I'm just about done....

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Guyon

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...buying knives, that is. In the past couple of years, I've bought and sold a LOT of folders--mainly Spydercos, but also a number of other brands.

I've settled on the Benchmade 705 and 710 for EDC. They have everything I'm looking for in a knife, and I'm in the process of selling off just about all my other folders because I just don't carry them anymore. I'm sure I'm going to buy the occasional folder or folding tool (just bought a SAK Workchamp for example), but it's going to be tough to beat these two.

I'm still exploring fixed blades, but I really do like my Cold Steel Master Hunter. May go for a Fallkniven soon though.

Anybody else ever feel like you've found the perfect folder? Did you then find something else that changed your mind?
 
Between the Sebanza and 710HS, I pretty much have the folder seen covered. I always carry a SAK (usually a Pioneer)
Everything else is just for fun.
Chad
 
I'm with you, Chad. Almost. My large Sebenza is a given. Also kept my Bm 730cfhs in favor of my 710. These two do everything I need done. A nice custom D/A sure would be nice though :cool:
 
There's a lot of folks who would love to be at that place - where you've experienced a bunch of knives and now have decided on the ones you carry and own for your needs. Thank heavens for the secondary market; folks who depend on others to get reasonably new knives at reasonable prices, also, maybe, looking for the ONE that will satisfy their needs, both practically and aesthetically.

I am sort of getting there. A large Sebenza is a keeper; my smaller Seb will be seeing the FOR SALE area soon. So, too, will my new Stryker, Pardue and some others. It's been a learning process and I've been caring for what I've gotten thus far.

Then again, there's always "What's just around the corner" to whet your appetite for new steel!
 
.........of pocket knives and have gone full circle from customs back to the ultimate folder, at least for me, in the large Classic Sebenza! I still look at others and occasionaly pick one up, but if limited to just one it would be the Sebbie.:D
 
Yup, MY "perfect folder" was a Cold Steel Gunsite, then a Cold Steel XL (plain-edge) clip-point Voyager, then a Spyderco (combo-edge) SS Native, then a Camillus "EDC", then a REKAT Pioneer, then a REKAT Carnivour, then a Cold Steel Vaquero Grande, then a REKAT Sifu, then a Spyderco FRN (plain-edge) Endura, and now it's a (plain-edge) Spyderco Chinook. (As a side-note, I have another CS Vaquero Grande "on the way", so that'll probably be my next "perfect folder" again...:).).
 
Every time I bought a new folder it was the perfect folder for me, for a while at least. Then along would come the next perfect folder. It was fun. Now that I have switched to fixed blades and bought an Ed Fowler Pronghorn that doesn't happen any more. Not that I have stopped buying knives, it's just that I haven't found a better one yet. The fun for me is in the quest for that better knife, and it always will be.
 
The closest I've come to perfection in a folder is the small Sebenza, my EDC.
 
Between my Sebenza and my SAKs, nothing else even gets considered for carry.

Paul
 
Lots of folks seem to like their Sebenzas.

I admit to never having owned a Sebenza, and it's not because I'm cheap. It's the liner lock (or Integral lock) that turns me off of these knives. I know that they are meticulously crafted and well-balanced, but I just happen to be nuts about the Axis lock. Add in that G-10 is my favorite scale material and the fact that Benchmade has finally gotten the 154CM right on the money, and I can't do much better than the 705 for light carry and the 710 for heavier tasks.

To each his own though. That's what makes it fun.
 
Haven't found the perfect folder but the small Seb just about does it for me. Sadly, about a year ago I traded mine...much regretted. I hope that I can get ahold of another here on the forums!
Matt
 
I know a lot of folks think the Sebbie is all hype, but as happy as I am with my Small Sebenza, I keep thinking I ough to get a big one.

Then I use my Socom Elite and the urge wanes.

I'll probably get a big Sebbie anyway, but between the lil one and my Microtech, I'm pretty well covered. All the other stuff just sits in the safe.

jmx
 
My EDC is the SAK cybertool 31, and my only complaint is that it doesn't have a saw. Otherwise I've used that thing for just about everything I can imagine and have no complaints. I even used it to take apart my carburator (sp) (well okay, it wasn't actually my carburator, it was the one in my car).
Chad 234 this is compeletely off topic, but which poem does your kipling line come from? Just curious
Lagarto
 
I've gone through a lot of knives in the past 20 years, as money would allow and I'm down to a select few right now.

My wants, reckon a large Classic Sebenza would fill the ticket, love one with the wood inlays but too steep right now for my pockets...

Everyday carry for me lately are the following;

Small Classic Seb
Kershaw Double Cross
Spyderco Large Calypso plain edge
BM31 butterfly plain edge
SAK Executive
Kershaw Random Task plain edge
BM 940 plain edge

And a couple of SureFire lights;
E1 and the E2e, both excellent lights!

Right now I've not got my sights on anything more, except maybe the new Double Vision from BM...but I'd sell the BM940 before getting that in my rotation...

G2
 
I must have gone through a couple dozen folders in a year,then I got my large sebenza 'bout 15 months ago,last folder I bought.It's been clipped to my pocket every day since....cheapest knife I ever bought!!! I particularly like that it's LEFT HANDED!! only thing tempting me now is a lefty TNT.
 
dam they'e all perfect,everytime i get a new blade i think this is the one but then i see another and i'm in love all over again-lol
 
Originally posted by lagarto
My EDC is the SAK cybertool 31, and my only complaint is that it doesn't have a saw. Otherwise I've used that thing for just about everything I can imagine and have no complaints. I even used it to take apart my carburator (sp) (well okay, it wasn't actually my carburator, it was the one in my car).
Chad 234 this is compeletely off topic, but which poem does your kipling line come from? Just curious
Lagarto
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I actually prefer the Cybertool 29, it matches perfectly with a LM Pulse for urban EDC duties. I usually carry a Pioneer, but the Cybertool is great too. I really like the blue scales.

As to the poem "Cold Iron":
* Gold for the mistress, silver for the maid - Copper for the craftsman, cunning at his trade. 'Good' said the Baron, sitting in his hall, 'But iron - cold iron - is master of them all'.
-Rewards and Fairies Rudyard Kipling
 
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