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I got a leatherman wave the other day, now i want to start a collection of knifes. where do i start?
ive always loved knifes and multi-tools and knifes. but being a teeenager, my parents dident let me own any for myself. now that im past that, where do i start? what should i read to get educated about knifes?
There is such a gigantically HUGE assortment of knives out there from utilitarian to the asthetically beautiful to the cheap junk being sold to people who fantasize they're Rambo or a Klingon, so there is no one real place to start that would cover them all. You should decide what kind of knives you were interested in first and then go from there. Some possibilities are...
-Antique pocket knives
-survival knives
-custom knife making
-Knives from other cultures
-Fantasy knives
Probably the most popular area would be collecting military knives and bayonets. Holding a Japanese type 30 bayonet that could have been on Iwo Jima, or a German Hitler Youth knife brought back by a veteran, or a US Springfield socket bayonet that was dug up from a Civil War battlefield, is more than just collecting. It's holding history in your hand and always wondering in the back of your mind what kind of living hell this thing went through.
No matter what types of knives it is that interests you, someone wrote a book about it and somewhere there's an organization of other people who would love to give you pointers. If in doubt, the National Knife Collector's Association is a good place to start:
http://www.nkcaknife.org/
BTW, ignore the person who said that knives don't go up in value. Twenty years ago I bought a World War II Japanese sword for $300. It's now worth $800.
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