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The 20 Best Knives Ever Made

Like many of Field & Stream's "best of lists", it is pretty arbitrary. I doubt I would include a Knives of Alaska in the top 20. Not saying they don't make good knives, just not top 20 stuff.

The knife that I find omitted is a Case folder that to me suggests that the list is simply not very through and arbitrary. Case knives are classics. We do have the Buck 110 and Schrade Uncle Henry and a Randall fixed blade. Three great knives.

My experience does not allow me to rank a top 20 with knives.
 
This topic is just too subjective and vague. Now if it was the top 20 military knives, modern folding or fixed blade knives, maybe I could answer this. No one is gonna be able to agree on the top 20 knives overall.
 
Add the Bagwell Bowie and something with a Tri-Ad Lock by Mr. Demko. I cannot believe these were omitted.
 
I think that the first knife ever made needs to be on the list. Because until the second knife ever made was...errr...made...then it was the only knife in history that could inarguably be called the literally BEST knife in a broad-sweeping sense. Best knife for what? Criteria has to be established to even vaguely attempt at making such a list at all credible. As is, it got a few chuckles out of me. :p
 
 
rexford-epicentre
marsh-vanquish
demko-ad10
strider-smf
sebenza-crk
marlowe-squail
busse-ash1
emerson-cqc6
burch-dao flipper
horton-tac4
microtech lcc
benchmade 42
burch tangent


shit im out, there are others i just cant think of them!
 
out of what i have ever seen and handled these are by far the ones that stood out as staple models!
 
The Opinel is admired by many sportsmen, especially outside the USA. The Svord Peasant, is another cheap, accessible, and foolproof folder. I'm sure it is very popular outside this forum, in the scheme on things. The Safe-T grip Schrade fixed blades are very common in this neck of the woods for hunting.
 
RamZar said:
In June 2008 Field & Stream magazine listed its 20 Best Knives Ever Made.

What else would you add / delete from that list in the intervening 5 years?

  1. Busse Battle Mistress
  2. Russell Canadian Belt Knife
  3. D.E. Henry Bowie
  4. Ka-Bar Marine Corps Fighting Knife
  5. The Leuku
  6. Leatherman Wave
  7. Loveless Drop Point
  8. Randall Model 3
  9. Ron Lake Folder
  10. Marble's Ideal
  11. The Ulu
  12. Schrade Uncle Henry
  13. Victorinox Swiss Champ
  14. George Herron Model 6 Drop Point
  15. DiamondBlade Goddard Traditional Hunter
  16. Lone Wolf Knives Harsey T3 Ranger
  17. Nessmuk Knife
  18. Woodsman's Pal
  19. Knives of Alaska Brown Bear
  20. The Buck Model 110
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Me thinks the author missed the "logical fundamentals of rhetoric" course in Journalism (assuming such a course exists, that is); apples to apples and a baseline for evaluation. This article...folders, fixed blades, multi tools, machetes, and ZERO criteria. Sheesh.

That said, it seems all too common amongst "journalists" these days. :)
 
I agree that the whole list idea is silly. But #31 replies and not one mention of the Spyderco C01 Worker? I am disappointed.
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If the leuku and Woodmans Pal are listed, then they are including some useful bush tools - not just pocket knives and belt knives. If useful bush tools are to be included, then I must complain that no machete or khukuri or parang/barong is included.

Whatever the pattern, these knives are the best ever made for their particular environments. I doubt that any Samoan has ever used a Ron Lake folder, but no village Samoan is without an 18 inch machete for Every Day Carry. :D
 
Ka-bar USMC knife
Case xx pen knife (pre 1970)
Case xx large jack (pre 1970)
case xx peanut (pre 1970)
Randall # 1
Schrade pointy finger
Buck 110
Gerber Mark 1
Benchmade 42 balisong
Spyderco military
Spyderco delica
Chris Reeve Sebenza
Mora
GEC # 73 scout trapper
Cold Steel Trail Master
Cold Steel tanto
Mad Dog ATAK
Mad Dog panther
Yoshihara Hira Zukuri tanto
include straight razors? Wade and Butcher :D
 
Victorinox Swiss Champ just too unwieldy. Better is something along the lines of the Vic 108mm GAK (1976-2003), Safari, or Mauser; the 93mm Farmer; or the 91mm Camper.

A SAK definitely needs to be on any list.
 
marcinek said:
Utter nonsense from the outset. It makes no sense whatsoever to have styles like "the ulu" and "the leuku" and "the Nessmu" mixed in there with specific models.

Some ulus are garbage. Some aren't. It's like having:

Greatest Basebal Players of All Time
1) Babe Ruth
2) Pitchers
3) Ty Cobb
.
.
.

Silly.
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Ugh, that was bothering me the whole time I was reading it.

Also... why is a multitool on the list?
 
best ever, huh?
and where exactly in this universe
was it,
when everybody wore a woodsman's pal like a buck 110?
 
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