Classic designs...

[jeffj]

Here is one to ponder...what in your mind would constitute a classic design? Something that has proven to be a fixed point in the history of knife designs. It set a standard; it defined a part of the industry; it influenced other designs; it refined or introduced an idea; it was copied over and over; it... In other words, it is hall-of-fame material and has a defacto status among makers, manufacturers, collectors, and users.

Here are some of my picks:
Fixed blade: Bowie (most famous design?)
Manufactured: Buck 110 (kinda like a folding bowie)
Custom: Loveless drop point (the modern fixed blade)
Slipjoint patterns: Stockman (the most collected?), Swiss Army knife
Unique: Russell belt knife/Schrade sharpfinger (what can I say, I like them!)
Original Idea/Refined: Michael Walker Liner Lock/Chris Reeve Frame Lock

Jeff Jenness

[This message has been edited by jeffj (edited 07-22-2000).]

 

[Strider]

Big Bear Sub-Hilt.
Bob

 

[Aries59]

How about the Randel Model 1 or the K-Bar designs.

 

[Crayola]

You can go even older than that. Doesn't a Scottish Dirk look very functional today and similar to pieces we see today, yet it is centuries old?

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"Come What May..."

 

[Stompy]

You'd have to throw a KABAR into the fixed blade section along with a hollow handled survival knife with a sawback just to memorialize the craze.

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You could put nacho cheese sauce on it...

 

[glockman99]

Two others come to mind:

Spyderco Endura
Cold Steel Tanto

Both have been copied quite often.

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[Strider]

Those damn Japanese are always copying the Tanto.
Bob

 

[stab1]

Gotta add the Marbles Woodcraft to this list. It has been copied so many times most people don't know it was first produced by Marbles. A truly classic design first started in the late 1800's.

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Rs
Don
Medicine Man of the Extinct Fugowee Tribe