I figure that most people who are not "into" knives should probably have 3 decent production knives.
A nice EDC Folder
A do it all 4 and 1/2 to 5 inch blade fixed outdoors knife
And a good kitchen knife like the Spyderco Yang or a decent Henkels.
Most people don't even have that much.
Could you live with just 3 decent knives?
Maybe you could even live with just one single blade to do everything?
There is no reason I could not use my SS4 for everything from cooking to EDC
even though it would not be perfect.
Other than I would go completely mad. I have knives for cutting cardboard and paper ,a different couple of knives for wood ,some for EDC with light clothes ,some for heavy clothes ,some for EDC in a suit or with nice clothes etc.
Throwers and daggers and antiques. Actually come to think of it I have more than 3 sharpening systems.<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />