Describe your "perfect" knife...

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Mine would be a:

* folder
* thumb'er
* zytel handles
* blade 2.75" , overall around 6+"
* no belt clip
* arch-lock or axis lock
* drop point blade
* san mai steel
 
It goes like this:



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...in all seriousness, this is my ideal knife:


pic credit to www.badmojo.tv...


Thats why I'm having a custom made from an old blank :thumbup:
 
My perfect knife is a frame lock, with G-10 on one side, and titanium on the other. The blade is 3 inches of S30V or Duratech 20 CV.


The other perfect knife has a 3 inch blade on BG-42, and has cyan aluminum handles.
 
PERFECT knife? Simple.

Find an old guy who's seen the world (twice) and been around the block (100 times). A guy who WORKED for a living, a guy who has also played hard, namely hunting, fishing, hiking and the like. Now, watch and wait for him to kneel down to help his grandson fix a toy (or maybe make a slingshot the old-fashioned way, with a Y stick and some rubber from an innertube). At some point, Grandad will slide his hand down into the pocket of his pants and draw out a pocketknife, one he's toted as long as anyone who knows him can remember. It might have one blade, maybe two or even three. The bone handle will be worn smooth. The blades patined to a dark, even gray. The joints well oiled and the edge keen. He'll use it as if it's an extension of his own hand. The grandson, meanwhile, will marvel silently, praying to someday own one like it for his own.

THAT, my friends, is the perfect knife!
 
The perfect knife, and if I were allowed one; would be a sturdy fixed blade with a 6 inch stainless straight, clip point blade 1/8 to 3/16 thickness at the spine with a flat to slightly hollow grind with a satin finish.

Handle construction; stainless steel guard, bolsters & rivets, full tang construction with stabilized rosewood handles. Leather sheath system that rides high on the belt.
 
Heh, found it. Mayo customized classic sebenza, that has been sharpened by Tom Krein. ;)
 
the Shiva Ki bowie with a 14 inch blade too many feelings on hilt material so I'll leave it up to your imagination :D :D
 
Any model of Trident/Crusader Forge Custom Knives or any model of the Fehrman 3V knives.
I already have 3 Tridents, and 4 Fehrman knives so I guess I am set.
For great cutting and slicing and SD, I would have to get out one of my Dozier knives....probably the Elk Hunter. I have EDC'd the Elk Hunter for sometime and it carryies great and cuts great.

Ciao
Ron
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Folder, 3.5 to 3.75 in 154cm spearpoint blade with a butterfly emblem, thumbstuds, ambidextrous axis lock, green G-10, drilled SS liners, ergo handle...

In other words, my Benchmade 735 Ares.
 
About 3,7 inch blade of high carbon silvery steel, no guards of any kind, plain edge of course. I could use more words, but why bother, when I can just call it a traditional Finnish tommipuukko. :) Here's what I'm talking about, picture courtesy of www.tommipuukko.com:

 
2.125" Wharncliff blade made out of either M-2 or VG-10 steel.
Cocobolo or Bocote wood for the handle.
Axis or button lock
Titanium bolsters
No pocket clip
thumbdisk
 
It would be a Titanium Frame lock on the back with a front slab of bolstered titanium liner with a pretty piece of mammoth ivory, and an interchangeable slab of White Mother of Pearl and maybe a piece of Carbon Fiber for days when I'm feeling tactical.

The blade would be a 3 1/2" deeply hollow ground all the way to the back edge drop point of stainless damascus (not sure of the pattern yet, but probably something mosaic) over a core of ZDP-189, and no thumb studs, or holes.

It would be an assisted opener with Darryl Ralph's Robo mechanism, and a flipper for starting.

It would have a removeable Matt Cucciarra Timascus carved custom pocket clip mounted for right-hand tip-up carry, and some of his "Fizz" treatment on the back side of the handle.

Yes, I've thought about it for a while...

Someday, I'll have it. :D

DD
 
mnblade said:
PERFECT knife? Simple.

Find an old guy who's seen the world (twice) and been around the block (100 times). A guy who WORKED for a living, a guy who has also played hard, namely hunting, fishing, hiking and the like. Now, watch and wait for him to kneel down to help his grandson fix a toy (or maybe make a slingshot the old-fashioned way, with a Y stick and some rubber from an innertube). At some point, Grandad will slide his hand down into the pocket of his pants and draw out a pocketknife, one he's toted as long as anyone who knows him can remember. It might have one blade, maybe two or even three. The bone handle will be worn smooth. The blades patined to a dark, even gray. The joints well oiled and the edge keen. He'll use it as if it's an extension of his own hand. The grandson, meanwhile, will marvel silently, praying to someday own one like it for his own.

THAT, my friends, is the perfect knife!
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Well Said!
 
Strider 3" FB is my ideal. It fits all my criterion except for price. I don't own it, YET!

Next would be a Nealy Pesh Kabz, large.

I can't think of any two knives I would love to own. They take my breath away!
 
Matched set of titanium frame lock folders both with High carbon forged 5100 blade with a hamon 3.25-3.5 inches in length. One with a persian style with a high grind for a slicer the other with a wider blade for tasks like food prep. Handles of checkered (30 lpi) ivory micarta.
 
I guess I'll play. My "perfect" knife changes depending one the mood I'm in. Right now it would be a bali with a deep high hollow ground blade of ZDP-189 or stainless damascus ( I really like rain-drop) clip point. Channel handles with a bearing system, perhaps made of damascus, with white mother of pearl fluted inserts.
 
I finally found it. Wenger Handyman.
Blade
Saw
Wire stripper (we all use THAT a lot)
Screwdriver
" Philips
Can opener
Bottle opener
Scissors
Nail file
Toothpick
Tweezers
Awl (hadda modify as the stock one was just a pointy square)

Yeah, I carry a REAL knife too.
But yesterday I used the Handyman to tighten the clip on my Delica.

However, I have had lots of SAKs but this one has EVERYTHING. I used to think the One Hand Trekker was swell (cuzza the saw) but I had to carry ANOTHER for scissors and file.

The HANDYMAN is 29 bucks worth of perfection.

:)
 
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