How many times a week you give your collection a look?

[johns7076]

The rest.....and thanks for looking at them, no one at my house is interested.

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[whippersnapper]

Wow! Outstanding collection! The top 2 pictures especially do it for me.

[johns7076]

Wow! Outstanding collection! The top 2 pictures especially do it for me.

Thanks. Wish I had someone here who would show some interest.

[JulesVane]

Love those “purplish/redish” JPL’s!

[Twobit]

Quite the collection, Johns. A lot of nice blades there.

[boots]

This week's edition, Latama customs, Tank's vision!

[gravknife]

Beautiful collections and knives shown by all here .Would be proud of them .
Really wish I could have snagged a Presto or any American examples back in the day .

Thanks for sharing them.

[rock-n-roll$$$$$$]

nice autos, all of them.

[eddymunster]

Wow John!

Amazing variety in your vast collection.

Love the Bucks.

[johns7076]

This week's edition, Latama customs, Tank's vision!

Those are beautiful!!!!

[Blitz]

This week's edition, Latama customs, Tank's vision!

This is what i mean. How can somebody own beauties like this and dont hold or even look at it once a week...

[portlandmike]

Wow ! Love those JPL’s !!

[Tom19176]

Great collections !!!

[tr4252]

Actually most of my knives are packed away. I went through a period when collecting was new to me, and I bought a lot of knives. I have a couple of Godfathers and a Godson, a bunch of Leverlettos, commemorative Talkblade knives (Teddy/Pushbutton, Tiny, etc.), and about a dozen of the custom knives I used to make. Maybe 30 or so. I consider these keepers. I also have about a hundred which are nothing special, that I'd get rid of if I wasn't so lazy. I haven't seen most of them in a long time.

I keep a 9" AB dagger blade in my desk to open letters and boxes.

I was primarily a builder and not a collector. Most of the energy I've put into the hobby was in making knife parts, jigs, fixtures, etc. I have a small metalworking shop in my basement that took shape over the years mainly to make knives. I converted a CNC blade grinder I built to a 3 axis router for the purpose of making RC model plane parts, so, no more custom blades.

I'd like to keep the good ones and sell off the rest, but I never get around to it. I don't regret any of this, the knives I built are among the most precise and well executed items I've ever created (not counting my industrial career). However, I reached a point where I'd done what I had intended to do and making more knives was unnecessary.

I'm getting old (72), and now have a spare bedroom full of knives, guns, guitars, model planes, and a few other leftovers from various interests, and records from the 2 businesses I started. Stuff I'm not currently engaged in.

This thread has renewed my interest in thinning out my posessions.

Tom

[whippersnapper]

Hey Tom! Be interesting to see some of the stuff you have buried away.