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Today is the one year anniversary of my first purchase of a high-quality, name brand knife. That also makes it the one year anniversary of my ragin' knife addiction, and I have no plans to kick any time soon. Best habit I ever picked up. About the most expensive too, but at least you don't wake up on Sunday afternoon with nothing to show except a headache and a new-found commitment to regular STD testing.

To celebrate one year, I thought I'd do something I hadnt ever done: lay out every knife I own, from the customs to the knock-offs, to see them all together and gauge how my collection is measuring up. So if you're willing to put in the effort, lay it on out (your knife collection, of course) and see how yours measures up to mine.

Two notes: I actually don't mean to foster a competitive spirit, that language was just to set up the inferential joke. There are dozens of ways to judge a collection of anything (i.e., quality, quantity, rarity, completeness, and so forth) and far more factors that influence the speed at which a collection grows, most of which are beyond our immediate volitional control ($$$, I mean). To try to compare any two, especially two collections of knives, is the embodiment of "apples to oranges". I'm just interested to see what folks have. Secondly, this will take longer than you think. Doesn't matter how big or small your knife collection, it takes longer than you thought it would to get them out and arranged. Just FYI.

Here's my money $hot, quite literally:

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As I had to trim it considerably to get it under the 10 MBs required, I also did a few close-ups:
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There are too many for me to name, but they're grouped by brand if there are multiple examples of a brand. There is also various random swag I've gotten from different sellers interspersed.
The one I'll explain is the bayonet at the very top: it was the first piece in my collection, years ago before I knew I'd have a collection of any blades. It is a Japanese WWII infantryman's bayonet that my grandfather took as a "souvenir", as he would call it. He rarely spoke of the war and when he did it was always a story about the bad food, making money on black market cigarettes, or being sea sick. Never combat, or almost never. So I have no idea the story behind it. That a bayonet sat for about 60 years in my grandfather's basement in his original Army footlocker until I found it one day and took it as a decorative piece (with his permission). When my grandfather died a few years ago I volunteered to go through his files (soooo many files, he was an accountant and pack-rat) and found he saved every official piece of paper from the war period: orders, artillery school notes, train ticket stubs, the Xmas dinner menu from the 1943 Fort Sill Officers Club Xmas dinner, divisonal chain of command flow charts, targeting orders from combat, a reprimand for being overweight in 1942. Everything. So based on what I found I'd bet this bayonet came from a solider who was killed in a banzai charge during the final battle for the island of Attu in the Aleutians. They came at dawn and went straight for the artillery park. Look it up. My 25 year old Lt Grandpa was there, Battery C, Commanding.
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KT83
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Jul 14, 2019
#Hatuletoh# VERY NICE KNIFE COLLECTION AND AN INTERESTING STORY ABOUT YOUR GRANDFATHER (may he rip). I TEND TO DO A SIMILAR THING WHERE I SPREAD OUT MY KNIVES, USUALLY FOR EITHER "CASUAL FILMMAKING/PHOTOGRAPHY", OR INVENTORY (which takes a few days), SO I AGREE, NOT AN EASY TASK, TAKES BOTH, LOTS OF TIME AND ENERGY, AND THEN THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO KINDA "GET HINGED ON" (I hope my formulation corresponds to my intended point, as English isn't my native language). PS. MY COLLECTION, WITHOUT "SOMEHOW" EVEN NOTICING IT, -EXPANDED TO THE POINT OF "PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY", SO NATURALLY, I DECIDED TO MAKE BUSINESS OUT OF IT, AS I'VE DONE WITH OTHER THINGS BEFORE (never successfully😅), BUT "100 & 3rd" TIME THE CHARM.., RIGHT🤔.. - KT✌🎭
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smallbit
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Mar 12, 2019
What is your favorite edc out of all of those knives and which is your goto bugout knife? Got any custom ek's or Bark River yet?
Yugbe
63
Oct 30, 2018
2 Questions:
  1. What fueled your "Not as out of control addiction as you think" addiction?
  2. Are you married, and if so, How did you get away with it?
Gunnersmate2
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Oct 25, 2018
Quick question regarding your Spyderco Calypso Jr. Sprint run with super blue steel. Is the blade off center and does the lockbar sit flush with the blade when open? I recently got one and have both of those issues with mine.
Gunnersmate2
1646
Oct 27, 2018
Crkt also has an outstanding warranty department. Free repair parts no questions asked. They didn't have a pocket clip available to replace my bent one so they replaced my knife. I appreciate companies that stand behind their products and customers
DougFLA123
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Oct 27, 2018
Even though it’s been a little bit of a disappointing knife for you, it’s still a pretty unique knife. There are not many “regular” folding knives that have a blue steel blade. I think the only other knives I’ve seen that have a blue steel blade are the Japanese friction folders, so the Calypso Jr is unique and pretty cool in that sense. Hopefully Spyderco is able to do some good work on it for you and take care of it’s problems.
Pistachio22
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Oct 24, 2018
Best microtech collection I've seen, I'd kill for some of those utx-70's. Also like those protech "whiskers" you have .
m0d01
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Oct 24, 2018
Recently developed raging KA? me f-ing too!
this post is simultaneously inspirational and terrifying to me. i’ve Already got one well developed, long running expensive hobby.
nice collection, btw.
Shooter0331
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Oct 24, 2018
You ready to add another Marifone? TAD Anax for sale! Very nice colllection though sir!!!
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fhood
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Oct 22, 2018
What an awesome collection. You've got a little bit of everything.
Cdoyle
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Oct 21, 2018
Wow I just clicked on your collection picture and it is much larger than I originally thought ! very nice br
Hatuletoh
850
Oct 24, 2018
Cdoyle¡Muchas gracias! Get ambitious and post one of your own. Or even what can be easily displayed. I'm genuinely interested to see what folks have.
ishouldbehunting
0
Oct 21, 2018
Blazing Saddle reference. Top notch collection. mmmmmmmmhmmmm
Hatuletoh
850
Oct 24, 2018
ishouldbehuntingGood eye! I wondered if anyone would catch that.
In a film packed from end to end with jokes, a lot of them great and some even brilliant jokes, I think that one is my favorite.
My only complaint with Blazing Saddles (besides some gay stereotype humor thats dated and kind of uncomfortable now, although Dom DeLuise is still hilarious), is that Madeleine Kahn's part is criminally small and not relevant to the plot. She's amazing as always with the weak material she gets, but if she had been given the role of a character involved throughout the movie, maybe like a Scarlet O'Hara spoof...well, the interracial couple jokes would have written themselves. Too touchy for even Mel Brooks, perhaps?
DougFLA123
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Oct 24, 2018
HatuletohA wed wose. How womantic.
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