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Kavik
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Oct 21, 2018
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Man, you got it bad! With all those near duplicates in all the various finishes and minor model changes, wanting to have each iteration
My collection wouldn't even come close, but maybe I'll let them all out at some point if I can find the time
In the mean time, wanted to thank you for sharing the personal story with your grandfather. It's always great to have a personal, sentimental tie in with something you love.
I have one in a box somewhere, probably the crappiest knife i haven't gotten rid of (and never will). A no name Buck style back lock that belonged to my grandfather, ground down to the point that there's edge visible when the knife is closed (partly from his many years of use, mostly from a dumbass 10 year old (me) who had access to a coarse grinding wheel and no idea what the hell he was doing lol) But it was the knife he let me use every time he took me fishing, till he eventually told me to hang onto it. 40+ year old piece of "Stainless China" junk, but it will still always mean something to me
Oct 21, 2018
Hatuletoh
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Oct 23, 2018
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KavikI do have it bad, and I am a completonist when I collect. The way I see it, if I really like a knife, I need one to use and one to keep, at least if its anything remotely decent. About...oh, maybe eight months ago when I realized (admitted, conceded) I was buying knives just to collect them, I did a little research and found that knives seem to be second only to jewelry as far as consumer goods that maintain value. A few conditions must be met for this to happen with production knives, i.e., they need to be high quality to begin with; they need to be kept in like-new condition, esp in their original packaging; and they need to be from a well-known and regarded maker. If you have those three factors, a production knife might loose a little value, say 10-15%, but otherwise can be resold pretty close to the going price, even if that exact knife continues to be made.
Of course, once the model is discontinued or even just altered, value rises. There are other variables that might cause a knife be even more valuable, and if you get lucky just once with a proverbial 0777 (if you're not familiar with the ZT vs Microtech/Marfione 0777 saga, read up on it, it's pretty amusing), then everything else in a collection could be scrap metal and youd still come out ahead. But I think for the most part, the knives I've spent big $$ on--helllllloooo Microtech!--will at least have kept up with inflation so that I get my money back.
I like a sure bet though, so I'm slowly moving to buying custom knives. It's not easy because I have to buy them on whatever installment/layaway is offered, which means I paying repeatedly and getting nothing, and nothing, and nothing...
I found two the two old slip-joints my grandfather carried amongst his mountains of stuff. One was a stockman pattern, and the other was a trapper, I think. So beat and full of grime that it was only after I'd cleaned them off that I saw the Camillus shield, and realized that was the brand they were; best I could tell from info online, they were bought some time after 1960 and before 1975. But as I already had a number of good keepsakes, I gave those knives to my brother.
Speaking of cool keepsakes, it seems everyone was more interested in my grandfather's story than my knives. Which completely appropriate and not at all surprising, since I've found the folks around here to be almost universally of good taste, and history lovers, which is redundant, of course. But I think I might have to make a trip to the safety deposit box to retrieve my favorite keepsake for show and tell. Stand by.
Oct 23, 2018
Gunnersmate2
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Oct 25, 2018
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HatuletohI can't wait to see what it is. I have a few things that survived from my grandfathers collection. Everything is out of state so the next time I'm in Washington state I'll be sure to post some pictures of some real interesting WW2 artifacts
Oct 25, 2018
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