Knives you know are not that practical but you love them anyway

[lieferung]

For my daily tasks pretty much any fixed blade, or any folder over 3" is excess. I would go to say my Techno is impractical due to its thickness.

 

[Ikitagawa357]

It is tiny, but I can’t seem to leave this one behind.

 

[hermit dave]

Where does the title of this thread indicate folder?

 

[BladeScout]

Where does the title of this thread indicate folder?

It dont.

But in the OP;

What knife do you own and love even though it's not the most practical folder of all time here are a couple of mine
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Pls note in my previous post.

 

[marcus52AR]

Most of my collection if I'm gonna be honest.

Older photo but I still have most of them

Very nice bunch of blades.

What's that sweet looking sheepsfoot with the Spidie hole on the top left?

 

[Sigsog226]

The Spyderco Dog Tag and Bug, but they're cute. And my Cold Steel Talwar XL was pretty impractical come to think of it; not cute.

 

[b00n]

Very nice bunch of blades.

What's that sweet looking sheepsfoot with the Spidie hole on the top left?

Would be nice if he listed all of them, none look familiar, a bunch look very cool. Probably all customs?

 

[hermit dave]

Thats quite the folder

It's the new OTF Natchez Bowie.

 

[The_Iron_Joe]

It's the new OTF Natchez Bowie.

... I would buy one.

 

[b00n]

It's the new OTF Natchez Bowie.

 

[ShadyMethods]

Very nice bunch of blades.

What's that sweet looking sheepsfoot with the Spidie hole on the top left?

That one's a TuffKnives custom. I don't have a photo of it handy but here's one I found on google:

 

[DrRollinstein]

This thing is fantastic. Great action, great dragon, great blade overall. But Its just so effing big and i likely wont ever carry it.

 

[F22shift]

The rajah 2 is actually very practical in the field.
Yeah the 4max is one of those weird knives that ends up in your edc rotation when it really is overkill. Hmm I guess it makes one feel very warm and cozy. I correlate it to the way germans design cars with thought on how the door feels and sounds when you close the door.

 

[gadgetgeek]

They are but as old school Nick Shabaz used to say “it won’t slice my potatoes”.

If Nickie-boy can't chop spuds with a ladybug, he is simply not trying. Try dismantling and serving a full watermelon with just a leatherman PST. I get the point of big cutters like the inaptly named holdout 1, but to say the little ones don't have value is a bit short sighted

 

[Jack_Burton]

I'm sorry but, I fail to see what's impractical about most of these knives. Most of them are folders or smaller fixed blades and in most cases something I wouldn't think twice about carrying and / or using daily.

 

[Jack_Burton]

sorry, internet connection is on the fritz, it's causing me to double-post sometimes.

 

[BladeScout]

It's the new OTF Natchez Bowie.

 

[A.L.]

I’m too old for impractical knives

 

[ScooterG]

If Nickie-boy can't chop spuds with a ladybug, he is simply not trying. Try dismantling and serving a full watermelon with just a leatherman PST. I get the point of big cutters like the inaptly named holdout 1, but to say the little ones don't have value is a bit short sighted

Never said there was no value. What I did suggest is that they aren’t “that practical” but I love them anyway.

 

[Shorttime]

Trust me when I say that a 3/8" thick knife is not practical for everyday chores. Unless your "everyday chores" include forcible entry or exit of wood-framed buildings, or breaking down tree carcasses.

As for the "big guy, little knife" school of thought, Ed Fowler tells a story in one of his books.

When he was a kid, it was accepted practice for the menfolk to carry large knives openly, wherever they went. So, guys being guys, somebody decided to start carrying a small folder, and getting it to work for things that other people sent a 4" fixed blade to take care of.

Once again, guys being guys, it became an inverse size-comparison contest, with everybody trying to use the smallest blade they could. Ed himself learned better when he tried to skin out a bear with something the size of a Peanut.