For those who love fixed blades,what do you like?

What types of fixed blades are predominant in your collection?

  • Hunting knives

    Votes: 20 21.5%

  • Small utility/bushcraft knives

    Votes: 40 43.0%

  • Survival knives (Rambo Style)

    Votes: 2 2.2%

  • Bowie/Fighters

    Votes: 14 15.1%

  • Camp Knives (the big chopper variety)

    Votes: 7 7.5%

  • other types

    Votes: 8 8.6%

  • Daggers

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • Total voters
    93
not2sharp

not2sharp

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Just a simple question. I have been collecting for a long time. I have gone through the bowie knife craze, the hollow handle love of the 1980s, and the tactical camp knives that followed. Perhaps, asking what you mostly have in your collection, is just my sneaky way of coming up with a predominant mental age for our members? :)

Let us know where you fit in, and lets have fun with this.

n2s
 
Love Machetes, Hudson Bay, Kepharts and down to the AG Russell Woodswalker. Would like a variety of 8-7 OAL
 
I don't know, I collect the world. One year I might collect gaucho knives for most of it, then jump back into military knives, then it might be kukries for a little while. I will say that the size range I buy in usually ends up 5"-12" bladewise now, other than that, who knows :).
 
Military utility/fighters. Ka Bar, SOG, Cold Steel. I like prefer a 7" blade for the weight and reach.
I'm getting interested in kukri's for heavy camp tasks.
 
I've always loved the Bowies and Fighter styled blades, and still do. My favorites are CPK's.
 
I mostly collect antique and exotic blades from around the world, but I do enjoy a massive chopper for yard work and just for fun. while I have to sell most of my good stuff, I still have more antiques than choppers, so I would have to go that for my answer.
 
For me, it's a mix of things. Traditional patterns, hunting, bushcraft, chopper, etc, the only 'style' I don't have is the 'Rambo' style survival knife with sawback and hollow handle.
 
My FBs are all over the place: kukhri (Nepal, probably forged from a leaf spring), Cold Steel SRK, Red River Elk Skinner and Master Hunter, Marble's Campcraft and Fieldcraft, Roselli erapuukko and carpenter's knife, Ivan Campos Scandi grind bushcraft blade in 1070, C&C Buck 112 and lately, Benchmade Puukko 200. No sawbacks or hollow handles.
 
Kitchen knives are predominant, but I don't know if that is 'part of my collection'. I certainly USE them the most. They're mostly Victorinox with the Fibrox handles.

Picking something other than those, it would be hunting knives, and my favorite right now is a simple Mora and has predominantly used for cleaning squirrels. I do woodcraft once in awhile, and I like a combination of a hatchet, (that's a fixed blade!) Victorinox Trekker
 
Mora are great knives; esp the older laminated steel types. I am a puukko guy - about 3.5" blade with Scandi grind, wood handle with hook shape pommel for ease of getting out of sheath. Also carry a SAK Tinker in my pocket.
Rich
 
Small utility knives: BK14, small Anzas, mimi Skrama, anything suited for pocket carry.
Medium (4-5” blade ) utility/bushcraft knives: Moras, Kepharts, SCH55, Condors
Only one large camp knife, Skrama, but there could be others
Lots of machetes, both choppers and slashers.
Old Hickory and Green River, in a variety of sizes.
 
I have gone through the Bowie phase; moved on to Rambo knives, and then on to the big camp knives. I have a number of each, but the big choppers are where I am focused right now. There is something about a kukri, bolo, plain big overbuilt camp knife that is a lot of fun.

n2s
 
My fixed blades center around hunting knives, a few Bowie’s, and a bunch of kukri. I still have the BuckMaster I bought in 95 when I was in the Marines and a cheap smaller hollow handle knife that I used as hard as any knife and it never let me down.
 
I prefer to carry my Brisa Necker in my pocket. Otherwise, I don't use a fixed blade very often, aside from kitchen knives.

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