Let’s See Your Rarest Knives!

[Medieval Peasant]

Open up the safe and pull out the rarest knives you own and tell us a little bit about them.

Maybe you got that old ZT0777 with the composite Damascus blade, maybe it’s an old Randall prototype, perhaps something exclusive from a maker that has passed on, or even just something that’s really really hard to purchase.

Let’s see it.

I’ll start off with this Carson Technology Lab, Granite. These are full integral construction, Nitrobe 77 steel, and have sealed bearings. They were available around 2014, and I’m not sure how many were made, but they are really rare.

 

[Arathol]

Speedtech Synergy
Most Innovative American Design award at Blade Show 1999, button lock, blades ground by Allen Elishewitz, one piece milled aluminum handle, way ahead of its time.

Case Classic 8340 4 3/8" serpentine stockman, made by Queen for Blue Grass Cutlery in 1997, 1 of 3 in blue abalone

Utica Kutmaster 6 blade cattle knife, brown bone, from a salesman roll, late 50s - early 60s, probably the only one in existence.

 

[Synov]

I guess custom knives don't count as they are usually 1 offs or very limited.

Demko AD20 MagnaCut Harpoon with milled CF scales. There are probably only a handful of these out there.


Carothers hollow ground blade and swedge DEK1 on the left, only a few were made and they are all slightly different. On the right is a prototype Shiv 2.0 with extra long sharpened false edge, 1 of 1.

 

[jlauffer]

CS original Urban Pal
CS Urban Shiv
CS Safe Keeper I (5” blade)
CS Tanto in AUS10A (only 40 made)
CS original Arc Angel
Blackjack Monahan Stinger
CPK Boot Knife



CS Emperor Collection:

 

[milian]

 

[yamsi12]

Buck Danny Peretti Collection 110….1 of 290 made.

 

[Medieval Peasant]

Buck Danny Peretti Collection 110….1 of 290 made.
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2 / 290 here

 

[scorpnsnake]

1/10 F95 Shiro/Danny Yard colab, "Green Machine"



1/15 Chavez Damasteel and Timascus

 

[yamsi12]

2 / 290 here

Is that the BHQ exclusive 110 in s45vn & green micarta covers at the bottom? Nice pitina on the Peretti 110 BTW. I always wonder what made Buck decide to do 290….sort of a random number.

 

[Medieval Peasant]

Is that the BHQ exclusive 110 in s45vn & green micarta covers at the bottom? Nice pitina on the Peretti 110 BTW. I always wonder what made Buck decide to do 290….sort of a random number.

Thank you! Yes it is the BHQ exclusive, definitely one of my favorite knives of all time.

That Peretti 110, I kinda just guessed they wanted to do 300 initially and maybe had some sort of issue with the last 10

 

[yamsi12]

Thank you! Yes it is the BHQ exclusive, definitely one of my favorite knives of all time.

That Peretti 110, I kinda just guessed they wanted to do 300 initially and maybe had some sort of issue with the last 10

Did you force the patina on the 110 or did it just happen over use?

 

[stjones]

1995 left hand, small, Original Sebenza.

 

[Medieval Peasant]

Did you force the patina on the 110 or did it just happen over use?

About 75% of it was from cutting fruit, then I sped up the last 25% by cutting through a sandwich with a lot of grey poupon and didn’t wash off the blade for a good half hour or so

 

[Ajack60]

Left Handed Wilson Combat Umnumzaan. In those days CRK didn’t make many lefty’s

 

[Don_Logan]

A few rare ones:

 

[norcalAF]

This one isn't rare, it's unique plus with it being born on my daughter's first birthday makes it especially precious to me

 

[norcalAF]

A couple of rare LGs, not many Sicarios out there and D7 said they will never make another hawk

 

[norcalAF]

This is the only sprint one of the 0095 that I have seen though there is at least 150 of them out there and the SHF was blade swapped by yours truly so, likely the only one of em!

 

[WValtakis]

Not many of these CRK/CRKT Sebenza prototypes floating around

 

[Arathol]

A couple from Great Eastern-

#71 Bullnose O1 Factory Test knife

GEC 45 with Percheron bone, 1 of 10

GEC Northwoods Burnside jack in stag

Maybe not so rare, but its the KSF ad copy knife