The one knife you will never sell

[JPD1998]

This turned out to be a great thread.
Some of the stories are very moving and brought to mind quite a few other knives in my possession that are sentimental.

 

[knife_fan]

My Spyderco Rookie in ATS-55. Carried the knife almost daily for 10+ years. It has since been retired, but I'd never sell it.

 

[elkins45]

There are two categories of "never sell" in my mind. One is the "I'll never sell it because it has great sentimental value" and the other is "because it is the 'best' knife I have."

In the sentimental category I have a couple of knives that have sentimental value to me, but one really stands above the other. This Case moose was carried by both my maternal grandfather, and after his death by my father. It has sentimental value from both sides of my family--a fairly rare thing I would think.



For the other category I would just pick one of my Para 2's because it's my favorite knife design and the one I always have with me.

 

[JasonJ]

My late father's Buck 121, circa 1972. For no other reason than it was my dads knife, and I have the most memories as a kid with that knife, than any other I've ever handled.

 

[GB940Rookie]

Definitely my Gayle Bradley...... And my 940–1...... And my G 10 rookie!

 

[abbazaba]

For me it would probably be the Spyderco Gayle Bradley. Especially since this is a discontinued model.

+1 for my GB1 (and its backup).

 

[Enkrig]

This one:

 

[bdmicarta]

I count about 5 that were gifts from family members that I would not sell. Everything else that I have is fair game.

The black slipjoint on the left was a gift from my grandfather about 50 years ago. The yellow slipjoint came from my father almost that long ago.

The Benchmade large Leopard in this picture was a gift from my wife almost 20 years ago.

The Spyderco Bradley folder was a gift from my wife about 3 years ago:

I also have a Bob Dozier fixed blade skinning knife from A.G. Russell that was a gift from my wife about 10 years ago. I don't have a photo of it though.

 

[Sonnydaze]

Never met a knife I wouldn't sell, and I've proved it several hundred times.

 

[ThePeacent]

This cost me so much to find, now it's my Grail so it will remain as such, in its King's pouch, in all of its beauty and glory...

until I need to use it!

Reason I bought it second hand, apart from the fact that is discontinued

It now rides in my BOB, 'cause I bought it to enjoy it.

 

[JR88FAN]

I wish I had $1.00 for everytime I said that "this is one knife I will never sell"

I am fairly confident that I won't ever sell my Insingo, maybe.....

 

[Don M]

Make that two that I will never sell.

For Christmas 2010, my wife surprised me with a custom from Ray Laconico. She had worked with my brother, who lives near Ray, to do it. I think she sensed the cancer was winning, and wanted to give me something special. She asked me if she had done well. I assured her she had. It was the last gift she gave me.

CPM-154, Macassar ebony



A little more than two years later I married someone from my distant past who I had completely forgotten. I stumbled upon her by chance 6 months after my wife had died. She also worked with my brother and surprised me with this for a wedding present.

D2, Honduran Rosewood.

 

[upnorth]

Never met a knife I wouldn't sell, and I've proved it several hundred times.

Pretty much the same here, unloaded a bunch last year.

 

[Nap]

The knives I'd never sell (including my first "real" knife, a Wenger Handyman) are either already lost or under $50. (Or both.)

So while there are knives I'd think twice about, no, I can't say I'd never sell them.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Only one? I can throw a bunch in a pile that i would never selll

I really need a new camera

 

[raybo]

My Andrew Demko AD 10 with orange scales.....It travels with me within the Everglades on a regular basis and never let me down...

 

[PNWhovian]

My Fehrman Peacemaker.

 

[JupiterPaladin]

I would never sell any knife that was a gift. Of course most of what I have has either been gifted to me or is not worth selling anyway!

 

[Riz!]

My first custom/one-off, "Gambler's Hideaway Bowie" by John Doyle.

John does such beautiful work!

My keeper is a Les George VECP V3 with a black DLC blade. It was my grail and I won a lotto and snagged one. When my youngest child was born the midwife tried to hand me the surgical scissors to cut her umbilical cord. I already had the knife in my hand down by my side. I politely said "I'm good!" Held up the knife, flipped out the blade and in one swift motion cut the umbilical cord! The midwife rolled her eyes and then laughed. (We are friends with the midwife so I didnt get in trouble). That day I emailed Les George to tell him what I did and he replied back within an hour and said it was one of the best stories he had heard of someone using one of his knives.

 

[Y'shua]

This custom I had made. It'll be mine forever.