Swivel knife recommendation?

[SouthernCross]

Dang, that's quite a collection! 

[immiketoo]

Sadly, that's not even all of them.  Somehow I keep ending up with more.

 

[billybopp]

@immiketoo ... There are 12 steps to help you with this situation ...  Do you believe in a higher power?

I have about 7 or 8 swivel knives.  Two are Tandy pro and they're fairly good.  The others were mostly acquired as parts of collections - mostly the regular run of the mill knives.  Those, I keep less used specialty blades in - such as hair blades.  Very handy to have them ready to go and not have to switch blades around.

Seriously tho, nice collection.  I'm curious about the one at bottom center that looks like a tree branch?

-Bill

[immiketoo]

Lol!  Hey Bill, that one IS a tree branch.  I ordered the very first Leather Wranglers SKV Britt Nantz collaboration knife.  its the one that says MD on it in the middle.  Paul and Britt sent me this knife as a joke after I ordered the other one.  When I opened the box, I laughed my ass off.  Surprisingly, it cuts very well, but only in 90 degree corners

[ABHandmade]

On 22.04.2018 at 3:45 PM, immiketoo said:

Sadly, that's not even all of them.  Somehow I keep ending up with more.

 

I started salivating like a puppy at the sight of a cutlet

[immiketoo]

54 minutes ago, ABHandmade said:

I started salivating like a puppy at the sight of a cutlet

That’s why I have this many knives...every damned time.

[ABHandmade]

8 minutes ago, immiketoo said:

That’s why I have this many knives...every damned time.

I hope that by the time I work with the leather as much as you do, I will have at least a pitiful resemblance to such a collection

Edited April 24, 2018 by ABHandmade

[immiketoo]

Honestly, I bought most of this in my first two or three years.  Now, I have more than I'll ever use and its just  jewelry really.  Nice to show off.  I could survive with only two of them.  The same goes for most of my tool racks.  I could keep about a dozen or so and probably never need another one.  I was young and foolish.

 

[ABHandmade]

22 minutes ago, immiketoo said:

Honestly, I bought most of this in my first two or three years.  Now, I have more than I'll ever use and its just  jewelry really.  Nice to show off.  I could survive with only two of them.  The same goes for most of my tool racks.  I could keep about a dozen or so and probably never need another one.  I was young and foolish.

 

But the very same 2 knives and dozens of the tools you use are based on the experience of using everything that you have. And guessing in advance what you really need would be impossible.
I think that there is no ideal set of in, which would be equally popular with everyone. IMHO, through the buying phase of a lot for select the right one goes anybody.

[immiketoo]

I agree with that wholeheartedly.  Back then, there was no way of knowing what I would have gravitated toward.  In fact, it was so wide open that any of the sets of tools I have could have been THE set.