What's the longest you've gone without buying a traditional knife?

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Are you content for long periods of time with what you have even while window shopping? One can easily get into trouble with all the knives out there and constant new ones coming out.
 
The longest for me has been about 5 weeks but I *am* trying to slow down :o I bought my first traditional knife 3 years and 2 days ago, a Case Mini Trapper in CV and Chestnut bone. Since then I've been catching up, trying patterns and scale materials and lots of knives but I think I know what I like and what I'm looking for. Of course, there are still knives I want, see the GECs #48s with Wharncliffe thread I started yesterday. I have enough Wharncliffe trappers, the knife in my avatar is probably my favorite one, but I'm still planning on getting some more #48s. After all, I don't have a GEC #48 Wharncliffe trapper...
 
Since I've been keeping records in the last 5 years I've only gone longer than a month one time (6 weeks).
Over the same time frame I average one a week. Of course I've sold a few as well . . . :rolleyes:
 
I would say a couple months probably but it's not by choice!! I have a 1.5 year old and my fiance is going through college so extra spending money doesn't come as easily as it used to. :)
 
33 years!

The last one I had bought was a Parker-Frost (Schrade) 194OT in 1979. Still have that one. Next one I bought after that one was in 2013, which began my descent into madness and poverty.

Since I started accumulating in January, I'm not sure what my longest period of resistance has been. Maybe 3 weeks?
 
To answer the OP's question; What's the longest you've gone without buying a traditional knife?

Only as long as it takes me to get from one brick and morta store to another or from one site to another or from a site to a brick and mortar store or vice versa.

In other words, not a long period of time!at all.
 
i bought some slip joints to re finish and sell at a pawn shop a few years ago. and one at an antique mall made by imperial about two years ago. kinda want a buck trapper
 
From when the addiction started until now, I think about four or five months was my biggest diet. I am weak though and always cave eventually.
 
10 years. When I was a baby, I didn't even know what they were. When I was a toddler, I just lost everything. When I was in kindergarten, I didn't have any money. When I turned 10, my grandpa gave me a Buck. It has been down hill ever since. :)
 
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The longest for me has been about 5 weeks but I *am* trying to slow down :o I bought my first traditional knife 3 years and 2 days ago, a Case Mini Trapper in CV and Chestnut bone. Since then I've been catching up, trying patterns and scale materials and lots of knives but I think I know what I like and what I'm looking for. Of course, there are still knives I want, see the GECs #48s with Wharncliffe thread I started yesterday. I have enough Wharncliffe trappers, the knife in my avatar is probably my favorite one, but I'm still planning on getting some more #48s. After all, I don't have a GEC #48 Wharncliffe trapper...
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Trand, that's a massive & impressive collection you've stacked up in a short time!:thumbup:

As for me, before the Internet gave me unprecedented access...it was YEARS between knives :( who said the old times were always the best... Dark Ages. :eek: Now it's regular and I feel a knife-seizure coming on again :D

Regards, Will
 
Five years while I wasted money on one hand openers and sharpened prybars :D...

Now I've given up that addiction for bushcraft blades and slipjoints. :o
 
Does steel to make knives count?

I guess my last one was Peanut's peanut about a year and a half ago.
Wait, no I take that back, I bought that old red bone peanut a little while ago.

Let's say, sporadic. I have no plans to buy another knife, as I have sworn off buying any more knives until I finish a few I've started.
 
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