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02-28-2008, 12:38 PM
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Are knives undervalued?
Now stricly speaking I am not talking about money wise. Money wise I think many knives are FAR overpriced. But here is my issue.
They other day I am over at a co-workers place and I see that he has a giant knife collection. He is showing me this pretty and that pretty and talking about knife makers in general and blah blah blah. Then I ask him which ones have been used to cut, skin, clean, butcher what game. He looks at me with a look of sheer horror on his face. Now I KNOW this guy is a hunter. We have talked about it MANY times. So I am totaly confused as to what his problem is. Then finally he goes to the kitchen and pulls out a $9 wal-mart special hunting knife that looks like it has been beaten to death and is not quite sharp enough to cut hot butter. This is his hunting knife. He has Randall knives, he has ka-bars, he has gerbers, he has camillius, he has case, he has old timer, scharade, you name it he has it. But this is his hunting knife. Then he explains to me that these knives on the wall are "for collection value" and it would ruin their value to use them. Now that got me to thinking. He has alot of money on that wall, but I don't think he has alot of value on it. Me I have a few very nice knives, and a few wal-mart specials, and assorted odds and ends. Every one has been used. Every one has value as a knife. Every one has been taken care of as though it were a million dollar blade instead of a $9 or a $50 or even a $100 blade. If I wanted to just see perfect unmarred examples of these knives I could print copies of pictures of them from the companies website to frame on the wall. I don't know maybe its just me, maybe I am not getting my point across. GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 
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