Your house is burning....

guys, guys, GUYS!!! Take it easy!!! LOL!!!

Abe said it best: it's a simple exercise to see which ONE knife you simply must have that's already in your collection. It's so important that, under the specified circumstances, you're willing the see the REST of your collection burn and melt in front of your eyes. Okay, guys?

So, the wife and kids are safe, the dogs and cats have made it across the street, mom and dad are sitting on the fire truck, your kid sister is crying on the lawn but she'll live, your wedding album is...you get my drift.

However, your ENTIRE collection is in the still-burning house, and you have a chance, ONE chance, to save ONE and ONLY ONE knife. Everything else goes to beelzebub and his minions as they burn in flames, but you have a chance to save ONE KNIFE.

Which ONE would it be? :D
 
I can see it now...

Me: "Everyone out? Safe? Good, I'm going back in!!"

The wife: "Honey why? The house is almost gone!"

Me: "The KNIIIIVVVVEES!"

I'd grab my Ritter Griptilian, jump out the window, roll on the ground to put out the flames and say "YESSS!!!"
 
ROTFLMFAO!!!! LOL!!!!@Warbird Scimitar!!!

Just imagining someone's face saying "the KNIIIIIVVVVESS!!!" makes me cry laughing!
 
I would run out with my HI WWII, unsheath it dramatically, then chop my way back in to save the rest of the clan.

btw..my house is concrete block/stucco....I can still chop that with my Khuk no problem!!!
 
8 drawer locking tool chest... unlock it, slide and release the drawer of keepers... old coins, old slipjoints, and spare sheaths in it... or take 10seconds longer and drop the contents of 3 drawers into the duffle about 2 feet from the storage and run with it. keepers, customs, rotation

the beauty of keeping them all together.
 
Gollnick said:
No worries. All the good knives are in the safe and it was selected and installed to protect contents even if the whole house burns to the ground around it.
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I don't understand why people keep knives in a safe. It doesn't make any sense to me.There not negotiable bonds or cash or even diamonds,their only knives. My best knives are my two Ken Onions and my three Emersons,and they are right out in the open so I can see them and enjoy them. Thats me,maybe I just don't get it.
 
I only own user knives. Whatever pants I reach for will already have a knife clipped to the pocket, from ealier in the day. That is the knife that will be saved. I have a Spyderco fullsize Calypso on the way from Alaska via the USPS right now anyway, so no big loss. My SHTF knife is a Spyderco Perrin, and that's in my medic bag, which will be grabbed in an emergency. Anyway you slice it, I'll have a couple decent knives on me. Having been in situations where I've had to be ready to bug out quickly, I always have a knife ready anyway. If it isn't a knife I can use, it isn't one I own.
 
If I had time to think about it, I'd probably take my Charge (for tools). But at the moment I'd grab my Dodo. :rolleyes:
 
I don't understand why people keep knives in a safe. It doesn't make any sense to me.There not negotiable bonds or cash or even diamonds,their only knives. My best knives are my two Ken Onions and my three Emersons,and they are right out in the open so I can see them and enjoy them. Thats me,maybe I just don't get it.
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Go to www.knifeart.com and you'll see some knives that NEED to be kept in safes. Not all knives are just users, and some ppl collect really high end units. I am like you where my most expensive knife is around..say...$300, but only to a fellow knife knut. "Normal people" wouldn't see them the same way.

Its all good...different strokes..
 
i'd have to agree with Shann's comment here....."...if I try to pick out one, I'm going down with the ship......." heheh, how true! so i'd better start thinking BEFOREHAND which i'd get. well, for one i grab my coat which carries my spydie dragonfly, so i got that one at least... :) .....and then from the collection-cupboard.......hm....probably the Strider MTL.....or no, wait.....the Leatherman Charge. but i need my Spyderco Military badly.......and that Benchmade 31 is cool.....and.....ouch! aaarrrrrrgh! ahhhhhh, it BURNS!!!!.....aaargh...aahhhhhhh,........sigh... ;)
 
Phalanx7.62 said:
Go to www.knifeart.com and you'll see some knives that NEED to be kept in safes. Not all knives are just users, and some ppl collect really high end units. I am like you where my most expensive knife is around..say...$300, but only to a fellow knife knut. "Normal people" wouldn't see them the same way.

Its all good...different strokes..
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I don't have to go to Knifeart to know expensive knives. My two Onions would probably net me close to $6000 if I wanted to sell them. The idea is why have them if you can't look at them and show them off. Knives are not a solid investment where you have to lock them up in a safe. The market for knives fluctuates all the time. People have very expensive paintings on the wall and wear very expensive jewelry all the time. My point is why own something if you can't enjoy it.Custom knives are not a hobby which has an enjoyment factor involved like for instance collecting guns where you can enjoy going to the range. If you lock up your collection in a safe,why bother to have it.
 
I have a vast collection of knives(around 300 between my wife, and I, her being a knife knut also :D ) , and at one time had knives all over the house, and people told me you need a safe being such a valuable/large collection as your very open to burglary. My wife is a cop, and says burglary is high in our area in Reno, Nevada.
I can't be home 24/7 to protect them, and 2nd is fire is another great fear I have.
I may be an exception to the rule here having that many knives but feel the safe was one of the best investments I ever made to protect my collection so that I can continue to enjoy them, and only takes a short moment to take one out, and know it will always be safe(pun not intended) whether I am home or not.
Sorry to distrack from the thread but to answer the question to get back on topic would be my large Phil Boguszewski Classic mega folder with 4 9/16" blade that I waited almost 2 years to get, and the favorite of my collection, and the 2nd knife is the one I carry EDC that my wife ordered from Mike Obernauf for my last birthday(62) being a large Model 2 with ironwood scales but being I carry it EDC would be with me anyway :D
Just my .02 cents.

Larry
 
The only one I would have is the Spyderco Mini Police necklace that sits around my neck, I wouldn't think of nuttin' but the family, but if the fire chief says go back in and get one, it would be a toss up between the Original Spyderco Worker my wife had engraved for me or my Nealy custom Aikuchi,(my first Custom)
 
LyonHaert said:
Well, if I'm wearing my pants at the time, then that means I'm already carrying 2-3. Does that mean I have to leave some behind for the fire? :eek:
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Yep, my thoughts exactly.

Make me choose only 1 knife though, and it will be my large redwood sebbie. And since I have knives in my truck, in my laptop bag, and in my desk at work, leaving just the ones in my house would not be a total loss.
 
First, I would grab whatever would be able to get me out, if the doors were unpassable, or if a floor gave out on me. That said, I always have some type of folder on me. Then, I'd grab everybody and get them outside, call the FD on my cell phone, and see what I could do with the extinguisher under the kitchen sink. If it was too bad, I'd just sit outside and wait for the insurance man to show up. When I get my house in PA, I'm going to store all of my valuables in a big, 6ft tall safe, what I'd really like to do is install a small safe room in the basement, enough to walk in and get stuff!
 
If I had to pick only one... A tough question, but the first knife that comes to mind is my Ek Bowie. No, I can't justify why I'd pick that one over all the others...

I don't understand why people keep knives in a safe. It doesn't make any sense to me.There not negotiable bonds or cash or even diamonds,their only knives. My best knives are my two Ken Onions and my three Emersons,and they are right out in the open so I can see them and enjoy them. Thats me,maybe I just don't get it.
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If you steal a bunch of knives, that's nearly as good as cash. They can be traded for drugs, sold on eBay, pawn shops... It doesn't take any effort at all to convert knives/electonics/firearms/jewlery/artwork to spendable currency.

Even within my humble knife 'accumulation' are many knives that are irreplacible or nearly so, first productions, antiques, discontinued, short-lived brands, customs, family hand-me-downs... It would be virtually impossible.

Even with an endless budget, do you know how difficult and time consuming it is to track down replacement knives? I had a dozen knives stolen about 13 years ago - some were easily replaced, substitutes for the rest have been slowly trickling in. I got lucky finding two last year, found one more this year, and am ~still~ missing one or two.

Best Wishes,
Bob
 
As a professional firefighter,I understand humor and the question! ;)

I would say my Schrade lb7. It has gone with me on Yukon canoe trips,dressed out my first buck and given me comfort on motorcycle trips as I slept along the road and in cheap motels.

And if all you guys have house fires I hope I'm working that night.
 
Only ONE knife???...Ok, I'll play by the rules...:D.

...My Benchmade 805s TSEK...(That's one of my 2 EDC folders anyhow, so it would be with me as I push my way past my wife to get out of the burning house.:D.).
 
Bob W said:
If I had to pick only one... A tough question, but the first knife that comes to mind is my Ek Bowie. No, I can't justify why I'd pick that one over all the others...

If you steal a bunch of knives, that's nearly as good as cash. They can be traded for drugs, sold on eBay, pawn shops... It doesn't take any effort at all to convert knives/electonics/firearms/jewlery/artwork to spendable currency.

Even within my humble knife 'accumulation' are many knives that are irreplacible or nearly so, first productions, antiques, discontinued, short-lived brands, customs, family hand-me-downs... It would be virtually impossible.

Even with an endless budget, do you know how difficult and time consuming it is to track down replacement knives? I had a dozen knives stolen about 13 years ago - some were easily replaced, substitutes for the rest have been slowly trickling in. I got lucky finding two last year, found one more this year, and am ~still~ missing one or two.

Best Wishes,
Bob
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Believe me if somebody broke into my house,the last thing I would worry about is my knives. I have a lot more valuable things out in plain site. Besides I have insurance that covers everything at replacement value,so why not enjoy my knives. Isn't that the reason I bought them in the first place.All I know is when I walk by my wall unit and see my knife collection,it makes me feel good. Thats just my opinion.
 
I enjoy my knives a lot more knowing they're not in the back of someone else's truck. :)

But you're right in that knives should be enjoyed. I'd like to build a locking cabinet that could be quickly opened to reveal display shelves. No reason why security and accessibility can't co-exist.

An insurance check would be little comfort. It could take a lifetime to replace a collection...

Guess we're way OT now... :)
-Bob
 
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