Two of my favorite Opinels....show me yours!

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These are two of my favorite Opinels, along with the ebony handled 8. These are a stainless #8 in bubinga and a #9 in carbon with bubinga handle. These are carried nearly everyday and the handles seem to get more beautiful with age. Man I love the premium wood opinels! Show them premium handled opinels!
 

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Very nice professor! That 12 is a beast! Iuke12, I have a olive wood on order. Love that grain!
 
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My love is the number 8 with the point dropped a bit, for the good all around size, and the saw. The saw does garden work, as well as go along on hikes and camping trips to handle what the knife can't.
 
Well, you asked for it and you know it and you already have it, but I just can't resist showing off one of the best knives ever made... (and at a steal price, mind you).

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Jackknife, love the drop point...I'm going to have to do that to one of mine. I haven't considered the saw but now I might have to pull the trigger. It looks very compact but just the right size to do some bigger work. Very nice collection of Opies Harayasu! Are the lighter handles untreated beech?
 
Here is my meager collection...I wouldn't trade or sell any of these! There is something that is very special about opinels. I have used all of these and they all seem to get better with age. I've bought and sold a bunch of knives over the years and no other knife brand has connected with me as much as opinels have. These knives will probably be the only passed on to my children. Call me sentimental. :)
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Herrison, I have to agree! That's why I have 2. :) The density of the ebony gives this knife some heft! This is definitely one of the best deals out there. I'm not sure if you've looked at the details of this knife but the lines on the handle are so crisp and perfect, it looks like a piece of plastic. I have carried this one the most and it was my first premium handled opinel.
 
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Jackknife, love the drop point...I'm going to have to do that to one of mine. I haven't considered the saw but now I might have to pull the trigger. It looks very compact but just the right size to do some bigger work. Very nice collection of Opies Harayasu! Are the lighter handles untreated beech?
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You have to have the saw! I ended up using it for handy man jobs around the house, as a hiking/camping tool, and glove box of the car tool. It came in handy once cutting some brush to stick under the tires on a muddy road by the river one day. It cuts like a beaver on crack.
 
Has anyone ever seen the horn handle one in person? I was looking at it on the Opinel website, and it's pricy but awfully pretty. Yeah, the money would sting a bit, but I'm not getting any younger, so what the hell.
 
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Has anyone ever seen the horn handle one in person? I was looking at it on the Opinel website, and it's pricy but awfully pretty. Yeah, the money would sting a bit, but I'm not getting any younger, so what the hell.
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This is the horn one I have been lusting over .it's £89.00 GBP . I am hoping to have one by the end of June finger's crossed :)
 
I think you just talked me into ordering the saw :) I too am lusting after the horn. If they had a picture of the exact knife I would be getting, I would order in a heartbeat. It's as close to a waterproof Opinel 8 as they come. Pricey but well worth it. If there is an overpriced Opinel, it would be the damascus ebony IMO. That one is way out of my price range. R.c.s, please post a picture when you get it!
 
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I think you just talked me into ordering the saw :) I too am lusting after the horn. If they had a picture of the exact knife I would be getting, I would order in a heartbeat. It's as close to a waterproof Opinel 8 as they come. Pricey but well worth it. If there is an overpriced Opinel, it would be the damascus ebony IMO. That one is way out of my price range. R.c.s, please post a picture when you get it!
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I hear ya on the waterproof thing. Although I've had great luck making my Opinel's very water resistant, they still will get a little stiff when exposed to a great deal of water. By drying out the Opnel laying it on the dash of my truck on a sunny day, then setting it pivot end down in a shot glass full of mineral oil, it gets pretty water proof. I've been able to submerge a treated Opinel in a glass of water for 30 minutes and still open it okay.

But, for the last year, I've been playing with a horn handled Sardinian resolza, THE knife of Sardinian culture, and no matter how much water gets on it, it doesn't stiffen up. The horn seems much more stable than the wood, so the Sardinian knife has awakened the interest of the horn handle Opinel, in spite of the cost.

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The Sardinian knife is about the size of an Opinel number 6, and seems to be great little knife. I'm guessing a horn handle Opinel would have the same wet weather stability.
 
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