What's the worst thing about knife collecting?

Just be careful. One minute you're licking the river of fire egyptian mosaic damascus blade of your martian meteorite-inlaid Sebenza, the next minute you're blowing a guy for a sandwich.
 
The addiction element is, without a doubt, the worst part. I enjoy the common little jokes people often make about it but if we're thinking about it seriously for a moment, addiction is not a good thing because an addict operates not only on his free will. A chain is still a chain even if it's a nice and rather harmless chain. I am not a collector I just love knives and are addicted to them. I try to remind myself that as often as I can. That way I am still somewhat in control.
It's totally cool to be a collector, but I know from experience that I am not the type. Collecting is a bug that I seem to be immune to. All human beings can more or less be addicts - be it television, internet, knives or the drink. A difficult risk with the addiction of objects is that "collection" is a very efficient alibi - telling yourself there is no problem.

I smoked rather much for thirteen years and quit four years ago. Not a cigarette since. It teaches you the hard way about the workings of addiction.
 
Like a lot of people have said, not having enough money. I also tend to spend hours at a time researching, looking, reading, and drooling over knives. Another problem that I run into is having enough space to store all of my knives. I really need to get something like a Pelican Case.
 
Aside from the amount of money required, the worst thing (at least for me) is how quickly I yearn for a new knife after having just gotten one. The satisfaction of getting a new knife last a couple days for me, and then it's on to the next one. This in turn leads to spending a lot of money on knives. It's amusing to think back to how much I anticipated certain knives, and then how long I carried them (probably three days in a row, maximum). I've wanted an HTM Gunhammer for a few months, and finally got one for Christmas. I just received my Emerson Horseman and my Gunhammer is already back in my knife storage box.
 
Misanthropia said:
Aside from the amount of money required, the worst thing (at least for me) is how quickly I yearn for a new knife after having just gotten one. The satisfaction of getting a new knife last a couple days for me, and then it's on to the next one. This in turn leads to spending a lot of money on knives. It's amusing to think back to how much I anticipated certain knives, and then how long I carried them (probably three days in a row, maximum). I've wanted an HTM Gunhammer for a few months, and finally got one for Christmas. I just received my Emerson Horseman and my Gunhammer is already back in my knife storage box.
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I know what your saying! Last week I received the Spyderco Brad Southard, flipped it a couple times, then put it in the knife case. Within say 20 minutes I was on the web looking for an Emerson CQC 7
 
To paraphrase someone on the Hammock Forum: I pray my wife doesn't sell my knives for what I told her I paid for them.:eek:
 
The worst thing for me is not knowing enough people in real life who can appreciate the latest piece of razor-sharp awesomeness I've acquired. I've learned a long time ago not to talk knives with non-knife folks. I dunno what's worse: the dull glazed-over expression due to lack of interest, the dreaded eye-roll, or the horrified 'OMG! You're a serial killer!' look... :rolleyes:

:D
 
The worst thing for me is learning about all of these wonderfully crafted and beautiful tools, learning about sharpening and maintaining them, getting a started with few knives and sharpening equipment, and then realizing that my current lifestyle doesn't really require me to use a knife very often. It's sad to be interested in tools without having an outlet to use them. :(
 
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The term rich varies from person to person...collect within your means...I see people gambling and losing tons of money that its okay with them but when ask to buy something, dead stingy.

Unless you are in the Jay Leno class, more money than you need, always limit yourself to certain qty. or else it'll get out of control.
 
Probably just recently when my toddler was asked in pre-school what mommy and daddy like to do. Went downhill when it came to me. And of course having enough money like everyone else mentioned.
 
jc57 said:
the worst thing for me is learning about all of these wonderfully crafted and beautiful tools, learning about sharpening and maintaining them, getting a started with few knives and sharpening equipment, and then realizing that my current lifestyle doesn't really require me to use a knife very often. It's sad to be interested in tools without having an outlet to use them. :(
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^this^
 
Half assed laws stopping any one handed folders in australia any more.

And not enough money
 
dinokay said:
I think the worst thing about knife collecting (if you've been collecting for awhile) is buying what's hot only to have to sell at halve price when they're not.
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What's that fixed blade in your pic?

In response to TC, stupidly strict laws that get random knives seized.
 
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