One Knife Only

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Richard M. French

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Maybe this question has been asked before, but I'm new to this forum.

If you had to make do with just ONE knife for all of your daily needs, work, the kitchen, recreation and preservation what would it be?
Make of knife?
Fixed blade or folder?

 
Tough question. Does my "one knife" have to last me forever, or can I replace it with another one just like it when it breaks? If my "one knife" gets confiscated at an airport security checkpoint, is the game over?

If I can only have just one, it will have to be small enough to be legal almost everywhere, and definitely a folder. For my money, I'll vote for the Spyderco Calypso Jr. Lightweight. This has the most efficient blade geometry you're likely to find on a production knife, in very good steel, is very carryable, fully ambidextrous (in case I can have two of these "one knives", one for each pocket
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If confiscation is not an issue, I'll take a Spyderco Military, plain edged.

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At this point, I would still go with my personally modified Benchmade AFCK. Not an easy choice, but it seems to be the knife that I have with me most often.

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I'd have to say my Bob Dozier Yukon Pro Skinner. It will most adequately fulfill all of the tasks I might require during a two week hunting expedition, without the need for babying or resharpening. It is one tough, sharp, very well designed and executed knife. It is the standard by which I measure all my other "using" knives.

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My choice would be a Rob Simonich Ceton. A fixed blade knife. It has great edge holding, is pretty tough and will not have problems in salt water. Not very big but a good all rounder.
 
I'll go along with the Dozier.Onlt one of his folders.
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have a"knife"day
 

Actualy Mayo I have many knifes. I Just was asking about any all purpose favorite you may have. Mine is a Randall Mod. 5 W/six inch blade that I got in "58"
 
If I could only have one, I would prefer a fixed blade. Something like my talonite Allen Blade M.E.U.K. As far as folders go, probably the Spyderco Wegner.

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Definitely would be a BM 42as, light weight (handles are made from titanium) and extremely strong and durable.

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Hey Richard, a similar spirit. I have a 6" Randall Hunter's Bowie that I got in '61 for all of $25, and were my parents furious at my spending all that money on "just a knife". For many years it served as butcher knife, cleaver, kitchen knife, carving knife, camp knife, and hunting knife and I wouldn't sell it for anything, it's part of my life.

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like I said...No Offense....just that this is KNIFELANDUSA. I would imagine just about everyone who posts on this thing carries half a dozen knives at all times....so one knife is completely unrealistic IMHO>
 
The "What if you could only have one knife?" thread is one of the canonical threads, along with "What have we got in our pocketses?" that are the bread and butter of knife nut forums on the Net.

The difference in this one is that it begins with recognition that food preparation is one thing that we do with knives, when most such threads get answers that seem to assume that somebody else with a different choice will do all the cooking.

It should be a fixed blade, and it should be capable of chopping vegetables on a cutting board. It should be short enough to choke up on the point for fine work. And of course it should be stout enough to split some kindling wood, or to make somebody let go of you, God forbid.

The Talmadge Tactical Kitchen Knife is an example of a viable "one knife" choice.


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Good quality folding lockblade, 3"-4" blade. Can be carried almost anywhere, versatile enough for 95% of my needs. Because it's what I have, I'd choose on of my old Cold Steel San Mai folders; one of my Benchmade; or one of my REKAT folders. My faithful old Buck wouldn't be a bad choice either.
 
As long as it can core a apple...

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Mayo, No offence was taken. I started this thread as the antithesis of "How Many Knifes Do You Carry In A Day". Everyone of us has a favorite knive be it because of form, function or nostalgia thats all.
 
One carry, legal everywhere I go and easy enough to carry that it is never left behind and strong enough to do all my daily tasks... One of Lynn's Patrolman.
 
Aaaaahh! The dreaded one-knife scenario! What a description of eternal punishment!

Right now, I would go with the Mad Dog Pack Rat.
 
Folder...Spyderco stainless Native II with the 40% serrated blade.

Fixed Blade...Gerber "BMF" without the "sawteeth".

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