The Most "Classic" American Knife

What's the most "American" knife?

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Bowie is the Blad Eagle of knives. Nessmuk is also an American design, but less popular, not even mentioned on this thread.
 
black mamba said:
I think Bowie is the best answer, so I voted Something Else.

I have always thought of the Buck 110 in the same vein as the Winchester Model 12. A classic to be sure, but to me, clubby and unwieldy. If I had to use it, I'd take a Remington Bullet knife or a Browning Auto-5 over the other two, hands down.
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I got to appreciate the 110 on a day I spent 5 hours with only one 15 minute break cutting open bales of blown insulation to stuff into a hopper. Several of my knives were available, so I used the occasion to check out which worked best on sustained cutting projects. After using and rejecting a couple of highly regarded (on this forum) folders within the first hour, I picked up the Buck, which never left my hand for the rest of the job. There may be other production knives this comfortable in use, but at least I don't have to search them out any more. For EDC, there are others lighter and more convenient, but if you need to do some serious cutting, the old Buck is till a contender, especially at current prices.
 
KennyB said:
I voted KaBar because most 110s I see are just those Scrade LB7 knockoffs.
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Those Schrades and numerous other nameless knockoffs all testify to the classic standing of the 110. After all, a Romanian or Chinese version is still an AK 47.
 
jwise said:
I was thinking a Bowie knife from the moment I read the thread title. I clicked through fully expecting to see that as a choice. I voted "other."
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Double ditto on that my friend. :thumbup: :cool: :thumbup:




Big Mike
 
I interpreted "the most classic American knife" as a vote for a specific knife, not a style of knives. The Bowie is a classic American knife design, but there isn't one Bowie in particular that stands out as a classic.
 
EBHM4 said:
I voted Buck 110 because everyone who has use for a pocket knife in the USA owns or at least owned a Buck 110. Every time I think of a classic American knife I think of that. The Ka-Bar USMC and Bowie knife aren't far behind though.
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While I have considered getting a Buck 110, for some reason it doesn't really appeal to me as a knife I'd like to carry, which is why I've never owned or seriously considered acquiring one. Other Buck knives, sure, just not the 110.
 
For me it's the KA-BAR USMC, the 110's not far behind though.
They both are two American classics :)
 
All are classics.

I would think a stockman or barlow pattern slip joint would be up there as well.

As many Kershaw Leeks I have seen around in the last few years, maybe that is closing in on an American classic too..:D They are everywhere. (for good reason)
 
It would be interesting to do this poll in another 10 years or so and see how it changes. Some of the newer things like the Sebenza and the Leek may well have achieved "classic" status by then.
 
I consider it to be a classic Bowie design or a basic old slipjoint; like my grand father's "old hickory" which stayed in his pocket the entire time I knew him.
 
The classic Bowie or some variation was on every belt west of the Mississippi 100 years before the others . It settled the American west .
 
When I think of an American knife, I think of the Buck 110. It's a knife we frequently see being carried and used in especially older American series, the Dukes of Hazzard for example.
 
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