You make it hard to try and stay a one (read only a few) knife guy!

I've been sticking to my Buck 110 and my new Douk-Douk (seems I'm not the only one around here ;) )... Although the past few days have seen my Old Timer trapper keeping them company as well... So my compromise is to just carry them all! :D
 
Oddly enough, I have very little problem staying with a narrow type of pocketknife, and keeping to just a few valued knives. I used to have a large accumulation, but something changed about the time I got into my 50's. By 60 I was done. I got to feeling crowded by too many possessions, and I did a massive downsize of stuff, to include getting rid of most of my knives. Family, friends, all got an early Christmas that year. I kept a precious few, and the rest went. Now I keep it down to about a half dozen real users. I have an edc that never changes, and a few that get tossed into a pocket to augment my edc if I have something planned that needs a little different choice of tool.

I come on the forums to see, and admire, and it's like going to a motorcycle show or an art gallery. I find that I am now at a stage where I can admire just for the sake of the beauty of the item, without lusting after one of my own.

Carl.
 
This is one of the worst groups of enablers that you'll ever run across ;)
 
I look at it as an affordable hobby, that even us "older" guys can enjoy. It beats spending my money on cheap wine, cheaper women, and songs that I can't remember. Like I did 40 years ago.:D At least my wife approves of the latter more than the former. Enjoy your hobby with no regrets as life is too short to sweat the small things.

Blessings,

Omar
 
Well put Omar from Georgia. I don't drink much, don't smoke. I'm single and enjoy cutting stuff and buying/selling/trading pocket knives. I'm down to about 60 or 80...
 
Well I for one am completely cured of knife accumulating. I only received one limited edition collectors knife last week, I only have one special factory order knife on order for delivery in July, and only two on order expected to arrive in the next week or two, and of those only one is a rare discontinued model.

I don't really count the 40 that I'm am the leading bidder for on an auction site until I actually win the auctions.

So as you can see, I barely even qualify as a knife owner.
 
Well, for what it's worth, you've got my sympathy. I just ran out of space in the little wooden cigar box I store my traditionals in and I'm scratching my head and pretending like I don't know exactly how that happened ;)

Anyhow, the fun of having a cigar box full of knives is that you don't have to be loyal. Pick your pants for the day, pick your shirt, pick your knife, all to suit your mood. Why not? Today was a plain brown peanut day, over here, whereas yesterday I indulged in a little SAK nostalgia. Tomorrow, who knows -- my Boker for wooden Wednesday, maybe?

One side benefit -- the guys who carry modern one-handers are wont to fuss over steel type, and probably any of them would tell you how soft that old fashioned carbon steel is. But then, when your collection gets big enough that a given knife only gets carried one day in ten or so, they get dulled very, very slowly. So really, it's only practical to build up a collection. :D

Regards,
--Mark
 
notthatsharp said:
However, every time I get on here I see you guys posting your newest purchase and I begin the struggle of resisting the urge to get one myself (especially the peanuts) and it's properly hard to be faithful to my beloved EDC knife (Pictured below):grumpy:.
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Resistance is futile. :devilish:


notthatsharp said:
Do you have the same problem? and what is the knife you're currently trying to be faithful to?
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My problem is that I fail to see it as a problem. :D

And the knife I'm currently trying to be faithful to is my GEC #55. But tomorrow it could be a Boker Tree, or a Northwoods....these are all fine "problems" to have!
 
Good point, Mark. Spend one week a year sharpening, then just carry a fresh knife every week (or day, depending on the size of the collection) for the rest of the year.
 
jc57 said:
Good point, Mark. Spend one week a year sharpening, then just carry a fresh knife every week (or day, depending on the size of the collection) for the rest of the year.
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Of course the downside is every new knife needs an edge an edge put on it, so an expanding collection needs a lot of time on the stones. But oh well, details, details...

Say, that username of yours -- you wouldn't happen to have gone to a little Engineering/CS/Fine-arts school in Pittsburgh, would you? Only place I ever knew that gave out 4-letter usernames, and even they stopped doing it by...oh, '96 or so? Sometimes you run into somebody who just kept on using theirs, out in the internet.

--Mark (mw6b, once upon a time)
 
Lol, the wailing of the damned. :)

To a certain extent we are all slaves to the blade. Some buy a lot, some a little, some have a few daily carries and some have a roster that makes an NFL team look spartan. It's all good. Some, like myself, float in and out of the buying phase over the years. A funny thing: every single knife I have carried religiously had at least one thing that I really didn't like. I have several "perfect" knives in beautiful configurations and they stay in the knife drawer never to be carried. Knifenuts are squirrelly animals.

What knife am I trying to be faithful to? Interesting. I have two, both GECs. One is the bone handled outlaw jack that I carried for the first time in my wedding last fall. The other is the 68 white owl that I bought to replace the Queen mini trapper that I carried to 6 years or so. I dumped the Queen because the nail nick was so shallow it ate up my thumbnail and was a pain to open. Took me 6 years to stop carrying it. I absolutely LOVE the ebony white owl. Maybe the perfect knife configuration for me. But I really like bone handles much better. I'll probably be carrying it for years to come wondering why I haven't bought the bone handled style or I might buy one next week. Like I said, we're a funny breed.

Will
 
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