Thread of Extremes

[FordFan]

Tell us or better yet show us your "extreme" knives. By extreme I mean your:

oldest knife
newest knife
cheapest knife
most expensive knife
worst knife you bought (and maybe since sold/traded)
favorite knife if you can boil it down to one

I will get my extreme knife photos up when I can get photobucket working again.

 

[Grease]

My oldest knife is gonna top most of yours as far as age . It's a "Turked" 1907 pattern British bayonet, made sometime before 1916 when they changed the handle a bit. The poor thing had a rough life, getting cut an inch or two shorter, then getting left to rust and rot somewhere for a while before I got it. The wood handle is almost entirely gone, so I re-wrapped it in cord and covered it with gaffers tape to seal it and give it a sort of cloth-wrapped look (I'm no safe-queen knife guy - I wanted to use my bayonet!) I also polished the blade up, got all the rust off, then allowed it to develop a nice dark grey patina again.

Newest knife is an old style Manix II translucent blue.

Cheapest and worst are combined in one - I have an M-tech blade that is.... Gross. I keep it as a prybar

Most expensive knife I've owned was a ZT0350.

And my favorite is definitely my franken-tenacious. I swapped the black blade and hardware from an all black one and stuck it on a blue handled version, giving me a pretty black & blue tenacious.

 

[cncpro11]

I saw the title of this thread and thought, "oh brother", but this could be fun.

Price wise, here are two that I own on extreme opposite ends of the scale.

25 cents, and $485

 

[flarp]

Oldest: 1979 Camillus US Army knife
Newest: Kershaw Damascus Leek (late Feb 2013)
Cheapest: Some free unbranded keychain SAKs I've gotten w/ advertisements printed on them
Cheapest (that I actually bought): Enlan F710 ($7-8 shipped)
Most expensive: Ritter Mini-Grip + Wilkins G11 handles
Worst: Those free no-name keychain SAKs
Worst (that I actually bought): KaBar Hobo Knife (the red one that doesn't come apart)
Favorite: Either my Ritter Mini-Grip w/ Wilkins handles OR FrankenBlur (green CF handles w/ CPM154 blade)

 

[Goosey]

Oldest: old Sheffield stockman
Newest: Endura 4 FFG
Cheapest: 4-inch blade Pakistani junk splipjoint
Most expensive: Tac wakizashi
Worst: Pakistani junk slipjoint
Favorite: Douk-douk

 

[sintro]

I might not have expensive knives, but I sharpen them like kings! (Maybe not so much the mora, it tends to lose it's toothiness when polished...so much that it's pretty hard to start cutting an orange!)

Oldest AND crappiest AND cheapest: Smith & Wesson Bullseye Extreme Ops

Favorite for Outdoors: Mora Topq Allround:

Favorite for EDC: Kershaw Volt II Plain Edge

Favorite for Food Prep: J.A. Henckels International 16500-100 4" Paring Knife?

ALL around favorite: Kershaw Clash combo edge (Got serration for packaging and sticks, but still a thin edge for food prep, got assisted opening too)
http://www.uscconlinealbum.com/life...6f3-4602-4ab6-86de-b1fa3f26f51d?th=450&tw=610

 

[tinman224]

Oldest: my old Barlow folder from my grandfather, very old, I don't know how old though :/
Newest: either Kershaw Random Leek or Kershaw Damascus Leek. February of this year
Cheapest: Victorinox keychain, about $10ish
Most Expensive: either my William Henry Torpedo or my Boker Leopard III. Between $800-$850, i dont know which was more
Worst: Kershaw G-10 Leek, good knife however I could not stand the handle and the stonewashed blade, although S30V, is not what I had in mind at the time. It is a great knife overall so I guess this is not strictly the WORST knife I have ever owned, as I have many junkers from yard sales and things of that nature, but it was the most disappointing I should say.
Best knife: Damascus Leek, no contest, it is affordable, beautiful, great edge retention, very sharp, and my favorite of all easy to fix and edit. I currently switched the bodies of my random leek and damascus leek and it is looking pretty...sharp at the moment!