Favorite 2017 Purchase?

I've bought a few knives this year. My favorite (this year) is my Bradford Guardian 3 in M390. Great knife, keeps an edge, feels really good in my hand, and has handled everything I threw at it since I got it in April, including 8000 miles of road trips with a lot of camping this summer.
View media item 2135View media item 1124I keep hearing great things about the Gayle Bradley Spydercos, so maybe that will be the favorite next year. :cool:

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lieferung said:
Interesting why do you say the GB2 is a better EDC? Do your EDC tasks call for a larger knife? I've been eyeing the GB1 forever over the GB2 because it's slightly smaller and therefore IMO a better EDC.
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The GB2 is lighter and thinner. The GB1 is taller closed.
They're both great knives.
 
Spyderco Manix 2 LW.

This knife was my first premium knife and made me realize that I needed to invest in knives better than the $20 ones I have used for years.

I have added many more over the last 6 months, but I still love the basic Manix 2.
 
Dknight16 said:
It was a big year for me as I bought . . . .
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. . . yes a lot of knives for me as well.

I mean . . . I was handling and appreciating my 940-1 carbon fiber and S90V the one with the kind of smoked color blade finish; bought this year . . . after being away from it for a while there are things I am really, really impressed with about that knife.
And there is the Ouroboros ! Innovative, beautiful, fun to use, light, effective.
Still . . . thee one . . . the favorite . . . maybe for all time . . .
that would have to be the Spyderco Para 2 M4. I'm stuck on it.
It's like I want to carry other knives but I don't want to leave the PM2M4 at home. So I carry both. I use both.
Remember Linus and his stupid blanket that he takes every where ?
Sort of like that.
Of course he could wield that blanket to open towering mail boxes and sling rocks with it to blast targets to smithereens. In the right hands that blanket was a force to be reckoned with.
PM2M4; I can't seem to leave it at home.

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Here are my KOTYs.

Myrtle and MP-1 were bought on the exchange, TY BF!
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And last, but not least, the incredible Code 4 from Cold Steel: you can get a helluva knife for less than $100. Hollow grind goodness, I can shave rock hard Parmigiano cheese in rolling papers thickness with this one :)

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FullMetalJackass said:
Here are my KOTYs.

Myrtle and MP-1 were bought on the exchange, TY BF!
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And last, but not least, the incredible Code 4 from Cold Steel: you can get a helluva knife for less than $100. Hollow grind goodness, I can shave rock hard Parmigiano cheese in rolling papers thickness with this one :)

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Interesting crew. Digging that fixed blade.
 
Last of the last of the last of the production run of the OKC SP-51. Its been sunseted and its a great all round wood whacker and chopper and batoner.
 
Hmm, that's a poser. However, two gratifying additions to my collection come to mind:

1. Reate Mini Horizon pre-release blue titanium frame model with "glow-in-the-dark" carbon fibre inlay. It's a great conversation starter when amongst a non-knife crowd.

2. Red G-10 Spyderco Paramilitary 2 with Bohler M390 blade steel (2x). I mulled over the "buy two and get a discount" offer for all of maybe two seconds and I'm glad I yielded to temptation - I'm a sucker for M390 and its clones, so it made some sense (a rationalization I know) to pick up a user and a safe queen all in one fell swoop.
 
Folder - A backup for my favorite EDC folder. Was able to find a brand spanking new Ferrum Forge Fortis, if I somehow lose the one I use as EDC.

Fixed blade - Carothers light chopper(might have had my first in 2016, but I got a 2nd in 2017, as a back up), Survive GSO 5.1 in 3V, Gollik knives 3.5 inch Elmax EDC fixed blade, or another 20 inch 3V slimline machete. That is REALLY tough to choose between those!!
 
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