Eleagant and Refined knives

Agreed, elegance is subjective. According to google "the quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style." and "the quality of being pleasingly ingenious and simple; neatness." which somewhat summarizes what I find elegant.

-I prefer thinner slicing blades, but not razor blade thin.
-Short blades are usually more appropriate than 5" blades for light duty pocket knives, but I also don't mind carrying long blades.
-I usually don't find really tactical knives to be too refined looking.
-Narrower blades are also usually more elegant, especially on shorter blades.
-I find knives with thin, pointy tips to be more refined.
-Simplicity is excellent but not "over simplified." I'm don't consider myself a minimalist nor am I interested in simplicity for it's own sake.
-I usually find linerlocks more elegant than framelocks and lockbacks more elegant than slipjoints.
-I find my Opinels very elegant and refined in both form and function, just love them.
-I find my PM2 to be highly refined in function but not as highly elegant in form. Love my Spydercos but I don't carry them around town and the office as often because I can carry a much more beautiful looking knife such as my case pocket worn mini copperlock with blue bone. Feels very watch-like in hand.
-I am not interested in precious metals,stones, or materials whatsoever.
-I usually prefer plain, beautiful satin rubbed steel to damascus and "overly" ornate high art knives. A blend of art and practicality is the right balance for me. a lighthearted knife!
-I usually prefer something like resin composites or wood to a mostly metal handle.

So yeah I'm not as interested in big Ti framelock Medfords and Hinderers at the moment.
It all depends on the individual knife, really.

-Love- all of those knives justsomedude! That Loerchner is the thing of dreams, I would love to carry that thing around in a pocket pouch. I would probably never pay what they're asking, though, I can just tell it would be in the territory of "inappropriate for a pocket knife" lol. When people start asking thousands I start thinking of some really sweet opportunity costs lol. I'm not a millionaire.

Just look at that Mnandi, it is clearly an elegant and refined impressive knife in both form and function. Perfect for small cuts, but at a very high price. The Sebenza with the vine design is awesome.

That Rockstead with the ironwood scale is clearly highly refined in it's cutting and looks, very beautiful. But honestly I find the Dunlap pictured with it to be even more refined and elegant. I would probably rather open a package or cut an apple and an orange with the Dunlap if I had the choice.

The cheaper the better but very high quality is often very expensive obviously. Whether it's worth the asking price is up to me, or you haha. I probably don't want a more expensive knife when I could have a less expensive option.

But these are all my preferences, really I prefer to hear your suggestions on what you all think is both elegant and refined in both form and function. A large variety and outside the box recommendations are welcome. If a knife strikes you as elegant and refined in appearance but functionally silly or low quality than I'm just as disinterested as you haha. If a knife strikes you as refined in function but reminds you more of your mom than of Taylor Swift...well I frankly want Taylor!
 
walleyeguy7 said:
I'm always looking for elegant and refined folding pocket knives, both in function and appearance. I don't mind a variety of prices, categories, features, materials, sizes, and so on. Do you have any suggestions?
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Interesting question.

Elegance speaks to me of simplicity; without undue and pointless ornamentation.

As an engineer, an elegant solution is on that excels with utter simplicity; without undue and pointless complexity.

To me, refined means highly evolved. Designs that tend to survive many generations and decades tend to be highly refined. Small details that you don't notice at first but reveal themselves with use. A refined design carries with it all of the small insights of people who made small changes to the design over the years.

Needless to say, my preferred style is simple. Minimalist even. I like a cleanliness of line. I also like well thought out functionality. In this way, I find the Leatherman Micra to be an elegant design. The knives paired with it are what I consider to be elegant and refined too.

Opinel #9 Inox Drop Point and Micra by Pinnah, on Flickr

Buck 500 Duke and Micra by Pinnah, on Flickr

Case Large Sodbuster and Micra by Pinnah, on Flickr
 
Don't leave out these elegant Don Hanson III's Scary Tacs:

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And I 2nd Mike Alsdorf.

 
What about the William Henry EDC, doesn't have the bling of his limited edition knives.
 
nlewman said:
Where do I get this?! That is the most elegant knife I have ever seen. I love it!
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The top blade is going to be sold by boos blades, the bottom one is called the Zodiac Engineering Integral V1, I believe it was a small run through kick started but you'll have to follow their social media to see when the next ones will be released its zodiaceng.com or @zodiaceng on Instagram but in the mean time here's more pictures from them

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archieblue said:
I wish they would do the "vines" pattern on the 21. It's so lovely! I don't really care for the current "gold leaf" CGG.
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You no like gold leaf? Just kidding, the Vines is very nice as well.
Here is my small gold leaf for reference.
 
Love the Alsdorf's and Sebs! I actually kind of like the brown handled Hanson lol. The bottom Zodiac is soo cool but I wish the blade wasn't such a chunk! It would be an insta buy for me if they kept the handle and tolerances the same but had a nice thin blade and blade milling. And it would be even cooler without the jimping lol.
 
Man there are some amazing knives in this thread, my lowly small Case Ivy Peanut will look a little out of place, but I do find this knife to be one of the handiest and most complimented knife when I take her out to cut something at work or about anywhere, I've yet to have anyone be skittish of it because it is a knife, it's just well accepted,

for a small folder, at about 2 3/4" closed, it does quite well on most any cutting chore;

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