What's your most expensive user??

I have owned a strider and a sebenza in the past. The sebenza I carried for about a year. However I eventually sold both of those. My motto is this: if I cant afford to replace it if it were lost or stolen I don't carry it. The sebenza a was an awesome knife and I wasn't afraid to use it, I was just afraid to lose it. If you can afford to replace a $400+ knife by all means use the hell out of it!
 
My most expensive knife is a Microtech SOCOM that I got on sale for $230 a few months ago. I classify it as a user, but don't use it much, mostly because I mistakenly got the tanto version
 
The most expensive knives in my rotation are my dozier folder and my annual sebenza.
 
The santoku has been used in the kitchen already. The bottom one I just received yesterday, but intend on using it. Both by Tim Wright
 
johnnytoxin said:
I have owned a strider and a sebenza in the past. The sebenza I carried for about a year. However I eventually sold both of those. My motto is this: if I cant afford to replace it if it were lost or stolen I don't carry it. The sebenza a was an awesome knife and I wasn't afraid to use it, I was just afraid to lose it. If you can afford to replace a $400+ knife by all means use the hell out of it!
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That's a legitimate concern and the reason I NEVER use pocket clips. The only way I'll ever lose a knife is if somebody turns me upside down. And the only way it will ever get stolen is if somebody robs me, at which point losing my knife will be the least of my concerns.
 
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although it's too heavy for my liking, I EDC my xm-18 3.5" almost every day and use it at work. i have never once, since the day i got it, worried about damaging it or anything like that. Strider, as well as many other knife makers (including Rick Hinderer) completely overbuild their knives. the likelihood of you ruining one of their knives with normal use would be very rare. even if you go to Walmart and pick up a Kershaw or a Gerber, it will hold up just fine for daily tasks. so what would make you think that an over engineered folder wouldn't?

and some food for thought. what is the point of buying a knife if you don't intend to use it? knives are tools. cutting paper tape or plastic straps wont harm your knife. the s35vn on my xm has held up great, even to those extremely thick green straps that most people use tin snips to cut off.

-Ian
 
I consider these four my expensive EDC users. Knives by Rick Hinderer and Ray Laconico, used in rotation based on my mood.

 
This:
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Its too big for EDC, going to smaller blade very soon.
 
I have carried my small Sebenza Insingo every day since I got it. I'm not going to pretend that my my lifestyle involves a whole lot of hard use for a knife, but I use it for all the every day knife tasks that I encounter. Just got done doing a little touch up sharpening on it this morning actually.
 
I've got a lot of expensive knives. Most do not get used because #1 they are unavailable now, or #2 in one case the company is not around now. They all still have the factory edge on them so they do not get used.

My most expensive regular user is a first year (1993) Spyderco Military two-hole clip. It is my beater knife. It still looks exactly like it did when new in 93, never had to use anything but an ultra fine diamond diafold to keep it sharp.

Only mod is new larger screws retaining the clip, and the use of heat shrink tube on the clip to blacken it.



 
Well, if you are going to pay about $400 for an orange Para2 and $300+ for a blue, then I hope there are some other options...
Come on, Sal, we're getting killed here. Hire some folks.
Sonnydaze

p.s. How do you beat this stuff? I've started buying full customs, or high-qual mid-techs, like Grayman Dua and Three Sisters Forge Beast. The Beasts, I special-ordered with 4mm thick x 3" long M390 blades instead of S30v, and I now have two of them for $300 each. Can't beat that with a stick. And the waiting time is TWO DAYS.
Next, I'll probably give Alan Davis a call. I have one of his knives already, and you all know that he is superb.
 
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I flipped my well-used 5+ year old Strider PT a couple months back and turned it into this phenomenal Ken Erickson slip joint. It's the perfect, sliciest EDC I have, but it would also be the most expensive one to replace. Doesn't matter to me--I have knives to use them, and as long as I don't lose it, Ken can always fix it up.



My other knives are all users too--a couple more slip joints by Todd Davison and Keith Johnson that would be nearly impossible to replace, a little WH that wasn't cheap either, and a TSF Beast to go with a few others. They all get used regularly, without worry. Life is too short to sweat the small stuff, but too long to not enjoy them!

Cheers,
Daniel
 
KNaB said:
The santoku has been used in the kitchen already. The bottom one I just received yesterday, but intend on using it. Both by Tim Wright
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That lower knife is a thing of beauty. May I inquire as to it's size? It's really too bad that fixed blades are considered a no-no in Oklahoma.
 
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