I don't need all the knives I have - like not at all - and I gathered quite a few in not even one year, yet do not consider myself a collector. I use all of them, even the VG-10 Takayuki, and worked on pretty much all of them - some more than once, some very extensively. Curiosity and want/need are driving me - and yes I use need, not to justify buying so many, but because I really needed to try that profile, that maker, that steel. There was no other way than buying them to know how they suited me. Right now I'm much more interested in sharpening.
This has been going on for a while, and as stupid as it might seem, it's driven the "need" part to try other knives, since all of mine are sharp and otherwise brought to my liking, and I love the perspective of another project, another feeling, another surprise, another anything. I'm not interested in selling most of them - I should based on that need to try operation, but as I look at them and tell myself "Oh come on you need to sell a few" I cannot bring myself to do so: they all have something I love, and they all have been worked on enough that their intrinsic value to me is far beyond what you guys would pay - understandable too that you wouldn't.
The Takayuki can go, though...
As for the Avatar, I don't remember the guy's name but he's drawn a subjective picture of many mental disorders: this one is for depressive disorder, and represents something I sure should be afflicted of, yet always managed to escape with sheer will.
The ID means "Modder Quebec" and has followed me for a while. As with knives, all of my passions have truly taken hold when I started to "mod" things to my liking: movie analysis and discovering a unique sense to a movie, computers and building my own, trying a lot of different parts and looking at their effects on performance, overclocking, and even creating a guide to mod Kepler 2.0 Bios back when energy consumption was limiting Nvidia graphics performance, chess and building my own guide to opening history as related to chess history, and now... knives. As a cultural phenomenon we people from Quebec are known to be good folks, culturally happy, welcoming, and very open-minded, yet we have that history of being regressive, not very inclined to push things forward, to change a situation, to shape the world to our image. Well I am progressive, and very inclined to do all of this.
