Show Your Knife
 

Curious to see what people have as their favorite knife/ves.

Doesn't matter if it's a pocketknife, kitchen knife, fighting knife, tool knife, specialty knife. If you really like it, use it, value it, then let's see it.

I guess we'll draw the line at swords and sawzalls.

In my kitchen:
http://www.gadgetskitchen.com/wp-con...shun-knife.jpg

In my pocket:
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But for attracting the ladies, only a cold steel katana will suffice!

timing is perfect!! prepping for a family bbq!

here is my kitchen knife. i use it 92.3% of the time. i love it. basic wustof classic 10"
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and my bagel splitter. i have it with me all the time. except maybe on airplanes and courthouses.


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both are razor sharp!!

Ooooh boy. Can o' worms with this one.

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Here is one we have that was made and used by my Uncle during the war. The Sheath was made from boot leather and the aluminum from a Japanese aircraft which he carved in the islands that were visited and laced with dental silver wire. If my Son gets deployed to Guam I would like to send this with him!

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my backup pocket blade:

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and there is no substitute for a patina'd high carbon blade. both of these are my ghetto blade i use to take apart large animals. they stay in my truck. these are the only two blades i can shave with. i got one for $5 and one for free. the only blade you want to yank thru a femur or ribcage needs to be cheap, long and sharp.


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Daily knife - Columbia River assisted opening

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My souvenir I picked up in Venice:

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A knife and sheath my father made in the Boy Scouts before WWII.

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Everyday carry for 28 years. Hoffritz

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work knife...old german carbon steel. like a razor

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favorite... 9" Kris blade Italian frank beltrame horn sides

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2nd fave.. another betrame only 11" dagger horn sides

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most unusual. a folding henkles !2" fruit knife.

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pocket.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286149015.jpg

kitchen; general.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286147836.jpg

slicing.
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paring.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286147954.jpg

santoku.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286148007.jpg

eldridge.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286148597.jpg

hiking.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286148696.jpg

lockback.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286148767.jpg

anti-social.
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Don't have on me much. Cheap, razor charphttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286171724.jpg

Kitchen and killen'
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Hears a question, what does everyone use to keep them sharp?

A cheap knockoff of the above.
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Another cheap one a friend gave to me.
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My old backpacking knife.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286174210.jpg
One I found in Durango, Co. many years ago.
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Picked this up in Aspen, Co. years ago.
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My first attempt at making one.
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One my father carried for a while, now mine.
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One from the German side of the family. From WWI.
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I have others around somewhere. :)

The longer one is an Italian Stiletto... http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286199192.jpg

That 13" is good for about 20 years around here. Same as my 11". You can here the wind on those when you pop the button!

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These are the two I rotate for my EDC

I switch every month or so. Currently my 2005 Case Toothpick.

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Doh! I'd love to show my favorite knife but it happens to be stuck in a tree in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area at the moment. Forgot it there on August 22nd while swimming/eating lunch. If you happen to find yourself on Mudro Lake anytime soon there's a knife identical to David's Columbia River knife stuck in a tree about eye level directly across the lake from the campsite. I'll be back next year to see if it's still there. I wonder how it will whether the coming year?

Nate - were you canoeing with the Scouts? I have heard about some great trips they have up there!

Not with the scouts. Never was one but plan to get my boy into scouts (he's currently 3). Just something I do annually ever since I was 12. I love it up there. Next to my living room it's the other place I feel at home.

Arkansas stones. It's straightforward and somewhat Zen-like once you learn how to do it properly.

My daily carry:
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(not my photo)

Glad to know that I'm not the only one into these:cool:

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I too still have knives from my childhood, Old Timer, Buck, Case, Swiss Army (actually have one of these in each car and has saved my butt in the past, the tools not the blade:)) My current fave, is BENCHMADE, a buddy got me into those about 10 years ago..

Funny, as much as I have always like sharp things, I have never really carried one, other than while hunting, or crewing races, the only other time is when I'm smoking cigars, I carry this nifty "lil" guy.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286214837.jpg
Most of the time, other than the SA in my Kits & and Old Timer I have had since 6 years old (found it) that is in my tool box, the rest stay nicely oiled and in a box stored..

Dammit. I used to own one of these; it had the name of the grocery store where I worked on the handle ("Buttreys" ) Lost it in a burglary.

Often called a "fruit testing knife" or a "melon knife".

Schrade makes one that is inexpensive, but comes with the standard yellow Schrade handles.
Schrade® Fruit Sampler Folder with Yellow Celluloid Handle

A stainless one can be had for a little more $.
http://93130.asisupplier.com/ProductDetail/ProductDetail.aspx?Ntt=fruit+or+citrus&kid=4137592 3&Ne=83&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&BWS=0|3&N=0&DPSV_ Id=434950&BSAS=1&Ntk=WordSearch&Nr=LMSiteEligibili ty:1&id=8435556&pSRVC_Id=54

just went looking and found mine.
it's a paul a. henkels.
needs a good cleaning.

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My favorite EDC for many years (high school until a few years ago) was was a Gerber Paul (not my pictures, but just like it):
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Now I carry a Spyderco Byrd Finch (small and inexpensive, but plenty of utility):
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and a Victorinox Classic :D:
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Lone Wolf Knives now has a Paul line. Very nice knives.

Lone Wolf Knives

What?? No K-Bars yet? Come on, Marines...!

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one off

that is so pretty, i almost wouldn't mind being shanked with it.

Buck Rush Platinum. Assisted Opening. Signed by the man.
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My daily carry leatherman and the TEKNA that I keep around the house for general use.... The quickest way to die would be to attempt to remove my leatherman from me....
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286255051.jpg

wow someone else is crazy as a loon for cutlery like me. no pics yet but i'll have to snap some.

i like military bayonets and dive knives. ya know big ol honking ones,that take weeks to get an edge with a diamond stick.

rambo knives are GAY!

hk-91 bayonet

m-1 carbine bayonet

m-14 bayonet

poseidon "mutha of ALL dive knives" dive knife

SOG seal pup

usn seal dive knife

usn issue knife

m-9 bayonet

gerber BMF-these are getting REAL damn spendy

gerber lil baby BMF-ditto above

gerber whitewater knife for scuba B.C.vest

scads of box cutters everywhere

x-acto knives everywhere

the ol ladys HEINKEL kitchen set

machetes-love these for slamming an 18pak and ATTACKING CHOLLA CACTUS when its 116 degrees F out. always fun getting stuck with cholla spines.


assorted swiss army knives

assorted buck knives

WWII german issue knive


somewhere laying around is my puerto penasco(rocky pt) messiko, messikan switch blade.

over the years of skinning ELK and DEER/JAVA-LEANERS(javelina) we have found the BEST way to SKIN a critter and not hassle with loosing an edge on nasty hides is throwaway BOX cutters.


the M-9 LAN-CAY holds a very nice edge for skinning ELK.

a few ontario knives laying around and a few schrade knives also.




now that you MENTION IT...............i guess i do have a KNIFE FETISH!



my fave pocket knife.............my BENCHMADE HK knife. literally you CAN SHAVE WITH IT!


p.s. a couple leatherman and gerber multi tools.

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What I have on me right now...

Here's my daily carry Bradley Cutlery Alias II:

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Definitely due for a sharpening!

I have a drawer-full of 'folders', I pick one, carry it a week or two, then change - no real favorite.

Here are some larger ones I purchased at estate sales this summer:

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Left - Edge Brand - Solingen Germany (stamped 160)

Middle - Wildcat Brand - Solingen Germany (stamped B47X)

Right - Homemade Skinning knife

*All have 'horn' handles. The two German knives have edges you can shave with.


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Left - Cardinal Cutlery NYC

Right - no markings ( may have fallen out of a UFO? )

Shun

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NICE! I almost bought one but the dealer was too proud of it!