What’s Your Favorite Style of Custom?

What’s Your Favorite Style of Custom?

  • Forged Hunters

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Forged Bowies

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Forged Daggers

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Stock Removal Hunters

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Stock Removal Bowies

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Stock Removal Daggers

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Folders

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Art Knives

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Tacticals

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    0
  • Poll closed .
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And also

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I like a nice hunter as well
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daggers,shivs
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I assumed we could only pick one but I'm not averse to collecting most styles
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Doug
 
forged camp knives and hunters. more and more interested in traditional folders.

hans
 
Bowie/fighters
Folders

Jon, the big forged blades do grow on a person. I only made folders when I first started hanging around here :D
 
Kevin - If you were classifying the Curt Erickson using the categories of this thread, would you actually call it a dagger rather than an art knife? Though I did not pick art knife as my favorite category, I have a few, but never thought of this one so much as a dagger as I did an art knife. Now, however, after having seen your post, I am thinking "dagger".
 
I am also partial to folders. But, I love all kinds of knives. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Chute knives.
 
betzner said:
Kevin - If you were classifying the Curt Erickson using the categories of this thread, would you actually call it a dagger rather than an art knife? Though I did not pick art knife as my favorite category, I have a few, but never thought of this one so much as a dagger as I did an art knife. Now, however, after having seen your post, I am thinking "dagger".
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I was thinking stock removal dagger when I offered it up as an example, however it would definitely be right at home in an art knife category as it would be in a best knife of all time category. ;) :thumbup:
 
These are what I like first and foremost, and I voted so awhile back:

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I have pondered what would be second between both of these catagories:

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I have finally concluded it is a tie for second place. Sure makes things more complex...and fun! ;)


- Joe
 
Do you think the results would differ much if this poll was conducted across the entire customs community?

If so how?
 
I would have to say multiblades, but I have examples of all that are on the list.

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I hate to rain on this parade, but I have issues.

Joss has folders #2 and tacticals #3. According to my math hunters (forged + SR = 29) are in a virtual tie with folders (30) for second and tacticals a distant third (18). Even the folder total is equivocal because some tactical folders may be included, as there is no category for folding tacticals.

Kevin's pronouncement that bowies and fighters rule is dubious because of the artifact of lumping fighters and bowies. I believe with separate categories there would have been no protests (2 distinct genres justified). On his webb site Les Robertson separates fighters from bowies. Such a distinction on this poll means the bowie vote would have been lower, perhaps even placing bowies second behind folders/hunters.

As always poll results are a function of questions asked; change the questions even slightly, change the results greatly. Because the questions are so ambiguous (e.g., when is a subhilt/chute knife a bowie, a fighter, or a tactical fighter), poll results are as limber as a politician behind in the polls (no pun intended). There's little doubt that this sub-forum loves big blades the most, but not when the knives are broken down into logical categories because the big blades are split into more categories.

It follows that then that spitting or lumping has a major bearing on results, which points to another problem with the questions asked: some categories are split (hunters/bowies, some are lumped (folders/tacticals), and some are split and lumped (bowies). Maybe it's just my feeble brain, but the more I ponder the results, the more questions I have.
 
Ken Williams said:
I hate to rain on this parade, but I have issues.

Joss has folders #2 and tacticals #3. According to my math hunters (forged + SR = 29) are in a virtual tie with folders (30) for second and tacticals a distant third (18). Even the folder total is equivocal because some tactical folders may be included, as there is no category for folding tacticals.

Kevin's pronouncement that bowies and fighters rule is dubious because of the artifact of lumping fighters and bowies. I believe with separate categories there would have been no protests (2 distinct genres justified). On his webb site Les Robertson separates fighters from bowies. Such a distinction on this poll means the bowie vote would have been lower, perhaps even placing bowies second behind folders/hunters.

As always poll results are a function of questions asked; change the questions even slightly, change the results greatly. Because the questions are so ambiguous (e.g., when is a subhilt/chute knife a bowie, a fighter, or a tactical fighter), poll results are as limber as a politician behind in the polls (no pun intended). There's little doubt that this sub-forum loves big blades the most, but not when the knives are broken down into logical categories because the big blades are split into more categories.

It follows that then that spitting or lumping has a major bearing on results, which points to another problem with the questions asked: some categories are split (hunters/bowies, some are lumped (folders/tacticals), and some are split and lumped (bowies). Maybe it's just my feeble brain, but the more I ponder the results, the more questions I have.
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Ken, next time I will ask you to supply an exact definition to delineate between bowies and fighters so we can get the accurate results you seek. ;) :) Les, may be very comfortable in his definitions of bowie and fighter, however judging from the lengthy dialog regarding their definitions brought on by Roger's "Best Bowie" thread a few months ago I'm not so sure the poll results would be any more realistic left to everyone's own interpretation of the difference between bowie and fighter.

After you settle the bowie/fighter issue please supply the definitions/answers for the following and you will no doubt make the world of collectible knives much clearer. No opinions please, as there's no shortage of them here, only definitive answers.

Do we collect custom knives or handmade knives?

If automated equipment is used (such as a CNC) is a knife still considered custom/handmade?

Should collectible knives be considered investments?

How do we determine what collections are "world class" ?

What is the absolute definition of a integral knife?

What is the absolute definition of an art knife?

What is the best all round handle material?

Is forged or stock removal the best method of construction for a custom/handmade knife?

Is a damascus blade as strong as a carbon steel blade?

Does it require more labor to create a carbon steel blade or a damascus blade?

What is the established time that all makers have to complete orders?

At what point should makers stop taking orders?

Obviously, I could go on and on. I'm not trying to make light of your issues with the poll results or pick on you, but more pointing out that it seems to be little black & white but lots of gray in the world of collectible knives so we just make due with what we have. ;) :)
 
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