I give you $2,000 but you can only buy one knife, what you gettin?

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ThisIsMrX said:
Oh, in that case, if there's a zombie apocalypse, then I'm your best friend and which bedroom am I sleeping in?
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My man cave. We have scotch, bourbon and cigars for the end of times. and I have an exhaust system to remove radiation and cigar smoke

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VorpelSword said:
Maybe I am crazy, but two thousand dollars just doesn't seem like that much money in the knife world any more.
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To rephrase or restate that thought:

Back in the early 2k yers, I bought a slew of cutlery for an active duty Marine about to go to Iraq. I would have bought him a tank but the Marines wouldn't let me. hat and My wife. Them and the Bank. The young Leutenant wouldn't let me get him a better set of body armor. He wouldn't have better gear than the men under him.

So I bought him a bunch of serious knives . . .What did I know about knives or being a warfighter in the 21st Century?

All-in-all, there was a Ka-Bar, a Randall, a CRK, two Ek daggers, a Camilus folding dagger and assorted pocket cutting tools. In 2004, all of that came to around $1,000 all-in, and it seemed like a lot to me back then. Today, I would be hard pressed to acquire a similar group of good-to-premium "combat" knives for under $2000, I think.

The Randall, CRK and Cuda Maxx folding dagger together are $1,500 today. The Ek daggers and the modern model Ka-Bar are another $500 or so and a warfighter specific multitool from Leatherman or Real Avid could be $150 or more. At the time, I was shopping but not bargain hunting. As the clock was running on the deployment. In 2004, I put all that together for around a grand . . .not even close today.
 
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Cobalt said:
My man cave. We have scotch, bourbon and cigars for the end of times. and I have an exhaust system to remove radiation and cigar smoke

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GTFO you lucky sonofagun! 🥹 I'm in the car and driving, where did you say I turn to get to your house?
 
jbmonkey said:
to you it doesn't, but to me it does. I still consider 2k a big chunk of money.
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Well of course it IS. Two thousand dollars is a significant sum of money.

But the cost of my dram knives continues to escalate still well out of my reach.

In 2003-2004 I bought five or six so-called "combat knives" within a few months and spent around a GRAND. Today those same knives or their current equivalent today would set me back nearly double that I think . . .to nearly the $2,000 we are talking about.. . . .and that is what I meant about $2K not going as far as it used to in the knife world.
 
Cobalt said:
My man cave. We have scotch, bourbon and cigars for the end of times. and I have an exhaust system to remove radiation and cigar smoke

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Those doors to the right are Blast Doors . . .right? . . . or do they lead to the gun room and vault?

Well, this IS a fantasy thread so . . .
 
ThisIsMrX said:
I think 2k is a big chunk of money for every single member on this forum, including myself.
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agree, that why vorpelswords comment of "doesn't seem like that much money in the knife world any more," made little sense to me. 2k still goes a long way for knives whether a single purchase or multiple.
 
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