<a href="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/kitchen/fallkniven_k2.html"><img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/kitchen/_fallkniven_k2.jpg" align="right"></a>Fällkniven K2 is the fixed blade knife I've used most since I got and had the most satisfaction from. Certainly wouldn't want to be without it.
<a href="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/fallkniven/fallkniven_s1.html"><img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/fallkniven/_fallkniven_s1-b.jpg" align="left"></a>If that's not "the kind" of knife you think of (although I wonder why since cooking is one of the main uses for knives) Fällkniven S1 is a long term favourite. Doesn't look very remarkable, but it grows on you and after some time you realize how versitile it is (I can and have used it in the kitchen -- so I know you don't really need serrated bread knives -- but that's a story for another week). Wouldn't want to be without it.
<a href="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/schrade/slw1.html"><img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/knives/schrade/_slw1-side.jpg" align="right"></a>As for folders, there isn't anyone I'd call perfect, but recently I've used the Schrade Lake & Walker quite a lot. Some details aren't perfect, but the package as a whole is quite good.
Multitools? Once upon a time I got a (original) Leatherman and later the small one. I gave away one of them and the other is somewhere around, but I don't remember which which should tell you something of how I feel about multitools. I guess the Victorinox Executive might be called on, that one I've'd a long time.