What's your ideal number?

I don’t have a set number but I could get by with a SAK and Buck 110. Add to those maybe some sort of one handed opening clip it, a smaller pocket knife and a fixed blade and anything else beyond those would be just because I got bored or looking at too much eye candy on the forums…which pretty much accounts for most of the knives I’ve purchased through the years.
 
A few years ago I would go by weight. I kept all of my knives in a huge old messenger bag. When the bag became heavier than my dog it was time to sell some - my dog weighed about 90 pounds at the time. I stopped counting knives long ago.. weight seems like a better way to enable my addiction. 75 pounds is reasonable - I can carry all of them if I need to 😂
 
knarfeng said:
examples to myself and others as to what I like or don't like in a knife. Kind of like a mini-knife museum
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Yes , like that ! That is a good way to look at it .
I've never sold one yet ; don't intend to .

XtianAus said:
what's your ideal number?
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I finally got around to doing a quick count a few weeks ago ; looks like a number embarrassingly above 500 is what I want / " need " .
I do need to work out a lazy plan to carry most of them at least for a day or two in a year .
I did rearrange all my Trappers onto one big tray so that's a start ; just work my way from left to right.

I use a selection of knife styles at work in repetitive every day tasks so a work day's style carry could look like this ( transported in a Blade HQ roll ) :
Fixed blade ; crazy thin like the Mora Flex or a Cold Steel Kitchen Classic ( not in the roll, just in my back pack ).

One of my Trappers ; usually a Case ; was a jigged Black Buffalo Horn today ( spay blade removed ) in a pocket slip . 👍😍👍 i'm in love with these .

Then a tiny knife : Spyderco Roadie ground crazy thin or a Case Swell Center Jack thinned out some and one blade or another removed .

Smaller SAK for the nail file.

A " medium size " pocket clipped, higher end folder most often with tool steel ; think M4 . . . like a GB2 ( often with a thinned blade) . Was a Doug Ritter M390 Griptillian today with factory ground blade . I used it a fair amount even though a very slow day no normal work today .

lesssee what else ? . . . oh yeah one or another of my stupid acute / reprofiled super clean cutters e.g. SAK Bantam with an edge that is practically scandy and polished to the edge. I only cut certain soft rubber work with it ; put a spray of denatured alc. or mineral oil on the work and blade and leaves a factory perfect looking finish !

A serrated edge knife from one of several ; lately what has worked the best has been a Spyderco Thin Blue Line ( rescue type blade ) .

Finally my last ditch " back up " that is pretty much an ACTUAL EDC in my back pocket every single work day ; my Mini Griptillian . Another knife I love to use and carry .

Since work has , in the last few years , turned into something that fails to engage my interest in the least , I often take one or two LOOKERS just to , safely , set out in the work area to remind me life is GOOD ! Think Spyderco Subhilt or Spyderco Stepped Titanium ( THANK YOU SAL ! ).

. . . well, you asked . . .
 
luethge said:
A few years ago I would go by weight. I kept all of my knives in a huge old messenger bag. When the bag became heavier than my dog it was time to sell some - my dog weighed about 90 pounds at the time. I stopped counting knives long ago.. weight seems like a better way to enable my addiction. 75 pounds is reasonable - I can carry all of them if I need to 😂
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That's a very unique approach!
 
Wowbagger said:
Yes , like that ! That is a good way to look at it .
I've never sold one yet ; don't intend to .


I finally got around to doing a quick count a few weeks ago ; looks like a number embarrassingly above 500 is what I want / " need " .
I do need to work out a lazy plan to carry most of them at least for a day or two in a year .
I did rearrange all my Trappers onto one big tray so that's a start ; just work my way from left to right.

I use a selection of knife styles at work in repetitive every day tasks so a work day's style carry could look like this ( transported in a Blade HQ roll ) :
Fixed blade ; crazy thin like the Mora Flex or a Cold Steel Kitchen Classic ( not in the roll, just in my back pack ).

One of my Trappers ; usually a Case ; was a jigged Black Buffalo Horn today ( spay blade removed ) in a pocket slip . 👍😍👍 i'm in love with these .

Then a tiny knife : Spyderco Roadie ground crazy thin or a Case Swell Center Jack thinned out some and one blade or another removed .

Smaller SAK for the nail file.

A " medium size " pocket clipped, higher end folder most often with tool steel ; think M4 . . . like a GB2 ( often with a thinned blade) . Was a Doug Ritter M390 Griptillian today with factory ground blade . I used it a fair amount even though a very slow day no normal work today .

lesssee what else ? . . . oh yeah one or another of my stupid acute / reprofiled super clean cutters e.g. SAK Bantam with an edge that is practically scandy and polished to the edge. I only cut certain soft rubber work with it ; put a spray of denatured alc. or mineral oil on the work and blade and leaves a factory perfect looking finish !

A serrated edge knife from one of several ; lately what has worked the best has been a Spyderco Thin Blue Line ( rescue type blade ) .

Finally my last ditch " back up " that is pretty much an ACTUAL EDC in my back pocket every single work day ; my Mini Griptillian . Another knife I love to use and carry .

Since work has , in the last few years , turned into something that fails to engage my interest in the least , I often take one or two LOOKERS just to , safely , set out in the work area to remind me life is GOOD ! Think Spyderco Subhilt or Spyderco Stepped Titanium ( THANK YOU SAL ! ).

. . . well, you asked . . .
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So...500 is the number 😅?
 
luethge said:
A few years ago I would go by weight. I kept all of my knives in a huge old messenger bag. When the bag became heavier than my dog it was time to sell some - my dog weighed about 90 pounds at the time. I stopped counting knives long ago.. weight seems like a better way to enable my addiction. 75 pounds is reasonable - I can carry all of them if I need to 😂
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Start looking to larger dogs 😁
 
XtianAus said:
So...500 is the number 😅?
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Yes , I am daily trying to resist increasing that number.
If I could just not look at new releases ; to see what is HAPPENING in the knife world.
Add to that the dumb thing I did a couple of times ; I bought a knife or two that I KNEW was wrong for me partly because the price dropped to what I considered reasonable and partly because I told myself I NEEDED to see why they were so popular / (what am I not understanding here about this popular knife ?) .
One was the Spyderco Smock
. . . and I hate to say I am currently chicken eyeing back and forth between my tax return and the Spyderco Drunken .
Both knives I swore I would never buy , for various reasons , though they are both spectacular .
( I do have and like the Spydie Chef )
Kind of that knife Museum thing at work .
 
Wowbagger said:
Yes , I am daily trying to resist increasing that number.
If I could just not look at new releases ; to see what is HAPPENING in the knife world.
Add to that the dumb thing I did a couple of times ; I bought a knife or two that I KNEW was wrong for me partly because the price dropped to what I considered reasonable and partly because I told myself I NEEDED to see why they were so popular / (what am I not understanding here about this popular knife ?) .
One was the Spyderco Smock
. . . and I hate to say I am currently chicken eyeing back and forth between my tax return and the Spyderco Drunken .
Both knives I swore I would never buy , for various reasons , though they are both spectacular .
( I do have and like the Spydie Chef )
Kind of that knife Museum thing at work .
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I can relate. Or i'll buy something just to "try out" 🤦🏽‍♂️
I wish the allure of "what is new" would go away...
 
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