BladeForum Ladies...what knives do you favor?

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SleepingBear

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I haven't yet decided what knife to buy my girlfriend for a Birthday gift. It just occured to me to ask our female members, what your favorite knives are. It would be interesting to me, and may help in my consideration.
 
Though I am not female, I did get my girlfriend a Spyderco Cricket with a stainless steal handle. The first words out of her mouth when she saw it was "cool" and the next was "cute!" :rolleyes:

I guess that means she likes it!

One good thing about the cricket is that because it is a sub 2" knife it is legal almost anywhere.

-Duffin
 
Ya' might do a search on the topic, it's a fairly frequent one. As far as the ladies, I'm externally plumbed, but I can look in my wifes knife box and tell what she's got.

Blue Benchmade 940 (favoritest everything knife)
Benchmade 31 Balisong (dress knife)
Benchmade "Big Spender" (fingernail/dress knife)
Spyderco Shabaria (gardening knife)
Microtech Kestrel (frequently carried knife, SD oriented)
Spyderco stainless plain edge Delica (forgot her other knife coat pocket knife)
Kershaw Rainbow Leek (dress knife)
CRKT M-16 12 LE (work knife)
Leatherman Kick (work knife)

For fixed blades she has

Becker #10 Crewman (campin' yard grubbin')
Dick Atkinson dagger (lpurty knife)
Himalayan Imports Sarge (camp/yard knife)
Timberline Lightfoot Pitbull (never used anymore knife)
Homemade camp knife from her father (sentimental knife)
Parker Cutlery small stag handled skinner (sometimes carried yard around town knife)

She's been pretty busy also trying to talk me out of my blue Spyderco Salsa, and she's been after my Emerson La Griffe neck knife for years now. Also she's commandeered one of my Bark River Highlanders.

Here's a few threads I dug up a minute ago:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=335581&highlight=women

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=333304&highlight=women

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=323963&highlight=women

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=322321&highlight=women

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=314403&highlight=women

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=313463&highlight=women

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=312027&highlight=women

Like I said, it's a topic that's been done a few times.... :D Still nuthin' wrong with asking....you'll still get a different set of responses every time a given topic comes up.

Hope this helps!
 
My favorite knife is my BM42.
In folders my favorite is the Blackout, though my new Chive comes a close second.
 
I like my Cricket,my Salsa, and my blue Dodo
i also have a blue Benchmade mini griptilian
try to get something that fits our little hands and has some colour.

It very easy, it has to be small, usefull, not to hard to open or close, and friendly looking, and not too expensive. It will probably end up on the bottom of our purse so don't buy anything that can't get lost or scratched :p
 
I've been given some very good ideas...and things to consider.
I've been giving myself a headache looking all over the place...but with everyone's advice and help...I've narrowed it down to a
Kershaw Rainbow Chive...and a Spyderco Vintage Custom.
The Spyderco is small and gorgeous with a handle of Turquoise with a nicely done Mother of Pearl center piece web design and the Spyderco icon. A few more bones than the Kershaw, yet still very reasonable.
I'd love to place a jpeg photo of it...but haven't learned how to yet.
In a word.....SWEEEET..! :cool:
 
Runs w/Scissors -- Your wife has 15+ knives? Wow, is she Rambo's sister? That's pretty impressive, considering I'm 48 and waiting for my first knife to arrive in the mail. I feel like such a pu$$y :o
 
I have a friend (aXed on these forums) who use to carry a Gunting daily without fail.

Almost never speak to her anymore but I believe she now EDC's an Ayoob and sometimes rotates a G10 Police.

My ex GF enjoyed carrying a Dragonfly and later I loaned her a Delica which she also liked.
 
I'll never get Sarah to post here, :) but I can tell you her EDC rotation. (I love being able to say that about my lady.)

Work, BM 310, sheeple friendly, Federal legal, and gorgeous but cuts great with a modern lock.

When it's gotta be bulletproof - BM 720s. She's partial to combo-edged bowie blades.

Travel, weekends, etc - Kershaw Cheetah, which is a Wild Wild Turkey variant. Only knife she ever outright stole from me. She loves the lean aethestics and the ergonomics.

Beater for fieldwork - old BM Panther, again with the combo-edged bowie blade.
 
qqqqqqqman said:
Runs w/Scissors -- Your wife has 15+ knives? Wow, is she Rambo's sister? That's pretty impressive, considering I'm 48 and waiting for my first knife to arrive in the mail. I feel like such a pu$$y :o
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She's the youngest of five daughters. Her father always wanted a boy, but when she came along on the fifth try he figured that she had been his last chance and decided to make the best of things...

So, he taught her how to ride horses, shoot guns, use knives, build things, basic survival and woodcraft and so forth from a pretty early age. (embarassing thing is that if I recall correctly, she's also got more guns than me :o )
 
My wife carries a Leatherman Micra and a Spyderco Navigator. I think she still keeps her Spartan with her cycling gear.
 
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Runs w/Scissors -- Your wife has 15+ knives? Wow, is she Rambo's sister? :o
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In N. Michigan we have always had many of our females hunt and fish with us, and as a Firefighter I'd say 20% of our staff throughout the County are Firefighters and even more as EMT's....and growing. Knives are an essential and often needed tool.

Nothing like Rambo's sister....more like Angelina.... or a little tamer like Shania Twain and God bless our babe's!!!
Yer okay Doc....as to being a pu$$y...I doubt that...but any longer than age 48...would cause some concern. Take that first knife and celebrate it with a nice campfire with your mate and some friends. Knives like that.

I would also agree our Ladies don't covet the weaponry of guns, bows, knives, hawks, and rods as much as Men...but they really do enjoy good equipment..and especially the same sports and comraderie.
 
My wife doesn't surf the forums, but she likes my BM 800SBT (liner lock AFCK).

On a related note, it was really frustrating to go to the local knife shop and have the salesman try to be "helpful". I told him that I was mostly window-shopping, but kind of looking for something for my wife, and that she liked my full-size AFCK. He then proceeded to show me every dainty, small, colorful knife he could put his hands on. "She could put this one on her keychain!" he said. :rolleyes:
 
My wife has the standard SAK or LM P4 on her keys ,dep on which set. She has a Gerber mini Paraframe , a Gerber EZ out jr and a VTECH (knockoff of course) In shairt she will not carry an expensive knife. Each vehicle is also equiped with a buck 119 at her request.
 
My wife's only knife is a SwissBuck that she keeps in her desk drawer. Definitely ~not~ a knife knut - she often leaves my cherry-handled Camillus kitchen knives soaking in dishwater. ARGHHH!

-Bob
 
for carry, I like my ancient Horfritz slipjoint camp knife (my mother gave it to me about 35 years ago and it has always come in handy)

For around the house, I like my SOG X-42 autoclip after I rounded that tanto point (keep it hanging on a magnet on the fridge for opening boxes etc.)

For looks, I like my Watanabe Kintaro Ame http://www.watanabeblade.com/english/special/peti1.JPG

For attempting to whittle, I've a Queen #48 and a Bulldog wharncliff whittler.

In the kitchen, I like my Lamson Sharp 2 7/8'' Trimmer best

Also have a BM 910HHS in M2 but don't use it as much as the SOG because it just isn't as ergromic.
 
That Watanabe Kintaro Ame is great.!!
I've never seen this done this way before...is this your work??

I've been so focused on folders, when maybe the answer is some good quality kitchen knives.........eeeeeeeyyeah...both!! :)
 
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