Anyone ever found their Grail knife?

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The Law

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I personally have not, but I suffer from knife addiction (like many of y'all do :D). What I mean to say is has anyone found the one knife that makes them content. I go through a cycle of buying a new knife, falling in love with it but then after a month or so the itch comes back to find another!
 
I have it! A Grohmann slimline folder is all I need for a pocket knife. It is also made in the area where I have lived for over 6 years now.
 
I have not yet found it, but I know what it is.
A Case 35 pattern Jack.
I don't e-bay, so finding one is quite the hunt. Estate sales. Antique stores whenever I am on vacation.
No luck yet.
 
I've thought I did a few times, but then down the road there always seems to be another grail! ;)
 
I've found it several times. GEC just keeps cranking out more that I must have.

Mike's last sfo run was about as close as I will get to perfection though. Easy opening smooth white bone 85 with a matchstrike pull and coping secondary. I give it way more attention than the rest...wish I'd have bought 2.
 
I haven't found "the one" knife, because there's no reason to limit myself to just one knife. But I have found a few that are just about perfect.

Case 6332 stockman - perfect blade assortment, and halfstops.
Case 6318HE - perfect blade assortment, and nice curves
GEC #47 sheepsfoot Hayn' Helper - I wanted a sodbuster like knife and I always admired those big wooden handled Ottermessers from Germany and sheepsfoot jacks from Sheffield, and GEC answered my prayers for a cross between the two.
2004 Case/Bose muskrat - the Hawbaker muskrat is probably my favorite pattern, and with great F&F, all steel hardware, half-stops, and ATS-34 steel, this knife is perfect.
I'm sure the GEC 92 Eureka jack will be perfect whenever I can afford to get one. Or three.
And then of course there's the upcoming 2013 Case/Bose 3.5" wharncliffe trapper. That'll be perfect too.
 
The perfect traditional slipjoint is the Case Bose tribal spear. I have one and have not seen the need for another slipjoint in three years...but I'm still lookin :)
 
I don't think I'll ever stop buying knives, I like them too much. I do have a grail knife though.

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- Christian
 
I'm pretty sure I have---I just don't find that "need another knife" itch? This one has scratched it :)

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Paul
 
Christian, I like the way you think, with your Mike Ruth, Jr. choice. Mine is an integral by Rodrigo Sfreddo.

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This is as hard as the 'If you could only have one....' threads. I think I found my "grail knife" even though I didn't know it at the time. It is the amber bone mini copperhead. Instead of being as ornate, beautiful, and expensive as those wonderful Bowies up there by Black Mamba and Kamagong, it is a regular production knife and not a perfect one either. But, it satisfies my knife needs 90% of the time.

Lately, I have been buying some GECs and they are wonderful knives and a couple have come real close to grail status. So, if I could do like "The Law" and just be satisfied, it would be easier on me financially. My biggest problem is I come here to this here forum and see all these fabulous knives and I just have to fetch me another one... then another...

Ed J
 
pocket knife?

Seems to be the 68 white owl, had a few new slip joints later that are just still sitting in the cigar box, couldn't take the WO out my pocket, weird feeling, and I literally noticed it for certain this week. (Even got the original tube thanks to some amazing generosity from sitflyer her eon the forum)



Still have the itch for more but don't think anything will change soon. Been wrong before though :p
 
I did, but had to return it to the old knight guarding the tomb. He waved sadly at me as I left, barely clearing the entryway, before the whole thing came down, sealing it away, lost to history and the sands.

Also, I couldn't afford it.
 
I don't think I have a single knife that is my one knife to rule them all.

I like the variety of sizes, colors, patterns, and handle materials too much.
 
black mamba said:
Christian, I like the way you think, with your Mike Ruth, Jr. choice. Mine is an integral by Rodrigo Sfreddo.

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You and I are cut from the same cloth I think. We like all sorts of knives and don't discriminate, except against junk.

That Sfreddo integral is incredible.

- Christian
 
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