When do you expect to stop buying knives? Why?

SharpieB

SharpieB

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Besides the inevitable “dirt nap” answer that will be given, when will you stop buying knives/adding to your collection and why?

I have almost 100 quality knives that cover everything I could possibly ever need a blade for....I have multiple Machetes, Bowies, small fixed blade skinners, large fixed blade choppers, hard use 4” blades folders, small folders, flippers, traditionals, SAKs, Leatherman multis, etc... you name it.

I personally am near the end of my knife buying/collecting as.... a) I have too many really nice knives to use regularly in multiple lifetimes that should be used, and b) I am not a huge “Super Steel” guy. I don’t line up for the latest “best ever” steel when it is released. I LIKE 154CM, D2, M4, Elmax, XHP, S35VN, S30V and yep... even BD1. If it holds a good edge that lasts and can be sharpened on a standard Sharpmaker or field sharpener, I’m good. I’m not saying I won’t ever buy another knife (not likely), but on more of a “need vs. want” basis moving forward.

What say you? If you want to buy every colour/steel variant of your favourite knive model no matter how many they release, that’s cool too. :cool:
 
I am in a slowing/reducing mode, but I have thought that before and just adjusted to something new. This time likely will take since I am now retired and the money flow has been reduced and the future more uncertain. I have a very nice grouping and am pretty satisfied with what I have.
I will see​
 
Like all my other hobbies, it ebbs and flows. I'll be out, my purchasing slowing to a crawl as I become more time/money invested in one of my other hobbies* and then something will catch my interest and draw me back in.

*Right now, it's fountain pens.
 
I don’t think I will but purchases are fewer and farther between as I have higher end knives I would like to add but with my firearm addiction it makes it hard to save for them.
 
i dont think i'll ever stop - but I've never bought tons of knives either.
typically no more than a few in a years time.

I have knives to cover my needs - but who knows what will catch my eye, or convince me it will be better suited for one of the uses I have.
 
I tend to flip back and forth between buying knives and guns. I go through a gun buying period, and then go back to buying knives.

According to my mostly-bemused but occasionally-annoyed wife I apparently already have plenty of both, though.
 
I have a couple knives that I use I only buy cheap stuff now just to play with, yesterday I bought a rough rider slippy just to see, since it's Chinese I'll probably gift it sometime next week.
 
The only knives I can see that I may get in the future are those that are used for carving and whittling. I got more knives for the same general purposes than I'll ever use probably. Hunt, fish, camp. All covered several times over.
 
For me the answer is simple: I will not stop buying knives until I die. In order to keep this hobby going, however, I do need to move knives that I no longer have any interest in or no longer use.
 
I suspect a rather consistent eb and flow for me mostly as things are found that fill a gap in my collection I feel I have and right now I have many perceived gaps in my collection. I expect as those gaps get filled it will slow then I might find I dislike some and spend a time making gaps only to fill them with a slightly different model. I would also replace knives used so much they need to be retired to simply a used collector piece.
 
I have slowed to almost a crawl. I too have more knives than I need for 10 lifetimes. I also have noticed that the older I get, the smaller the knife. More interested in 3” folders now.
 
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