What Have You Collected?
 

So what do you guys collect or what do you like to buy? Did you collect anything as a kid?


I'm not much of a collector but when I was a girl I used to collect stuff like this,

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4...erhorsehb2.jpg


I don't know anything about model horses. I just liked them and would always ask for one for my birthday. They used to be lined up on my book shelves. Anyway, that's the closest I got to owning a horse or taking riding lessons [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]. (my parents were cheap)



Like I said, I'm not really a collector anymore and I'm not sentimental about much of anything.



Meanwhile, this is just the latest thing my bf has bought that he thinks he needs in his collection of stupid things. He has not one but two. (i'm guessing he was drunk when he made the purchase but who knows.) I'm not trying to knock anyone's collection of crap but seriously, what are we going to do, put these on and fight each other after work? Why would you need this?



http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2...wopiecevd1.jpg





The only thing I can think of that I have a problem collecting now is clothing. I tend to get in a rut and buy the same item over and over. Are you like me where you have too much of one kind of clothing item, maybe stuff you wear too often that your family would like to see stop?


Going through my closet the other day, it was pointed out to me that I have a collection of short sleeve and sleeveless black shirts. Probably something like 20. BF thought it was ridiculous and I should throw some out. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] I've taken some pics so I will show you guys in a minute.


So is there something that you collect that your family members (or significant other) think is just stupid?

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Not really, I never really got into long term collections of anything. I went through the baseball card and comic book phase as a kid, and thats about it. For a while I was collecting blunt wraps (the wrapper after it was used) and collected a pretty nice stack. I had a bunch of different flavors and it smelled really good. I havent added any to my collection in a couple years because I started using dutch masters. My friends who smoked thought it was cool, and other people who were not big into smoking thought I was weird.

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so where's your blunt wrap stack now?

Also, do you have one type of shirt you wear too much?

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When I was a kid I collected baseball and football cards. I still have a few that are worth some $$ in a safety deposit box. The others are, well I really don't know what happened to them.

As I got older I started collecting knives, fantasy swords/ knives and hot sauces. I know, I'm weird. I haven't added to the collection in the last year or two b/c I got lazy. I prob need to check into some of the stuff that's came out in that time.

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take a picture of your knives and hot sauces. I want to see them.

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As a kid I collected anything and everything Star Wars. That picture you posted of Darth Vader, I had that...it was a carrying case for all my action figures. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Now, as an adult, I collect fairies. Especially red headed ones. I was given one as a gift from my now ex-husband on the day after my gastric bypass surgery. Ever since then I started collecting them.

T

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so where's your blunt wrap stack now?

Also, do you have one type of shirt you wear too much?

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I have 6 black pokerstars shirts, I use them as rags to quickly wipe spilled drinks on my floor. I also use them to make ninja masks, when I feel like running around in the darkness hidden from everybody (when they are clean).

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Cool topic.

I collect memories. I have had this same old box for the last 20+ years and I collect important memories in it by saving a little something from significant events. I have the usual items one would expect - pictures, ticket stubs, letters, etc. However, I have some unusual items - a Michael Jackson candy bar from a trip to Greece in 1991, a semi-adult magazine from a newsstand in Paris, the head scarf from a girl from a very special moment we shared, and a very bad bracelet I wore when going through a phase in college. There are also some super special things in there that I would never show anyone.

It is by far my most prized possession and if my place was burning it would be the one thing I would make sure I saved. Its loss would be unbearable.

I also used to collect guitar magazines and guitar books when I used to play many years ago. I probably have the sheet music for 10,000 or more songs and 1,000s of guitar lessons. The books and magazine fill a big closet.

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I have 6 black pokerstars shirts, I use them as rags to quickly wipe spilled drinks on my floor. I also use them to make ninja masks, when I feel like running around in the darkness hidden from everybody (when they are clean).

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Lol. Do you do this often, run around in the dark?

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take a picture of your knives and hot sauces. I want to see them.

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I would but I don't have a digital camera. I know...get with the times. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

I could prob find a few pics of some of the fantasy knives/swords online if that's good enough. Same thing for the hot sauces.

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Now, as an adult, I collect fairies. Especially red headed ones. I was given one as a gift from my now ex-husband on the day after my gastric bypass surgery. Ever since then I started collecting them.

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A picture would help me visualize what you're talking about. What kind of fairy? How big are they?

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I could prob find a few pics of some of the fantasy knives/swords online if that's good enough. Same thing for the hot sauces.

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Ok. Find some pics online. I'll wait.

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I have 6 black pokerstars shirts, I use them as rags to quickly wipe spilled drinks on my floor. I also use them to make ninja masks, when I feel like running around in the darkness hidden from everybody (when they are clean).

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Lol. Do you do this often, run around in the dark?

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Only when there is a damsel in distress, which seems to happen once every 2 weeks on average. I protect the people around me. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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I collect memories. I have had this same old box for the last 20+ years and I collect important memories in it by saving a little something from significant events. I have the usual items one would expect - pictures, ticket stubs, letters, etc. However, I have some unusual items - a Michael Jackson candy bar from a trip to Greece in 1991, a semi-adult magazine from a newsstand in Paris, the head scarf from a girl from a very special moment we shared, and a very bad bracelet I wore when going through a phase in college. There are also some super special things in there that I would never show anyone.



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Ok this is very interesting. So I'm curious what exactly is in that box of yours and how big is it? Do you ever read back through your old letters? Doesn't it make you sad? What kind of ticket stubs you got in there, like from concerts? Also, what is a Michael Jackson candy bar, is it just the wrapper or did you save the actual bar?

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I collect Star Wars coins. No action figures or any of the other typical stuff, just coins.

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3...ttfrontku7.jpghttp://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9...esfrontpc4.jpghttp://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9...inabandyi4.jpg

I was going through some boxes of toys from when I was little , found a couple of them in the box, thought they were cool and got hooked. Built up most of the collection from 1998-2002. Pretty glad I did, as prices for the harder to find coins are now 2-3x what they were then.

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I didn't even realize there was such a thing as a star wars coin! How many do you think you have? When did they stop selling them and do you actively look for them on ebay or at flea markets?

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I have 3 of these. The one in the pic, 1 with a gold handle and 1 with a black handle.
http://www.swordsdirect.com/KR-3Snmk.gif

1 of these
http://www.swordsdirect.com/KR-19.jpg

1 of these but the 1 I have is shiny
http://www.gunaccessories.com/United...Rae/medusa.jpg

1 of these
http://www.selfdefenseproducts.com/n...ges/UC1142.jpg

1 of these but mine has a dull gray handle. It's approx 24" tip to tip
http://www.luxus.cz/obchod_pic/kit_rae_valdris.jpg

If you go to this site I have everything on the main page. I mainly collect things made by Kit Rae. He's prob the best fantasy knife/sword maker in the world. The 1st pic(The Valdris) is the one that I have. I started collecting his stuff about 6 yrs ago.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...%3Doff%26sa%3DN

I'll try to find a few other things I have.

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I collected my belly button lint for 14 years. I took a job a couple of years ago that required me to bathe more regularly than I did in the past, which really put a crimp in my lint production, so I ceased collecting.

I have the jar in my safe deposit box. I'll try to get by the bank this week and take a picture.

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There must be something else you collect besides lint. Ties? Aren't you a lawyer? Do you collect white button down shirts?

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I could also say I collect CDs, I actually buy them. I have atleast 500, I like reading the notes (where it was recorded, who mixed, engineered, produced, etc. etc.

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So you actually buy the cd huh? interesting. Do you remember the notes, like who produced and mixed the music or does it leave your head as soon as you put it down?

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Well anything mixed by Rick Rubin is always remembered since he is the bomb diggity at music. I also took some recording classes in college and that made me a music geek.

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Do you collect white button down shirts?

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Yes, I do. How did you guess that?

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How many do you have smart alec and why do you not talk about The Bachelor with me?

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How many do you have smart alec and why do you not talk about The Bachelor with me?

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I own approximately 15 white button-down shirts. I still enjoy talking about the Bachelor. The divorced blonde is the favorite. She seems more like a real person that the rest of them, and she is hot.

I just looked her up, and her name is Bettina. Strange name.

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Well anything mixed by Rick Rubin is always remembered since he is the bomb diggity at music. I also took some recording classes in college and that made me a music geek.

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Which Wilbury did Rubin work with and what are the names of the albums he produced for him as well as the year of their release? (no fair looking)

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I honestly cant answer that, I have heard about the wilburys but if they had a song playing on the radio I would not be able to spot it.

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NSFW pictures and vids.

Katy, do you want to see some of those? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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I have a strong collecting and hoarding impulse the other day I couldn’t bring my self to throw out a new stack of monopoly money even though I don’t have a copy of the game.

As a kid I had a nice collection of star wars figures I ebayed the last of them away a few years ago.
In my youth I collected The Incredible Hulk comic and some other Marvel comics but the Hulk was my favorite I have a full run from its relaunch with issue 102 up to its relaunch as Hulk 1 some time in the early 2000. I hunted about at comic conventions and in shops filling the gaps in my collection over a period of years paying good money for crappy 1970s issues I knew would have poor art and awful plots and dialogs.
Concurrent with the comic collecting was my collecting of Games Workshop metal miniatures toy solders from a fantasy universe. I have two giant armies though I never played one game with them. Recently I looked into Ebaying them only to find they are worth more unpainted. I don’t want to sell them for less then they are worth but I don’t want to strip the paint off it just seems like I'm accepting that my artistic attempts devalue things like trying to sell a painting and finding buyers will pay more for the canvas.
I also have a SNES and a N64 and most of the best games for both of them though I drew the line at Japanese only RPGs oh and in a dark corner I have about a hundred issues of EDGE magazine not the gay life stile mag the Computer games one. I had a couple of hundred issues of White Dwarf Games Workshop related magazine which I didn’t want to throw out so put in the shed they of course got damp and eaten by snails and I ended up throwing them out I now see they are worth about £4 a pop see why I don’t like to throw stuff out?

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massive amounts of debt

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what is a Michael Jackson candy bar, is it just the wrapper or did you save the actual bar?

[/ QUOTE ]The actual bar. here is a picture I just took of it. I wonder what the chocolate looks like inside after 17 years. This is the first time anything has been removed from the box other than to quickly look at it. It sounds silly, but these things are so important to me that when I brought the candy bar in the room to take a picture of it I held it with 2 hands and I set it on a towel for fear of damaging it. How weird is that [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5...jacksonmc3.jpg

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So I'm curious what exactly is in that box of yours and how big is it?

[/ QUOTE ]The box is an old box from a fairly large coffee maker. So, it isn't very big and it is overflowing but I can't bring myself to put it in a different box because the box itself is important. As to whats in it, it a complete mishmash of things. But, almost everything is small given the box is small and cant hold much. Also, since the box is small and given that it holds 20+ years of memories, only the most important ones make it in.

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What kind of ticket stubs you got in there, like from concerts?

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Do you ever read back through your old letters? Doesn't it make you sad?

[/ QUOTE ]I almost never ever go into the box. I only put stuff in it. I bet I have looked at the stuff in the box less than 10 times in 20+ years. That box scares the crap out of me.

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This is awesome AJW. I love hearing about other people's collections. You have hoarded some cool stuff. What are you into collecting these days?



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As a kid I had a nice collection of star wars figures I ebayed the last of them away a few years ago.
In my youth I collected The Incredible Hulk comic and some other Marvel comics but the Hulk was my favorite I have a full run from its relaunch with issue 102 up to its relaunch as Hulk 1 some time in the early 2000. I hunted about at comic conventions and in shops filling the gaps in my collection over a period of years paying good money for crappy 1970s issues I knew would have poor art and awful plots and dialogs.


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How much do you get for star wars figures on ebay? Which ones were most valuable?

Also, what happened to your Incredible Hulk comic book collection?



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Concurrent with the comic collecting was my collecting of Games Workshop metal miniatures toy solders from a fantasy universe. I have two giant armies though I never played one game with them. Recently I looked into Ebaying them only to find they are worth more unpainted. I don’t want to sell them for less then they are worth but I don’t want to strip the paint off it just seems like I'm accepting that my artistic attempts devalue things like trying to sell a painting and finding buyers will pay more for the canvas.


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Why didn't you play at least one game with them! I would have played at least one game if I had two giant armies. So what will you do with the soldiers now? Keep them?

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If you go to this site I have everything on the main page. I mainly collect things made by Kit Rae. He's prob the best fantasy knife/sword maker in the world. The 1st pic(The Valdris) is the one that I have. I started collecting his stuff about 6 yrs ago.


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Cool. I like the Medusa dagger. So do you have these on display in your place? I imagine they all take up a bit of room.

Also about the hot sauces: do you use hot sauce frequently? Do you collect unopened bottles? Can you recommend a good hot sauce? I like the standard tabasco but am looking for something hotter without the 'chemical burn' flavor, heh.

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I honestly cant answer that, I have heard about the wilburys but if they had a song playing on the radio I would not be able to spot it.

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Don't worry, I don't know the answer either [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]... Except that the Wilbury is Tom Petty, this much i do know. I figured you would just go and look it up and disregard my order not to look. (You were probably like 3 yrs old when the album came out. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img])

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How many do you have smart alec and why do you not talk about The Bachelor with me?

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I own approximately 15 white button-down shirts. I still enjoy talking about the Bachelor. The divorced blonde is the favorite. She seems more like a real person that the rest of them, and she is hot.

I just looked her up, and her name is Bettina. Strange name.

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15 WHITE SHIRTS!?! Wow. Now I don't feel quite so bad that I own 20 black shirts. Of course you are a lawyer and use yours for work but in any case I kind of feel better. (Do you own 15 blue shirts too?)


Bettina is my favorite Bachelor girl too. Her name rhymes with "patina" [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] that's crazy!

She is so sweet and so much better behaved than the other girls. Plus I like the way she talks and her eyes are great. I really like her and think he should choose her.

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NSFW pictures and vids.

Katy, do you want to see some of those? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Er...no. That's ok, I'm good.
Um, do you have a big collection or sort of the "standard" amount for a guy. (not sure how exactly to inquire about your porn collection [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img])

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I have problems posting pics but here's the url and maybe someone can fix it for me so that it shows as a picture?

http://www.giftsuniqueshop.com/images/28447.jpg

Best I could come up with quickly.

T

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I have problems posting pics but here's the url and maybe someone can fix it for me so that it shows as a picture?

http://www.giftsuniqueshop.com/images/28447.jpg

Best I could come up with quickly.

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MissT -- when you create a post, just click image (it is below the text area) then paste the link for the pic into the box that pops up.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/962/28447ov7.jpg

edit: now would probably be a good time to mention rehosting [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] It is best if you rehost images with say imageshack rather then linking to the image directly.

Just go to imageshack, click the URL radio button and paste the link, then click host. At that point you can copy the 'direct link to image' URL and past that in the box that pops up when you click image (when creating a post) or you can just paste the 'hotlink for forums' link into your message.

ug, 2nd edit: ok, something isn't working with that lol -- sure fire method:

save the image to your computer. go to imageshack, click browse, find the pic, then click host and copy links as above.

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This is awesome AJW. I love hearing about other people's collections. You have hoarded some cool stuff. What are you into collecting these days?

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Books on poker i guess

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As a kid I had a nice collection of star wars figures I ebayed the last of them away a few years ago.
In my youth I collected The Incredible Hulk comic and some other Marvel comics but the Hulk was my favorite I have a full run from its relaunch with issue 102 up to its relaunch as Hulk 1 some time in the early 2000. I hunted about at comic conventions and in shops filling the gaps in my collection over a period of years paying good money for crappy 1970s issues I knew would have poor art and awful plots and dialogs.


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How much do you get for star wars figures on ebay? Which ones were most valuable?

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Not much over the years I had lost most of them so just bundled up what I had and put it on as one lot. I looked into prices before selling and I believe that the little guys who sold the droids to Luke I the first film are the most expensive If you have some variant of the cloak, silly money $500 or something.

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Also, what happened to your Incredible Hulk comic book collection?

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Still have all my comics safely bagged and stored in boxes I should have sold just after the film came out if I was going to sell.

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Concurrent with the comic collecting was my collecting of Games Workshop metal miniatures toy solders from a fantasy universe. I have two giant armies though I never played one game with them. Recently I looked into Ebaying them only to find they are worth more unpainted. I don’t want to sell them for less then they are worth but I don’t want to strip the paint off it just seems like I'm accepting that my artistic attempts devalue things like trying to sell a painting and finding buyers will pay more for the canvas.


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Why didn't you play at least one game with them! I would have played at least one game if I had two giant armies. So what will you do with the soldiers now? Keep them?

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Good question I guess I was always waiting till every thing was perfect but by the time id finished getting every thing on my lists id fell out of contact with all the RPG (another large collection id forgotten) geeks id hung out with in high school. Regret over never using them is one of the reasons I’m loath to get rid of them. They reside in the bottom two draws of a chest sitting in the corner of my parent house.


One last collection I forgot I inherited my grandmother’s collection of diecast formula one cars from the late 70 early 80s The thing is I can't remember her ever watching formula one.

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1 of these but the 1 I have is shiny
http://www.gunaccessories.com/United...Rae/medusa.jpg

1 of these
http://www.selfdefenseproducts.com/n...ges/UC1142.jpg

1 of these but mine has a dull gray handle. It's approx 24" tip to tip
http://www.luxus.cz/obchod_pic/kit_rae_valdris.jpg

If you go to this site I have everything on the main page. I mainly collect things made by Kit Rae. He's prob the best fantasy knife/sword maker in the world. The 1st pic(The Valdris) is the one that I have. I started collecting his stuff about 6 yrs ago.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...%3Doff%26sa%3DN

I'll try to find a few other things I have.

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Holy crap Evil! These look very artistic but also ridiculously scary. You have quite a collection there. Do you display them on your wall or keep them in boxes or what? Are any of these practical weapons or are they a little too fancy for everyday street fighting? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] (also, do you find that your friends are a little inimidated to come over and hang out with you and the knives?)