only ONE knife - which would it be?

I've been down to 1 knife(and wasn't even supposed to have a knife at all), had my spydie ss dragonfly for 51 days, not even a hunk of sandpaper or a strop there either.

now? after finally getting it back(had it for 2 months, sent it off for a custom kydex sheath in august, got it back a couple weeks ago)... my spydie temperance fixed... 4.5" of flat ground vg-10...:D
 
Yikes!! One knife? That's nasty!!!

Since I do a lot of minimalist camping and hiking, it would have to be a fixed blade capable of being batoned to split wood. At the same time, it would have to be ground thin enough for everyday use. I'd have to make a size compromise somewhere along the way, as a knife large enough to baton sticks out like a sore thumb when carried publicly.

I guess the choice really isn't that hard after all. A Dozier is hard to beat.

DORIS!!!

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Buzz: all depends what you call abuse... fred perrin has a review posted by "nemo" on the home spydie forum, using a ronin HARD... thats only 3" of vg-10, and it's batoned through wood.

my bush "knife" is a 26" short sword:D... ontario swords blankwind bengal... khuk/machete cross.
 
Hehehe. But if you read around, that Ronin also had its tip busted off. It's probably more like 2 7/8" of VG-10 now. :D

The problem with really short knives and batoning is that you generally can't go any deeper into the cut than the width of the blade. No blade sticks out the other end of the wood to baton. If you want to split anything sizable, you need a long knife. I figure that I'll go as long as possible (3 3/4"), while still retaining some sort of concealment around town. I just don't think I'd have the cajones to carry a larger knife to work and in city areas.
 
That would be my flat-ground Large Regular Sebenza

But I would be missing my Spydies every minute!


Ted
 
Though just a lurker prior to today, I've always found these "one knife" threads interesting.

Mostly, it's funny how we scratch our heads in an effort to whittle down our massive collections to that one best knife. I mean, if you ever did find that one knife that would do everything you needed, why would you buy any others?

Even funnier is when you consider that the bulk of the world's laborers (think third world) spend their entire lives only owning one knife at a time. It's often something like an Old Hickory butcher, probably didn't cost more than four bucks. He'll use it all day, every day for everything for five or ten years until it's used up. Then, he'll get another one and start over.

To mangle the words of Jeff Randall, "It's amazing how much real work gets done every day all over the world with a ten dollar machete".
 
dogplasma, Welcome here.

It's a valid question for all type of 'collectors'.

If I were to ask a car collector which one car he would keep if he would have to get rid of all the others, he would shiver, then name me his ultimate car, and then he'd go off searching for his next ultimate car. Just like we do with knives.

And then I would drive home in my old and only cheap car which I owned for 10 years or so. Of course with my Sebbie in my pocket ;)

Ted

(Edited to make story a bit more clear)
 
buzz: he's also done it with the temp fixed....

I counted what I had on me monday night at work, came out to roughly 1K cad in value... and a couple feet of edge.
 
That's a whole lot of edge!!! I'd love to hear what the total weight in steel is that you're lugging around!!!
 
lets see...

spydie military, ss cricket, bone kiwi, calypso jr frn, lum fixed, ss dragonfly...
custom skean dhu
leatherman crunch

4", 2"(6), 2"(8), 3(11), 4(15), 2(17), 3(20), 2.5(22.5" of steel give or take :D )

need weights?

edit: prices(roughly, don't feel like digging out reciepts and books)...
160usd, 65usd, 140usd, 70usd, 200usd(+45cad sheath), 63usd(+15cad sheath)
280cad
80usd online
778usd+340cad... 1038cad+340cad... 1378cad in approx value
 
Of the knives I currently own??? HMMMM

Probably my Chinook, but my new Benchmade Ambush is sneaking up on it as my favorite.
 
Easy Answer - the one knife that always seems to find its way back to my belt - even though there are others that slide in now and then, a Buck 110 just feels like THE knife for me. Currrently I am carrying one from PCKS - BG-42 blade, partial serrations, jigged Water Buffalo Horn. :)
 
Funny that you should ask...

Just recently, I was questioning and doubting my own EDC choice and so I carried a different knife everyday for the last five days.
They were: CRKT BladeLock, Benchmade 722, Benchmade 550SOD, Spyderco SS Endura, and the Spyderco G-10 Police.

I was'nt happy with the BladeLock because it has a rather thick AUS6 blade and I really missed the Spyderco thumb-hole.

I simply can't get used to the 722 tanto blade (I wish I had bought the 721).

The SS Endura is just too heavy for an EDC and it has AUS6 blade-steel.

So it came down to the Benchmade 550 and the Spyderco G-10 Police.
I would be happy with either one for a "one knife only senario".

Overall, I would pick the G-10 Police.

Happy hunting,
Allen.
 
Folder ... Spyderco Military S30V PE or Calypso Jr. PE , Fixed ... Bark River Woodland or Cold Steel Master Hunter / SRK
 
Despite my recent Spydies-"virus", I keep returning to my BM 690; plain edge, in 154CM. Spent an hour yesterday re-profiling and polishing to get it shaving again. It's one of the best cost/quality folders I've seen yet.

But only as a one-knife decision, made at gunpoint...! :D
 
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