If you could only keep 8

I like this game and hate it. Narrowing down to 8 seems nearly impossible so I started with my absolute favorites which took some time and came up with my elite 8 out of 23 total, this is a ridiculous exercise 🤣🤬🤣.

CPK FK3 is already in bc I must have at least 1 fixed blade. That leaves 7 spots with 23 contenders.

1. CPK FK3 D3V
2. Shiro F95R Super Slim Variant (1 of 3 ever made and maybe my favorite knife in the entire collection)
3. Chris Reeve Wilson Combat Large Inkosi
4. Hinderer BPU Eklipse
5. Les George MK3
6. A2 Knives A10 Front Flipper (smoothest and most refined I’ve ever experienced)
7. DEMKO Shark-A-Tac (barely beat the AD20 Compact)
8. AB IMamba Paua Abalone Non Flipper

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The contenders that didn’t make the Elite 8, in order

1. Chris Reeve Large 21 Ole Glory Ladder Damascus …. OOF, most painful to leave this one off the list
2. Hinderer BPU Non Flipper Bowie
3. Oz Rosie Early Serial Number 109
4. Grimsmo Dragon Rask
5. Demko AD20 Compact
6. Chris Reeve OP Zaan , brutal decision
7. Rockstead CHI DLC
8. GB Shamwari
9. Benchmade Anthem
10. Cold Steel (pre GSM) Recon 1 Bowie S35VN
11. Spyderco GB2 (pound for pound champion at $200)
12. Vero Lux
13. TRM Atom
14. QC Drift
15. Spartan Harsey Babe

Going to probably kick out one of the 8 and put in this Large 21 Ole Glory or Night Sky

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XtianAus said:
I know some people hate these sort of threads but I am wanting to cut my collection to 8.
Four fixed, four folders.

*Kitchen knives dont count unless they are fancy ones*
*Axes don't count*

● CPE custom (incoming)
● Cypress Creek custom
● David Mary custom (incoming)
● Tkell combatant

● Vero aura (incoming)
● Wixco drax 2
● Cjrb acacia
● Kizer cliff (as an absolute beater, dirty work knife)

What would you keep?
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If you're cutting your collection, have you considered cutting/cancelling the incoming first??

There was a point where I felt addicted and it was probably more of a distraction from the high stress of my life and after sorting that, I feel I don't need many knives and could be content with 2 or 3.

What would I keep, #1 and #2 are in order, the rest are random:

#1 - leatherman curl
#2 - SYKCO WD5 in AEB-L

#3 - mora 120
#4 - victorinox swiss army 7
#5 - 3v master hunter
#6 - buck 105 pro s35vn
#7 - havalon piranta-stag
#8 - victorinox evolution s101
 
collecter said:
If you're cutting your collection, have you considered cutting/cancelling the incoming first??

There was a point where I felt addicted and it was probably more of a distraction from the high stress of my life and after sorting that, I feel I don't need many knives and could be content with 2 or 3.

What would I keep, #1 and #2 are in order, the rest are random:

#1 - leatherman curl
#2 - SYKCO WD5 in AEB-L

#3 - mora 120
#4 - victorinox swiss army 7
#5 - 3v master hunter
#6 - buck 105 pro s35vn
#7 - havalon piranta-stag
#8 - victorinox evolution s101
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I am too excited for the incoming ones tbh 😆
 
John Phillips said:
I like this game and hate it. Narrowing down to 8 seems nearly impossible so I started with my absolute favorites which took some time and came up with my elite 8 out of 23 total, this is a ridiculous exercise 🤣🤬🤣.

CPK FK3 is already in bc I must have at least 1 fixed blade. That leaves 7 spots with 23 contenders.

1. CPK FK3 D3V
2. Shiro F95R Super Slim Variant (1 of 3 ever made and maybe my favorite knife in the entire collection)
3. Chris Reeve Wilson Combat Large Inkosi
4. Hinderer BPU Eklipse
5. Les George MK3
6. A2 Knives A10 Front Flipper (smoothest and most refined I’ve ever experienced)
7. DEMKO Shark-A-Tac (barely beat the AD20 Compact)
8. AB IMamba Paua Abalone Non Flipper

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The contenders that didn’t make the Elite 8, in order

1. Chris Reeve Large 21 Ole Glory Ladder Damascus …. OOF, most painful to leave this one off the list
2. Hinderer BPU Non Flipper Bowie
3. Oz Rosie Early Serial Number 109
4. Grimsmo Dragon Rask
5. Demko AD20 Compact
6. Chris Reeve OP Zaan , brutal decision
7. Rockstead CHI DLC
8. GB Shamwari
9. Benchmade Anthem
10. Cold Steel (pre GSM) Recon 1 Bowie S35VN
11. Spyderco GB2 (pound for pound champion at $200)
12. Vero Lux
13. TRM Atom
14. QC Drift
15. Spartan Harsey Babe

Going to probably kick out one of the 8 and put in this Large 21 Ole Glory or Night Sky

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Incredible choices and photos
 
1) Benchmade 725 Kodiak
2) Spyderco Chinook 1
3) Schrade 858 Lumberjack Stock
4) Randall RKS 4 Club Knife
5) Ruana 13B (Ruana's Woodcraft Knife)
6) Cold Steel Outdoorsman
7) 14" Collins straight back machete
8) Victorinox Farmer

I'll miss some, but that's my best mixed of sentimentality, comfort, and working ability.
 
John Phillips said:
I like this game and hate it. Narrowing down to 8 seems nearly impossible so I started with my absolute favorites which took some time and came up with my elite 8 out of 23 total, this is a ridiculous exercise 🤣🤬🤣.

CPK FK3 is already in bc I must have at least 1 fixed blade. That leaves 7 spots with 23 contenders.

1. CPK FK3 D3V
2. Shiro F95R Super Slim Variant (1 of 3 ever made and maybe my favorite knife in the entire collection)
3. Chris Reeve Wilson Combat Large Inkosi
4. Hinderer BPU Eklipse
5. Les George MK3
6. A2 Knives A10 Front Flipper (smoothest and most refined I’ve ever experienced)
7. DEMKO Shark-A-Tac (barely beat the AD20 Compact)
8. AB IMamba Paua Abalone Non Flipper

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The contenders that didn’t make the Elite 8, in order

1. Chris Reeve Large 21 Ole Glory Ladder Damascus …. OOF, most painful to leave this one off the list
2. Hinderer BPU Non Flipper Bowie
3. Oz Rosie Early Serial Number 109
4. Grimsmo Dragon Rask
5. Demko AD20 Compact
6. Chris Reeve OP Zaan , brutal decision
7. Rockstead CHI DLC
8. GB Shamwari
9. Benchmade Anthem
10. Cold Steel (pre GSM) Recon 1 Bowie S35VN
11. Spyderco GB2 (pound for pound champion at $200)
12. Vero Lux
13. TRM Atom
14. QC Drift
15. Spartan Harsey Babe

Going to probably kick out one of the 8 and put in this Large 21 Ole Glory or Night Sky

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Such a fantastic collection/selection brother!
 
Small inkosi insingo
Custom wilkins leafstorm
Holt morpheus
Rockstead higo
Large sebenza 21 diamond plate
Shirogorov F3

Fallkniven F3 pro
Gollik custom
Mora
 
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