Pare Down to only 5, what’s your choices. (Traditional Knives! )

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I ponder this so I’m going to share with y’all.

First is you pare down to only 5 knives you already own. Which ones are your keepers?


Second is, what’s your 5 if you can pick any that you want price or availability not withholding. That’s still only 5, not an additional 5 btw.

Now, you get to keep your leatherman and gerber tools. They ain’t knives. But SAKs are knives and count. And you get to keep your kitchen knives, unless they are traditional knives you use as kitchen knives. Got it? Go!

My five are

Buck 192, Case 75 stockman, case 65 hunter, GEC pocket carver, schrade USA 33ot.


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I’ll have to think on it a while longer to be able to narrow down 5 picks of a perfect nature. I’ll get back to y’all on that one.
 
I’d have plenty of trouble whittling it down to five folders and five fixed. Five total forever and I’d get my membership taken away. 😆
 
So far, got this one picked out. Would take care of 95% (i'm scientific like that) of what I'd reach for in a pocket tool.
8 functions ... used to be 9 functions but I got rid of the key ring function. Paring down to an additional 4 other knives would just be bonus.

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BrotherJim said:
So far, got this one picked out. Would take care of 95% (i'm scientific like that) of what I'd reach for in a pocket tool.
8 functions ... used to be 9 functions but I got rid of the key ring function. Paring down to an additional 4 other knives would just be bonus.

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If only it had a second blade instead of the nail file..I'd agree
 
Five's not bad for me, I'm nearly there already! Lately I've been hemming and hawing over the idea of getting it down to one! (two or three is far more realistic, but I have this idyllic vision of just having a single pocket knife that's my constant companion for years). Here's my lineup, although this leaves me without a fixed blade, and also excludes the first and only knife my wife ever gifted me, a little Victorinox Executive. But I just couldn't cut any of these for the sake of that one.

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The second part, I'd probably go with a full set of customs. Tom Overeynder Serpentine Trapper (pictured above), Tony Bose 4 blade Congress, Ryuichi Kawamura Smoker's Jack, Tony Bose Harness Jack, and finally, a knife I haven't seen but is a dream custom, which is a 3" or 3 1/4" lambfoot, single blade, with nail nick and stag covers. That knife alone combines three of the 5 pictured knives (the two lambs and the boys knife), satifisfies my affinity for small knives, and is currently my vision of a "one knife to rule them all".
 
I sort of have to keep the top 3 here, because I have had them since the 1970s and 80s. If sentimental value decides what stays, then, I would keep the bottom 2 as well because they are more recent replacements for knives I had during memorable times in my life:
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Based on my actual current usage, I would keep the top 3 here, with the bottom 2 added just because they seem like sensible choices:
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Nobody has ever accused me of being sensible, though, so I might just pick these 5:
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prairie.dog said:
Five's not bad for me, I'm nearly there already! Lately I've been hemming and hawing over the idea of getting it down to one! (two or three is far more realistic, but I have this idyllic vision of just having a single pocket knife that's my constant companion for years). Here's my lineup, although this leaves me without a fixed blade, and also excludes the first and only knife my wife ever gifted me, a little Victorinox Executive. But I just couldn't cut any of these for the sake of that one.

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The second part, I'd probably go with a full set of customs. Tom Overeynder Serpentine Trapper (pictured above), Tony Bose 4 blade Congress, Ryuichi Kawamura Smoker's Jack, Tony Bose Harness Jack, and finally, a knife I haven't seen but is a dream custom, which is a 3" or 3 1/4" lambfoot, single blade, with nail nick and stag covers. That knife alone combines three of the 5 pictured knives (the two lambs and the boys knife), satifisfies my affinity for small knives, and is currently my vision of a "one knife to rule them all".
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Very good taste, particularly taken by the re-handled Stag Waynorth Lamb Foot, quality antler. Also that small Spear Barehead :cool:
 
JM2 JM2 stop talking to my wife, she is always telling me I have too many😲
With fixed blade & folders I couldn't whittle it down as i have more than 5 I have collaborated with makers & gifts from friends that I wouldn't part with.
 
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prairie.dog said:
Lately I've been hemming and hawing over the idea of getting it down to one! (two or three is far more realistic, but I have this idyllic vision of just having a single pocket knife that's my constant companion for years). Here's my lineup, although this leaves me without a fixed blade, and also excludes the first and only knife my wife ever gifted me, a little Victorinox Executive. But I just couldn't cut any of these for the sake of that one.

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I know a guy that can help you out, if you go down that branch of the river ! ;) 😊

My head hurts like the dickens thinking about such an endeavor ! 😲😲😲😲😲🤣

and my five (did I just say my 5 !!!) would be .......................................................................................................... aww ....... forget it !

( Primble - tarnished brass plated member !)

I hope he gets his socks wet too ! 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
I'll follow this thread with interest.
But if I could even begin to consider paring down to five knives ,even as an exercise , I probably wouldn't be a member here.

If you get my drift.
 
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