving the good stuff for last or simply later.
edit: I forgot, I don't use my heirlooms.
 
0.00000% I use them all. To me, knives are like concubines. What's the point in having them if you aren't going to use them?
 
About 95% here. Have 7-8 folders for the EDC rotation, and the rest are mostly fixed blades that I like, but have no real use for.
 
Probably 20%, but it's a moving target depending on what/were I would be taking it to do. Many of the safe queens are knives I still take out to nice events or on celebratory occasions.
 
I only have one knife I’ve never used. Oddly enough, it’s the one I’m eyeballing to sell.
 
Yeah I have "several" ;) knives and a bunch that have had no love. The reason is two fold, simply I like knives so I buy knives, that said I don't buy knives that I would never use (ie rare/custom/bejeweled/bedazzled :) ) and because of the number of knives I simply do not get around to using them. I could probably carry a new one each day and not give each an outing in a year. Like many I have also have a "set" of knives that for one reason or another are the ones that get all the love, and if I *had* to reduce to just those I could make do for the rest of my life. This is a hobby for different interests and tastes, I can't and would not be critical of anyone who buys just for the joy of ownership (I am quite guilty of that given among my bunch there are @18 of the same model knife - each a little different) some for the practical value some walk the line between both.
 
I have a couple of decades-old knives that I used to carry, but now they are too heavy.

They live in a drawer but are too beat up to be called SQs.

I currently have a dozen SQs (down from 85 two years ago).

I have six recently bought smaller/lighter Spyderco knives that I rotate for EDC.

So for me it is 66%.
 
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