If you could only own 3 knives for the rest of your life...

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What knives would make the cut so to speak and even more importantly why?

 

[carnifex knifeworks]

Is it that good? Last time I checked the dek1 sadly wasn't in stock.
I guess I'll have to check reviews since you are the third person that is speaking this highly of that knife

Carothers knives will ruin you. Once you have one, you realize it's what all other knives aspire to be.

 

[Scott.Maslowe]

From what I own... QC Drift because it's petite and adorable but you could chop down a tree, underwater, and that knife still wouldn't piss or moan. XM-24 Bowie in full Ti, because it's beastly and can slay dragons. Koenig Arius in MC, because it's something perfect and makes me happy.

 

[gooeytek]

NathCustom/Gooeytek Brotherhood in M390
Daniel Fairly/Gooeytek Havok chopper in S7
David Mary/Gooeytek Tactical Santoku in Magnacut

 

[hhmoore]

NathCustom/Gooeytek Brotherhood in M390
Daniel Fairly/Gooeytek Havok chopper in S7
David Mary/Gooeytek Tactical Santoku in Magnacut

I think you've been hitting it a little too hard...
Or I haven't been hitting (whatever IT is) hard enough.
What are you trying to say?

 

[craytab]

These sort of threads are always a bit silly because of the hypothetical but I'll play, with pics of course. From the knives I own:

Pacific salt 2 lc2000n.
Cpk fk.
Cpk potato knife.

 

[jstn]

Is it that good? Last time I checked the dek1 sadly wasn't in stock.
I guess I'll have to check reviews since you are the third person that is speaking this highly of that knife

It really is the perfect knife imo. Keep an eye on the Carothers exchange and they come up from time to time. Good luck!

 

[soundless]

It really is the perfect knife imo. Keep an eye on the Carothers exchange and they come up from time to time. Good luck!

I just saw the review from dutch bush craft on YouTube and they abused the ever living hell out of a Carothers...to almost no avail knife took it like a champ! I think I'm in love now.

Thank you guys for the recommendation, I'll keep my eyes peeled on the exchange

 

[1911bphil]

I'll play from the knives I have. A Buck 110, because it's good at most things I need. An SAK Huntsman so I don't scare the sheeple. My Buck 105 so I have a fixed blade.

 

[mobilerd]

Machete
Butcher Knife
Large Folder

 

[gooeytek]

I think you've been hitting it a little too hard...
Or I haven't been hitting (whatever IT is) hard enough.
What are you trying to say?

They're custom knives I designed and had made. A folder, chopper, and kitchen knife.

 

[GmpaJim]

My wife’s first, mine second…ah, babes are invited to the apocalypse too, right?

 

[Billm67]

This is a tough one...especially since PA just made automatics legal. If I had to be limited to three....I think it would be my Benchmade Casbah, a Microtech Ultratech Hellhound and my dad's old Buck hunting knife (woodsman I think).

 

[WedgeAntilles]

CRK Nyala
CRK large folder, either Sebenza or Inkosi
Koenig Arius.

 

[Lesknife]

As a knife nut and a knife user these kinds of threads are depressing to me especially the only one knife threads.

I want to use what I want to use whenever I want to use them on what I wanna use em on. I don’t like limitations when there’s no reason for it.
If by chance I got stranded out in the boonies I would have to use what I had on me but I keep extra knives and tools in my pickup camping chest. Besides what I carry which is usually a 303 cadet stockman,a vantage pro I also have a 110 and a LM Wave and Signal in my pickup door pocket, another 110 in the glovebox, a 124 frontiersman, a 108 froe, two hatchets, an axe, a couple saws , mallet, hammer in the camp chest. And for different types of outings I will have other appropriate knives for the occasion, hunting, fishing and such, I like to be prepared and use the correct tool for the tasks at hand.

 

[bayouace]

-Vic Classic SD is so useful.
-Dragonfly 2 meets most of my needs.
-Kephart will cover the remainder for me.
All assuming I will be living in my present situation.

 

[beeinak]

I can’t imagine that scenario, and hope that never happens! I am of the opinion that a multi tool is not included as it is a tool- the same for axe and saws. For right now (arriving knives may change a choice), I would choose:
CPK SDFK
Spyderco PM2
Bob Dozier Professional Guides Knife

 

[XtianAus]

Is it that good? Last time I checked the dek1 sadly wasn't in stock.
I guess I'll have to check reviews since you are the third person that is speaking this highly of that knife

Make me the 4th
It is my favourite knife

As for the list:

Carothers Dek1
Carothers Dek2
Arno Bernard iMamba

 

[afishhunter]

Not happening for me. Just in folding knives I like, use, and enjoy more than three patterns.
Call me "Stupid" "Greedy" or whatever, but I don't want to and won't give up any pattern I like and use.* That does not count the fixed blades, either.
*I plan on "taking with me" a Large/XL Stockman, Barlow, Canoe, 4 Blade Scout Knife, a Harness Jack, Bunny Knife, Moose, 2 Blade Slipjoint Folding Hunter, and a couple Buck 110's when I get put in the box and planted, along with a couple fixed blades ... among other things that mean a lot to me. (No vehehicles or bicycles)

 

[F1fan]

I was kind of forced into this in 2020
Native 5 in Rex-45
Fallkniven F1

I didn’t miss much but collecting and trying new stuff is fun.

 

[Andy the Aussie]

Three.........what sick world is this.....

1) Busse B4 Anorexic (alternate to this is a Swamp Rat HRLM or an ESEE Zancudo)
2) Busse ASH1 (picking which one would be hard... )
3) Busse FBM (alternate to this would be a Busse NMFBM, Busse BWM or ESEE Junglas)

..... for me, all are proven designs from proven steels that I already own and can accomplish 99+% of my knifing needs.