Hi RayAnother mouth-watering selection from your........"accumulation" Looking at your military knives in the other thread I felt a bit sickened by my own collection - might be good knives but I don't use them, and never in a 100 years will they have the historic and/or artistic value of most in your collection.
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To me a knife doesn't have to be valuable(although if it is all the better)but rather be unique in some respect.I enjoy knives that don't appear to be knives;miniature knives;old knives;etcetera. What I really enjoy is if a knife has a story behind it.I look at a knife that is over a hundred years old and imagine what this knife has experienced and what stories it could relate.Probably my favorite knife in that respect is a Persian jambiya that was given to me by a good friend(who has since passed)that was found to be over 350 years old! How did that one ever survive and what stories could it tell? The mind boggles at the thought!.Anyway I am glad you are enjoying the posts my friend.
Quote from: Gerhard Gerber on January 12, 2017, 08:54:47 AMHi RayAnother mouth-watering selection from your........"accumulation" Looking at your military knives in the other thread I felt a bit sickened by my own collection - might be good knives but I don't use them, and never in a 100 years will they have the historic and/or artistic value of most in your collection. Again many thanks for the kind words Gerhard. I would say that you should be proud of your collection as they are a part of who you are. I have been accumulating knives for over 60 years now so I probably have a bit of a head start on you.When I started my first knife(which I still have)was a hunting knife that I bought (with my grandfather's permission of course)for the sum of 98 cents.I really had no use for a hunting knife but wanted one anyway which is probably why it survived in such great condition.Later on I got my first automatic knife(they were still legal in the USA at the time)and that started me on those. I didn't need one but I liked them.Then came stag handled knives and then pearls and it just kind of snowballed from there.Today as I approach my 73rd birthday I have more or less stopped accumulating knives and am having thoughts of dispensing with a lot of them. Money is usually reserved for more important things like eating and keeping a roof over our heads(lol) and I really don't need a roomful of knives. I still enjoy researching them and likely always will. To me a knife doesn't have to be valuable(although if it is all the better)but rather be unique in some respect.I enjoy knives that don't appear to be knives;miniature knives;old knives;etcetera. What I really enjoy is if a knife has a story behind it.I look at a knife that is over a hundred years old and imagine what this knife has experienced and what stories it could relate.Probably my favorite knife in that respect is a Persian jambiya that was given to me by a good friend(who has since passed)that was found to be over 350 years old! How did that one ever survive and what stories could it tell? The mind boggles at the thought!.Anyway I am glad you are enjoying the posts my friend.
Nice assemblage Peacent! What is the case made of? If it is a thermoplastic I would keep an eye on it to make sure that it doesn't react unfavorably with some of the knife handles.Thermoplastics when new have a tendency to out-gas;especially in the presence of sunlight and heat and will give off solvents that sometimes are harmful to knife handles and occasionally steel.I prefer to keep all of my knives in wooden boxes(old machinists' tool boxes mostly)that have cloth liners in the slots and a dessicant bag or two to dispel moisture.That said here are my three latest acquisitions:A Buck Whittaker 777T that features a built-in flashlight(that needs batteries which will probably cost more than I paid for the knife).A Bushmaster 5971S that I bought because I don't have any knives of that particular make.A Guidesman 23 in 1 multi-tool new in package.I already have one but they seem to be very well made for Pacific Rim knives and the price was right.Paid $5 each for the three knives.
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