Mandirigma
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brownie0486, pic after its done please?
Whats the most that you will pay for a knife?
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You harvest that yourself old friend?
brownie0486
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What does a $2800.00 look like any way?
See the attachment.
HSO,
It was procured at a show some 20 years ago on the last day, the last hour for a ridiculously small price. Just a small 8# piece of tusk
Mandirigma.
Might be another 18-22 months off, not sure I'll be able to remember it, but if I do, I'll throw it up here for everyone.
Brownie
See the attachment.
HSO,
It was procured at a show some 20 years ago on the last day, the last hour for a ridiculously small price. Just a small 8# piece of tusk
Mandirigma.
Might be another 18-22 months off, not sure I'll be able to remember it, but if I do, I'll throw it up here for everyone.
Brownie
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Brownie,
If you picked up an 8" tusk tip at a show 20 years ago I'd say you got it for a song by today's standard. Nice thing is that after 20 years you can bet it will hold up well also.
I don't suppose you have an apple box of stag sitting round?
If you picked up an 8" tusk tip at a show 20 years ago I'd say you got it for a song by today's standard. Nice thing is that after 20 years you can bet it will hold up well also.
I don't suppose you have an apple box of stag sitting round?
brownie0486
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No stag sir.
That tusk block I've got is about 8 inches long, about 9 inches in circumference and is a quartered section from the tusk, so it looks like a piece of sliced pie.
Brownie
That tusk block I've got is about 8 inches long, about 9 inches in circumference and is a quartered section from the tusk, so it looks like a piece of sliced pie.
Brownie
Gordon
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$3000 Mad Dog Cutlass gowing temper line 19" x 1 3/4" x 1/4" blade of Starrett O-1 with two handed handle and sword sheath. Still 6months out.
Regolith
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Three reasons. The first being that knives, which are usually fairly compact objects, are fairly easy to lose. I've lost several in my life time, and the fear of losing something that cost me several hundred dollars would keep me from using them much.
The second is that, it is very possible to break a knife during general use. Say you're chopping or batoning a log and you hit a hard knot you weren't expecting, and your knife breaks. Now, if you paid $50 for the knife, you're not out a whole lot. But if it was a $500 or $1000 custom? You just ruined a one of a kind.
And finally...there are still sub $100 knives that are perfectly useable and will get the job done just as well as that $1000 custom.
It'd be like taking a $20,000 custom double gun on a duck hunt in the mud fields of a coastal estuary. You just don't do it, particularly if you have an 870 marine magnum on hand that will do the job just as well, without running the risk of ruining the gun.
Also, the cost of good guns and good knives are completely different. While a good serviceable knife can be had for $10-40, a good serviceable rifle will cost you ten times that amount.
If there were good serviceable rifles to be had for less than $100, I'd be making the same point.
JTW Jr.
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great points , however when you break it down to a cost per use basis , the knife ends up being a better deal.
I have been using knives , some custom and some productions for years , I have never lost one and I have never broken a quality knife. Broke some lesser expensive ones , say $10-$15 but I dont hold them to the same standards as a $100+ knife.
Perhaps when you pay a bit more for it , you tend to take care of it better and keep track of it more, like an expensive shotgun I do know guys who have the same $20 Remington slipjoint that they bought 25+ years ago.
Knives are not intended to be used for chopping logs or splitting wood , sure some have adapted a design to make a knife more axe like , but it is not its intended use , any more than a butt of a pistol is used for a hammer , though you could use your S&W 627 perf center pistol to baton your custom knife thru firewood , but I would prefer an axe and a good hammer
In the end it comes down to perceived value. I couldn't spend $2K on a shotgun as I don't shoot trap/skeet anymore , and don't hunt , however I shoot pistol/rifle a couple weekends a month , but I use my knife every day , many times a day.
Smiles per dollar I call it.
I have been using knives , some custom and some productions for years , I have never lost one and I have never broken a quality knife. Broke some lesser expensive ones , say $10-$15 but I dont hold them to the same standards as a $100+ knife.
Perhaps when you pay a bit more for it , you tend to take care of it better and keep track of it more, like an expensive shotgun
I do know guys who have the same $20 Remington slipjoint that they bought 25+ years ago.Knives are not intended to be used for chopping logs or splitting wood , sure some have adapted a design to make a knife more axe like , but it is not its intended use , any more than a butt of a pistol is used for a hammer , though you could use your S&W 627 perf center pistol to baton your custom knife thru firewood , but I would prefer an axe and a good hammer
In the end it comes down to perceived value. I couldn't spend $2K on a shotgun as I don't shoot trap/skeet anymore , and don't hunt , however I shoot pistol/rifle a couple weekends a month , but I use my knife every day , many times a day.
Smiles per dollar I call it.
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