What-A-Knife, What-A-Saw, What-A-Combo!!

I've been using a Whatasaw around the house for decades. I bought several from The Sportsman's Guide so long ago I can't really say when it was. They're excellent saws, stow small and light and used to be dirt cheap. I won't drop $50 for one, but I think I paid like $12 back in the day. But, I've never heard of the Whataknife.
 
btb01 btb01 Thank you very much for the Dura-Tool and for opening up another knife worm hole!!


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DaveHS said:
I had fun carrying mine this week, Barrett!View attachment 2957011View attachment 2957012
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Nice, Dave! They’re handy little knives, and can really disappear in your pocket.

Jack Black said:
Really enjoyed re-reading this thread - one of the few benefits of my declining memory :rolleyes:

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Great in-use shot of your What-A-Knife, Jack! :thumbsup:

I’m a little behind in sharing my newest What-A-Knife addition, which arrived in the mail a few weeks ago. Thanks again RickHuf RickHuf for sending this very interesting Sword Brand stamped What-A-Knife my way! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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btb01 said:
Great in-use shot of your What-A-Knife, Jack! :thumbsup:

I’m a little behind in sharing my newest What-A-Knife addition, which arrived in the mail a few weeks ago. Thanks again RickHuf RickHuf for sending this very interesting Sword Brand stamped What-A-Knife my way! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Thanks a lot buddy, it is a treasured gift :)

Well done to RickHuf RickHuf :thumbsup:
 
I thought I’d add a quick little update to this thread, as I got a new What-A-Knife in the mail the other day.

Ok, me buying another What-A-Knife certainly isn’t newsworthy, but this is one that has been missing from my collection for a while, so I’m excited to have it (or rather, to have it again).

The very first What-A-Knife that I ever bought was a single-blade version. There’s a photo of it in the first post of this thread. Now, it wasn’t particularly what I was looking for at the time I bought it — what I really wanted was one with a cap-lifter — but the single-blade was just the first one I found. When I did eventually get a cap-lifter What-A-Knife, I gifted the single-blade to a friend.

There were two things I didn’t know at the time. First, I didn’t know I would become mildly obsessed with these little knives and eventually want to have every variation I could get my hands on. And second, despite having found the single-blade first, I didn’t know that the cap-lifter version was by far the most common, and that the single-blade would be harder to replace than I realized. For a few years now I’ve been keeping my eye out for one. I even missed one a year or so back, outbid on an eBay auction that went higher than I expected.

But, as they say, good things come to those who wait. I finally found another single-blade What-A-Knife, for a fairly reasonable price (a little more than I’d usually pay for a standard cap-lifter model, but less than the one I got outbid on), and I’m happy to have rounded out the trio of What-A-Knife blade configurations.

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(Of course, there could always be something else out there I just don’t know about yet. It’s certainly a possibility, as evidenced by the Sword Brand stamped What-A-Knife I was unaware of until RickHuf RickHuf shared it in this thread.)
 
Seeing all the blade options has me wondering if the caplifter and pen blades would play well in a three blade franken-what-a-knife…
 
I'd like to see you get a full dozen of variations, with a punch, and wharncliffe, a spear, a hoofpick ... haha
 
Hoffmajo89 said:
Seeing all the blade options has me wondering if the caplifter and pen blades would play well in a three blade franken-what-a-knife…
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You know, it’s not a terrible idea… 🤔😁

Rookie82 said:
I'd like to see you get a full dozen of variations, with a punch, and wharncliffe, a spear, a hoofpick ... haha
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There are certainly more variations of the very similar Dura-Tool stamped knives. There’s a TL-29 type I think, and a big hawkbill pruner. Those are certainly on my radar (the only Dura-Tool model I have so far is the one I shared earlier in this thread, identical to the cap-lifter What-A-Knife with a bail), but I have to admit that my interest is primarily in the ones stamped What-A-Knife.
 
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