Curiosity question, what knife will you always own?

Just about every knife I've bought since 1995 will handle the cutting work I need my knives to do, and I tend not to have duplicates of the same knife (shush -- I don't consider 8 different descendants of the Elishewitz Phantom design to be 'the same knife'). So for me this is less a question of capability than of sentiment. If I absolutely had to get rid of all my other knives, which would be the last one that got put on eBay?

The most likely answer is the vintage Benchmade 886SBT Blue Star that my wife got for me as a birthday present, 15-odd years after it was discontinued. She's also gotten me a blurple PM2, but I'd have a lot less trouble finding another one of those in the future.

Otherwise, probably the first "real" knife I bought for myself, a Benchmade 700S Tsunami. If you want to get super nitpicky, the little Ford penknife that belonged to my late father would probably go after both of those, but I don't really count that one as being in the same class with them.

On the other side of the coin, the one I'd let go first would probably be the Cold Steel Voyager tanto, with the Beretta Airlight probably #2. Nothing terrible about either one, but the Voyager is the definition of disposable and the Airlight has never really grabbed me.
 
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My user DLC Manix 2 g10 will never get sold/traded. That thing gets beat on every day and doesnt give a sh*t. Too much tough love has gone into it. I'll also always own at least one Hinderer. I dont usually carry them, but I feel incomplete without one around... Even if its just to flip on the couch and annoy my wife :D
 
My two Emerson cqc6’s and cqc5. Only way I would ever sell the Emerson’s was if my life or other persons life depended on it. And when I die, they’re getting buried with me. Otherwise my wife or daughter would probably sell them for $10 a pop.
 
This is one of them.
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I have a couple of "sentimental blades" that will never be sold/given away (till I am passing), but I will also always have a Busse ASH1, I have "a couple" of them and if I needed to put food on the table I would have no issues selling them (that said there a "many" others that would be cashed first), I will always have one of them however.
 
salduchi said:
Was wondering if most people own a particular model that no matter how much their collection fluctuates, they will always have at least one of this particular model. For example, I noticed Sebenza lovers, one never seems to be enough. I can never see them not having one.
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Sebenza large Regular, Spyderco Slysz Bowie
 
I have been carrying the same model of Vic SAK for 10-15 years, maybe longer because I just don't remember when I got one first other than it was at a gunshow and I was looking for something like a Tinker. I believe at that particular time I was carrying a Vic Alox soldier (which means late 90's). I quickly changed to the new one, the Vic Adventurer. So, maybe this is the knife I will always have..... probably, since I have something like 3-4 spares.

I'll probably always have a traditional two blade trapper of some kind.

The aside to this whole deal of "always anything..." is that I have been slowly downsizing my slippies and I'm not sure where I am going to end up. With modern's, the size has stabilized a couple of years ago to "Delica size". Don't really want anything larger.

Added: A mentioned earlier, it really comes down to which knife or knives would I replace quickly if I could if I lost them or the house burnt down (you get the idea).
 
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