How many knives and/or axes do you own?

[Pappa]

For a little amusement, I thought it would be nice to find out how many edged tools we have. For the sake of completeness, I suppose it's best to include all your crook knives, flint knives, and ony other oddities you may have.

Pappa

 

[Longstrider]

Erm, 7 axes that I can think of, 2 machetes, a billhook and lots of knives. Lots. Knives range from little dinky penknives (slipjoints), SAK's, through the various lock knives like Buck 110, Buck/Strider and the like, right through to fixed baldes of up to 10" blades on a couple of my bowies. As Blackadder might say... "More knives than Mr Knife the knife seller when he's had a particularly large delivery of knives."

 

[Toddy]

I've put my answer in the wrong option, I didn't read the first post until I'd answered the question. If I've got to include *all* of them, I'm in the highest count one too

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[Ogri the trog]

Ooer - I just knew this topic would come about sooner or later. Let me think....
Axes - yep, from a small £1-99 farm shop special, two good choppers a felling axe and a maul.
Fixed blade knives - Hmmm SWC - WL copy, Brisa Nordic, Lapp Pukko, ugly big sheath knife, horrid dagger thing for a handle project.
Folders - 2 SAK's, a Delicia, undeterminate skeleton folder, folding Stanley knife, 2 No 8 Opinels.
Multi-tools - Leatherman PSKII, Gerber Archer and Ledgend 800, SwisstoolX.
Others - small skeletonised skinner, a rusty billhook, Swiss cards, an old scythe that need fixing.
... I've probably forgotten a few in haste so I'll join the poll with 26.


Just don't tell SWMBO... uppy_dog

Ogri the trog

PS damn, forgot the practice forged blades, 4 off - and a few more by the weekend.

 

[Wayland]

4 swords, 4 spears, 2 scrams, 5 viking knives, 2 roman knives, 1 iron age knife, 5 medieaval knives, 20 - 25 period craft knives, 30+ non period craft knives, 9 bushcraft / pocket knives, 17 misc.cutting tools, 14 axes various periods, 30+ kitchen / eating knives, I neolithic stone axe (original)

I may have forgotten a few.....


btw. your counter doesn't go high enough.

 

[Nod]

1 axe. 1 fixed blade bushcraft knife. 1 folding pocket knife. 1 Crook knife
That's my lot.

 

[British Red]

Oh hell, we are counting goloks, swords, spears etc. And craft knives? Bump me up to over 100!

Red

 

[Toddy]

I'm thinking the same thing....and I'd forgotten craft knives and scalpels

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[Wayland]

If we're talking scalpels and small craft knives...........................

 

[hawsome34]

For a newbie I'm quite shocked after totting up how many tools I have.

1 Ghanaian Machete (£2 holds a great edge, good balance)
1 Malay Parang (£4 gift from a malaysian venturer)
1 Gerber Multitool (had it that long dont know the model)
3 Swiss Army Rolls (Not used for at least 8years)
2 Mora
1 SFA
3 Lock Blades (2 unused)
1 WW1 US bayonet
1 camping hatchet (only ever used to hammer pegs in)
3 martial arts darts (another pressie)
1 Swiss Army Card (yet another pressie)
1 Leatherman
Few stanley knives etc, prob about 8.

Not bad around 27 tools.

And I really only use 3 of them

 

[Martyn]

If you include kitchen knives, penknives, craft knives, tools and hobby knives - I would think pretty much everyone has at least 20+ in the house.

 

[Daniel]

1 Fixed blade bushcraft knife
1 Mora
1 Opinel 8
1 Opinel 5
1 SAK
1 Crook knife

and do saws count?

 

[g4ghb]

Darn you! (no not really - but if swmbo see's this...... )

looked around me in the dining room and totted up the ones on shelves, pockets bags etc and was already in double figures!!

so adding on those from the rest of the house It HAS to be over 41....... probably over 100 too!

I just can't help myself buying / making more, I love em!! - now time to brouse the goodstuff shop again

 

[Wayland]

Oops. just noticed another 3 swords and two mediaeval knives I forgot.......

 

[laurens ch]

4 axes (recently lost three though)
3 moras
2 opinels number 7 and the Filet knife
1 folding pruning knife
1 small kukri
If this poll was how many have youve had it been about double,ive lost quite a few of them.
total 11

 

[Topcat02]

Hi Laurens,

How are you getting on with your Small Forest?

 

[capacious]

My collection is rather modest....

2 x Axes
1 x Mora
1 x Opinel
1 x Lapp Puukko
1x Helle Brakar

I can't afford lots of gear - every time I want something new, I have to sell something else

 

[Seagull]

Couple of Moras that Ive rehandled;
A black blade (JP)my lad got me for Xmas;
An old Helle Tor.
3 Shoe knives;
A chopped off Clipper.
An Opey 7.
A Fiskars light axe.

Not counting woodworking sharps.

Ceeg

 

[Abbe Osram]

one GB axe
3 Lapp Puukko
and a swiss army pocket knife
cheers
Abbe

 

[JimH]

Err, 6 or more axes, IIRC - Two GBs, a Swedish army Ebayer , and a slack handful of cheapies, some modded.

About a dozen and a half fixed blades, 6-10 Opinels and a bunch of penkinves - mostly SAK, Laguioles and Taylor's Eyewitness stuff.

Plus countless kitchen and craft knives.

Perhaps it's a "syndrome" - I really only use about half a dozen regularly...

Jim.