One knife you wouldn't get rid of?

Chiro75

Chiro75

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I've been doing a substantial amount of trading a selling lately to get into this grinder and a lot of knives that I've had for years are in other people's hands now. As I've been doing this, I've been thinking "If I had to get rid of all my knives and just keep one, which would it be?" Not a question I like to ask myself, but I think I'd honestly have to say I'd keep my Spyderco Military. I know it's a pretty generic choice, but this thing takes everything I give it and just asks for more! For its size it's really thin and manageable (I have the older CPM440V one which is thinner than the latest model), doesn't seem to take up much pocket space and it's super sharp and never gets dull. I figured it'd be one of my own knives that has sentimental value, but honestly if I had to pick right now, that's what it'd be.

What about you?
 
hey guys

I would just feel naked with out my kershaw whirlwind. That knife has done alot with me. But as far as customs/collectibles go I have a small chisle ground neck knife made for me by my good friend Jeff Diotte I Know It is a one of a kind. Damasteel with green/black G-10 with a touch of carbon firber
very clean very classy

jimi
 
my V-42. I've two of these but this one is unissued.

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regards, mitch
 
1920's Case equal end penknife with green pickbone scales, bought it for $3 at an estate sale. :D

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Man that's a tough one to answer. I love my Buck knife collection with the 110 being my favorite. I've got close to 40 110's, all different handle materials and styles. Plus all the fixed blades. I guess it would be one of the 110's I have with stag. Probably the one that my friend Tom Stratton did file work on and added stag handles.
Scott
 
Strider DB.

Small, compact, slices reasonably well, pries beautifully, deep front guard, super grippy handle.

:)

-j
 
the only knives I collect are the ones I toss in the drawer if I deem them unworthy of selling to anyone.
 
Kim that was my reaction too - and Mitch has two of them! Life just ain't fair. :D

I've been thinking about this a while and it's a tough one. I think I'd end up keeping the "seed" knife for my collection a Hubertus with white Micarta and filework. It's a beautiful knife and snaps open with authority. I can still remember the day I saw it on a dealer's table in a Kansas City mall. I didn't have the money for it then but tracked him down at home a couple weeks later and bought it from him there. I'd have to keep that one.

But I also have another rather special knife that would be hard to let go. It's a Dalton Asp, with a red annodized handle and Devil One on the blade. He made 47 of these and mine is serial numbered 0003. Thing is, it's so special I don't fire it... :rolleyes:

I have a small collection of red annodized out the front knives, both Dalton and Microtech. I have a red Microtech UTX70 with a double edged blade to pick up at the April gun show. :D Unfortunately it's going to cost everything I make that weekend... ;)

Some day these knives will make my mortgage payments or something, but I have though about selling them for tools too. Just can't part with any of them! :D
 
I would say one knife I wouldnt get ride of is the first knife I ever made. In fact I would stretch that to the first knife of each modle I ever made. I just love them all.

I would think about the replaceablitity of the knife you are willing to get ride of. I have a Beck Tracker and I wont get rid of it because there too hard to replace. Plus its my only custom other than mine :D
 
For the most part I'm like higgy, don't keep anything I can sell. I do have my first knife, first linerlock, and first framelock. I actually EDC the folders too. I've been thinkin of making myself a nice framelock now that I'm getting better at them but lord knows if I ever do get time to do one, I'll sell it within a month :D
 
The one I have saved is the first slipjoint I made. It is a little 2 blade folder with 01 blades and backspring, brass liners and bolsters and jigged bone slabs. I made it at a class that the ABS put on in Old Washington, Ark. at the ABS school a few years ago. Eugene Shadley and Don Hethcoat were the instructors, and what an opportunity to learn from very skilled makers! Clasmates were really good guys. And every time I pick up that little folder, it reminds me of a really great week of learning and socializing with neat folks.
 
Those are good stories. I sure wish I still had my first knife - it got stolen off my desk one night when my roommate threw a party I didn't know about. I still watch for it in pawnshops and at gun shows but I know I'll never see it again. So sad. I have kept one other knife I made, one that I actually made for myself without a sketch before I started. Just had a bar of 440C and started taking off what wasn't a knife and ended up with one I really like and always will. Thanks for reminding me.
 
I have just started "making" ( and I use that term loosely) knives. The first two will stay with me always. They are not spectacular, they were just the first. I have an old custom from Harold Wright that was made in the 70's. It was portrayed in a knife mag YEARS ago. My dad has the mate. I met Mr. Wright and he was a great person. Can't see letting go of that one.
 
David can you post pics? I always enjoy knives from the 70s more than probably any other period - surely because that was when I "discovered" custom knives and became enthralled forever. And there's nothing else like a maker's first efforts. We all appreciate those pics, it brings us home again. How about it?
 
That looks nice! I love the brass and stag... Thanks for getting pics David! But what happened to yours? :D
 
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