Who gets the sebs when you are gone?

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ph.ht1

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Our sebs, mnandis and other CRK are very precious to us. Some of us are building our collection month after month. When you are dead, who gets the sebs? Or will you have an estate sale? My son will get all my CRKs.
 
Interestingly enough, this subject actually came up the other day during dinner.

It started when my eldest daughter asked me if she could have my Army medals when I was gone.

I guess that the others overheard the conversation and soon it was a full blown dinner discussion. It took no time at all for the two youngest to immediately inform me which of my knives they have laid claim to in the event of my passing. My youngest daughter wants my small moonsong and my youngest son wants my mnandi and a couple of my Benchmades.

Not a big deal, but I am currently 36 and do plan to be here for a bit longer. The real interesting part is that I seem to have planted the Knife bug in my children without even knowing. At least I know that the knives will not be sold off and will remain in the family.:D
 
I'm taking them all with me. Where I'm going I'll need them. :D
 
I’ll leave one each to my nephews and another kid I know, and then the balance of the CRKs to a young couple I know that likes knives and doesn’t have the money to buy nice pieces.

The rest (Spyderco, Benchmade, Busse etc) will go to something like Bladeforums to sell to support the group or some other worthwhile organization like Bladeforums to raise money by selling them.

Good news is that I still have some time left to think about it.
 
Interesting timing on this, my wife and I are in the middle of planning our Wills.

I plan on leaving some to my daughter and my nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, but that still leaves quite a few to be liquidated. I'm planning on contacting a few of my friends here on the forum in hopes they would be agreeable to helping my survivors sell the knives for a fair price when the time arrives.
 
stjames, if I'm around, I'll help. I might need the same thing. Maybe we could make a recipricol agreement.

I had this idea a while back, I'm probably crazy, but it goes like this.

A person could sell sebenza "futures" to raise money to increase their collection of knives. Each future would entitle the buyer the option to either buy a sebenza from the collection at a discount or receive a sebenza free and clear. The buyer would collect when the seller either decides to get rid of their knives or whatever.

The seller could then use the moeny raised to fuirther their collection.
 
DaveH said:
stjames, if I'm around, I'll help. I might need the same thing. Maybe we could make a recipricol agreement.
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Dave, Thank you very much, you are one of the people I had in mind. I'll take this to email.
 
stjames said:
Interesting timing on this, my wife and I are in the middle of planning our Wills.
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Depending on how creative your lawyer is, you could set up a trust to keep your knives for family use or distribution to various people. Of course a trust may only be worthwhile if your knife collection is substantial enough.
 
My son will get them if he gets interested in knives. He is 8 now and already shows an interest. I suppose if I have a son-in-law who I get along with, he will get some too. (My daughter is only 5 so I hate to even think about that). I am going to have to be buried with at least one I imagine.
 
Leaving my one and only Sebbie(for now;)) to my son, who has already told me he wants to join the service as a firefighter or military police. :D Actually, I'm planning on giving it to him when he graduates high school, in about six years.
 
We've had the same discussion at my house! Each time that I get a new knife, my kids ask who will get it when I die... the last time that that happened my car mysteriously blew up. (fortunately, I had run inside to get something I had forgotten)

Now I've actually started ordering two of certain, special knives and have put them away for their future collections.

Fred
 
If any of my children show an interest in knives, they'll inherit all my stuff including the sebenzas. Otherwise they will be entrusted to a knife buddy with instructions to give them away to knife enthusiasts who always wanted a Sebenza but for some reason or other never got one.

Andrew Limsk
 
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