How many knives and/or axes do you own?

[Hellz]

Not enough! Well... maybe

I've got a pretty good collection, but I'm slowly parting with it uppy_dog

If we're including kitchen knives I'm definitely in the last catergory

Hellz

 

[Klenchblaize]

Far, far too many plus two more from Alan Wood sometime in late November!!

Like bullets though they never go out of fasion. Which reminds me:

I once had a Firearms Licensing Officer enquire why I needed more than one r__le. Well actaually he asked, in a manner one can only attribute to ignorance or disinterest, if I intended to "cart them all around the woods in a trolley"! No, I'm not making this up.

After considering my reply for all of 3 seconds the Officer became most upset when I pointed out that within his less than convincing stab at humour he had surely answered his own question? Yep, he did not take too kindly to being asked if he only used a #4 iron when playing golf. I seem to recall that paticular FAC renewal took a little longer than most!!

Sorry for going off topic but it seemed worth telling and almost relevant.


Cheers

 

[hollowdweller]

Too many and I don't want to count them afraid my wife will read it

 

[grumit]

if i count every knife in the house or at work it will be over the 100
and still waiting on a bearclaw and two alan woods then there is the billhook
and over half a dozen axes

 

[Brixton]

Too many and I don't want to count them afraid my wife will read it

Exactly. If Gwen finds out about this forum I only own the one. Honest
If she doesn't I don't want to count as then I would start working out how much money I've spent and how overdrawn I am

 

[Pappa]

I always thought I only had one; until I counted them.

2 Mora
1 GB Wildlife Hatchet
1 Crooked Knife
1 Rubbish lock knife
1 tiny pen knife
1 frost wood splitter thingy

I didn't count the kitchen knives.

Pappa

 

[sam_acw]

it's stunning how many things you end up with;
- a black vicorinox classic - my 1st knife when i was about 7
- 3 other swiss army type cheapos
- Frosts laplander 90 with buffalo horn handles and neck sheath
- old fixed blade knife with decorated leather sheath
- Finn knife (can't remember makers name)
- £2 hoof knife project
- 2" Bursletto blade awaiting handle
- Wilkinson pruning knife i got for £1 on the market and currently awaiting modification
- modified small opinel (no. 6)
- standard big (No. 8) opinel
- 1850s sheffield folding knife from my ACW reenacting days
- nice solid folding "hunting" knife
plus of course there's the set or carving knives/chisels, a couple of craft knives, a bayonet for a lorenz rifle (1850/60s) and a few other sharp things.
make me realise i must post a few pictures and also but some more things!

 

[Salix]

3 felling axes (Variety of makes)
2 small wilkinson hatchets
1 Big old cleaving job
1 Estwing hatchet
3 Billhooks
1 Slasher
1 machette

1Helle Jergemester
1Tramontina Amazonas
1 Frosts clipper
1 Laguiole locking knife
2 cheapo pen knives
1 Victorinox Swiss army forester knife

A Churi on the way, and a possible in the near future

OMG I hope i never get raided by the rozzers!!!!!!!!!

 

[wingstoo]

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

Red

S*** Red, MB says she wants to be your friend forever, you have to many sharp things to be an enemy!

I think you have a serious fetish, just don't tie them to your walking staff or you will never be able to move it.

LS

 

[British Red]

Dave,

I was worried that axes alone put me in the over 10 category

I am going to "refine" the knives soon though - I really only use the two I brought to the last meet and my Bushman now...all the others are just"drawer queens" really.

Red

 

[wingstoo]

But Red, if you could smelt them down you could make even more axes from them.

LS

 

[sargey]

i sort of missed this one.

i went on woodsmokes nomad course a couple of years back it seems now, one of the instructors asked "so how many knives did you bring?" i replied "i don't know, i don't count 'em, it's not like i'm obsessive or anything!"

cheers, and.

 

[Simon1]

Hi I've got-
3 Stewart marsh Big Boy Bushcrafters ( His Bushcrafters on steriods).
1 Evo 1 Bark River.
1 Dagger
1 Mini Whitby Sheath knife ( My first knife my Dad Brought me at 11yrs old)
1 Stilletto knife
2 Swiss armys'
1 Old brass lock knife
2 Samuri Swords.
1 Small forest Axe.
1 Folding saw.
And I think thats it!!!

 

[falling rain]

Strewth!! some of you lot could kit out a small army

GB small forest
Sami knivsmed 9''
Idun nl5 fallkniven
Frosts carver
frosts spoon gouge
birch and antler handled knife from attleborough accessories which I forget the name of now but I probably use the most.

 

[jamesoconnor]

GB small forest axe
paul baker bushman graduate knife
paul baker bushman graduate knife blank that i mean to put a nice handle on
crook knife
spoon knife

regards
james

 

[Hoodoo]

It's a lot easier if I just count drawers. Roughly 42 drawers of various sizes.

 

[halo]

1 gb sfa
1 micarta ws/woodlore
1 sdjarv crook knife
1 frost's sloyd knife
2 #7 opinels
and an swc kit soon

halo

 

[andyn]

Hmm I've started making some so that bumped my total up a few.

But generally for myself I only have a modest set of sharps.

1 axe
2 spoon knives
2 bushcraft knives
1 leatherman

 

[8thsinner]

I am quite shocked by my own score of over fifty,I am going to have to cut down the collection some how.

 

[Mike Ameling]

Hi, my name is Mike ... and I'm addicted to sharp things.

Hi, Mike. Tell us your story.


I ain't obsessed with knives and axes --- I'm ADDICTED!

Without including the kitchen sharps and the various carving and craft tools, I'm well over the top! (I'd be at least half way there with just the wood chisels if we included them)

Simple answer:
- a couple dozen fixed blade knives (and none are those typical buschcraft knives)
- a couple dozen folding knives (I even have 2 or three lock backs somewhere)
- a couple dozen full sized axes
- a dozen or so hatchets/tomahawks
- about a dozen billhooks/slashers and corn knives
- half a dozen swords
- several pole arms, battle axes, war hammers, caltrops, and other associated destructive devices
- and the odd handfull of spears and arrows to round out the armory

But, I have my few favorites that I use all the time - one folder and two fixed blade knives, one axe, one splitting maul, one hatchet, one trade axe (tomahawk), and my corn knife (farmer's version of a machete). The rest tend to only be dug out for a specific purpose or to show.

What? You say you can help me with my addiction? I didn't come here for help, I came here to BRAG!

Yes, sharp things can be addictive.

Time to go finish making a couple early 1700's French trade axes.

Mike Ameling - yee ol' grumpy German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands (of Iowa - USA)

p.s. Um ... err ... do I need to count the couple harpoons? And, being a blacksmith, I didn't count any of the stone tools.