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The Burgh

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Please share with us what your next “best knife,” your "knirvana knife," will be, including as many of the following features as possible:

1.Brand
2.Category, e.g. Flipper, folder, EDC, fixed, bush, etc.
3.Size
4.Blade Shape, Size and Steel Type
5.Handle Materials & Shape
6.Special Features, e.g. Assisted Opening, axis lock, rare steel, etc.
7.My Budget is $______.

OR

“I’d buy the ______________Brand, _______________Model, if it had _______________________.”


Who knows? Perhaps the manufacturers and custom folks will read our responses.

Thanks for your response!
 
Hey

Zero Tolerance.

Make a 3.5-4" Wharncliffe framelock bearing flipper with a lockbar insert and thick blade stock. Blade steel isn't all that important. Just make it and swim in our money.

What's important, however, is that you make it a REGULAR PRODUCTION MODEL unlike the 777 and the TiLT, the two knives you have produced that fit the bill. You know how knives are tools and people like good tools? Well, if you make them LIMITED they get hoarded and put into safes and never used.

Make a Wharncliffe flipper and the money will roll in. Yes, I saw that rexford Wharncliffe. It's too small.
 
Comeuppance said:
Hey

Zero Tolerance.

Make a 3.5-4" Wharncliffe framelock bearing flipper with a lockbar insert and thick blade stock. Blade steel isn't all that important. Just make it and swim in our money.

What's important, however, is that you make it a REGULAR PRODUCTION MODEL unlike the 777 and the TiLT, the two knives you have produced that fit the bill. You know how knives are tools and people like good tools? Well, if you make them LIMITED they get hoarded and put into safes and never used.

Make a Wharncliffe flipper and the money will roll in. Yes, I saw that rexford Wharncliffe. It's too small.
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I don't own a safe, so my TiLT just sleeps in my pocket ;)

A production TiLT would be badass. There is technically a production 777
 
An S90V or S110V Spyderco Military with a titanium frame-lock and carbon fiber scale.

A Spyderco Military with a tanto and/or wharncliffe blade.

In general: more knives with a four-way swappable pocket-clip, like ZT used to do, since I carry strictly and solely tip-down :(
 
Cold Steel 4-Max

CPM-20CV - 4.5 mm thickness
Tri-AD Lock
Titanium liners
G-10 Scales
All USA Made

May well be the ultimate Brute Force folder!
 
Waiting on a ZT 393 LE with a carbon fiber handle, titanium sub frame lock, ceramic bearings and detente, and Rick Hinderer's Aggressor blade grind black washed S125V.

Is that too much to ask?:D
 
Mine already exists. Sadly I'll never get a chance to own it as there won't be another like it.

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The Burgh said:
Please share with us what your next “best knife,” your "knirvana knife," will be, including as many of the following features as possible:

1.Brand
2.Category, e.g. Flipper, folder, EDC, fixed, bush, etc.
3.Size
4.Blade Shape, Size and Steel Type
5.Handle Materials & Shape
6.Special Features, e.g. Assisted Opening, axis lock, rare steel, etc.
7.My Budget is $______.

OR

“I’d buy the ______________Brand, _______________Model, if it had _______________________.”


Who knows? Perhaps the manufacturers and custom folks will read our responses.

Thanks for your response!
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Well, I have an idea for what I want, and brand wise it will be custom (with my input, as there are very specific things I want) as it is a very symbolic knife for me. Currently considering Darrel Ralph or Brian Tighe.

Flipper, blade shape not that important. Trying to decide if I want damascus/damasteel. Otherwise steel is really not that important, as long as it isn't CPM S30V or something on the low/medium end spectrum.

I'd like something 3.5" or longer blade, otherwise the handles will be too small for the engraving.

Budget: $2000. However, if I spend that much, (and my fiancé finds out) I may not live to see the finished product.
 
I've been looking at Olamic for quite a while now... I've seen some beautiful examples, but none of them were quite what I wanted.
I mentioned that I was looking for my perfect Wayfarer in a post, and Eugene from Olamic contacted me. :thumbup:

After a brief discussion with Eugene, I ordered:
Olamic Wayfarer
Flipper
Standard grind
CTS-B75P high polish
Smooth back spacer
Titanium bolsters with exposed pivot
Snakewood handles
No lanyard hole.

Should be done in a few more weeks to a month.
I'll post pix when I get her. :D
 
Jasonsdman said:
Waiting on a ZT 393 LE with a carbon fiber handle, titanium sub frame lock, ceramic bearings and detente, and Rick Hinderer's Aggressor blade grind black washed S125V.

Is that too much to ask?:D
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As long as you're okay paying at least $900 direct from a dealler, not really ;)
S125V usually ends up doubling the price of a knife because of how impossible it is to work with. Add the other design features you mentioned, and this would be the most expensive knife I think ZT could make. Oh, and at the price I listed, they would still be losing money on most of them, like they did on the original run of the 0777 with the damscus spine.
Not to mention that trying to do the Aggressor blade in S125V...I shiver just thinking about it...

Would be a truly insane blade if they ever made it though, I have to say!
 
Oh, and my perfect production piece?

I want a Shirogorov 95 with the same contoured handles that their custom 95 has, multi-row-roller-bearing-system, standard thickness on the blade and handles (there is a slim model of the knife, but I like the little bit of bulk), M390 for the blade steel, and instead of the standard stand-off, I want a countoured smooth backsacer for the knife, seemless with the countouring of the handles. No lanyard hole.

I don't even want to imagine how much one of these would acutally cost though...so even if they made one, I would probably have to say goodbeye to way too many other knives to get a hold of it :o
 
Comeuppance said:
Hey

Zero Tolerance.

Make a 3.5-4" Wharncliffe framelock bearing flipper with a lockbar insert and thick blade stock. Blade steel isn't all that important. Just make it and swim in our money.

What's important, however, is that you make it a REGULAR PRODUCTION MODEL unlike the 777 and the TiLT, the two knives you have produced that fit the bill. You know how knives are tools and people like good tools? Well, if you make them LIMITED they get hoarded and put into safes and never used.

Make a Wharncliffe flipper and the money will roll in. Yes, I saw that rexford Wharncliffe. It's too small.
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This is right on the money! I think there would be significant market for this knife and there isn't a lot of good competition out there to draw interested parties away. There is no way this doesn't make a ton of money for a solid production knife.
 
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