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Users and Lookers

Many of us are users/collectors. But how do we decide what knives to use and what to just look at? A discussion on this topic may help many of us. Points to ponder would be:

l. Am I happy to have some knives I use and some I just look at (collect)?

2. They say life is to short to carry a bad/cheap knife?

3. So, I have some knives worth $100 or more - could I carry them and enjoy them, use them, without hurting there value.

4. What about old knives? ie. Cattaraugus, Robesons, etc. Would I hurt their value by carrying them?

5. How about a numbered collection - like Remington year knives? What if I want to carry some of those, do I hurt the value of the set?

6. Should I worry about value at all? or should I just enjoy the knife whatever the value, by carrying it as often as I like?

7. What about knives I want to pass down to kids or grandkids? Would they rather have a knife that has not been used, and has a better value? or would they rather have a knife that Grandpa actually carried and used?

8. There are many other points to consider - what can you think of? What are your ideas, thoughts, discussions on this topic?

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Permalink Reply by Tobias Gibson on January 19, 2015 at 21:30

I've often thought about buying two of something but the low cost knives like rough riders aren't really an investment (unless my great, great, great grand kids wind up with one in mint condition!) and I can't afford to buy two of the more expensive knives!   I've got users  I like to look at and lookers I like to use and then I've got some that I just flat out think are cool and don't really care if they are for using I'm just going to look at them anyway but if the need came up -- well I'm ready and so is the knife!  I ain't dead yet so any knife is a potential user even if all I'm doing now is looking at it!

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