Favorite fixed blade knife brands

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Crag the Brewer said:
YOURS are Better.....
(Is yours, #2?)
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Yes, that's my OSK (Overbuilt Survival Knife) It's 1/4" 5160, 10 inch blade. AND thank you! I really love that big chopper you posted. It's bad ass. I was going to post more of mine, but I am also a collector..and I am heavily influenced by Busse, TRC, and many others.. I have been collecting and beating on knives since the early 80's. My buds and I went camping in the woods by my home every other weekend it seems like. We traded all kinds of knives between us.
We had a camp site, and watched movies like First Blood...so.. knives, bows and booby traps, war games was my youth. Smoky Mountain Knife catalogue was always eagerly thumbed through when it landed. The good old days.
This is a good thread so far...lol.
 
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Add up all the brands & makers mentioned so far and you'd pretty much have my list. 😉 We are currently blessed with an overwhelming plethora of makers & materials. These days may well be the Golden Age of bladeware.

But I'll add Murray Carter, including his apprentices' Muteki blades, to the list, plus whoever made this super thin nakiri bocho I got for my late ex-wife who used it heavily & loved it.
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ETA: Nick Wheeler
Thread 'Nick Wheeler' https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/nick-wheeler.1917789/

ETA2: Michael Rader & Tom Ferry, another couple exemplary semi-local makers, plus Ed Fowler.
 
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For now, production and some makers:

Buck, everyone should have at least one or two of them, can have classic styles in modern steels or their standard steel,

ML Knives, Idaho Knife Works, and Swamp Fox Knives, GL Drew, and finally…love my Horsewright Sonoran belt knife and my Redmeadow Cowbell..
 
At last count, there were about 80 fixed blade knives in my collection.

My favorite brands, of course, are based on the fixed blade knives that I actually own, which include (but are not limited to) the following brands:

Bastinelli, Buck, Cardman, Carothers, Cohutta, Gerber, Helle, Kabar, Kershaw, LionSteel, Microtech, Randall, RMJ & Spyderco.

The most fixed blade knives of any single brand that I own were made by Spyderco. All of the Kershaw & ZT branded fixed blade knives that I own were made as early as the 1970's by Kershaw & in the early 2000's by ZT. Similarly, all of the Gerbers that I own were made in the 80's.

The rest were made more recently and most are standard production models.
 
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