Is there a perfect folder?

GB940Rookie said:
Who ever made it, it’s definitely badass.
At first glance, it reminded me of a Bowie owned by J Paranee. Made by Nick Wheeler. One of my favorites.
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Here's a Badass, looks like a match to me.

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Stringjam7 said:
I will never not love a PM2. As ubiquitous as they are - there's a lot of good reasons for it. Slices like a beast and feels like one in-hand. Superb design from Spyderco.
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It really is perfect. It's the first folding knife I recommend to people who want a real good folder but don't know exactly what they want. Literally any iteration of the PM2 is good. Even the base model is worlds better than what most folks around here where I'm at have got in their pockets, that's for sure.
 
JParanee said:
Hey buddy

That was one of the custom DISKIN Livewires from the Blade show

Matt did a few last year and this year

Here are some more



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Next time you talk to Mr. Diskin you gotta tell him that A. Those are some absolutely gorgeous blades and B. He should kick Kershaw in the shin until they put that wharncliffe profile on a Livewire.
 
As others have said, the idea of the perfect folder has changed for me over the years. I used to prefer overbuilt knives when I was a laborer but these days my edc is mostly used for opening mail and cutting cardboard, so I've started gravitating toward smaller, thinner knives. At present I think my perfect folder is the TRM Neutron 2; specifically this one in magnacut and ultem. It's comfortable, sized right, has performed every task I've asked of it flawlessly, plus I think the materials make a great duo.
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Anyway, I'm sure the definition will change again at some point but for now I think I'm satisfied. Maybe. But probably not.
 
ferider said:
You all need a Fatty. My perfect "fat folder" .... no shaming, please ! :)

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What's the fixed blade?

Flatsman007 said:
PM2 for the win. It’s like the Glock of pocket knives.
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I agree, except I hate glocks.

The PM2 is the perfect balance of most features. It's exactly why I'll never waste money on a "high end" folder (just my opinion).
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
What's the fixed blade?



I agree, except I hate glocks.

The PM2 is the perfect balance of most features. It's exactly why I'll never waste money on a "high end" folder (just my opinion).
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That one is from Miro / menem menem in Birch and Elmax. Kind of like a stainless UF but more ornate.

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And I agree on the Glock :)
 
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ontheriver said:
For me? I’m always hoping there is but the reality is probably not. I initially thought maybe my small sebenza but then I could never get rid of my mini grip with Ti Wilkins’ scales. QC Drift might be the closest with size, materials, ergos, internal lock relief. But I love the Apache blade shape and prefer holes over studs. I’m also a fidgetor. Maybe if I could have the Sebenza frame with dimple milling, Apache blade shape with a hole in Vanax, and add the Paramour’s front flipper, then I could rest a bit. But until then I’m hopelessly lost in the rabbit hole. Case in point, I just picked up a large Apache and a Piratech Kraken. 😵‍💫
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Love the look of that mini-grip
 
jackknife said:
When I did that, it was soooo liberating and I never missed any of what I got rid of. I only regret letting my obsession get out of hand.
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This comment resonated with me and kept me awake thinking last night.
How far out of hand did it get for you? I feel like I'm at a crossroads to jumping in deeper or clearing out all but a few.
 
b-crow said:
This comment resonated with me and kept me awake thinking last night.
How far out of hand did it get for you? I feel like I'm at a crossroads to jumping in deeper or clearing out all but a few.
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Probably by the standards of some here, not that bad, but to me it was bad enough that I had accumulated all these knives, and gun s, and other stuff I was not longer using, or even wanting to use. Way too many safe queens, and stuff that had been the next shiny object in the obsessed cult worship of an inanimate object. So I got rid of them. I got disgusted enough at the indulgence that I walked away from the whole obsessive knife thing, and just kept a few SAK's and a few slip joints that I had used for years.

What I realize I did was just revert back to my youth and the knives I saw the grown men of my boyhood use, like just a small pen knife or jack. All the men I grew up around were veterans of WW2, and after they all fought a vicious world war, they came home and just went about the business of getting a job, raising a family, and living life. None of then carried much knife, and they did well. So far in the past several years, I haven't needed anything beyond my daily carry which is a SAK of some sort. It may vary depending on what I am doing that day and if I think I will need a particular tool on my pocket knife. There is no perfect knife, so stop looking for it, and stop reading those damm knife magazines that are just the shills for the knife industry that wants you to waste your money buying knives you don't need, and are not really even more capable that what a WW2 GI or Marine carrying a "Demo knife" is capable of. In most urban/suburbn environments you don't need much more cutting than a simple little pen knife or Victorinox recruit will give you. It all gets bit silly after a while. And these forums stimulate it. Thats why I backed away from the forums and don't come around much anymore. In fact it was the forums that helped me. I would look at the massive collections of knives representing thousands of dollars and think "This is nuts. " I quit.
 
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