List your top 3 production knife companies!

A. G. Russell said:
Thought you might be interested in the top three picks of my customers.

1. Boker
2. Columbia River
3. William Henry

Compared to your own:

1. Spyderco 40 votes
2. Benchmade 33 votes
3. Kershaw 22 votes

out of 30 named makers. Considering that Case makes more knives than the next 4 or 5 they got only 2 votes, surprising.
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Hey A.G., at the risk of alienating some of your suppliers, how about giving us your top three? :D

Dan

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Only three... Thats going to be tuff in no specific order. Spyderco, Ontario/RAT, Victorinox, CRKT... I know thats four but I couldn't decide
 
A. G. Russell said:
Hard for me to believe that Kershaw got so few votes and I did not see William Henry at all. I can only assume that no one posting in this thread has ever seen a William Henry knife and that few have seen recent Kershaw knives except the cheapest ones.
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Kershaw made many improvements lately, many new designs and steel upgrades, but didn't get my vote.
My son has Blur, but never use it.
Last year I bought Nakamura and sold it in a week, it is a good knife, but I didn't like it enough to keep and I love wood handles.
Two weeks ago I bought Ti / ZDP Mini Cyclone, it looks good, but not as comfortable as Caly3 in my hand. Next week it will go to *bay. So I didn't find my Kershaw yet. But may be one day I will :)
William Henry is a different story. I was able to handle couple of them. They are great, but too expensive for me. :(
And spyderco makes everything, what I need and can afford.
 
#1, Spyderco
#2, Ontartio Knife Co
#3, Cold Steel


#3 was Camillus (but now bankrupt)
#4 Gerber
 
1. Victorinox. No other production maker comes close to Vic for the combination of unmatched value and quality control, and those are the hallmarks by which a production maker should be judged, IMO.

2. Spyderco. Great design and execution, and Sal's a gent.

3. Now it's difficult. Reeve? Bark River? SOG? Benchmade? Busse? Fallkniven? Wm. Henry? Al Mar? What the heck. Think I'll go for Bark River.
 
1. Spyderco - great knives. Customer centered company. Sal and crew are great!
2. Chris Reeve - Impeccable quality. Great service.
3. Benchmade - I love my 710. The axis lock is a great invention
 
Spyderco
Benchmade
Bark River

**In no particular order.

God bless you, America, and our men and women overseas.

KATN,

Wade
 
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