Been doing this for well over 25 years. The problem is my father was army and when I was a kid we didn't get to ha e much. When I started taking Care of myself. I started hording a few things. Just couldn't let go. Now it's two things and knives are the number one thing. It doesn't take long when you buy a knife a week for a few years and never part with any. I have well over 700 in deep storage and haven't seen them in years. One of the boxes hasn't been open in over 14. I packed it up in Florida and we moved to California. I never opened that box. I would encourage you to find a limit. Say (X) is fun fundamentally your limit and try to stick to it. I have very re recently decided to part with some if not most of my lesser expenses knives. I put up a few on PIF and have some I am going to donate to the boy scouts after talking a bit with rouchbell44. It's really something I shouldn't be proud of. It's kinda a sickness. I'm gonna try my best to get down to 250-300. And this year I made a great stride in not increasing the collection. I have however customized or modded quite a few. When I get home I'll post up the 150 or so that I carry now ( usually one in the left and one in the right) and tdd hese a whole collection i can't post as they are at my "winter home" in Mexico if you get what I'm saying. I recently took a liking the CRK as there are a couple fellas here Dcdavis being one if them.( Cheers brother I know you'll read this.) Has rekindled my love for them and in about 4 days time from joining this forum I bought 2 CRK's. I am going to put a few on the forums for sale. It was one of the reasons I joined. To let some of my horded knives go to other and to maybe not start a cycle with my youngest. She has recently picked up a bug and I want to nip it a bit before she ends up like her dad. For the record I travel around quite a bit and when I go on planes I don't try ake anything with me. I buy a few expensive knives and at the end I drop them in tdd he suitcase and if the make it home fine. If they don't fine as well. When the would trade center fell . Traveling with a knive or anything of value in your suitcase turned into roulette. I don't really gamble. That's money I could but a knife with. So yes a 1000 knives give or take 500 I haven't seen in over 10-15 years (deep storage), 100ish California doesn't let me enjoy, 100ish at the location I am currently under contract at and about 200-300 in the safe I call my carries. Out of that 300 there's about 50ish. That I don't carry.
Here is this weeks rotation. The two on the bottom are my beaters for the week. In reality the mini grip in D2 is pretty much my go to for beaters. I just can't seem to find anything that kicks it from the pocket long term. The ZT0561 has been my best freind now for well.over 4 years. I haven't gone a month without carrying it at least 3-7 times. Love that knife. I have a little over 250 knives that get carrying if you consider carrying something once a year carrying. But I normally put it in the deep collection after a year. With 30-50 knives purchased each year the collection has gotten way out of have but I have them all. All 1000+ knives. It would take a few days to post them all at one time so I'll drop in from time to.time and post up the weeks rotation.
Here's a collection that doesn't get carried. Well all of the but the CKF it sees pocket time. The other 7 have that sentiment value so I just keep them available to play with from time to time. Not safe queens but safe queens if that makes any sense.
Edgeoflife
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South paw draw
are a couple of great guys themselves. They took a couple of my knives I never use and helped fund my first large 21 Damascus purchase, which should also be here Monday. Glad to see my other two go to some good guys who will use them and are just as crazy about knives as myself. South paw draw another fellow lefty you should check out is @Ajack60 he’s a great member in his own right. I lurked around here for a long time before joining admiring his lefty CRKs. He’s answered several of my questions and always helps however he can. I buy a lot more than I sell as well but here lately I’m letting more go
