The Holy Grail of knife collecting?

This BM Monarch 300 was hard to come by and is still a favorite of mine.

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i am hoping to pick up the following some day:

bolstered emerson custom
brian tighe dagger
darrel ralph madd maxx 4
 
emerson customs have always been my grail, i started out with a G10 CQC8 and now have a CQC13 and a non waved CQC6, the '6 is imho the top of the line for emerson customs.

i never carry the '6 but i edc the '13 FWIW.
 
Moran ST-24, preferably damascus.:D And as for Mr. Scagel, he did not hate electricity per se. He hated the electric compnay. He apparently had a disagreement with theme and had his power shut off.....for good.;) The guy to talk to about Scagel is Dr. Jim Lucie. He knew the man.
 
Mine is a Strider SNG DDC One off.

Extremely unique (obviously) and I am having a hell of a time tracking the damn knife.

I envy you guys :/

I wish mine was easier to obtain.
 
Holly Grail of knife collecting....for North America...one of the knives that Jim Bowie carried into the Alamo...a knife you could tie directly to him... like the Seguin Bowie ....before some lab said that the silver inlay wasn't old enough to have been from 1830.. which I still think was B/S they should have tested the blade.
 
It's no Alamo Bowie (I agree that's the true "holy grail"), but at least these are obtainable. A Randall King Faisal set in ivory. The originals were lost forever when King Faisal II was assassinated; the knives on the cover are exact reproductions. I'm about four years away from having my own set become a reality.

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Stainz said:
My FB 'Holey Grail' was....

I also dreamed of a Puma 'White Hunter', a knife I saw many years ago - and thought to be 'interesting'. My wife found me one at a show.
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Problem with "grails" you get one and move on to the next. I checked out that Puma and a couple of other Puma's in the display case for years...too bad I didn't have the eye to go for the Randall and Loveless knives in the same A&F case.

I'd kind of like to have one of these someday...

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But I may have to settle for a corkscrew or lock pick instead.
 
TheBleedingEdge said:
Indeed. The tragic cycle of collecting can be boiled down to a long period of relentless searching, the find, the rapturous purchase, the creeping sensation of mediocrity that comes with its ownership, and then the search begins anew.
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Wow!!! Brilliant!!! This is the perfect explaination of a knifenut's drive. Btw sorry the first posters nitpicked your post. Some folks get a bit anal. Your question seemed simple enough to me originally. My holy Grail is currently a a Rick Menefee slippie. That will be old hat after I acquire one and then I'll be of to find a new unicorn, Grail, white whale ect...
 
Maybe some of the OLD w.r case & sons knives...Ive seen them go for big time bigtime bucks!!
 
Sandbar fight was early in his history....that knife was said to have been made by his brother Rezin Bowie....from a 14 inch file.....and was basicaly a large butcher knife....but very sought after non-the-less
 
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As it happens, I've got a photo of the Forrest knife sitting around. This was taken before it was "cleaned."

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Whether this is or isn't the knife Bowie used at the Sandbar fight remains a topic for considerable debate. Regardless, most people agree that it probably looked pretty close to this.
 
That's the knife....or one like it.....By the time James Black got involved ..my personel opinion is that the design had grown into something like the Musso Bowie or the Seguin Bowie... One or both of these may have been present at the Alamo...chances that Bowie only had one are slim....if he was like most of us he had several...The only eye witness description comes from Crockett before they actually get to the Alamo....."While we were conversing, he had occasion to draw his famous knife to cut a strap, and I wish to be shot if the bare sight of it wasn't enough to give a man of a squeamish stomach the colic, especially before breakfast" ....based on that we can assume it was an impressive... if not scary thing to look at.
 
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