The official collection thread

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The Manix2 is one of my favorite knives to use. I carry one often (love the Cruwear sprint) and a Lightweight is always close. In fact, I'm not sure why I need any knife other than the S110v Lightweight... It is an amazing tool that punches well above its weight and cost. The ergos are nearly unparalleled for me and the blade is perhaps the best leaf shape ever made, ready for heavy work but a good slicer as well. I clearly recommend you try one ASAP :)
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+1 I picked up a blue G-10 Manix 2 with S110V steel and the milled liners a few weeks ago. It's probably my favorite folder!!


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Butterflies.

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I've had 3 butterfly knives in my life, the best was an investment cast Fury, it had a very nice balance but other than the one hand open and close convenience I saw no real advantage, even now beyond the flipping culture for sport I see no other advantage but after holding a well made Bali with tight tolerances and perfectly balanced to feel like it was a spinning wheel in your hand, I can appreciate a well made one and the enjoyment that comes from just absentmindedly flipping. Knice collection, I'm partial to te Bradley. :)
 
Th silver one next to the Bradley was the second knife I ever bought. I loved it and learned to flip on it with no knowledge of how badly balanced it was or how unacceptably sharp the corners were or how the wings at the tang pinch when flipping. Originally had wood inserts that popped out over time, but never once needed an adjustment and still flippable.

Now I'm partial to the bearsongs for flipping because I like their length, but the Bradley is way better balanced and finished.

I don't carry my balis but if it was legal I probably would. They mostly just get played with when I'm sitting around.

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Here's your first picture lesson, more light makes for better cell phone pics, outside indirect sunlight is the best like in the shade under a tree. Also most cell phone cameras have a function where if you touch the screen and hold it for a second it locks the exposure and the focus making for clear brighter pics.

You have some knice steel there, now what is it that makes those particular knives your suit knives?
 
What makes them my suit knives varies. Anything with carbon fiber I feel has a formal and fancy feel to it so that's how the szabo got in there.

The bolsters on the crooked River and spyderco Bowie remind me of a nice collar sticking out from a suit jacket. So that helps give that formal feel to me as well.

The 940 and 531 are good looking, sleek with lots of utility value for such a slender carry. And they just scream suit knife to me.

As for the others, I think they're purty.

And my favorite suit knife is...
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. Between the carbon fiber, brass bolsters and sleek design and feel it's perfect for formal attire. It's the knife I wore to my wedding (along with the szabo)and I cut our wedding cake with it, hence its referenced as "the wedding knife" in my home.


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Colt "Cobra" models (repost); I think I'm missing one variation. Got the second from the left several years ago in a group I bought here, and for as beat up & hard-used as it is, it's still a great user. Locks up with no play in any direction.

Over the last two or three years, I've managed to acquire several more in the series. The attention to detail is amazing, the grinds are even, the etches are clean, and there are a bunch of odd little details about these that make them interesting: each of them has a half-stop detent, they open-&-close like the pivots are teflon, the laser-cut serrations are very efficient, and they look like something out of a sci-fi movie.

The ugly stepchild to the right is the same model made by Arrowhead Manufacturing in North Carolina(?), after production of this model (and others) was moved back to the U.S. It's shameful to think the black one is made in the U.S.A. The quality, fit-&-finish, and operation are mediocre at best, and it won't lock unless I flick it open really hard. The pocket clip will not hold any tension either.

This same basic model is now made in various anodized colors and with various etchings on the blade, for paramedics, firemen, police, and military personnel. None of the newer models can compare to these old Solingen models -not even close.

Left to right: CT49, CT49S, CT50, and CT50S. The embarrassment on the right is called... I don't know, and I ain't wasting time trying to find out.


And I think these fit the criteria for this thread as well. (I actually just posted this pic last night in another thread) These are U.S. Schrade Old Timers, each with at least one blade modified to a sheepfoot/semi-Wharncliffe type blade. I don't think they'd fully qualify as either style, so they're kind of a hybrid of both types. I use them specifially for whittlng & carving. U.S. Schrade carbon steel is my favorite steel. I actually enjoy just sitting & sharpening these when needed.

This project started with the 77OT - one blade tip broken off, one bent. I convertd both to the style described above. The next was the 34OT; All three blades rusted shut. Soaked in mineral oil, got them all open, converted two blades to S/SW-type and one into a screwdriver. Then came the 858OT, same situation. Busted spay blade converted to a long S/SW type. The little Stockman has one blade converted.



~Chris
 
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Fine Japanese knives.

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•Rockstead Higo X-IW (YXR7)
•Motosuke Nagao Higonokami (Hand forged w/ Super Blue core)
•Rockstead Chi (YXR7)
•Kiku Matsuda Shinobi (OU-31)
•Hiroaki Ohta Friction Folder (Hand forged w/ Super Blue core)
 
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Slipjoints
 
Not so humble, knice ZT collection, there's about $1k in knives there. I love the looks of the one on top in CF, there's a version in CF and a similar one in Ti, I think they'd make an awesome pair. I try to always carry a ti matched to a similarly sized cf knife.
 
My kitchen knife collection. The kai Luna's were quite a steal. Really been enjoying them. Hoping eventually I can get handy and make some wood handles for them, as I just don't like their handles.

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GB940, that's so sad, you need more slippies. :)

Benchy, I gotta find the pic of the Case chef's/butcher's knives from the 70s that I bought in their boxes for $2, I was so happy, I got 7 or 8 knives for that, hell that's a better deal than Frost offers on late night TV where he claims 200 knives at $1.79 a knife but an MSR of $1,400. :rolleyes: ;)
 
I forgot - I started collecting knives with green scales a while back. The knife on the left is a Smith & Wesson Homeland Security, that was the one that got me into knives back in 2006-07. The little U.S. Schrade is one of my favorite single-blade EDC's; The Spyderco "Franken-dura" is basically a parts-built knife, and the serrated blade still cuts like a beast after seven years of hard use. The Kershaw is a Blizzard, the same pattern as the Blackout and Whirlwind, but non-assisted and... well, green; the little liner lock I think is a Sanrenmu that I got in a group deal; the Wenger is an 'Esquire' model.



~Chris
 
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