Why Multiple Of The Same Knife?

I am an American...I spend my post-tax money however I want. I separate my personal angst and emotional turmoil from my knife accumulation addiction. There are privacy laws and I don't have to discuss this any further.
 
If I really like a particular knife -- the profile, weight, way it fits my hand -- I'll get more than one like that. May not be exactly the same, but they'll be similar.
 
Some knives I do have duplicates of. These are called "pre-need replacements". I learned the hard way when I lost a favorite knife, went to buy a replacement and found out they had been discontinued for a few years. It took 8 months to find one. Now I keep spares of the ones I don't want to be without.

Sometimes it only looks like I have multiples. In this picture, there are no exact duplicates.

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powernoodle said:
1) We are full of angst and emotional turmoil. 2) We buy knives to distract ourselves from the pain, and to temporarily anesthetize ourselves from the world. 3) We end up with multiples.
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That explains my 4 kids powernoodle - finally a simple answer! :D

yablanowitz said:
Some knives I do have duplicates of. These are called "pre-need replacements". I learned the hard way when I lost a favorite knife, went to buy a replacement and found out they had been discontinued for a few years. It took 8 months to find one. Now I keep spares of the ones I don't want to be without.

Sometimes it only looks like I have multiples. In this picture, there are no exact duplicates.
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You might be able to lose a Spyderco Police and not sweatit too much.
 
cziv said:
That explains my 4 kids powernoodle - finally a simple answer! :D



You might be able to lose a Spyderco Police and not sweatit too much.
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If Jack lost that black Police, I just hope it would be in my backyard. ;)
 
I wish I had bought 10 of every S90V model Spyderco ever produced. Why?

One user set up for RH carry, one set up for LH carry, one spare and 7 to flip for an obscene profit.

The primary knife I'm using around the farm is an S90V Manix 2. It's the only one I own so losing or breaking it would be a big deal to me. I paid around $180 for it but they are close to $300 on the secondary market now. It would be less of a problem if I had a replacement stored away.
 
I just recently got my first sage and have been carrying it for a month or so. I'm afraid its turned out to be absolutely perfect for me. I'm ordering another one as a backup and probably a Sage 2 just because. Finding the first one was hard enough, if I wait months/years to lose my current Sage I may not be able to find another one at all, or have to pay triple just to get one on the secondary market.
 
I kinda get it. I have several copies of the same CDs by my favorite band with different colored covers and such. I have no 'use' for them and there's probably not a single person on the planet that would be impressed, but I have them anyway for myself. I have multiples in case something gets damaged or scratched too. I haven't gone there with knives yet, but in a parallel universe I just as easily could be doing it with knives.
 
Kyui Su Kim said:
If someone liked a knife enough, they may want multiples in case the company takes them out of production. I have had multiples before of a knife. One for deployment, where it may get lost/stolen/broken, and the other for at home.
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This is my exact reason for having multiples.
 
plus one to all of the above

Also, I think knives are pretty and they are fun to have around to admire. Come to think of it, maybe I'll go fetch five or ten extra wives for the same reasons. I'll just keep 'em on a shelf and wait for the used one to wear out!
 
yablanowitz, You have an awesome Police collection!! I have three, an old one I bought new at the New York Custom Knife show many years ago, square edge frame marked Police Model w/ full serrations (much pocket carry) and a nib aluminum and nib black limited serial numbered version through the years. I have the tie clip too.You rock though!
Since were talking about buying multiples...
while I was on Bucks site to buy a sheath, I bought 6 of the Bucklites part-serrated on close out. gifts I guess?? Couldn't pass @ $10 each
 
I try hard to make good choices the first time/every time with knife purchases. I buy one, & beat the living snot out of it. Chop, whittle, baton it through some hardwood. If it breaks & I bought more than one, i'd be pissed that i did. So far, 2 of my 25-35 fixed blades have broke. I did chip my old 1980's era Japanese BUCK COPY of a 440ss Rambo knife while cutting a tree down in the backyard of our house, close to the ground, in 1992. Did'nt see the rock. It sharpened right out though. Only knives I have actually broken was a Marine KaBar w/rat tail tang, a Gerber Mark 2 survival knife, & a few cheap import $10 a dozen serrated folders. Live & learn i say. Some knives will be worth more than you paid for them, especially if they are brand new, in the box, never used.
 
TwinStick said:
I try hard to make good choices the first time/every time with knife purchases. I buy one, & beat the living snot out of it. Chop, whittle, baton it through some hardwood. If it breaks & I bought more than one, i'd be pissed that i did. So far, 2 of my 25-35 fixed blades have broke. I did chip my old 1980's era Japanese BUCK COPY of a 440ss Rambo knife while cutting a tree down in the backyard of our house, close to the ground, in 1992. Did'nt see the rock. It sharpened right out though. Only knives I have actually broken was a Marine KaBar w/rat tail tang, a Gerber Mark 2 survival knife, & a few cheap import $10 a dozen serrated folders. Live & learn i say. Some knives will be worth more than you paid for them, especially if they are brand new, in the box, never used.
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Exactly how did you break the USMC Ka-Bar if you don't mind sharing. It did so-so in destruction testing for a thin tang fixed blade. Just curious? :)
 
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