new guy, whats your "priceless" knife

Mine would have to be a knife that my Great Uncle, Dale Edwards, made. He was the founder of Indian Ridge Traders knife company, and this is one of his earliest prototypes:






He eventually hooked up with J. Nowill and Sons of Sheffield, England, and made some quite beautiful knives, like this one:



For those of you who have seen these already, thank you for your indulgence!
 
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No priceless knives but a couple if I lost would really upset me. This one is a B.Goode custom. His wait is so long now he isn't even taking orders.
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This is my first decent knife and bought it new in 1982. I would hate to lose it.
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Mine is this "snakeskin" damascus hunter made by my buddy David Lisch, JS, and gifted to me by my wife for Christmas. I had ordered my first custom from Dave a couple years before at the BLADE show in Atlanta, and my wife, knowing how much I loved it, conspired with him to surprise me with this hunter. I was VERY surprised! Sheath by John M Cohea.

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It would have to be my maternal grandfathers hunting knives. He had 2, both Catt's :cool:
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black mamba said:
Mine is this "snakeskin" damascus hunter made by my buddy David Lisch, JS, and gifted to me by my wife for Christmas. I had ordered my first custom from Dave a couple years before at the BLADE show in Atlanta, and my wife, knowing how much I loved it, conspired with him to surprise me with this hunter. I was VERY surprised! Sheath by John M Cohea.

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WOW - stunning! That's a masterpiece of a knife - congrats!
 
Sadly for me i have no knife that has sentimental value to me,apart from the knives ive been gifted by forum members here..I am not lucky enough to have a knife that belonged to one of my family members but let me assure you my son certainly will...The most priceless knife i own is my old French knife..it cost me very little (2 hours labor as a carpenter)..i believe that it is the only knife that i own that i couldnt replace= priceless to me...I must say that i always smile when it opens with a mechanical CLACK=priceless....FES



 
Always admired that knife Fes! Fantastic antler and a very unusual pattern from Europe.

Doesn't look like you've been doing too much test for sharpness on the arm-hair though.....:D

I have a knife from the family home that may have belonged to my Grandfather, A Sheffield Nowills Equal End in ivory, 2 blades busted, 1 worn to a splinter and the nail file untouched. I wouldn't say it's my priceless knife, but put it this way, I revere it!

Thanks, Will
 
My first knife a Victorinox Recruit.

Funny thing is no matter how many knives I handle and EDC so far it seems like my taste keeps leading me more and more towards that knife the more refined my taste for knives get. But I won't EDC it for fear of losing it. For all I know it could actually be the perfect knife for me. It does have all almost all the characteristics I like in a slipjoint, 2 blades, 2.5-2.75in blade preferred (it has 2.5), lightweight, comfy to grip, etc.
 
festerfromnzed said:
Sadly for me i have no knife that has sentimental value to me,apart from the knives ive been gifted by forum members here..I am not lucky enough to have a knife that belonged to one of my family members but let me assure you my son certainly will...The most priceless knife i own is my old French knife..it cost me very little (2 hours labor as a carpenter)..i believe that it is the only knife that i own that i couldnt replace= priceless to me...I must say that i always smile when it opens with a mechanical CLACK=priceless....FES



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That's a grand old knife Fes. I had no idea it was so big.
 
I had a Case peanut rehandled in fossilized blue walrus ivory with directions to make the front handle as different as possible from the back handle with the remainder of the slab of fossilized blue walrus ivory. Marvin Cohen did an excellent job and I have a truly one of a kind peanut as a result, the back handle has some beautiful gold and blood red streaks from being in contact with the minerals in the soil. I'll gift that to the son in law that respects unique knife materials. Then they can all fight over the remaining 200 or so peanuts and various Case knives in my "collection" I won't need them once I take the long dirt nap.
 
It is a Gerber Sportsman 2 ( Oregon made) "V" steel ( Vascowear ) that I finally got my hands on after 20 years of trying to get one. I wanted one when Gerber made them but couldn't afford one as I was newly married, in, then later out of the army and broke and trying to start a family.Then they disappeared and became very rare. More rare than the old walnut/M2 folding hunter that are so expensive to buy now. Less well known too.

I even had vascowear customs made over the years as I liked the steel but I wanted a lockback in Vascowear as something more practical to use every day. It took much looking and lots of effort.2 decades worth in fact. I finally asked a woman knife dealer I've known for decades and she had one at home from her late husbands collection ( he began the business, she took it over when he got sick until he got better but unfortunately he never did). I knew her for years and did business with her many times when I was also selling knives on the gun show circut.

After all that the knife she produced was NIB, unused. I cleaned it up to perfect plus and there it sits. Sal at Spyderco finally relented and made a folder and mule in Cruwear for me to use daily while keeping the old Gerber like new.

And the woman now has grandchildren working with her at the gunshows. How time can go on by without noticing. :)

My next project ( but lower priority ) is an good plus Old Timer LB 7 in 1095. I keep running into Schrade plus and missing out on the really nice carbon steel models.

Someday!
 
My priceless knife would be a Case Desert Prince that my Grandfather owned, it was given to him by his father but he never used it and neither will I.
 
This SAK because it's my lucky knife....it's been with me in Grenada in 1983, Bolivia in 1986, Honduras in 1988, Panama in 1989, Iraq in 1991, Iraq in 2003, and Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007....



I can't seem to find my US Army Issue Camillus from Vietnam, 1968 - 1970.
 
Mine was a blue case texas toothpick I got as a gift from my 2 yo son and wife for fathers days. I lost it a couple years latter when I jumped out of my truck to chase a couple of poachers that shot several turkeys. Now I have my first knife a barlow that was in an easter basket when I was 8 and my dad's buck stockman and both stay in the house.

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Good question Seas165. I had to think about what priceless meant to me for a moment...is it the knife I spent the most money on?...the one that I carry with me every day?...Nope. It finally occurred to me that I have one knife that to me is the most priceless. My Dad made it for me (along with two others, one for my Brother and himself). He is not a knifemaker, rather a welder by trade and has long since retired. He worked for an automotive company and was in the maintenance department for his whole career. Back in the 80's he made the knives from a leaf spring from a pickup truck they were manufacturing at the time. He had to heat and flatten the springs, and must have spent some time doing that using the tools of the trade (torches etc). For the handles he used wood from hardwood pallets they had laying around (maple perhaps?) and pinned it together with brass pins.

This knife has seen a hard life, it has cut, pried, chopped, dug, and cut some more. It spent years forming a rusty patina in my toolbox, and is chipped and worn. It is so flexible and tough and takes a wicked edge which it holds it for a long time depending on the circumstances. It resides in my garage and is my go too knife when needed.

This one is my most priceless knife, irreplaceable.


 
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