Your Knife "Phases"?

Cheap, interesting looking > Tanto blades > Drop point folders > Small fixed blades > FRN pure utility folders > Carbon fiber handled folders

Now I'm getting turned off to FRN. It's very practical, it's just that there are so many other cool options out there!
 
Dont really fall into phases. I have a broad intrest for any cutting tool especialy machetes. I usually get whats fairly new and useable(practical)to me.
I have picked up a custom slippy, pacific salt,blind horse necker and a bk9 in one day and it wasnt even at blade show. So i guess my phase is to stay broad.
 
I don't collect, I buy tools that enable me to perform tasks.

Since I've found myself getting into knives I've looked at the things I do, that I plan on doing, and that I'd like to be prepared to do. Then I've tried to figure out the types of knives that work best for the tasks I identified, and started 'window shopping'. Cross the functional needs with personal preferences (ergos, materials, looks), cross that again with my budget... and I pick knives to buy.

Different time periods I've found myself buying knives to fill different niches. My current interests are a chopper/camp knife, a nice EDC-able fixed blade, and a mid-sized chef's knife/santoku. (My leading candidates right now are all from Swamp Rat or Dan Koster.)
 
Slip joints are my passion! I've got all the fixed blades I need or ever will need, and I still appriciate a well made hi-tech folder. I've gotten away from multi-tools and I have returned to the orginal swiss army knife, and I like to try new things(to me) like Opinels.
 
For the last 15months it has been fixed blades, with the majority Himalayan Imports Khukuri's.

I have also picked up a few of their knives and swords.

But at present my interest in ethnographic blades from Indonesia and the Philippines, specifically the Keris and Kris, could really be traced back to getting into Japanese swords 5 years ago, just with a long and roundabout deviation through the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal. ;)
 
Began with folders.
Then large fighting knife came.
Medium sized utility fixed blade follows (now I am here).
 
Mine has been manual folders... then autos... back to manual... now it's balisongs
and will probably be there for a while.
 
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