If you could own any knife (or other edged weapon) in existence what would it be?

Simple compared to most.....Left handed camp knife by Ed Fowler in a custom Kenny Rowe sheath.
 
Boy that's a tough question. When I am scuba diving, I like a 9" heavy stilleto type that will fit on my forearm with a serrated edge for cutting rope and a notch for cutting line. When hunting deer, a lock blade with a 5 inch blade. When filleting fish a 6" flex blade Rapala type. When carving a 1" sheepfoot carver made of Solingen Germany steel. When in a knife fight, anything from a .22 caliber rimfire on up.
 
Roland's legendary sword Durendart which he used in the Battle of Roncesvalles.

If I can't have that, I'll take the Yakuza Bowie II by Don Fogg.
 
guyfalks said:
I have heard that Musashi only used wooden swords at the end of his dueling career. I have also read that he was once defeated and spared by an opponent using a jo.

Makes one wonder about the best choice of steel. Perhaps wood from the spaceprobe is available and could be used to build the ultimate weapon.
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from what i have read, Musashi only used the wooden oar in one duel, could be wrong though. its listed as only once in book of the five rings. and i believe it was to prove a point as it was close to the end of his life and the challenger was a chump. or acted like a chump, i need to read that again.
 
sword - Masamune (one of the national treasures of japan. lol)
Knife - Busse Hell Razor or Strider Ajax with nightmare grind. those are both badass looking knives.
folder - i have it already ;)

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Dijos said:
the Green destiny from Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon. :D
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They make a (supposedly) forged version of the Green Destiny that i have seen on ebay and a few specialty online stores, but its like 800$ :(

i do have to say it looks sweet.
 
darkestthicket said:
from what i have read, Musashi only used the wooden oar in one duel, could be wrong though. its listed as only once in book of the five rings. and i believe it was to prove a point as it was close to the end of his life and the challenger was a chump. or acted like a chump, i need to read that again.
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That would be the duel with Sasaki Kojiro in 1612. Prior to that I believe he had killed Yoshioka Seijiro & Yoshioka Denshichiro with wooden swords and had numerous other duels (including nonlethal ones) in which he used wooden swords. He also spent time studying with a sect of Zen priest spearman, dueling with folks who used sticks, spike and chain, etc. I have read that shortly after his duel with Kojiro he stopped using real swords in duels. (Musashi lived from 1584 to 1645. This was before the introduction of the shinai and the wooden swords were probably thick hardwood, capable of bending swords and crushing skulls.) Anyway, if there are some oars in that space ship we might be able to make the ultimate weapon.
 
That is imposiible for me to answer, as there areso many amazing makers that I do not own yet. I just can not pin down one knife!!
 
There were a number of blades from Japan's classical sword periods in the Toronto Museum that I visited and drooled over freqently--so beautiful!
Greg
 
guyfalks said:
That would be the duel with Sasaki Kojiro in 1612. Prior to that I believe he had killed Yoshioka Seijiro & Yoshioka Denshichiro with wooden swords and had numerous other duels (including nonlethal ones) in which he used wooden swords. He also spent time studying with a sect of Zen priest spearman, dueling with folks who used sticks, spike and chain, etc. I have read that shortly after his duel with Kojiro he stopped using real swords in duels. (Musashi lived from 1584 to 1645. This was before the introduction of the shinai and the wooden swords were probably thick hardwood, capable of bending swords and crushing skulls.) Anyway, if there are some oars in that space ship we might be able to make the ultimate weapon.
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i stand corrected after doing some research, nice to see another Musashi appreciator on the board!


on the modern Shinai and wooden training swords, given ive only taken iado for a lil less than 4 years, in my opinion he was using one hell of an oar, as those wooden and shinai training swords break pretty easily. lol. could be a QC problem with them though lol.
 
I couldn't pass up a Cold Steel Shinobu---their old school lockback folder with the laminated blade. I've been lookin for one for forever and still havent found one.

"You can't fix stupid."- Ron White
 
this one is easy.... JEDI LIGHT SABER


but if I have to choose right now as I cannot afford a light saber then it would be the original Busse S.H.B.M.

there was nothing better 8 years ago and there is nothing better today IMO.

it is an extension of my hand. cuts forever. It looks like a big butcher knife so it does not draw the fantasy knife attention other knives in my collection do.
 
For a folder, I'd have to pick the BM806, even though I've never held or seen one in person. I'll give myself a headache trying to think of other things like swords and stuff. :)
 
For a typical folder, I'd pick a nice custom slipjoint, such as the fine ones our fellow makers post on this site. They're absolutely beautiful and those are my favorite types of knives. Something with dark green micarta, silver bolsters with detailed black / dark gray engraving and some silver artwork going over the Micarta scales. Smoky Damascus in a full flat ground wharncliffe blade with a nail notch.

Man...thinking about that knife makes me want to save up for a custom. Geeze.
 
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