If you could own only 10 knives

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I prefer small, medium, large and chopper designations. Or roughly 4, 6, 8, 10.

 

I'll go with a list from knives I presently own, in no particular order:
Vic Farmer - I always have one with me when I'm outdoors
Busse Basic 10LE - chopper that balances good and cuts as well as it chops
Martin Knives BT - great size for woods carry
Small Sebenza(pheasant tail graphic) - had it for years and still my favorite EDC folder
Randall 14 - a classic that is a user not a collector, great combination of aesthetics and performance
Mora Bushcraft - it was a toss-up with the Mora 2K or HD, all would work
Busse SAR3LE - perfect fixed EDC, tough choice over a Game Warden
JK Hiker - possibly the best woods-bumming blade I own
Grayman Dua - coin flip with my TSF Beast for when I just want something other than my Sebenza
Busse TGLB - good enough for Daryl and the zombie apocalypse

Honorable mention would be PM2 and Swamp Rat Mini Uncle Mojo.

 

Pm2
Millitary
Manix lw
Native lw

Mnandi
Alox pick one

Traditionals
Mini copperlock
Slim single trapper
Mini wharnie trapper
Le thiers

 

In this order:

Spyderco Dragonfly salt h1 SE (best overal EDC knife ever made)
Spyderco Endura Wave (best large EDC knife ever made)
Benchmade 42 (best bali ever) - its a fidget spinner for men.
Alox Cadet - (second best overall EDC knife)
Benchmade 51 - best EDC bali around
Benchmade 940 - overall excellent choice.
Boker Quaiken CF- something about this knife I just love
zt 452cf I lost this knife and want to find it :-(
Leatherman wave (if you count multi tools )
Esee izula- hard to beat for a EDC fixed blade I got 4
Manix xl moon glow- I really just like things that glow

 

These are knives I already have (with one exception)...and like enough to keep "if I could only have 10". The one I don't have has already been arranged for; and is marked as such.

1. GEC 92 Talon (snakewood/wharncliffe) *Love the pattern, and it's snakewood!*
2. GEC 77 (Smooth Autumn Bone/sheepsfoot) *I didn't carry this for the longest time, now it's one of my favorites*
3. Northwoods Hawthorne (Giraffe Bone/wharncliffe) *because OMG, look at this thing!*
4. CPK Field Knife (D3V) *If I can only have one fixed blade in the 4-6" range, this is it*
5. Bark River Senegal *quite possibly the choppin-est chopper I own...and sometimes a guy just has to chop stuff*
6. Dozier modified personal *I can't/won't be without a small fixed blade...and if there can be only one, it's going to be Dozier D2 (narrowly beat my satin/bone Rodent 3)*
7. Microtech LUDT *perhaps not my favorite auto; but it was a gift from a good friend - enough said*
8. ZT 0550 (copper scale) *This knocked my 0200kw off the list because it's copper*
9. Spyderco Advocate *sometimes a slim, light knife with a CPM-M4 is exactly the right tool for the job*
10. Olamic 247 (pending) *it knocked a few others off my WTB list, and getting it the way you want it is worth waiting for...hopefully, it lives up to the hype*


**Perhaps more interesting are the knives that didn't make the list....some of my most treasured fixed and folders (including customs), various PM2s with aftermarket scales, CRK, Hinderer, Strider, etc. Basically, with few exceptions, I selected knives that I carry regularly and/or consider to be of such outstanding quality that it made no sense to exclude them. The Olamic 247 is there based on anticipation, the Northwoods Hawthorne as an aesthetic treat, and the LUDT for sentimental reasons.

 

It seems that traditional knives are being included more frequently now as "must have's" to be used. Or maybe the traditional folks just are more active on the forum.

 

This is not in any particular order... this is my 10 from mass production folding knives. i have a list of 10 custom knives and a top 10 for fixed blades too.

1 LionSteel TM1 carbon fiber integral (if i could get super steel for this blade it would be even more perfect)
2 Chris Reeves Large Sebenza 21 Knife Art carbon fiber edition.
3 Three Rivers Mfg BT1000CF (bob terzuola)
4 Trevor Burger Custom Knives (burger and son's, burger knives) any model preferably a front flipper
5 Knife Works exclusive Spyderco C36CFTIP Carbon fiber/titanium RIL frame lock s90v
6 Zero Tolerance 0777
7 Spyderco PM2 peel ply carbon fiber scales with m4 steel or (maxamet steel ... not released, just dreaming)
8 Rubens Titanium Tools, Rune with carbon fiber inlays
9 Reate Horizon D carbon fiber (or several other models from them)
10 CKF Sukhoi 2.0 dragon scale modded (or several other models from them)

11 Several Shirogorov models.
12 Dierware carbon fiber show side slab most models.

i dont really want to have only 10 lol.

 

My 10 knives would be:
1. Seamus Irish Uber Crossover
2. Seamus small Cracked Uber
3. Strider SnG
4. Dervish NavEDC
5. CRK small Inkosi
6. Emerson Mini A-100
7. Emerson OBS knife
8. Pro-Tech Calmigo
9. Pro-Tech Runt
10. Benchmade Mini Grip with G-10

 

Dark Timber Honey Badger
Busse TGLB
BK9
Spyderco Street Beat
Survive! Knives Necker II
Demko AD10
Cold Steel Recon 1
Spyderco PM2 M4
Spyderco Yojimbo 2
Spyderco PM3

I'm sure this list will change next week...

 

BM Mini Grip
PM2
Native 5
Gayle Bradley 2
Sage 5
Dragonfly 2
Small Sebenza
BM 943
ZT 0900
ZT0450

I'd be 100000000% carrying only those until I'm ashes.

 

I'll pick my 10 "must have folders" from my collection...and then 10 multi-tools/SAKs, as both are equally important to me!

Spyderco Pacific Salt - my most carried, used and longest owned true EDC
Cold Steel Hold Out I - favorite XL folder, most versatile blade shape I own
Spyderco Tasman Salt - my favorite and most used secondary EDC folder
Spyderco Aqua Salt - best and most trusted fixed blade, camping knife of choice
Cold Steel Rajah II - toughest folder, hard use knife, folding hiking machete
Cold Steel Broken Skull - light, slim but tough and sturdy folding knife
Opinels - perfect classy folders, slicey, sheeple-friendly in all versions
Moras - possibly the best woods, budget and all around FBs, perfect "lending" blades
Spyderco Spyderhawk - go to garden, beach and landscaping large workhorse
Cold Steel Rawles Voyager - huge, tough, ergonomic and inexpensive,

and as far as multi-purpose tools...

Vic Spirit - best, most versatile, slim carry and do it all MT
Vic Minichamp - keychain EDC, small always on me toolbox
Vic Swisschamp - king of SAKs, camping, hiking and travel tool
Wenger S557 - EDC all bases covered SAK, carriable and complete
LM Micra - the most useful mini tool ever, keychain size
LM Squirt - king of urban, office or dressy EDC small tools
Lm Rebar - light, portable, tough and beastly basic-tooled MT
Gerber MP800 - improved basics, industrial use and beater MT
Gerber MP700 - dressy, compact and sturdy compact companion
SOG Blacktip - the king, huge beast and work-oriented tool of choice

 

I’m primarily a hunter and outdoorsman, so my blades reflect that.

1. Buck Vanguard (Hunting)
2. Victorinox Hunter XT (Hunting)
3. Marttiini 450 Bronze guard fixed blade (Hunting)
4. Victorinox Alox Solo (EDC)
5. Spyderco Endura (EDC)
6. Opinel #6 stainless (Small task slicer)
7. Bark River Gunny grip with custom clip point blade (Hunting)
8. Victorinox Farmer (Woods walking)
9. Old Hickory butcher knife (Kitchen)
10. Tramontina 12" Bush Machete (Bushcrafting)

If you don't count kitchen knives, I'd throw in a Fallkniven F1 in cobalt steel to get to 10.

 

1. ESEE Candiru (EDC - Utility/PSK)
2. ESEE Izula (Minimal/Concealed)
3. ESEE 3 (Tactical/Backpack knife)
4. ESEE 4HM (Camp/Work/Rural)
5. ESEE 5 (Cache Tube Stash)
6. ESEE 6 (B.O.B. knife)
7. ESEE Junglas (Chopper)
8. OKC Rat 1 (Urban EDC)
9. Mora Companion (Sanitary use)
10. Busse TGLB (Apocalypse EDC)

 

Speaking for myself, I find traditionals quite useful; and I generally have one in my left front pocket. That's a relatively recent thing, though - until a couple years ago, I hadn't carried a traditional in a few decades.

 

1. Ka-Bar MKll
2. SAK Alox Farmer
3. Mora Firestarter model
4. Spyderco Rescue
5. Opinel #7 SS
6. Case Peanut SS
7. Marttiini Filet Knife
8. Buck 110
9.GEC 33
10. Kasumi 8" Chefs Knife

 

Folders

Spyderco Military KW 204P
Spyderco Military KW S90V Cf/Ti
Sog Powerlock Multitool

Fixed

White River Knives Backpacker
Survive! 3.5
**Survive! 4.5
Survive! 5.1
TOPS Prather War Bowie
**A large chopper Either a Survive! GSO 12, TOPS El Chete, or A Kukri of some sort
RMJ Loggerhead or Shrike tomahawk

**These knives I do not own yet

 

Trc k1s elmax
Trc urban tactical vanadis 4 extra
Survive gso 4.7 3v
Survive gso 2.7 20cv
Lionsteel m7 sleipner
Lionsteel m4 m390
Fallkniven nl4 vg10
Barkriver bravo 1 3v
Spyderco pm2 m4
Spyderco manix 2 S30v

 

You have a survive 4.5 ?

 

Doh! Not yet! I have paid for it though!

Nice catch. I didnt realize that I left that out of the footnote

 

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1. Benchmade Griptilian
2. Benchmade 940
3. SAK Farmer
4. SAK Cadet
-- the rest are fixed blades --
5. Bark River Aurora, A2
6. Bark River Bravo 1, A2
7. L.T. Wright GNS Scandi
8. L.T. Wright Genesis
9. Becker BK16
10. Becker BK9