Nicest knife you've seen in the wild?

While I was backpacking in western Pyrenees I saw a man with a Fallkniven Idun Cowry X.

I got so stunned I didn't ask he anything.
 
I saw a Kershaw Scallion last week. A guy was cutting up boxes with it.

Other than that, I don't remember seeing any nice knives in the wild.

I guess we knife nuts are few and far between. If only we had a cool place on the Internet where we could hang out and talk about knives...
 
I lived in Leadville, CO for several years and saw several nice knives in daily use. My neighbors EDC was a Spyderco he bought when he lived in Japan, I don't remember the model being that it was the first time I had seen one. In fact, Spydercos were failrly common with native Coloradoans because of their home state pride. I remember a cute raft guide chick that wore a classic Air Force Pilot Survival knife on her belt all the time and I always found this attractive. Gerbers, Kershaw, CRKT and Buck were all real common.
 
I saw an older guy with a sheath on his belt at my former job(worked at a restaurant), and mentioned being into blades and asked what he carried. I was expecting some sort of traditional, then he opens the sheath and pulls out an Benchmade Presidio auto(and informs me he's former law enforcement, so it is legal)...then he pulls out a AG Russel Featherlite from his right pocket, a Case Peanut from his left pocket, then shows me his keychain with some sort of SAK on it.
 
Small Sebenza with micarta inlays and a Strider SNG. Other than those mostly Kershaw and SOG.
 
Most of the LEO's around here carry an Emerson of some kind. The ones that I know at any rate.
 
I noticed a BM looking pocket clip on the pants of a girl I used to work with at a restaurant, asked her what it was and she pulled out a BM Aphid. Her boyfriend started working there a year later as well and she told me he's into knives as well so when he got there I pulled out my BM Mini-Barrage I was carrying at the time (when I was into assisted knives :rolleyes:) and he yanked a Spyderco Police out of his pocket. We became knife buddies for the rest of my employment there. Those were by far the nicest I have encountered living here in California, all the rest have been cheap made in China monstrosities. One of our other coworkers did end up buying a Kershaw Blur but that was due to our influence.
 
A friend of mine had a small William Henry clipped to shirt (dress shirt, clipped by top or first button). I commented to him "Nice William Henry." He was very surprised that I was able to ID it just from the clip.

Ric
 
spyderco resilience clipped in my underclassmen (few months ago when I am still in college). I guessed it right. later I showed him my edcs and for me it was great knowing a knife guy out of the blue.
 
Maybe I should start carrying my mini griptillian
so I can meet fellow knife enthusiasts. My edc when I
am not working at the grain farm is a blue bone
Case medium stockman, so no pocket clip.
 
Hello!

I know a few fellow hunters over here using Jagdnicker by Stefan Gobec.

Regards,
Alex
 
I thrive on talking knives and BFs is by far the best place for it.
Every time I find someone local claiming to be a knife-nut, they whip out their Smith&Wesson auto POS and then they spend 5 minutes trying to close whatever framelock I'm carrying at the time.
They have no concept of quality and have the nerve to tell me how their Gerber will "out-cut" anything in my collection.
Therefore, I have almost given up on my local knife community.
The ones who do have nice knives either got them from me, or bought them on my recommendation.
I would do a dance if I ever found a $200+ folder on a local stranger.
Maybe they're too scared to show their folders in public?
 
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Ngang concave-convex parang, Borneo.
 
I'm usually quite shocked if I see anybody with a knife much less a nice knife. Last pocket clip I saw on the train turned out to be a hair comb. I carry my knives inside of my pockets fully concealed, "open carry" with a clip on the pocket is illegal in NYC and is subject to search and confiscation. I wouldn't want to contribute any of my knives to some cop's collection of confiscated customs.
A buddy of mine who is a DHS agent carries a Sebenza 21 off-duty and come sort of a Cold Steel Voyager on duty. That CRK would probably be the nicest knife I've seen out on the street.
 
I was at work when I spied an older customer sporting Benchmade clip out of his back pocket. I asked the man about it and he merely shrugged and whipped out a DLC Nitrous Stryker Tanto with half serrated edge...very intimidating knife. The blade was all beat up and scratched. I felt embarrassed I was carrying a dinky little Mini Grip. We chatted a little about knives and then we went our separate ways. Made another boring day at work a little brighter, I guess.

Another time, a customer saw me using my Mini Grip and bluntly asked, "What knife are you using, son?" After I proudly told him it was a Benchmade, he scoffed and said, "Benchmade!? Never heard of 'em!" Then he patted his pocket where a Gerber of some kind was sitting and said, "Do yourself a favor and buy Gerber!" I sighed, and kept on working. As Harlan Ellison said: "The two most common elements in the galaxy are hydrogen and stupidity."

On a happier note, I recently went to a party and ran into a girl I hadn't seen for years; her fiance was with her and wouldja believe it, the guy is a knife-nutcase. He was carrying a beat up CRKT M16, Gerber box cutter, custom Japanese brass-handled straight razor, and a wood-handled New Zealand friction folder. We talked about fixed blades, "users vs collectors", resharpening, and a variety of other topics. Very refreshing to run into someone who "gets it" when it comes to blades. Suffice to say, I gave my full-blessing to the marriage :thumbup:
 
All I've seen was a few older gentlemen with Leatherman or Gerber multitools in pouches on their belts and one gangster-looking guy with a small fixed blade
 
I have some buddies that carry kershaws, but I did get one into benchmades and spydercos and such.. The other clips ive seen either belonged to knives too cheap or too expensive for me to know.
 
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