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What would make you give up knife collecting?
- Thread starter golok
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My eperience with collecting is that it varies with intensity. I became of aware of manual one handers around 1994 or so and became a fanatical collector, especially of Spyderco. My hobby has been great because I have learned much about blade steel, handles materials, etc. Lately, I have moved more into customs and my interest in factory knives has declined. Due to cost and sheer sameness of the one hand manual concept, I feel that my collecting is slowing down. This is not bad because it probably means that I will be moving on to another type of knife collecting since I have collected knives of one kind or another for over thirty years. To make a long story short, I don't think I will ever stop collecting, but my collecting will changes my emphasis and intensity from time to time. Who knows, in two years I will be collecting custom slipjoints instead of one handers.
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I can think of nothing that would ever stop me from owning and using knives. I do not really collect knives, I buy them to use.
I would sell every knife I have if the money was needed by family or close friends to cover an emergency, but I would get another knife as soon as I could afford one.
Carrying a knife is something that I have done since I was a young boy. That will not change. They are an indispensible tool, and something I could not do without.
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Keith
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I would sell every knife I have if the money was needed by family or close friends to cover an emergency, but I would get another knife as soon as I could afford one.
Carrying a knife is something that I have done since I was a young boy. That will not change. They are an indispensible tool, and something I could not do without.
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Keith
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glockman99
RIP Dann, you were a good guy.
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Just one more bloody cut, and I'm sellin' ALL my damn knives!.
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...I'm just KIDDING!!!...(I have SIFU "on the way", and I have a feeling I'm going to need to drag-out the Bandaids shortly after I get that SIFU in my hands.
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Dann Fassnacht
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...I'm just KIDDING!!!...(I have SIFU "on the way", and I have a feeling I'm going to need to drag-out the Bandaids shortly after I get that SIFU in my hands.
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Dann Fassnacht
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I'll stop collecting when I die.
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Ken
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Ken
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Glockman,
I cut myself all the time. I've found a product called "New Skin" that has replaced Band-aids. It's kind of like super glue. Clear and has some antiseptic. Comes with a little brush to "paint" the cut. By the time it washes off, your cut has healed. I keep a little bottle of New Skin right here by my easy chair. I've found that most pharmacies carry this great product. I take it on trips, too
Will
I cut myself all the time. I've found a product called "New Skin" that has replaced Band-aids. It's kind of like super glue. Clear and has some antiseptic. Comes with a little brush to "paint" the cut. By the time it washes off, your cut has healed. I keep a little bottle of New Skin right here by my easy chair. I've found that most pharmacies carry this great product. I take it on trips, too
Will
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Death, ammnesia, but even death. I heard that the lord (since he is the creator of all good things) makes a great custom.!
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Unemployment (or pending unemployment) would stop my buying, but I have an adequate supply for 50 lifetimes so I guess I'd survive. I might have to resort to trading if I totally ran out of cash.
Common sense-----
I don't really collect anyway, I buy for a (percieved) need. If I don't have a need, (not to be confused with "want"), I don't buy. My kids need food, shelter, clothes. I don't really need another nice $75-150.00 knife to sit quietly in a desk drawer. If I ever come up with another need, I'll make the buy.
I don't really collect anyway, I buy for a (percieved) need. If I don't have a need, (not to be confused with "want"), I don't buy. My kids need food, shelter, clothes. I don't really need another nice $75-150.00 knife to sit quietly in a desk drawer. If I ever come up with another need, I'll make the buy.
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My interest in knives waxes and wanes. But I haven't come close to losing interest, even when my interest dipped a bit. There are a lot of reasons knives are such a great hobby.
- High-end custom knives are a marvel of artistry and engineering, and a joy to own.
- If you don't have money for high-end custom knives, the production companies are putting out an incredible array of products in almost every price range.
- You can get any range of intellectual stimulation you want from this hobby. From history, to metallurgy and other material science, to practical engineering and ergonomics. You don't want to learn that much? No problem. But if you do always want another intellectual challenge around the corner, there's always something to attack.
- There are numerous internet media -- from usenet groups to forums to chats -- to slake your knife thirst and keep the interest-fires burning.
And then, on top of all that, you find out that the knife people you know are by and large into most of your other hobbies -- guns, martial arts, flashlights, etc.! That's why even when I lose interest a bit, my interest is always revived soon thereafter.
Joe
- High-end custom knives are a marvel of artistry and engineering, and a joy to own.
- If you don't have money for high-end custom knives, the production companies are putting out an incredible array of products in almost every price range.
- You can get any range of intellectual stimulation you want from this hobby. From history, to metallurgy and other material science, to practical engineering and ergonomics. You don't want to learn that much? No problem. But if you do always want another intellectual challenge around the corner, there's always something to attack.
- There are numerous internet media -- from usenet groups to forums to chats -- to slake your knife thirst and keep the interest-fires burning.
And then, on top of all that, you find out that the knife people you know are by and large into most of your other hobbies -- guns, martial arts, flashlights, etc.! That's why even when I lose interest a bit, my interest is always revived soon thereafter.
Joe
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Hmmmmmmmm..... That if in reality EVERY knife ever made (that means the custom people are incahoots) came from PAKISTAN!!!!
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Possibly my memory -- seems possible at this stage that someday I'll forget I do.
Probably blindness. Not saying that I'd get rid of what I have, but the visual aspect of knives is awfully important to me.
Certainly death. Have been interested in knives since I got my first at age 5, maybe sooner. Just always carried them. Simply wasn't aware of what was going on in the knife world until 18-20 months ago. Since then, my passion has only grown. Then, finding the forums turned knives into my primary preoccupation, what I do with my life. My health doesn't enable very much, but thankfully, the forums seem well within my capability till death do us part.
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Asi es la vida
Bugs
Probably blindness. Not saying that I'd get rid of what I have, but the visual aspect of knives is awfully important to me.
Certainly death. Have been interested in knives since I got my first at age 5, maybe sooner. Just always carried them. Simply wasn't aware of what was going on in the knife world until 18-20 months ago. Since then, my passion has only grown. Then, finding the forums turned knives into my primary preoccupation, what I do with my life. My health doesn't enable very much, but thankfully, the forums seem well within my capability till death do us part.
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Asi es la vida
Bugs
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Death would stop me from collecting. Unemployment or a lack of funds would stop me for a while. If the purchase of knives were banned outright, I would resort to making my own.
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Nothing!
I moved in with my best friends' family (6 kids). Not a great place to keep knives as the kids get into everything, no matter where....No job....I took my savings and opened a knife store.
I have more knives in my "collection" than ever before
(Currently over 1000!) If I sell some, I can always buy more, and I get all the fun of opening the packages and "playing" with them all over. It's like Christmas every week!!!
Pam
I moved in with my best friends' family (6 kids). Not a great place to keep knives as the kids get into everything, no matter where....No job....I took my savings and opened a knife store.
I have more knives in my "collection" than ever before
(Currently over 1000!) If I sell some, I can always buy more, and I get all the fun of opening the packages and "playing" with them all over. It's like Christmas every week!!!
Pam