I Can't Believe How Much I Love This Knife. Amazing. One of My Favorites.............

[JDunn709]

Sebenza 25 Carbon Fiber

Can't wait for one in damascus, I'm sure it'll come down the pipeline eventually.

 

[mark2686]

Not sure if this is breaking protocol if so sincere apolagies I wish I had saw yours with the textured scales before I bought the Kershaw shallot love the knife but it's so slick

 

[bladeboss]

Lets face it; we have all said what the title says.
But then after a few weeks or months its not in our regular rotation, in a drawer, for sale, and or already sold.
Let's face it - half the fun is investigating, hunting for, package arrival, the unboxing thrills, and early honeymoon.

What I want to know is what is that one knife that has not lost it's appeal. The one knife that you have grown to love even more than when your first got it. The true keeper.

For me it is Small Sebenza 21.
What's yours?

My Small Sebenza 21 as well.

 

[silverds]

Cold Steel SRK in Carbon V (1095CV).

Short Story
I never loved that knife and beat the shit out of it for ten years and then threw it in a box with all my other tools. Little did I know what a little gem I had.

Long Version
It was my beater for 8 years in the service, then it went into truck box, buried and forgotten under a ton of crap. I sold the truck in 2004 and kept the truckbox full of crap. In 2014, I started getting interested in the whole BugOutBag craze and wanted to pack a nice fixed blade that was smaller and tougher than a KaBar and cheaper than a Fallkniven A1. I really liked Beckers but another knife was always being mentioned in forums, the Cold Steel SRK. Many lamented that Cold Steel had switched to a lukewarm steel (AUS8) and were made overseas, so the old Carbon V models were highly prized and hard to find. Many were selling for twice what I had originally paid ($55). Not wanting to pay $70 bucks for an inferior version of what I had already owned for many years. I struggled to remember what I had done with that knife. I called friends to ask if I gave it to them? I looked everywhere and was beginning to lose hope. Finally, I remembered the truck box. I tore through the mountain of crap in the and found the old SRK and sure as shit it was a Carbon V.

A few months later I scored a brand new one from EBAY for $45 that looked like it had been forgotten on a warehouse shelf. It was dusty and had some surface rust on the edge grind. One good sharpening eliminated the rust and now I have two Carbon V SRKs.

 

[mbkingshane]

Spyderco military titanium! !

 

[BIGLOU]

I don't have a custom knife but what does it for me is my Spyderco Spyderfly.

 

[Molle Ninja]

Spyderco Techno.

 

[Sikael]

It's not as unusual or exotic as it used to be, but I can't shut up about the Shirogorov Model 95. I own two now, one a 95T with the tortoiseshell pattern, SRBS, and stonewashed S30V blade, and the other a plain 95 with SRBS and bead-blasted Elmax blade. Both are incredibly smooth, but the glossy stonewashed finish on the 95T gives it a slight advantage. I haven't tried as many knives as some on here, but... well, you get the idea. Precision, perfection, hyperbole, hybopoli. The step from the Shirogorov Model 95 to my next favorite is way steeper than any code allows, but I still carry the CRK Sebenza 25 (No.2) and Spyderco Slysz Bowie (No.3) on a semi-regular basis.

 

[Sonnydaze]

I tend to carry just one knife at a time, usually for a year or more. Then I may find a different one. I do keep a few favorite NIB models around just to admire, but don't intend to ever carry one of them. All this year, it's been my Brad Southard AVO. Beautiful folder.
Each to his own...

 

[Sikael]

I tend to carry just one knife at a time, usually for a year or more. Then I may find a different one. I do keep a few favorite NIB models around just to admire, but don't intend to ever carry one of them. All this year, it's been my Brad Southard AVO. Beautiful folder.
Each to his own...

Very nice. I liked the Spyderco Southard, but it was a bit wrong for me; I could never settle on a comfortable grip. Southard customs... that's just not gonna happen. The AVO looks like the ideal midway point, a bit larger than the Spyderco (or Tolk), and without the completely unnecessary hole shoe-horned into the design. That's another one on the shortlist, along with a large Seb 21 with CF inlays and a Rockstead Higo.

 

[Ken44]

If I had to pick only one it would be my Large BG-42 Regular Sebenza.
I've never owned or held another knife(custom or factory) I like as much as this one.

 

[GAMBIT61]

Currently that would be my JD Protech Rockeye:

 

[Fubijar03]

My Ferrum Forge Stinger. I don't care for the blade shape, and got it on a whim because the offer was there. The "screw less" clip melts away in your hand, though, and it looks cool closed so I carried it a little bit. Then the action started breaking in. The everything else started getting really comfortable in the Pelican Case, then most got sold.

It is the first knife that I have had this happen with, and it's really cool to actually, finally, have a"keeper." I always thought "my next Sebenza will be it," but they keep leaving.

I agree completely with you, it's the chase. I find myself thanking God that trading guns isn't quite as easy, haha

Mike

 

[Armadew]

Spyderco Military and ESEE 4

 

[Surfingringo]

The Dunlap has been in a war for pocket time with my Thorburn L51 and Diskin Fire though, these 3 are very close to me.

Hey Double B, who makes that last knife? I saw Thales posted another by that maker and I was cruising to see if there was any mention of it when yours caught my eye too. Apparently I like his work.

edit: Just reread and saw it...Thorburn. Nice work.

 

[Clinto.]

These two are the keepers in my collection. Others come and go.. But these two aren't going anywhere. Usually on weekends when I'm around the house, I wear them both. Simply because I am hopeless and can't choose one over the other.

 

[Rum. Monkey.]

Plain old Endura 4 FRN VG10.